{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-01-26", "file": "debates1960-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2b99a9d672d84c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-26a.18.4", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "Can we, at least, be sure that this new report will be published?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-26a.18.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-26", "file": "debates1960-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2b99a9d672d84c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-26a.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "MONCKTON COMMISSION (PROTECTION OF WITNESSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "I think that this assurance is extremely valuable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-26a.38.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-01-26", "file": "debates1960-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2b99a9d672d84c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-26a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "RT. HON. MEMBER FOR EBBW VALE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "aker, that we much appreciate the words of the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House. I am sure that both my right hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) and my hon. Friend the Member for Cannock (Miss Lee) will take some heart from the general and universal feelings of sympathy shown in the House, and indeed in the country generally, during my right hon. Friend's serious illness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-26a.42.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-26", "file": "debates1960-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2b99a9d672d84c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-26a.50.2", "colnum": "50", "heading": "JUSTICES OF THE PEACE ACT, 1361 (REPEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "truce was arranged. It was thought that another war to end wars had ended and another permanent peace was about to start its fitful life. But hon. Members will not be surprised to know that the French Chamber of Deputies refused to ratify the truce. Edward III then reinvaded France, laid waste the Marne, and the French force was defeated at Rheims. Peace terms were finally signed in October, 1859—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-26a.50.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-26", "file": "debates1960-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2b99a9d672d84c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-26a.50.2", "colnum": "50", "heading": "JUSTICES OF THE PEACE ACT, 1361 (REPEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "ught that another war to end wars had ended and another permanent peace was about to start its fitful life. But hon. Members will not be surprised to know that the French Chamber of Deputies refused to ratify the truce. Edward III then reinvaded France, laid waste the Marne, and the French force was defeated at Rheims. Peace terms were finally signed in October, 1859—[ Interruption. ]—I mean 1659—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-26a.50.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-26", "file": "debates1960-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2b99a9d672d84c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-26a.50.2", "colnum": "50", "heading": "JUSTICES OF THE PEACE ACT, 1361 (REPEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "o provide for dealing with pillers and robbers from beyond the seas, meaning thereby discharged soldiers who could not be found employment as cinema commissionaires. The House was summoned to meet on the Sunday next before the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul which, as every hon. Member knows, would be about the third week in January of the same year, 1360, because the year then ended in March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-26a.50.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-27", "file": "debates1960-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "0008c2b259d042fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "There is nothing wrong in liquor by itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-27", "file": "debates1960-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "0008c2b259d042fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "nd that the Western Region has been so equipped for the past fifty years, and that as far back as 1920 a committee set up by the then Government recommended that all lines should be so equipped? Is the Minister aware that at the time of the Lewisham disaster the British Transport Commission said that it would accelerate automatic train control? Is he also aware that people travelling on this line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-27", "file": "debates1960-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "0008c2b259d042fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.167.10", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "ct that at that time the firms constructing at least the boiling water reactors were ready to start on this work? Why, then, such delay with the Galbraith Committee, and why should we still have to wait several months before an order can be placed? My right hon. Friend has shown enormous energy over telephones, Pink Zones, and so on, so could he address himself with similar energy to this problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.167.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-27", "file": "debates1960-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "0008c2b259d042fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Parliament has been voting hundreds of millions of pounds year after year for the orderly conduct of the Coal Board. Obviously I cannot dwell on the point at length, but the amount of money involved in the cotton industry legislation is relatively tiny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-27", "file": "debates1960-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "0008c2b259d042fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.191.3", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "he sternest advocate in the country of the very things which I have been saying this afternoon. He is a close colleague of Mr. Paynter, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers—the only difference being that one is a Communist and the other a Socialist. He is at one with me in wanting to rid us of opencast coal mining. I hope that he will support me in the Lobby, if there is a Lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.191.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-27", "file": "debates1960-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "0008c2b259d042fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.204.2", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "preceding_text": " is what the Government have been returned to do. They have been returned to see whether something cannot be done to make the economy of the country work properly, and we cannot have the economy working properly if we have this endless waste going on in the mining industry. We know what the industry has done in the past, and I have probably seen perhaps as much of it as many hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-27", "file": "debates1960-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "0008c2b259d042fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "preceding_text": "unless it has the money to spend on making that perfect system. We have the unfortunate position of three or four hon. Gentlemen opposite making suggestions which I find it hard to believe can be serious. Yet their speeches indicated a note of seriousness, though it was only a small murmur. I believe that this Amendment has been put down to undermine the successful work of the National Coal Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-27", "file": "debates1960-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "0008c2b259d042fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "preceding_text": "ons which I find it hard to believe can be serious. Yet their speeches indicated a note of seriousness, though it was only a small murmur. I believe that this Amendment has been put down to undermine the successful work of the National Coal Board. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] That is how it appears to me, though I may be wrong. Ever since 1947 every opportunity has been taken to have a dig at the miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-27", "file": "debates1960-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "0008c2b259d042fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " in Hobart House. I designed this Statutory Instrument procedure, applicable to the Coal Board, for the purpose of enabling me, from the Government side, to initiate a debate on its affairs. I am not satisfied with a Supply Day, because the initiative as to the subject chosen then rests with the Opposition. I want the initiative to be on the Government side, and that means effectively in my hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.271.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-01-27", "file": "debates1960-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "0008c2b259d042fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "But he is.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "I am very pleased that the Minister is not to accept this Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-27", "file": "debates1960-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "0008c2b259d042fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS SHIPPING SERVICES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "already a semi-Government institution. It is excluded by the Money Resolution from making a contribution to fulfilling this purpose. 10.15 p.m. Why should not the Transport Commission undertake this? The Commission performs its functions very effectively on the Clyde, as the right hon. Gentleman knows. It operates its boats on the Clyde with the regularity and efficiency of railway trains on land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-27", "file": "debates1960-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "0008c2b259d042fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS SHIPPING SERVICES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "w enough about procedure to know that certain things hang on the various stages of a Bill. Circumstances could arise in which it would be very important to get this Bill through very quickly indeed, and I am anxious to get it as quickly as possible. Hon. Members opposite say that I have not been held up. I agree that in the present circumstances I have not been held up, but I might well have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-27", "file": "debates1960-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "0008c2b259d042fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS SHIPPING SERVICES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "and Lerwick; so why must there be a subsidiary company concerned with services that are north of Inverness, or north of Dunoon on the west coast? We are told that if we cannot understand the difference between the nationalisation which we supported and this nationalisation, the Secretary of State \"gives up.\" But this nationalisation is nationalisation of the ships to be operated by the companies.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-27a.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-28", "file": "debates1960-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "767d59c2a26daa68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-28a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL AFRICA (MONCKTON COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Leader of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Leader of the House if he remembers what the Prime Minister said in a debate on 22nd July, that an important point was whether the Commission will command the assent of the African peoples? That, of course, is an important point. It is a vital point. May I ask the acting Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-28a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-28", "file": "debates1960-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "767d59c2a26daa68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-28a.382.3", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAYMENT OF WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "g my hon. Friend the Member for Crosby for the persistence which he has shown in bringing this matter before the House; and also to pay tribute to my predecessor, the present Colonial Secretary, for the preparations he made for the Bill; and to the members of the N.J.A.C. for their interest and co-operation throughout these discussions on all sides, and for the assistance which they have given us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-28a.382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-28", "file": "debates1960-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "767d59c2a26daa68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-28a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAYMENT OF WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "arging the safeguards under the Truck Acts to certain other workers. I would have thought therefore that we might sensibly have left the Bill until we had an opportunity of considering the Karmel Committee's report so that we could deal with the matter as an entity rather than take up the time of the House on something which, I understood from the Minister, is solely for the benefit of the worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-28a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-28", "file": "debates1960-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "767d59c2a26daa68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-28a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAYMENT OF WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "ill is weak in many respects in that regard. For example, I will take up what the Minister said about Clause 4. I am absolutely against the right of an employer, without any request at all, to send a man's money by cheque, postal order or money order when he is away sick or away on the firm's business. I am completely against an employer having the right to do that without request from the worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-28a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-29", "file": "debates1960-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b8fea3b300ef64b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-29a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "LICENSING LAWS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "preceding_text": "are of what I believe to be the desire of the majority of hon. Members, the desire for some reform of our licensing laws. I am very glad that the hon. Member for Wimbledon (Sir C. Black) is with us still. I respect him very much indeed, for I know how sincere he is on this subject—although I know of no tee-to-taller who knows so much about beer as he does, and I am almost beginning to suspect him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-29a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-29", "file": "debates1960-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b8fea3b300ef64b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-29a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "LICENSING LAWS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "preceding_text": "sed themselves to employ what were called \"beer boys\" whose job was to go out every so often during the day and bring in replenished cans of beer. Even today, in my constituency, there are a number of \"pubs\" which are entitled to, and still do, open very early in the morning, about 5.30 for a specified time. But things have changed so much. The dockers do not now employ beer boys. They drink milk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-29a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-29", "file": "debates1960-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b8fea3b300ef64b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-29a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "LICENSING LAWS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "preceding_text": "o custom he has overheads to pay for —staff, electric light, and so on. The law says, \"Thou shalt open at 5.30 and thou shalt remain open to 10.30.\" And if they do not the licence is subject to withdrawal. It is absolute impudence when we talk about freedom. 1 regard the publican—I know that I shall have every Tory with me in saying this— as the finest example of private enterprise in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-29a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-01-29", "file": "debates1960-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b8fea3b300ef64b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-29a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "LICENSING LAWS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "preceding_text": "absolute impudence when we talk about freedom. 1 regard the publican—I know that I shall have every Tory with me in saying this— as the finest example of private enterprise in the country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I knew that I should get that cheer. I shall now say something for which I shall not get such a cheer. I regard the brewer as the worst example of private enterprise in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-01-29a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-01", "file": "debates1960-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ae0366c1845bb2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-01a.621.5", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.- Colonel Bromley - Davenport", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like B.E.A.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.- Colonel Bromley - Davenport", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend not agree that the mining industry has followed in every detail the golden rule set by all nationalised industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-01a.621.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-01", "file": "debates1960-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ae0366c1845bb2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-01a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEGAL AID BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I did not hear what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said. I made inquiries and I was informed that what he had said had been a very trifling contribution to the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-01a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-02", "file": "debates1960-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9654d8f3e81c147c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.790.4", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I have no specific knowledge of the cases the hon. Member has mentioned, but I am entitled to ask him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.790.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-02", "file": "debates1960-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9654d8f3e81c147c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.790.5", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "I should like to answer the Minister. Certainly I did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.790.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-02", "file": "debates1960-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9654d8f3e81c147c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.794.7", "colnum": "794", "heading": "NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "May we hope that the Government will give greater weight to the report of this judge than they gave to that of a previous judge on these matters even if, when the report is published, they find it necessary to put up the Attorney-General as their chief colonial spokesman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.794.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-02", "file": "debates1960-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9654d8f3e81c147c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.794.9", "colnum": "794", "heading": "NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "In that case, may I ask the Colonial Secretary an under-rehearsed question? I want to say how much we welcome his approach in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.794.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-02", "file": "debates1960-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9654d8f3e81c147c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Very well, Mr. Blackburn, I can now start talking in general about the special areas of the North-East Coast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-02", "file": "debates1960-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9654d8f3e81c147c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.827.2", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "But the Bill does not do that satisfactorily, as we shall show later, maybe at rather considerable length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.827.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-02", "file": "debates1960-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9654d8f3e81c147c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.875.4", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "You set me a very difficult task, Mr. Blackburn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.875.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-02", "file": "debates1960-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9654d8f3e81c147c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.875.4", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "ch is a general argument, perhaps I might be in order. Perhaps it might also be in order to say to my right hon. Friend that one of the problems connected with this Bill is to know how in fact we can make the machine operate fairly. I think that would be in order, and I want to say to everybody present in the Committee that Wales has a very great advantage in having a Secretary of State for Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.875.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-02", "file": "debates1960-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9654d8f3e81c147c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.876.3", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have not got one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "care—I should not be allowed to speak for England. I want to know from the President of the Board of Trade how, when we try to operate the policy which has been laid down in this Clause, we are to give a proper balance when the right hon. Gentleman is operating Clause 1, and, in addition to that, we have a Secretary of State for Scotland and a Secretary of State for Wales. That is all I am saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-02", "file": "debates1960-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9654d8f3e81c147c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nationalism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I enter into this discussion in the capacity of goalkeeper. I think that it would be a great pity to decide this on the basis of regionalism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-02", "file": "debates1960-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9654d8f3e81c147c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Chicken feed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "tions, and in accordance with all the available local information. Scottish Members might reflect that recent developments have not been altogether bad from the Scottish point of view. As we all know, the British Motor Corporation recently announced a big extension, in which the total number of new jobs in Scotland will be as big as those in England and Wales put together. That is not a bad start—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-02", "file": "debates1960-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9654d8f3e81c147c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.927.0", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman that our training and background of government in Scotland has all been around the idea that there were separate Government Departments. In fact, our history is much better than Wales in this respect because we have separate Departments for agriculture, health, fisheries and roads and the Scottish Home Department, all covering a wide field. What are the views of the Scottish Ministers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.927.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-02", "file": "debates1960-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9654d8f3e81c147c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ifor Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ifor Davies", "preceding_text": "voice, in passing, an appreciation of that decision which affects at least the area in proximity to my own constituency. I wish to acknowledge what was done in that direction. I am sure that the Minister received a great deal of benefit from Welshmen in connection with that very difficult problem on which he had to make a decision. Moreover, the very fact that we have a Minister for Welsh Affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-02", "file": "debates1960-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9654d8f3e81c147c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.954.2", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "g the interests of all concerned by seeking to persuade them to go elsewhere. If he believes that he is fully justified in that, he must think it socially undesirable that they should build in London. If it is socially undesirable in London, he should take power to enable him to act to ensure that they go to where he and his right hon. Friend think they should go in the interests of all concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-02a.954.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-03", "file": "debates1960-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "96c322aca9b0eef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-03a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that, while the British public are well aware of the fact that repairs have to be carried out, what annoys them is that the timetables issued by British Railways bear absolutely no relation to what happens? Is he aware, for instance, that trains from the north of England due to arrive in London at about 10.30 p.m. are very often two or three hours late", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-03a.988.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-03", "file": "debates1960-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "96c322aca9b0eef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-03a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": ". and gallant Friend will give me details of the occasion when he was two or three hours late, I will certainly go into it. My own constituency is in Cheshire on the other side of the Mersey—the more exclusive side of the Mersey, if I may say so—and I frequently come down on the train from Lime Street to Euston. I certainly can say quite honestly that I have never been as much as three hours late.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-03a.988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-03", "file": "debates1960-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "96c322aca9b0eef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-03a.1037.3", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nationalisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "y the noble Lord. The purpose of this Bill is to bring into the distribution and location of industry some planning on the basis of what is best socially and economically for the country. It is no use any diehard Tory getting the idea that the Tory Party now rejects planning. Members of the party opposite do not accept it, but they have proved by this Measure that they do not completely reject it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-03a.1037.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-03", "file": "debates1960-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "96c322aca9b0eef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-03a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "k if it takes the form of a loan, provides an argument, perhaps the only plausible argument, in favour of nationalisation, which is that industry is now so big that when it needs finance only the Government is big enough to find the money; and that what the Government finances it is entitled to control. I make this as a general point, and not as having any special reference to the cotton industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-03a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-03", "file": "debates1960-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "96c322aca9b0eef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-03a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": " I should like him to remember the scenes which he passed when travelling in the train between Kidsgrove and Stoke-on-Trent. There is derelict land which has been there for over fifty years. Nothing at all has been done about it. We want houses built in this area and we want to attract more industry. I hope that the Parliamentary Secretary will consult his right hon. Friend about what I am saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-03a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-03", "file": "debates1960-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "96c322aca9b0eef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-03a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Rodgers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Reading too quickly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "ch might be taken to mean that considerations of distribution and diversification of industry and the proper use of local resources did not matter very much. The concept of the proper distribution of industry, with particular regard to the needs of unemployment areas, covers the case. It is also important to bear in mind that not all research work involves the carrying on of an industrial process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-03a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-03", "file": "debates1960-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "96c322aca9b0eef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-03a.1105.8", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "any rate we have a particular interest in this matter. The Parliamentary Secretary knows that frequent reference has been made in this House to the plight of the constituency of Greenock over the question of heavy unemployment there. Despite that, by a deliberate act of Government policy the torpedo research factory has been moved from Greenock to the south of England. If Clause 18 had buttressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-03a.1105.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-03", "file": "debates1960-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "96c322aca9b0eef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-03a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I sincerely hope that, in giving my support to the Bill, I am serving the interests of the whole of the country and of the North-East Coast in particular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-03a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-04", "file": "debates1960-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c13d466e15b907e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-04a.1215.6", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Member complaining about not being able to hear?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-04a.1215.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-04", "file": "debates1960-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c13d466e15b907e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-04a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED HOUSES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": ", which I represent, had over 1,300 families in requisitioned property and I was still at that time a member of the borough council. I can say that that borough council has its plans made for complete derequisitioning before 31st March, in common with a great majority of other local authorities. We are legislating now for that handful of local authorities who did not look ahead sufficiently early—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-04a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-04", "file": "debates1960-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c13d466e15b907e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-04a.1318.3", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNCIL HOUSES, STOURBRIDGE (SALE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "g and Local Government and Mr. Speaker for an Adjournment debate, and on Thursday I was told by Mr. Speaker's Secretary that I had been granted an Adjournment debate for today. On Friday morning, by one of those astonishing coincidences in British public administration at which I never cease to wonder, I received a letter from the Minister telling me that the circular would be issued very shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-04a.1318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-05", "file": "debates1960-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2d3a7e442e803bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-05a.1368.2", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC BODIES (ADMISSION OF THE PRESS TO MEETINGS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "t the thing to do. This is a practice which I think this House should condemn. council meetings should not be turned into a mockery. I do not think that this Bill will solve that problem. There are town clerks, council clerks and leaders of councils all over the country who are already looking for ways and means of getting round the provisions of this Bill. There are some very skilful town clerks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-05a.1368.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-05", "file": "debates1960-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2d3a7e442e803bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-05a.1368.2", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC BODIES (ADMISSION OF THE PRESS TO MEETINGS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Jolly good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "e served on local authorities know that at meetings of committees of the council political lines are very often merged and overlap. Resolutions are made and decisions are taken very often in the council on which I served by the minority Tory members voting in favour together with two or three of the majority Labour members, with the rest of the Labour members against the decision of the committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-05a.1368.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-05", "file": "debates1960-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2d3a7e442e803bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-05a.1438.3", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC BODIES (ADMISSION OF THE PRESS TO MEETINGS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "I must be allowed to answer in my own way. The council had before it a suggestion that there was to be a Press Bill. It was perfectly clear that that Bill had been announced and that it had been drawn up. It was known that the Bill was on the lines of an Amendment which was moved in the Standing Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-05a.1438.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-05", "file": "debates1960-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2d3a7e442e803bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-05a.1438.7", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC BODIES (ADMISSION OF THE PRESS TO MEETINGS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It did not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "Let me proceed to the Corporation's objections, which were made on the assumption that the Bill would contain what the corporation feared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-05a.1438.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-05", "file": "debates1960-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2d3a7e442e803bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-05a.1438.8", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC BODIES (ADMISSION OF THE PRESS TO MEETINGS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "It did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-05a.1438.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-08", "file": "debates1960-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "667d97df784cf605", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.5.5", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "I am taking the ordinary figure of 24 million people available, and 1s. would bring in about £60 million. Thus, if there were 400,000 unemployed, this would provide a redundancy payment of £3 a week to each individual. If there were 500,000 unemployed, it would provide about £2 8s. a week each.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.5.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-08", "file": "debates1960-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "667d97df784cf605", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.5.5", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "here were 500,000 unemployed, it would provide about £2 8s. a week each. [ Laughter. ] I do not know what the laughs are about. If hon. Gentlemen opposite were redundant for about six weeks and received only £4 a week they would not laugh so much. This idea may seem laughable at the moment, but the people who are unemployed do not laugh at these things. They feel that this is a national necessity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.5.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-08", "file": "debates1960-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "667d97df784cf605", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "he interim, and it can find time to investigate it and go into the complaint made in the Question. By the time a reply is received, we shall then have an Answer that the grievance will have been remedied. This is a very important point, which we should not dismiss Lightly. I have on occasion, for example, asked Questions about post offices in my constituency where old-age pensioners were queueing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-08", "file": "debates1960-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "667d97df784cf605", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthom", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"TWO Privy Councillors\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthom", "preceding_text": " possible in the House. Indeed, procedure is all the Constitution the poor Briton has, now that any Government which command 51 per cent. of the House can at any moment do anything they like, with retrospective or prospective intention. It is a curious paradox that on this occasion no Privy Councillor on the benches opposite, with one very honourable exception, I think, has thought it worth while—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-08", "file": "debates1960-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "667d97df784cf605", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.71.3", "colnum": "71", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "y it may be, has made or has allowed to become public without having first announced it in the House. When I see that indignation being brought to the boil—if one has sufficient eminence it can be brought to the boil at a very low temperature—I often wonder why there is not more indignation about the occupants of the Opposition Front Bench being told most important things before the House is told.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.71.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-08", "file": "debates1960-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "667d97df784cf605", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.74.7", "colnum": "74", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "uoyed up all afternoon in the hope—thinks that all the 160 Questions on Cyprus were out of order. He said that 160 Questions had been put down on Cyprus and the 160 speakers—there were, in fact, not 160 speakers; there were really at a guess about 16 speakers—were not after individual information but were all out to make an attack on Government policy; therefore, their Questions were out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.74.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-08", "file": "debates1960-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "667d97df784cf605", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.74.7", "colnum": "74", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " really at a guess about 16 speakers—were not after individual information but were all out to make an attack on Government policy; therefore, their Questions were out of order. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Certainly. If the Questions were not designed to seek information, and/or if the Questions contained imputations, innuendoes and I forget what, which on the other leg they did, they were out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.74.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-08", "file": "debates1960-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "667d97df784cf605", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.74.7", "colnum": "74", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "the matter, what is in order and what is not, they can see a whole string of examples in Erskine May. They need not memorise the whole lot. If they will remember that whatever they feel sure that the Table would not accept on the Paper is out of order in a supplementary, and that every time they say, \"Is the right hon. Gentleman aware\" of something or other, they are almost certainly out of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.74.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-08", "file": "debates1960-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "667d97df784cf605", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "We cannot have it as a decision of the House. What would the decision be—that a Privy Councillor shall be allowed one Question a day or one supplementary a day, or he should be allowed to speak once a month?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-08", "file": "debates1960-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "667d97df784cf605", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman and his friends to enter into consultation with the Government and with my right hon. Friend and myself, with any deputation that the right hon. Gentleman may care to bring, when we right be able to work out something on these lines. But obviously there are certain limitations; namely, that I think that this would mean that the day for Wales on the Floor of the House might be avoided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-08a.145.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-09", "file": "debates1960-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa4f6de8fd2b0a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.199.7", "colnum": "199", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.199.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-09", "file": "debates1960-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa4f6de8fd2b0a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "head found it deplorable that Lord Shawcross should have seen fit to publicise his views before the Commission had begun its work and to have done so in a matter which seems to us at complete variance with the terms of reference—\"? of the Commission. In view of that statement and in view of the fact that since that statement was made the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia has said that he wishes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-09", "file": "debates1960-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa4f6de8fd2b0a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.237.4", "colnum": "237", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Eden", "preceding_text": "May I assure my right hon. and learned Friend that we congratulate him on his efforts? Is he not aware that there is a very real possibility that without the presence of British troops on this island the old antagonism between Greek and Turkish Cypriots will start again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.237.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-09", "file": "debates1960-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa4f6de8fd2b0a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.239.4", "colnum": "239", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "orted to the Seychelles and led to a situation which, in my view, was one of unparalleled gravity in a Colony of this size? Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman really think that the sort of statement that he has made will help him to get negotiations going again? May we not beg him at this stage to send fresh instructions to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies before he comes home?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.239.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-09", "file": "debates1960-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa4f6de8fd2b0a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "RAILWAYS (ACCIDENT BRADWELL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Apologise.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel Bromley - Davenport", "preceding_text": "Sir, with great respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-09", "file": "debates1960-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa4f6de8fd2b0a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.305.2", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "e the gap between the Greek community and the British Government, the British Government should have refused summarily even to consider them. I cannot say I entirely liked the tone in which the Foreign Secretary uttered grave warnings this afternoon of threats of communal trouble on the island—threats and warnings which were uttered in terms and in a tone such as to amount almost to an incitement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-09", "file": "debates1960-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa4f6de8fd2b0a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "documents is what was said at the London Conference. How did the situation arise in which Her Majesty's Government thought they were talking of 170 square miles and Archbishop Makarios and Dr. Kutchuk thought they were talking of 36 square miles? Somebody had second thoughts. That seems to me to be the most obvious and most likely explanation, and I should like to know who had the second thoughts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-09", "file": "debates1960-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa4f6de8fd2b0a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander S. L. C. Maydon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander S. L. C. Maydon", "preceding_text": "r to mediate and to produce a compromise had been discarded. I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman is not here to confirm whether I have his words right or not, but I think I have given a rough paraphrase of them. The fact remains that none of us knows what, apart from mediation, was Dr. Kutchuk's offer. Undoubtedly it was unacceptable to the British Government and therefore rightly it was discarded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-09", "file": "debates1960-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa4f6de8fd2b0a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.341.4", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "But the hon. Member is a rare old Tory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.341.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-09", "file": "debates1960-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa4f6de8fd2b0a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.341.5", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Eight thousand miles\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "egy which is already obsolete. My hon. Friend the Member for Swindon said that it would be a push-button war. Everyone now knows that we are not winning the rocket war, the strategic war against the Soviet Union. We saw in the newspapers only a fortnight ago that the Russians can now fire a rocket from somewhere in the U.S.S.R. to within a mile of a target in the Pacific 4,000 or 5,000 miles away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.341.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-09", "file": "debates1960-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa4f6de8fd2b0a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.346.5", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ther installations into the area and concentrate all our resources in this small area, and they suggested that to do that an area triple the existing area would be sufficient. They suggested 36 square miles. The right hon. and learned Gentleman said, \"No. What we mean by retaining those base areas is that the actual geographical area which we now want is ten times that which we originally agreed\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.346.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-09", "file": "debates1960-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa4f6de8fd2b0a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not break off negotiations.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ol. 602, c. 644] Therefore the position of these being sovereign areas has, I venture to suggest, never been questioned. The argument is the size and not the principle of sovereignty. The hon. Gentleman the Member for St. Pancras, North said in the course of his speech that we had issued an ultimatum. The Archbishop said that he would only accept areas 6 miles by 6 miles. Is not that an ultimatum?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-09", "file": "debates1960-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa4f6de8fd2b0a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "gest, never been questioned. The argument is the size and not the principle of sovereignty. The hon. Gentleman the Member for St. Pancras, North said in the course of his speech that we had issued an ultimatum. The Archbishop said that he would only accept areas 6 miles by 6 miles. Is not that an ultimatum? [An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not break off negotiations.\"] He said that was his final position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-09", "file": "debates1960-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa4f6de8fd2b0a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.413.5", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MENTAL HEALTH (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take it or leave it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "As I said only two minutes ago, that will be subject to the negotiations which are shortly to take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.413.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-09", "file": "debates1960-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa4f6de8fd2b0a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MENTAL HEALTH (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Service Council. This was that to ensure continuity of help for mental defectives all occupation and training centres should be the responsibility of the local health authority and not of the education authority. However, in view of the record of Scottish education authorities in this work, we felt that it would be better to leave the duties to the two types of authorities, as they are at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-09", "file": "debates1960-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa4f6de8fd2b0a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.417.3", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MENTAL HEALTH (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "No, but one hopes that gradually the smaller authorities' standards will be worked up. I can best explain the point by giving an illustration. The speed of a convoy has to be the speed of the slowest ship. Equally, if these standards are imposed by Statute, it would have to be the standards of the smallest and least well developed authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-09a.417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-10", "file": "debates1960-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3114a06b5cd02548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I shall be happy to answer the hon. Gentleman now by saying that my best recollection is that the nation the hon. Member so happily represents extracted a very large sum of money from the Government for the Prestwick Airport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.437.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-10", "file": "debates1960-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3114a06b5cd02548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "I understand that it is United States policy not to provide any information from these documents except—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.454.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-10", "file": "debates1960-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3114a06b5cd02548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.455.6", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, and I do not believe the hon. Gentleman thinks that either—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.455.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-10", "file": "debates1960-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3114a06b5cd02548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.464.4", "colnum": "464", "heading": "HON. MEMBERS (COMMUNI- CATIONS FROM MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "The point that I am making is directly relevant, because the Minister knew from the debate how many hon. Members were anxious to have the information as early as possible. The letter said—I propose to read it, if I may; it is very short—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-10", "file": "debates1960-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3114a06b5cd02548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "HON. MEMBERS (COMMUNI- CATIONS FROM MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I fully appreciate and share the anxiety of the House to get on to the important debate which we are to have shortly, but I regard this matter as of the greatest importance and I think that it would be wrong of me to ask you, Sir, for a Ruling upon it without placing you in possession of the facts. I will try to do it as shortly as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.465.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-10", "file": "debates1960-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3114a06b5cd02548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "y how much I regret the circumstances which have made it necessary for me to open this day's debate in place of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan). I hope that I can express the feelings of the whole House when I say how much we welcomed the recent news that his recovery is more rapid and that it may not be long before we have him with us again to invigorate our proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.472.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-10", "file": "debates1960-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3114a06b5cd02548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "is work as President of the Council of Europe Consultative Assembly, believing then that he had before him a full term of useful service. It was a great tragedy that he should have died so soon afterwards. He had, I think, so much to contribute to that work and to the work of establishing the unity of Europe. I should like publicly to acknowledge his services and express our sympathy to his widow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-10", "file": "debates1960-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3114a06b5cd02548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ieved an equality and that there is some safety in the equality, but if we go on with the race we shall lose that equality and try to gain the lead over the other fellow. Then we shall end where all arms races have ended. There is no doubt that the arms race up to 1914–18 was the true cause of that world war. There is no doubt that the arms race we incited the Germans to begin between wars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.554.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-10", "file": "debates1960-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3114a06b5cd02548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "my hon. Fiends are in some logical difficulty over this because they supported German rearmament and are now bothering about the atomic weapon. I do not think that they are quite so badly off as all that. One of the favours that my rebellion conferred on them was to give them the opportunity to demonstrate, by reference to HANSARD, that they never did support German rearmament, but only abstained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-10", "file": "debates1960-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3114a06b5cd02548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.594.2", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "s have sat all through this debate. Somebody had better wake it up. We are all going to sleep. We had this question ten years ago. All this stuff is ten years old. The answer to the question of what we do if Germany is demilitarised is that in a sane world we would make the economic \"know-how\" of Germany and her industrial goods go to the under-privileged areas of the world and the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-10a.594.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.629.0", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that reply, but would he not agree that the standard of secondary education depends on the effectiveness of primary teaching, and that, therefore, the primary classes should be brought down to the same size as the secondary classes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.652.6", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Don't you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "What is the special interest my right hon. Friend has in the dimension of busts which is brought out in this Question? Why is there need for the Treasury to discriminate between various busts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.652.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.659.0", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Whilst we welcome the efforts that the right hon. Gentleman is making to reduce unemployment in Scotland, does he realise that, despite those efforts, the figure has now risen to approximately 100,000? Is he also aware that before his schemes begin to employ any of these people two years at least will pass?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.659.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.670.0", "colnum": "670", "heading": "HON. MEMBERS (COMMUNICATIONS FROM MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": " however, put this to you, Mr. Speaker? According to what the Parliamentary Secretary has said, the procedure adopted here had the effect—and one must infer the calculated and intended effect—of making it impossible for hon. Members in the House to know what the President of the Board of Trade was doing in this matter until after the communication had been made to the Lobby correspondents outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.670.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.673.6", "colnum": "673", "heading": "RAILWAYS (NOTICE OF STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Summers", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.673.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "RAILWAYS (NOTICE OF STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.674.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.674.6", "colnum": "674", "heading": "RAILWAYS (NOTICE OF STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "But, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.674.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.674.10", "colnum": "674", "heading": "RAILWAYS (NOTICE OF STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "It is not a Private Notice Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.674.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.674.11", "colnum": "674", "heading": "RAILWAYS (NOTICE OF STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "ons had been produced which offered a chance of a settlement … If the people who are doing all the negotiating, including hon. Members, cannot produce suggestions which seem likely to avert the strike, the House of Commons might if it were to have a debate tonight. We also know that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House has been having meetings, and quite rightly, with Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.674.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.674.11", "colnum": "674", "heading": "RAILWAYS (NOTICE OF STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "rike, the House of Commons might if it were to have a debate tonight. We also know that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House has been having meetings, and quite rightly, with Ministers—[ Interruption. ] Is the House of Commons losing its sense of responsibility in this matter? It ought not to do so. The Leader of the House, quite rightly, is now meeting the Ministers who are concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.674.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.677.5", "colnum": "677", "heading": "PRIVATE NOTICE QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "In deference to you, Mr. Speaker, and in deference to the Chair, for you are the guardian of our rights, I completely and absolutely, without question, accept your decision, but as I have your permission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.679.5", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "preceding_text": "not quite a correct picture of the facts, because we are dealing with a decision taken in 1957. If this Motion of censure is to be applied in the terms the Opposition appear to wish it to be applied, the first question to which I must address myself is, is this only a Motion of censure on Her Majesty's Government, or is it not really a censure of the whole present conduct of the N.A.T.O. Alliance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.679.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.679.5", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "preceding_text": "ters and apart from the panoply of the annual meeting of N.A.T.O., and should try quietly to take up among themselves the problems which they have to face. If I were to accept the provisions of this Motion, if I were to accept some of the arguments put forward yesterday by hon. Members opposite, I should have to go at the end of March and propose a complete reversal of the present N.A.T.O. policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.679.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "it in its correct form, is censuring the Government for doing, is consenting to the re-armament of Germany with nuclear weapons. I am merely drawing the perfectly proper conclusion that if I were to accept that doctrine, I would have to propose at the next N.A.T.O. meeting, not only that Her Majesty's Government should reverse their policy, but that the whole of N.A.T.O. should reverse its policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "Perhaps, fortunately, it is the view of N.A.T.O. The Government are completely convinced about this, and I will give the reasons why we continue to support the present N.A.T.O. policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.723.4", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was in the papers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "preceding_text": "d have been bound to wag, somebody would have seen or heard something which it was not intended that they should. Not so in the vast, sparsely populated areas of Russia where, for generations, the writ of the secret police has run and where Beria's ghost stalks abroad; where it is doubtful whether the few people who inhabit the area even know of Beria's death, so restricted are the communications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.723.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.750.3", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where was the hon. Member then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "m put forward earlier, the Socialist Party is today more disunited than we have seen it for a long time past. It will not be disunited in the way in which hon. Members opposite vote in the Lobbies tonight, but disunited because once again they are showing their reluctance to support policies which they approved in principle several years ago. Many hon. Members opposite then opposed those policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.750.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.753.5", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A wonderful phrase.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "D.R. in this transition period must have de facto recognition so that we can create a new type of organisation in Europe. We have been saying for years that we would talk when we were strong. Logic is mixed up with politics. If politicians were logical the world would be back in the caveman era. It is necessary sometimes to cut the Gordian knot of logic with the realities of sociological advances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.753.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.753.5", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does it mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "or years that we would talk when we were strong. Logic is mixed up with politics. If politicians were logical the world would be back in the caveman era. It is necessary sometimes to cut the Gordian knot of logic with the realities of sociological advances. [An HON. MEMBER: \"A wonderful phrase.\"] Well it is certainly more realistic than the stuff I have been lisening to from hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.753.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "licker, but it is a last flicker which justifies the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies being sent out there, although, of course, his record on Cyprus is well-known. He has been against any independence at all. That is why he has been sent out to negotiate with Archbishop Makarios. And the Government ask us to give them their trust and confidence and to allow them the benefit of the doubt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "lation to the three maiden speakers: the hon. Gentleman the Member for Dunfermline Burghs (Dr. A. Thompson) and my hon. Friend the Member for Clapham (Dr. A. Glyn) and Richmond, Surrey (Dr. A. Royle) for their excellent and interesting speeches. The latter part of the right hon. Gentleman's speech evoked the measure of support which it precisely deserved—the Bulletin of the Society of Labologists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-11", "file": "debates1960-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "868834650ee43d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I was only saying that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-11a.789.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-12", "file": "debates1960-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca820b4ed749d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-12a.899.4", "colnum": "899", "heading": "SUMMER HOLIDAY SEASON", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "I think we ought to wait on events, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-12a.899.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-12", "file": "debates1960-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca820b4ed749d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-12a.899.6", "colnum": "899", "heading": "SUMMER HOLIDAY SEASON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for the right hon. Gentleman's advice, and I am sorry to have to reject it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-12a.899.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-12", "file": "debates1960-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca820b4ed749d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-12a.900.4", "colnum": "900", "heading": "SUMMER HOLIDAY SEASON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I am as well acquainted with the rules of the House as anybody in the Chair, if I may say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-12a.900.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-12", "file": "debates1960-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca820b4ed749d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-12a.916.7", "colnum": "916", "heading": "SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "—that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-12a.916.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-12", "file": "debates1960-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca820b4ed749d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-12a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS (NOTICE OF STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": " the House of Commons is deeply involved in these affairs. I would tell the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland that if there is occasion for it, his request for an opportunity for a debate next week will be given proper consideration. I think that the right hon. Member for Easington has done the Government far less than justice. This dispute started by a disagreement between the unions concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-12a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-12", "file": "debates1960-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca820b4ed749d7b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-12a.923.2", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS (NOTICE OF STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Monslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Monslow", "preceding_text": "s the Government are concerned any increase in wages or any improvement of conditions within the industry must be effected through the policy of economania. That, I suggest, is an absolute misunderstanding of the whole transport situation. I leave the matter there. At this juncture, at any rate, none of us ought to do anything at all, or express what we feel, until we see what the outcome will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-12a.923.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-15", "file": "debates1960-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7e048645653509e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-15a.1056.4", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (EARNINGS RULES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Sir. I thought the hon. Gentleman was agreeably moved by my words but I can see that I was sadly mistaken. The impact of crime and juvenile delinquency stems from the fact that so many mothers go out to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-15a.1056.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-15", "file": "debates1960-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7e048645653509e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-15a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (EARNINGS RULES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am trying very hard to judge the rightness of the proposition which the hon. Member puts, with ingenuity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-15a.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-16", "file": "debates1960-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea31be4b8d165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL TERRITORIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "ed freedom of travel, which is the right of any other person in this country? Is the Minister aware of the case of Mr. W. D. Colley, which I raised with him in December? Mr. Colley applied for a passport to go to Gambia in June, but did not receive a reply until 31st July, when he was told that he could have a temporary passport provided he gave the reasons and proof of where he was going and why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-16", "file": "debates1960-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea31be4b8d165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1104.4", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL TERRITORIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I think that that is a very different question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1104.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-16", "file": "debates1960-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea31be4b8d165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "But is it not a fact that it was bought in 1956 for the public for £3,000 and that at a local inquiry the Government were warned that it would be a white elephant but the man from Westminster or Whitehall knew best?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-16", "file": "debates1960-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea31be4b8d165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1124.6", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "nistry did not consult the Minister of Power before the arrangement was made? Is he aware that what is now being done is to compare a modern oil-burning installation with an old-fashioned coke installation? Does he not know that there are many modern coal- and coke-burning systems which are cheaper to use than oil-burning systems and that they also eliminate the use of labour? Is he further aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1124.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-16", "file": "debates1960-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea31be4b8d165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Is the Parliamentary Secretary further aware that, even though money may have been spent on this oil installation, it is still possible to convert it to coal- or coke-burning without any increase in expenditure? Does he not realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-16", "file": "debates1960-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea31be4b8d165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1129.5", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AFRICA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1129.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-16", "file": "debates1960-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea31be4b8d165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1138.0", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "AFRICA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tiations are entered into by all the people concerned in the best possible spirit. I do not think that it would help if, every time a Prime Minister or notability out there made, or was alleged to have made, a Press conference statement, I made some answer to it. We realise the difficulty and the responsibilities to everybody—all our peoples concerned, whether white, European, coloured or African—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-16", "file": "debates1960-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea31be4b8d165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1141.2", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "AFRICA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend agree that the difficult and delicate questions in Africa would be helped towards a solution if hon. Members exercised some restraint—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1141.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-16", "file": "debates1960-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea31be4b8d165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1150.4", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "TRANSPORT ACT, 1947 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "If there is some diversion of employment from a single source to a wider source it would not, in my view, be to the detriment of those who work in railway towns. I feel that there is a grave disadvantage, and I speak as one who comes from Crewe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-16", "file": "debates1960-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea31be4b8d165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1165.3", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member said that last week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " been fundamental. First, my right hon. Friend has vouchsafed to the House that in 1960 there will be a consumption of coal of 196 million tons, a production of coal of 195 million tons, and, therefore, stocks of coal will decline by only 1 million tons. We are at the coldest time of the winter at present. We have about six weeks of the coal winter to run. From 1st April stocks will begin to rise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-16", "file": "debates1960-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea31be4b8d165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1165.3", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "on. He indicated dissent at first, shaking his head as he has shaken it this afternoon. Finally, he capitulated and wrote me a letter confirming that they would be about £50 million up to the end of 1959. Our cleavage of opinion is the extent of the losses in the current year. My right hon. Friend will not even confide to the House—I regard it as a dereliction of his duty that he refuses to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-16", "file": "debates1960-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea31be4b8d165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I do ask hon. Members to let me finish. None of us can be absolutely sure about the rate of deterioration, but what I am quite convinced about—here lies the third major cleavage of opinion between my right hon. Friend and myself—is that the Coal Board is \"cooking the books\" by writing into its accounts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-16", "file": "debates1960-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea31be4b8d165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1173.5", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ake me any the less right, and I counsel my Conservative colleagues—I would not expect acceptance of this view by Socialists—to note the marked analogy between the two nationalised industries to which I have referred and the words written in The Times by my right hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth (Mr. P. Thorneycroft) on 15th February, with all the authority of an ex Chancellor of the Exchequer,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-16", "file": "debates1960-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea31be4b8d165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1173.7", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " seek a renewal of increased borrowing powers. My right hon. Friend would not respond to that point which I made on Second Reading of the Bill. He took the view, haughtily, that these matters were none of his concern. They are the concern of all taxpayers, because it is the taxpayers who are having to underwrite the huge sums of money in the Bill. As I have said, I shall not vote against the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1173.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-16", "file": "debates1960-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea31be4b8d165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "That is kind and generous of the hon. Member. I do not propose to withdraw anything. What I said was that the National Coal Board had not followed the widely accepted accountancy practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-16a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-17", "file": "debates1960-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6ad700b61e4ce7ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-17a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I do not know that the word \"accusation\" is quite the right word to use, but I have certainly read the reports. They are at variance with my understanding, and that of my hon. Friends and others, of what took place at this meeting, but really I do not think it is wise to go into that matter today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-17a.1263.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-17", "file": "debates1960-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6ad700b61e4ce7ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-17a.1292.0", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "BALLISTIC MISSILE EARLY WARNING STATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman brought that up because we do not accept four minutes as the maximum figure. We hope to get a good deal more warning than that, in any case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-17a.1292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-17", "file": "debates1960-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6ad700b61e4ce7ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-17a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ROAD PROGRAMME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "us recommendation that, order to facilitate transport and provide proper road accommodation, that tunnel was absolutely necessary, they did not do it, but they proposed another scheme to make a road round the western end of the runway. Then, it was discovered, when appeals were being heard against the proposed road, that it would invade the private promises of a distinguished Member of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-17a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-17", "file": "debates1960-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6ad700b61e4ce7ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-17a.1393.2", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ROAD PROGRAMME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Markham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Markham", "preceding_text": "I find this monstrous. By implication, there is here a hidden charge that a Deputy-Speaker of this House used his influence to divert a public road scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-17a.1393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-18", "file": "debates1960-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e070d4899138f414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1408.1", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": " just as anxious as I am to solve the problem of Covent Garden. It has not been solved by many Governments in the past because of the inevitable objections which are bound to be raised to the solution of a problem like this. I have listened very carefully to a number of representations and have received deputations from Finsbury and Shoreditch. I sympathise with and understand their point of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-18", "file": "debates1960-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e070d4899138f414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1414.1", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AFRICA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e Union of English-Speaking South Africans, UNESSA, the Federal Party and the African National Congress. I wrote to them to say that I had received a number of requests from different groups who wished to put their views to me in person, but arrangements had been made for my brief visit to South Africa which did not enable me to receive deputations from organisations not represented in Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1414.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-18", "file": "debates1960-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e070d4899138f414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AFRICA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister says they were agreed broadly—including the arrangements for South Africa?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-18", "file": "debates1960-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e070d4899138f414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1419.3", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AFRICA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "In view of the Prime Minister's amendment to his reply, may I now ask him if he does not think that it is most unfortunate that he should have visited this segregated Bantu College, which is part of a long-term plan of the South African Government to destroy the long-standing multiracialism of the Cape Town and Witwatersrand Universities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-18", "file": "debates1960-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e070d4899138f414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1419.5", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AFRICA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I am very anxious to do that, and I would be able to do so if hon. Gentlemen opposite stopped taking the conduct of the business of this House out of your hands. Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1419.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-18", "file": "debates1960-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e070d4899138f414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1430.6", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICAL TRADES UNION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that the inference in the Question of the hon. Member for Watford (Mr. Farey-Jones) is incorrect, inasmuch as the General Council of the Trades Union Congress still has this matter under consideration and is due to report to the Congress in September? To that extent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1430.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-18", "file": "debates1960-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e070d4899138f414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1452.1", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": "ctedly. It was not so surprising to us, as it seems to have been to him, that a shortage manifested itself. We regretted very much that the economy was not allowed to expand during 1957 and 1958 and that it had been deliberately held down by Government policy during those years, but we knew, of course, that, once the election was over, the chances of expansion might begin to show themselves again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-18", "file": "debates1960-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e070d4899138f414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1453.3", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": "very good productive record. It tells us that it introduced the first wide continuous strip mill in this country, in Ebbw Vale, of which we are all very proud, especially those of us who lived in South Wales years ago. I wish very much that my right hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) could be here this afternoon to speak about it, because I know that he would very much like to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1453.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-18", "file": "debates1960-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e070d4899138f414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1461.4", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " have said, \"We will not put in the usual hit about stagnation\", it would have made his speech a little more palatable. The only time when I found it possible to agree with him with any warmth was in his reference to his colleague the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan). I should like to say how warmly we agreed with him in saying that we wish to see him back soon fully restored to health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1461.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-18", "file": "debates1960-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e070d4899138f414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1471.0", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Padley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Padley", "preceding_text": "e Members' Bills to transform the publicly-held capital in the Steel Company of Wales today, and of Colvilles and Richard Thomas and Baldwin's in the future, into share capital so that we get State control as well as State ownership. Since hon. Gentlemen opposite have already thrown jibes about nationalisation across the Floor today, I say that nationalisation is really a politically neutral term—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-18", "file": "debates1960-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e070d4899138f414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "place of power for the people or power for the great financial and industrial monopolists and cartels, of which the Bill is concrete evidence. I stand uncompromisingly for the policy of collectivisation which is being applied in almost every country, including Britain. It is being applied in their way in the United States of America and in India, as well as in China and Russia. In Western Germany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-18", "file": "debates1960-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e070d4899138f414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "nks do. It is not financed from the Consolidated Fund or from taxpayers' money. It would not need a Bill in the House. Why cannot Colvilles and Richard Thomas and Baldwin's go either to the stock market and seek public subscription there for the £120 million over the next five years, because Richard Thomas and Baldwin's will be denationalised quite soon, or to the Finance Corporation for Industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-18", "file": "debates1960-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e070d4899138f414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1537.1", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "preceding_text": "sation. In short, this is nothing less than a subsidy out of public money, taxpayers' money, to private shareholders who do not need it at all. In this respect, I think it is not unfair to contrast the willingness of the Government on this occasion to subsidise private shareholders out of public money with their reluctance to provide public money to meet the essential needs of the social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-18", "file": "debates1960-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e070d4899138f414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1545.1", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I do not want to be drawn away, but it was shortly after the Conservative victory in 1951 that Lennox-Boyd—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-18a.1545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-19", "file": "debates1960-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c536d74d268b71f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-19a.1593.0", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST OFFENDERS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "gestion which has been hinted at in the course of this discussion that they send people to prison as first offenders rather indiscriminately is one which is entirely wrong, and I am quite certain that they know quite clearly in their own minds the reasons why they should do so and before they do so. Incidentally, if they are wrong, the offender has ample right of appeal and ample time in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-19a.1593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-19", "file": "debates1960-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c536d74d268b71f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-19a.1650.0", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT, 1949 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "The adult delinquent is in prison and therefore has no vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-19a.1650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-19", "file": "debates1960-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c536d74d268b71f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-19a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT, 1949 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leavey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leavey", "preceding_text": "make the younger people feel that in some way there is something different about them. I am a little apprehensive that in our discussion today on the hon. Gentleman's proposal, with which I freely agree, we may be in danger of doing that. I am sorry to disappoint the hon. Gentleman who is tempted to make encouraging noises at me, because I do not propose to support the hon. Gentleman in the Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-19a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-19", "file": "debates1960-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c536d74d268b71f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-19a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT, 1949 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leavey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How else?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leavey", "preceding_text": "ot propose to support the hon. Gentleman in the Lobby. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I feel it necessary to say why, although I think my right hon. Friend has given full, good reasons why this Bill is not a Measure which we ought to put on the Statute Book at this time or in these circumstances. I believe the hon. Gentleman knows very well that this is not the way that this change should be brought about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-19a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-19", "file": "debates1960-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c536d74d268b71f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-19a.1670.1", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT, 1949 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leavey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leavey", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend, of course, must speak for himself and his colleagues. I am permitted to have minor disagreements with him and to make them clear in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-19a.1670.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-19", "file": "debates1960-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c536d74d268b71f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-19a.1671.0", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT, 1949 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leavey", "preceding_text": "f Parliament, and that he had found, as other hon. Members and I have found, that there is great and intelligent interest in political matters amongst the age group to which we are directing our attention. I hope I will not be thought unduly flippant or showing any disrespect if I say that it is conceivable that the more young people learn about this place, the less interest in it they might have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-19a.1670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-22", "file": "debates1960-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b05349f5dd6d7bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-22a.8.3", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "But surely the Minister would agree that a director is concerned with safeguarding policy and not with day-to-day management—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-22a.8.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-22", "file": "debates1960-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b05349f5dd6d7bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-22a.30.4", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "preceding_text": "I quite agree, and that may well come from private sources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-22a.30.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-22", "file": "debates1960-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b05349f5dd6d7bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-22a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (SPECTACLES)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "I am aware that there is pressure, especially from teen-agers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-22a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why unhappy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister use this unhappy incident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.165.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.165.7", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "What happens in the future is one thing; this is quite another. The hon. Gentleman is less than fair in suggesting that this particular incident has anything unhappy about it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.165.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.166.8", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "I have tried accurately to set out the constitutional position, and I cannot go beyond it. Within that, I am certainly not myself as Minister aware of obstruction from any quarter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "Obviously, I can have no objection at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then say it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "There is a great deal to be said for the point of view of the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.170.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.173.3", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "I think it works very well as it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.173.8", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that account is kept of the number of tons of literature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.173.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to suggest for a moment that a debate on a specific Vote or Supplementary Vote should be at the expense of Opposition time on Supply Days. But there are not only considerations affecting the official Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the 1922 Committee?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ear.\"] I address my remarks to the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition. It was said to me the other day that if I carried on like this I should qualify for his salary. That may or may not be true, but it is indisputable that some rights and privileges should repose with my hon. Friends and myself on the Government benches to initiate debates on specific Votes and supplementary Votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "aking it clear to her constituents that the list is inadequate. In case there are too many smiles on the Government benches about what I have said, I should say that I have a complete list of Tory Members of Parliament whose constituencies contain places which were in the old development areas or D.A.T.A.C. areas, but which are not in the list. I shall be most interested to hear from some of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "dequate because it is preventing local and planning authorities from getting on with the job. Unless we can get these places on the list, nothing can be done in preparation for jobs for people who are likely to be out of work. That is the gravamen of the charge which we make. The Board of Trade appear—I say appear—merely to have looked down the list of places where unemployment is over 4 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " most needed. This seems to us a matter of priorities. I remember the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) once saying, in what I thought was a very striking sentence, that the language of priorities is the religion of Socialism. I do not say that I accept that religion, but I say that in this matter priorities are essential and I am surprised that the party opposite should not accept that,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And shipbuilding.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " industry to go to Jarrow, where there is 7 per cent. unemployment, than somewhere else where there is 1·5 per cent. unemployment. There is, of course, no limit to what local authorities can do outside the Bill. This list refers only to facilities available under the Bill. In the North-East the particular problem to which the right hon. Gentleman referred is the prospect for the coal mines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the alternative?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "t, our competitive position in West Fife will be jeopardised. What, therefore, are the prospects in that area; what influenced the President in deciding against the inclusion of the Cowdenbeath area? I want to say a brief word on the general character of the debate. I said in my opening remarks that it had been a sordid and a disagreeable debate, with Members coming along with their begging bowls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.305.8", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "—there are any rules—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.305.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.306.5", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The lowest is 2·8 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I think that he gave the impression that because he is expecting unemployment in certain areas he has included areas with less than 4½ per cent. unemployment. However, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, in replying to the debate, ought to tell us what areas have less than 4½ per cent. unemployment and what is the lowest percentage rate among the districts on the list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.306.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.306.5", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was 2·2 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "mployment. However, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, in replying to the debate, ought to tell us what areas have less than 4½ per cent. unemployment and what is the lowest percentage rate among the districts on the list. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The lowest is 2·8 per cent.\"] Yes, but that is a place which is said to be a very special area subject to special considerations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.306.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "I thought that my right hon. Friend dealt with that very fully in opening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-23", "file": "debates1960-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f46634d70c5472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": " 4·7 per cent. to 3·9 per cent. Last month there were 1,536 unemployed, and the average rate of unemployment for the last twelve months was 3·6 per cent. Moreover, we expect 400 jobs to accrue there in the near future as a result of projects in hand or in prospect. With those figures to hand, there was no point in retaining Wrexham. I now turn to the hon. Lady, my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-23a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-24", "file": "debates1960-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2707fdf4ae50ae8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-24a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three too many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Of 168 girls who left school at Christmas, only three are still without employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-24a.355.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-24", "file": "debates1960-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2707fdf4ae50ae8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-24a.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "rs of twelve and four? Will the hon. Gentleman say what kind of action was taken on that occasion? Will he also say, with regard to the case which I brought to his notice, why this young man, with the history he had, was not given proper attention in the course of his experience in the Army, so that he might not have committed the offence which he did commit? May I also ask him a further question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-24a.367.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-24", "file": "debates1960-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2707fdf4ae50ae8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-24a.368.2", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Why not? This is a very serious matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-24a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-25", "file": "debates1960-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "649afc67d1f79fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.547.2", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was in it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "I just want to say that I am quite satisfied about the letter. Nevertheless, I think that in view of what was in it and of how the matter has been investigated it ought to be publicised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-25", "file": "debates1960-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "649afc67d1f79fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.547.2", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": " Minister that the letter itself is not as fully satisfactory as it might be, but there is one thing which it does admit, which is that mistakes have been made by the Revenue Department on several occasions, that the Department is paying back £5 10s. to my constituent because of those mistakes and that the Department apologises and admits them. I hope that this kind of thing will not happen again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-25", "file": "debates1960-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "649afc67d1f79fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.553.2", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I certainly would not go so far as the hon. Lady has gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.553.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-25", "file": "debates1960-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "649afc67d1f79fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.562.3", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I cannot accept what the right hon. Gentleman has said. Our policy in this matter will be flexible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.562.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-25", "file": "debates1960-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "649afc67d1f79fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.573.2", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET DOCUMENTS (SIR ANTHONY EDEN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Would the Prime Minister consider at least publishing the names of the members of the Cabinet referred to by Sir Anthony Eden under the general description of \"weak sisters\", so as to remove the cloud of suspicion which must otherwise rest on the whole of his Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-25", "file": "debates1960-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "649afc67d1f79fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.580.4", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Nationalised Industries (Questions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " be possible to provide a definition? It would not require to be a very wide definition, obviously, but a narrow one, yet one that would clarify the situation and enable Questions to be put within the provisions of the new definition? I would remind the House that at the time the Acts were introduced we were exceedingly anxious not to allow hon. Members to interfere with day-to-day administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.580.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-25", "file": "debates1960-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "649afc67d1f79fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY RATE BURDEN", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "ms, but I may quote the great increase in the number of teachers, the numbers of health visitors, home helps and district nurses, and the vast increase in school places and in schools all of which have taken place in the nine years during which my party have been in power. There has been a greatly increased volume of housing—on an average 30 per cent. above the Socialist record, and a great drive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-25", "file": "debates1960-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "649afc67d1f79fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY RATE BURDEN", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ould like to explain to the House that loan charges account for only 10 per cent. of total local authority expenditure and charges on loans raised in a single year account only, on average, for 10 per cent. of that. Thus, if there is an increase of 1 per cent. in interest rates, the result on the rate burden of the local authority would be only a very small fraction of 10 per cent. of 10 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-25", "file": "debates1960-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "649afc67d1f79fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY RATE BURDEN", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "That sounds like an interesting question, which I should like to discuss. Local authority services have expanded, are expanding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-25", "file": "debates1960-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "649afc67d1f79fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY RATE BURDEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "preceding_text": "he burden of local ratepayers. I am sure that everyone interested in this subject will feel that that is a real worry and a definite possibility and something which will have to be constantly kept under review. It cannot be contended that ratepayers would necessarily receive increased services in proportion to the increased rates that they will have to pay. Therefore, in supporting the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-25", "file": "debates1960-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "649afc67d1f79fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY RATE BURDEN", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And others.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "e for local government if all additional expenditure that a local authority votes can be reimbursed as to 100 per cent. by the Exchequer. When I read the interesting account of the Labour Party's Conference on local government the other day, I half suspected that we might find a Motion like this on the Order Paper, because I realised that rates were going up in a number of local Labour controlled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-25a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-26", "file": "debates1960-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3f0319d3a5dd1b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-26a.750.2", "colnum": "750", "heading": "THE FINE ARTS", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "that, but if the hon. Member for Lichfield and Tamworth, who moved his Motion so eloquently and ably, wants my support over the very wide field of all the arts, I shall he delighted to give it. I can see that temperatures can rise to great heights in a debate of this kind. I am a great advocate of my own point of view, but I realise that there are other points of view and that we must be tolerant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-26a.750.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-02-29", "file": "debates1960-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "0b7df1b3a263de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.822.3", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend is considering whether we should request opticians to display the range of frames, but whether that would go so far as to be obligatory is another question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-29", "file": "debates1960-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "0b7df1b3a263de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.836.0", "colnum": "836", "heading": "FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (MILITARY FACILITIES, SPAIN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Misreading by whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has asked a large number of supplementary questions and I will try to deal with them. As to the statement which he alleged that Dr. Adenauer had made about N.A.T.O. consent, I think that is based on a misreading of the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-29", "file": "debates1960-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "0b7df1b3a263de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (MILITARY FACILITIES, SPAIN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What arrangements?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the Foreign Secretary will tell us whether Her Majesty's Government are opposed to these arrangements. If they are opposed to them, and have made that plain to the German Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-29", "file": "debates1960-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "0b7df1b3a263de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.839.4", "colnum": "839", "heading": "FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (MILITARY FACILITIES, SPAIN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "It depends exactly on what has happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.839.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-29", "file": "debates1960-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "0b7df1b3a263de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.839.7", "colnum": "839", "heading": "FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (MILITARY FACILITIES, SPAIN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Although it was before his time as Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.839.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-29", "file": "debates1960-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "0b7df1b3a263de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "ole of our defence programme. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Belper will, I am sure, make one of the speeches we have come to expect from him. I know that what I say will not embarrass him. His heart is in the right place in defence matters. I do not apply that to the right hon. Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell), whose heart seems to have shifted from left to right, as far as I can see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-29", "file": "debates1960-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "0b7df1b3a263de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.864.3", "colnum": "864", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "ffice and after the expenditure of that sum of money, the cupboard is as bare as before of these significant weapons, it should not be left just to Opposition Members to ask why. Every hon. Member should be very concerned about it. The right hon. Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill) said this about Conservative Governments before the war, and it was the same issue. Much money had been spent but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.864.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-29", "file": "debates1960-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "0b7df1b3a263de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.864.3", "colnum": "864", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "ve not only been eating since then; they have gorged themselves of both money and Ministers. That is our case. I do not think it is necessary to say that I do not accept that it is unprofitable or unnecessary to pay for defence. The right hon. Gentleman does not have to make out that part of his case to me or to many of my hon. Friends, although there are some of them who will not agree with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.864.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-02-29", "file": "debates1960-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "0b7df1b3a263de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": ". I found that many of the officers there were as puzzled as I was about the Central Treaty Organisation. In Ankara, they were politer, but that may be because an engineering laboratory was set up there by C.E.N.T.O. There are also, I understand, a nuclear science institution in Teheran and an artificial insemination centre in Pakistan. Is it a military, economic, social or political organisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-02-29a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-01", "file": "debates1960-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f82482fddfc6c202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "Even if the hon. Member's accusation were accurate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-01", "file": "debates1960-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f82482fddfc6c202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1008.2", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "Has not the Minister some concern for the social purposes for which the money is used? Here is a flight lieutenant out of Her Majesty's Services who fought against Hitler and who is refused admittance to this golf club simply because he is a Jew.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1008.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-01", "file": "debates1960-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f82482fddfc6c202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1010.8", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Certified?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "Guarantee payments in respect of pigs certified in Scotland in these years were £1,793,000, £1,953,000 and £1,198,000, respectively. These figures do not take account of pigs produced in Scotland which are taken over the border and certified in England.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1010.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-03-01", "file": "debates1960-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f82482fddfc6c202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1026.4", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS PROCEEDINGS (TELEVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ant the whole thing, then that is out on capital and expenditure grounds, and I do not think that anyone really wants to make all the necessary changes in frequencies. If we want an hour at the end of each day, technically it can be done but with a certain degree of inconvenience—always a rather stronger light than now and a certain number of cameras present. The question is, do we want that done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1026.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-01", "file": "debates1960-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f82482fddfc6c202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": " must say that I see his point here. The implication of this Amendment is that the nuclear strategy is right, but that there have been vacillations and confusion. I must say that that comes well from the party opposite. One can argue about the Government's defence policy, one can disagree with it, but the one thing that even its severest critics admit is that it has been consistent over the years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-01", "file": "debates1960-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f82482fddfc6c202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1057.3", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "Yes, I certainly would say that they were the same. There have evidently been considerable advances in scientific matters since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1057.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-01", "file": "debates1960-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f82482fddfc6c202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Who put it four years ago?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ht want to use it as a deterrent against the Russians when the Americans were otherwise engaged or not concerned. We should be able to threaten the Russians with our deterrent even though the Americans were disengaged at that time. We had a good chance at Suez of seeing if this argument was true. Today, however, I should have thought that no one would put over the argument advanced four years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-01", "file": "debates1960-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f82482fddfc6c202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "be prepared to suggest that if the Government accepted even the pacifist Amendment on the Order Paper, they should abolish the whole bag of tricks overnight. As my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, East said, it is something that has to be done progressively. Obviously it must be done progressively. No one expects that the Government will take the lot and dump it in the sea and be done with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-01", "file": "debates1960-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f82482fddfc6c202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e of three or four years, I say that it is far better that they should be outmoded in the course of three or four years than that we should indulge in considerable expenditure, even reckless expenditure, in support of the nuclear strategy over those years, only to find that after a period of time these weapons become obsolete. Now I want to turn to the position of the party of which I am a member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-01", "file": "debates1960-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f82482fddfc6c202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "the nuclear strategy over those years, only to find that after a period of time these weapons become obsolete. Now I want to turn to the position of the party of which I am a member. [ Interruption. ] I say that advisedly. It so happens that I can go back longer than anyone else in this Parliamentary Labour Party, but that does not matter, for the longer one is in a party the more trouble one has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-01", "file": "debates1960-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f82482fddfc6c202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": " was quite right when he claimed in the House, on the day that N.A.T.O. was formed, that it was logically carrying out the policy which he had outlined in Fulton in March, 1946. For all practical purposes, the decision to treat the Soviet Union as a potential enemy after the war was taken before the war was over. It had nothing to do with post-war Soviet policies. I do not want to weary the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-01", "file": "debates1960-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f82482fddfc6c202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who is denigrating now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "preceding_text": "h Service man who is now well paid, who is a highly efficient, well-armed and well-equipped, Regular soldier, is only the equivalent of a German soldier who serves for only twelve months' conscript service? It is clearly known and accepted in N.A.T.O. that our new Regular Forces have an efficiency, quality and fighting power which is worth two or three conscript soldiers even in the German forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-01", "file": "debates1960-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f82482fddfc6c202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1153.0", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "by my right hon. Friend the other day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-01", "file": "debates1960-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f82482fddfc6c202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1153.3", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "That is a matter which will be debated in N.A.T.O. That is where it should be decided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-01", "file": "debates1960-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f82482fddfc6c202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1153.3", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blue Streak\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "as willing to allow. I am glad that he agrees with the Government that that position has to be maintained. As to how it is maintained in the later years of the 1960s and the early 1970s I will only say, as I said earlier in the debate, that our difficulty as a nation is that we must pick weapons which are efficient, which have the greatest validity. We have to pick winners right out of the stable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-01a.1153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1192.2", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that, quite apart from my personal views on this, the main anxieties are about the very large influx of personnel, possibly including Spaniards and West Germans nowadays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1192.2", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that, quite apart from my personal views on this, the main anxieties are about the very large influx of personnel, possibly including Spaniards and West Germans nowadays—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—into this area, and the threat to the whole character and way of life of a small community of the islands, and secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1192.2", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "e threat to the whole character and way of life of a small community of the islands, and secondly—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—the proximity of the base to the only concentration of population in that part of the north Highlands, and finally, the inability of the Minister of Defence to say that there will not be stockpiling of nuclear weapons in that area? Those are the main objections and anxieties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "have been communicating with the hon. Gentleman's noble Friend for over five months. The man said he had not made another application. He has been to his commandant, and I have a letter from him, which I will pass on to the hon. Gentleman, in which he believes that it is only his presence at home which can save his mother. Both his mother and his father are very seriously affected by their health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "end for over five months. The man said he had not made another application. He has been to his commandant, and I have a letter from him, which I will pass on to the hon. Gentleman, in which he believes that it is only his presence at home which can save his mother. Both his mother and his father are very seriously affected by their health. [ Laughter. ] I do not know how this is a laughing matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1194.3", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "My noble Friend is looking at this again, but I would prefer always the application or re-application to come from the Service man rather than from his parents or Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1202.4", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pike", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pike", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman knows what is our stamp policy. He probably agrees with Barrie, if I may quote from his rectorial address on courage to the students of St. Andrews, that you should never ascribe to your opponent motives meaner than your own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1202.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1205.4", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Postmaster-General again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1205.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1205.6", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1205.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1216.3", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "May I appeal to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1216.3", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "May I appeal to my right hon. Friend—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—in the presence of the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1216.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "EARTHQUAKE, AGADIR (AID)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the whole House will wish to be associated with this message.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1223.6", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is denigrating now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "ister of Defence last night. I therefore approached the Editor of HANSARD, who was kind enough to write to me in the following terms: The original typescript of the marked passage attached read as follows: 'It is clearly known and accepted in N.A.T.O. that our new Regular Forces have an efficiency, quality and fighting power which is worth two or three conscript soldiers even in the German Forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1223.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1223.6", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: 'Who is denigrating now?'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "ty and fighting power which is worth two or three conscript soldiers even in the German Forces. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is denigrating now?\"]'. The Editor said that this was altered by the Minister's Department to read: It is clearly known and accepted in N.A.T.O. that our new Regular Forces have an efficiency, quality and fighting power not possessed by conscript soldiers even in the German Forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1223.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (LICENSING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "riteria, the right hon. Gentleman said that we should lay down a precise basis on which licensing applications should be considered. He went even further and suggested that we should decide what weight should be attached to each one. Such a suggestion would be very impracticable. If I may say so with deference to hon. Members opposite, this shows how they fail to appreciate the nature of business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1280.7", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (LICENSING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": " been a useful machine, but it is now out of date. Any company with sufficient financial backing would scrap it and get something more modern, but many of these independent companies are not in a sufficiently good financial state to do so. That is what is causing so much of the difficulty in the industry. They just do not have the money. They are, therefore, trying to get it from the public purse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1280.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-02", "file": "debates1960-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8363617713e40d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1287.0", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (LICENSING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And it applies the other way round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "trouble to say that in fact this was not the intention of the Bill. He made the point that the independents were not the associates of the corporations but were, in fact, their rivals. Do not let us be naïve about this; if the independents can take trade from the corporations, they will do so. They are not in business for the benefit of their health, but to get as much as they possibly can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-02a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-03", "file": "debates1960-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8bc4d116a6b90111", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-03a.1449.3", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the West.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "preceding_text": "it to carry? Paragraph 14 states that … the deployment of Thor will be complete. The right hon. Gentleman told us to watch the time scale, and he said that the Thor was the first strategic missile system ever established. Is it absolutely certain that we are so far ahead of the Russians as all that? It seems to me a most strange statement and I should like the evidence on which it is based.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-03a.1449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-03", "file": "debates1960-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8bc4d116a6b90111", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-03a.1456.1", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not thousand millions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "Air Ministry Lord Trenchard came to have tea with me. I was greatly honoured. He said to me, \"If any airman uses a map on the Mercator projection he is not an airman. The world is not flat.\" I pass that remark on to the right hon. Gentleman as a suggestion for next year. On Report, we shall have some more questions to ask. The Government are asking for £527,000 million, and that must be justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-03a.1456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-03", "file": "debates1960-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8bc4d116a6b90111", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-03a.1549.1", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "n tasks of deterrence and its other task of preserving the peace through protection and through supplying and co-operating with the other Services. But we have always questioned the establishment of these missile bases, and that is what I have been applying myself to tonight. I think I have made the position fairly clear. When I spoke on the Estimates last year, making this same winding-up speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-03a.1549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-04", "file": "debates1960-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4c700e67c6ce0474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-04a.1645.4", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (DRIVING OF MOTOR CYCLES AND MOPEDS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Hicks Beach", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Hicks Beach", "preceding_text": "Well, perhaps I misunderstood the position, but I would have thought from studying the Clause that I was right. However, if the Bill is to go through on Second Reading, I hope it will be given very careful consideration in Committee, for otherwise I think that great hardship may arise for people who want to get jobs driving heavy road haulage vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-04a.1645.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-07", "file": "debates1960-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "977711d954e7fb3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.16.7", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I have tried to suggest to the the hon. Gentleman that it does not further the success of the negotiations when the Opposition constantly take a view inimical to that of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.16.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-07", "file": "debates1960-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "977711d954e7fb3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.22.6", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is talking about things which happened a long time ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.22.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-07", "file": "debates1960-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "977711d954e7fb3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "That might have been so, but these recommendations and criticisms were accepted by Western European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-07", "file": "debates1960-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "977711d954e7fb3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He voted for them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "stand the recommendations were, in fact, sent to the Council of Ministers. I rather fancied that the hon. and gallant Member for Croydon, North-East (Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett) would have something to say about this, because I noticed that he was one of the members of the Committee. While he may wish to dissociate himself from some of them now, the fact remains that these are serious criticisms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-07", "file": "debates1960-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "977711d954e7fb3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Edwards", "preceding_text": "e First Lord is in the other place. The Civil Lord is the only Admiralty representative in this House, whereas both the Army and the Air Force have two representatives. The Civil Lord has had to open this debate on his own, and, if he wants a cup of tea, will doubtless have to be replaced by his hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for War—who does not know the first thing about the Admiralty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-07", "file": "debates1960-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "977711d954e7fb3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.135.2", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "le\", which, he said, was being refitted at enormous cost. That vessel cost £18 million originally, and there is another aircraft carrier costing £20 million. If we had the kind of committee I advocate we would have all the hon. and gallant Gentlemen opposite using their experience to reduce public expenditure. An aircraft carrier costs between £18 million and £20 million, which is an enormous sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-07", "file": "debates1960-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "977711d954e7fb3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. H. Hayman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. H. Hayman", "preceding_text": " been wondering which nations will be our Allies and which our enemies if ever another war should come. This is a point which we must all bear in mind. It is now late in the debate, and I need not particularise, but those of us who lived through 1915 will remember who were our Allies and who our enemies at Gallipoli. Turkey was our enemy in the First World War and our ally in the Second World War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-07", "file": "debates1960-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "977711d954e7fb3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.149.3", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "es competing against each other. This creates a dangerous situation which we must face. Until a state of complete disarmament can be achieved, I believe that Britain must maintain her defence expenditure on all three Services. That is the only way to protect our far-flung interests and to deter any would-be agressor in Europe or the Far East from attempting to achieve his ends by threats of force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-07", "file": "debates1960-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "977711d954e7fb3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "No, I have only just begun and I heard the hon. Gentleman without interruption We would have answered the question —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-07", "file": "debates1960-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "977711d954e7fb3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which train do you catch?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "No, I have only just begun and I heard the hon. Gentleman without interruption We would have answered the question —[HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"]—I will tell hon. Gentlemen how—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-07", "file": "debates1960-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "977711d954e7fb3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "No, I have only just begun and I heard the hon. Gentleman without interruption We would have answered the question —[HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"]—I will tell hon. Gentlemen how—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Which train do you catch?\"]— Is it not peculiar that hon. and gallant Gentlemen opposite will not listen? They are not interested when their own Government fail to deal with the one issue which matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-07", "file": "debates1960-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "977711d954e7fb3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "errent, but the Government will not commit themselves to that. It has the rôle of delivering men and their equipment, but the Government will not commit themselves to that. Hon. and gallant Gentlemen opposite have acquiesced in permitting the most pathetic answers to detailed questions which have had nothing to do with Navy policy. We have had the First Lord of the Admiralty in the Gallery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-07", "file": "debates1960-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "977711d954e7fb3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Vote\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ief. Their own political chief has no policy. The Government are unable to imprint their policy upon their colleagues. There has been no attempt to establish the rôle of the Navy and no attempt to answer what the aircraft requirements of the Navy are. The failure to get the NA39, the failure to get it into performance, the failure to get it in service, the failure to persuade the Air Force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-07", "file": "debates1960-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "977711d954e7fb3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "n their colleagues. There has been no attempt to establish the rôle of the Navy and no attempt to answer what the aircraft requirements of the Navy are. The failure to get the NA39, the failure to get it into performance, the failure to get it in service, the failure to persuade the Air Force—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Vote\"]—there will be no vote. The Labour Party does not vote against the Estimates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-07", "file": "debates1960-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "977711d954e7fb3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " I merely got up, since the Civil Lord allowed me ten minutes, to put this on the record, and giggles do not go on the record. There is 110 policy. There is no r61e established. There are no political Ministers whom sailors would recognise. There are no ships that would fit any policy. Tory Members may have all the fun they like late at night. Let me say, and say it sincerely, as one who believes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-07a.198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-08", "file": "debates1960-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "df928026f02238d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-08a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "While we warmly welcome the last words of the Prime Minister and while we on this side of the House have always preached exactly what Mr. Khrushchev said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-08a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-08", "file": "debates1960-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "df928026f02238d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-08a.243.3", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor aware —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-08a.243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-08", "file": "debates1960-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "df928026f02238d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-08a.283.3", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not be rough with him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "t had one. When are we going to have it? What will its terms of reference be? I strongly recommend to my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary—I hope that he writes shorthand and that he will record these terms of reference —It is nothing to grin about. I rebuke my hon. Friend at once. This is a very serious matter. The terms of reference for this inquiry into the gas and carbonisation industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-08a.283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-08", "file": "debates1960-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "df928026f02238d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-08a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "be applying themselves to this problem, but they are not. I repeat to my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary, for the benefit of his reply, that I hope he will not once again launch into a eulogy about nationalised boards. They are not perfect. I am glad to see my right hon. Friend the Minister returning. He opened our proceedings today with the customary paeans of praise for the gas industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-08a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-09", "file": "debates1960-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "100e8f3934e9c9bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-09a.403.2", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "On the second point, I have had conversations with the individual telephone operator. He says that his reference in court to the taking of notes was not meant to be taken literally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-09a.403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-09", "file": "debates1960-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "100e8f3934e9c9bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-09a.405.7", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "Two hundred pounds is not much more than some people pay for a \"black and white\" set.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-09a.405.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-09", "file": "debates1960-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "100e8f3934e9c9bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-09a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that very little notice is taken of any of these advertising regulations? Is he also aware that it is easier on television to lie in pictures than in words?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-09a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-09", "file": "debates1960-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "100e8f3934e9c9bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-09a.576.2", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "ho liked a drink.\" These seemed impressive statistics until it was discovered that he had only two teetotallers in the battalion. Therefore, when there is talk about this threefold increase we want to know the basis of the statistic. I hope that the Under-Secretary can give us more information, because I think that the whole Committee was extremely impressed by what the Secretary of State told us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-09a.576.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-09", "file": "debates1960-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "100e8f3934e9c9bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-09a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "bers have raised, and one specifically was brought up by the hon. Member for Dudley, who is such a mine of information. Of course, one of his techniques is to give wrong information so that I shall give him the right stuff. I will not give it him about landing craft tonight. I will, however, tell him that his estimate of the landing craft we have available is a gross exaggeration of what there is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-09a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-10", "file": "debates1960-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "5e84fe8a0fe2ba50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-10a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": " Does the right hon. Gentleman appreciate the need for speed to get the Guillebaud recommendations accepted? Unless these recommendations are operated quickly, the one certain thing is that we shall lose more and more highly skilled operating railwaymen whom we can ill afford to lose, and that, therefore, speed is the essence of this matter. May I say one other word on the point or reorganisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-10a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-14", "file": "debates1960-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb589b661a94dd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-14a.914.4", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But very important.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "That is, of course, an entirely different question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-14a.914.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-14", "file": "debates1960-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb589b661a94dd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-14a.1042.2", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vote 5. National Health Service, England and Wales", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "The scientist who works in the laboratory does not enjoy these great profits. They are shared out among the parasites who infest this industry today. Has my language been too strong? May I draw the attention of the Committee to the leader in the British Medical Journal of 16th January? That article was on \"New Drugs for Depression.\" I am sure that hon. Members here are slightly depressed at times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-14a.1042.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-14", "file": "debates1960-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb589b661a94dd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-14a.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vote 5. National Health Service, England and Wales", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "The price of this was held until material was brought in from Italy a year ago, when the American manufacturers were compelled to cut the price by 50 per cent. As might have been expected, a number of new modifications are being introduced, but clinicians claim that their advantages are not very great. I should like to know, if the price is doubled or trebled, what is being done about it. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-14a.1046.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-15", "file": "debates1960-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6b7e23b3da7364d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-15a.1107.2", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too well organised.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware, admitting all the considerations I have just heard, that this industry is extremely well organised today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-15a.1107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-15", "file": "debates1960-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6b7e23b3da7364d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-15a.1133.13", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "eople in the Belgian Congo. But it is clear that this decision is bound to have a tremendous reaction throughout Africa. We would all wish well those Africans in the Belgian Congo who will soon be launched upon the most tremendous experiment ever conducted in the territory. The second event that has undoubtedly influenced the work of the Monckton Commission is the Prime Minister's visit to Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-15a.1133.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-15", "file": "debates1960-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6b7e23b3da7364d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-15a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Why not? The right hon. Gentleman would be in order, for once.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member for the Isle of Ely (Major Legge-Bourke) will not expect me to follow him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-15a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1302.4", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. T. Parkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. T. Parkin", "preceding_text": "ional average. The right hon. Gentleman started by saying that he would not feel justified in asking the councils of counties and county boroughs generally….\" —[OFFICIAL REPORT, 10th March, 1960; VoL 619, c. 39–40. ] and that he understood from the London County Council that the information relating to children in care, requested in the second part of the Question, was not available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1303.0", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "se areas. It reveals how the breakdown often arises from the fact that the families concerned are paying too much rent for furnished rooms. May I quote one or two examples to the Home Secretary which were brought to my notice last week by a member of a care committee? She told me of a £9-a-week lorry driver, with five children, occupying two rooms and a kitchen and paying a rent of £3 15s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1317.0", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Was?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "igure will be seven times what it was when this debate was last initiated. May I briefly look at some of the aspects of the Government and the House at that lime? The Secretary of State for War in those days was the father-in-law of the present Secretary of State for War. The Secretary of State for Air in those days—incidentally, the same man—was, father-in-law of the present Minister of Aviation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1317.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1324.0", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Have we?", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "etrenchment has entered, which feels that it is carrying out a national mandate, and to that end overriding all sectional demands to spend money on this or that excellent thing. We shall only get economy when we have a vigorously economical Chancellor of the Exchequer—which I am certain we have at this moment\"— Have we? backed by an economical Prime Minister— which I hope and believe we have got\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1328.2", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is over.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "there is one related matter which I think it proper to mention, and that is, as I understand it, one thing which takes up a lot of time of Members of the House, the quite new development of all sorts of activities which go on in the Palace of Westminster which are not directly Parliamentary activities—party meetings, and related matters. There is an important party meeting going on now, I believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1328.2", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who won?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "mention, and that is, as I understand it, one thing which takes up a lot of time of Members of the House, the quite new development of all sorts of activities which go on in the Palace of Westminster which are not directly Parliamentary activities—party meetings, and related matters. There is an important party meeting going on now, I believe. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is over.\"] It is all over? Who won?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "d fairly said that this practice was started by the Conservative Party when in Opposition in 1947. I do not know whether the party regrets it. I know the noble Lord does, and some others; I hope they all do. I certainly do. Of course, they had an excuse. It is clear that they had much more confidence in the financial probity of the Labour Government of those days than they have in their own today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "preceding_text": "the House for only three minutes. Public expenditure is something in which I have always taken an interest, and at one period I took a rather intense interest in it. The hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond) spoke about the difficulty of the control of expenditure in a democracy. Here we have a situation where the Opposition is 100 per cent. in favour of more expenditure on everything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1358.1", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": " circumstances would we speak critically of the officers of the National Assistance Board. We are criticising, first, the Government and, secondly, the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance who have been prepared to acquiesce in this scandalous and disgraceful treatment of our people. This Parliament has been in existence for five months, but no action has been taken to remedy these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "nce are now receiving National Insurance benefit. This is after all we have said for so long about the need for caring for the sick, the aged and the widows. In case anyone should doubt what I have been saying, I wish to pay tribute to the Statistical Department of the House of Commons. We have some very fine servants working behind the scenes. Occasionally we ought to give them a pat on the back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1396.1", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " based on the increased cost of living. This matter has been examined by experts and by social welfare workers. They have examined the loopholes and the question whether it is within the realm of possibility for an old-age pensioner to live on a basic pension. I should like to mention briefly some of the 21 items which I have examined. No one can challenge this, because I made the analysis myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1398.3", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is at an end.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ppealing tonight are the mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers of the young men and women who saved the country during two world wars. I appeal to the Government to put on one side the cost of £200 million involved. The Joint Parliamentary Secretary asked where we are to find the £200 million. I say do not spend so much money on armaments. Do not spend so much money on the Blue Streak", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1398.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1399.3", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "leman had to make inquiries here, there and everywhere showed that the position is nothing like the drab picture he painted for us. Our pensioners are not the drab, unhappy, miserable, forgotten people the right hon. Gentleman tried to picture. The very point he made about the increasing prosperity and rising wages, happily visible throughout our economy, has helped our old people in no small way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1399.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1402.2", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "We have to decide not only when, but how.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "ng a Motion like this, they put themselves in the extremely happy position of \"Heads, we win; tails, you lose\". It is very difficult for the old people to understand the tactics of this House. Even if my right hon. Friend—and I reply to the hon. Member for Coventry, East— had decided to increase these pensions next week, he would be most unlikely to do so today in response to an Opposition Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "r than the words we hear from the Opposition. I have every confidence in the Government. For my part, I hope that, after my right hon. Friend and the Government have considered the many claims that are made, and particularly the very deserving nature of this claim that there should be another basic increase—I agree with the hon. Member for Coventry, East that we want an increase in the basic rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1424.0", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. Is he aware that under the National Insurance Act passed last year the Exchequer contribution for 1968 will be actually less in money terms than that accepted and forecast under the 1946 Act? Under those conditions, what is the good of raising the question of whether this is on taxation or not? The Exchequer has repudiated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1424.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1427.2", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-16", "file": "debates1960-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5c05651b158eceac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1427.8", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The House knows well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-16a.1427.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-17", "file": "debates1960-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "df5e9b40b81e59d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1484.4", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "ance of the subsidy and the financial difficulties with which local authorities are struggling, but the Government have their answer to this. We have had it so often before, and it crops up again in the Amendment. It is the usual Government answer—it is somebody else's fault. This time, it is the local authorities' fault because, in the Government's view, they subsidise tenants who do not need it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1484.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-17", "file": "debates1960-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "df5e9b40b81e59d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the 1949 Act?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I would rather not be interrupted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-17", "file": "debates1960-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "df5e9b40b81e59d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1503.1", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I could have brought for the benefit of the hon. Lady newspapers with pages filled with advertisements for houses to let.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-17", "file": "debates1960-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "df5e9b40b81e59d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julius Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julius Silverman", "preceding_text": " is such a place, I can only say that it is no use using such an exception as an example. Reference has been made to subsidies to tenants. Who is being subsidised? As far as I can understand, the people who are being subsidised, those who receive the greatest portion of the rents and whose increased incomes put up the rents, are the moneylenders of this country, the people who advance the finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-17", "file": "debates1960-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "df5e9b40b81e59d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1534.0", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "I do not want to give way again, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. In any case, one interrupter at a time is enough. Perhaps I shall have the opportunity to give way later. I chose my words advisedly. I used the phrases \"in the main\" and \"with honourable exceptions\". I repeat that it is in the main, and that in the majority of cases hon. Gentlemen opposite have no conception of this problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-17", "file": "debates1960-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "df5e9b40b81e59d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1563.0", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "thing we can do? I suggest three things that are worth looking at. Are we being too regimental in the matter of densities? Are we making the best use of the limited land we have? I feel that here and there we are sweeping away our slum properties, where there were terrace houses very closely built, and putting in their place modern flats or houses, or some of each, fewer to the acre than formerly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-17", "file": "debates1960-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "df5e9b40b81e59d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1582.1", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mackie", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member is building three of them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mackie", "preceding_text": "t started them and the foundations are in. I am doing it by direct labour, with my manager and myself acting as our own architect and clerk of works. The area of these houses is 1,200 sq. ft. each. They are two-storeyed houses for farm workers. The land, as it is our own, has not cost us anything. We are building those three houses for £4,000. The profit in building houses must be quite fantastic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-17", "file": "debates1960-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "df5e9b40b81e59d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1595.1", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. and learned Gentleman said the opposite for a long time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "using in this country and all the advance which had been made. The trouble about the Rent Act has always been exactly the same. Nobody in his senses ever supposed that all the streets would be lined with tenants who had been turned out on the morning that the Rent Act came in. I have said hundreds of times, if I have said it once, that nobody supposed that for a moment, but what the Rent Act does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-17", "file": "debates1960-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "df5e9b40b81e59d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1595.1", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "ame. Nobody in his senses ever supposed that all the streets would be lined with tenants who had been turned out on the morning that the Rent Act came in. I have said hundreds of times, if I have said it once, that nobody supposed that for a moment, but what the Rent Act does—[HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. and learned Gentleman said the opposite for a long time.\"] I have never said anything of the sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-17", "file": "debates1960-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "df5e9b40b81e59d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about overcrowding?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "s understandable that a Socialist would not be able to comprehend the word \"opportunity\", but I thought that we had brought opportunity back into the housing field. What I cannot comprehend is the argument that houses which are privately built for sale are of no value except to the people who buy them. Every family which moves into a new house built for sale must also be moving out from somewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-17", "file": "debates1960-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "df5e9b40b81e59d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "houses built. Constantly on my mind is the fact that there are between 3 million and 4 million older houses, structurally sound, which lack modern amenities. There can be no question of replacing them just by a wave of the wand. They have a good many years of life in them. We all know this type of house—the long terrace of houses, particularly in industrial towns. Originally, they were well built—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-17", "file": "debates1960-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "df5e9b40b81e59d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1606.1", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fewer houses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "tes to housing revenue accounts to keep down rents was, in the year 1955–56, £18 million over England and Wales as a whole. In 1958–59, the last year for which figures are available, the sum is estimated to have been not £18 million, but £16 million, that is to say, the actual burden falling on the rates is not going up, as the Opposition suggest, but going down. What does that mean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-17a.1606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-18", "file": "debates1960-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "81d898ed1dc44d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-18a.1641.1", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES ACT, 1948 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "cularly interested in what the hon. Gentleman said about his experiences in the United States of America, because I believe that those observations were very valid and useful as additional reasons why this Bill, introduced by the hon. Member for Torrington (Mr. P. Browne) and supported by the hon. Gentleman, commends itself to the whole House. I need hardly say that my right hon. and hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-18a.1641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-18", "file": "debates1960-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "81d898ed1dc44d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-18a.1662.1", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES ACT, 1948 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Howard", "preceding_text": "alancing item on the liability side ignored. What we are concerned with is to see what the net assets are, not the total assets. In common with my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth, Langstone (Mr. Stevens) I have spent most of my professional life being concerned about various Companies Acts. When I first took my examinations we had just had the Companies Act, 1929, placed on the Statute Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-18a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-18", "file": "debates1960-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "81d898ed1dc44d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-18a.1704.5", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES ACT, 1948 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "I cannot hear the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-18a.1704.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-21", "file": "debates1960-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ba6f15c982010fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-21a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "EDUCATION (REPORT OF THE CENTRAL ADVISORY COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ng the next Parliament, he should indicate that the Government will set themselves a definite target date for the raising of the school age, and that within the Ministry it shall be known that this is the date at which we aim in order that there shall be a greater spur to their endeavour. It is largely because of the locust years, when the party opposite economised so much in the education system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-21a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-21", "file": "debates1960-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ba6f15c982010fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-21a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "EDUCATION (REPORT OF THE CENTRAL ADVISORY COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roderic Bowen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Pitman).\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roderic Bowen", "preceding_text": "The Report includes a formidable list of recommendations and emphasises that they are of varying degrees of urgency, or, in other words, of different orders of priority. I think it is agreed by everyone in the House that it is desirable that the compulsory school-leaving age should be raised to 16, as was envisaged in the 1944 Act. As yet, I have not yet heard anybody condemn that as an objective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-21a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-21", "file": "debates1960-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ba6f15c982010fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-21a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "EDUCATION (REPORT OF THE CENTRAL ADVISORY COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "hey had no intention of becoming teachers—and there were two people who had just completed their training and were embarking upon their probationary year. Thus, out of a staff of twelve, half were inexperienced. This had its effect. In September, 1958, one of the stop-gap teachers, one of the people marking time until he was called up, was chased though the city streets by the boys of that school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-21a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-21", "file": "debates1960-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ba6f15c982010fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-21a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "EDUCATION (REPORT OF THE CENTRAL ADVISORY COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education (Mr. Kenneth Thompson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education (Mr. Kenneth Thompson)", "preceding_text": "e hope to hear them often. Significantly, there were four maiden speeches and four speakers from Wales. I am not quite sure if there is any connection between the figures, but I noticed the numbers. I should also like to say, I am sure on behalf of everyone in the House, that we hope that the hon. Member for Dartford (Mr. Sydney Irving) will soon be well again and able to take part in our debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-21a.167.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-03-22", "file": "debates1960-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2815040e0f7f1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA (RIOTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "If the Minister is not prepared to consider the starting of a fund, will he not, on behalf of the Government, deplore the massacre and the policies from which it has ensued?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.239.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-22", "file": "debates1960-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2815040e0f7f1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.251.4", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Let me finish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.251.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-22", "file": "debates1960-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2815040e0f7f1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.251.4", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Let me finish. [ Interruption. ] It is still a nationalised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.251.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-22", "file": "debates1960-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2815040e0f7f1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Certainly. If a firm uses its own capital and is a concern which raises the capital either by reinvestment or by using capital derived from the: money market, then it can do as it likss, but if it uses public money, then, as we are trying to show in our other Amendments, it is the duty of the Government to ensure that the firm does not make losses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.297.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-03-22", "file": "debates1960-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2815040e0f7f1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": " enormously affect the capital structure of Colvilles and therefore, under the Statute, it should have been an element in the calculation of the price. It is well worth while, I think, to remind the Committee of what that obligation was. It shall be the duty of the agency\" — the Iron and Steel Holding and Realisation Agency— to secure … the return to private ownership of the undertakings \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-22", "file": "debates1960-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2815040e0f7f1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "t does not apply to Richard Thomas and Baldwins, all of whose shares are held by the Government. I ask the Committee to reject the Amendment for two principal reasons. The first, which I think is an overriding reason, is one which has been given before by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Power on other Amendments, namely, that the Government have entered into a solemn agreement with Colvilles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-22", "file": "debates1960-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2815040e0f7f1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.382.0", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "ny's borrowing powers.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 21st January, 1959; Vol. 598, c. 40.] If the company has not increased its borrowing powers—I do not know whether it has or not; I can only assume that it has, but at that point in time the company had not borrowing powers sufficient to enable it to borrow the amount of money which the Government were proposing to lend—that was not an enforceable contract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-22", "file": "debates1960-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2815040e0f7f1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "illion. We are being asked in all seriousness to agree to the company carrying on a loan of £50 million the same rate of interest which is applied to the £10 million ordinary capital. One does not need to be a financial genius to see that the equity earnings which will provide a satisfactory dividend on £10 million cannot produce anything like so satisfactory a dividend on a figure of £60 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-22", "file": "debates1960-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2815040e0f7f1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ot answer. He might have helped the Committee, which has been very reasonable with him tonight. We have gone out of our way to give him an opportunity to get himself out of his difficulties. There are two difficulties in which he finds himself. He cannot accept the Amendment because it would mean a renegotiation of contracts already fixed and agreements already made. Am I right in that assumption?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.421.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-03-22", "file": "debates1960-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2815040e0f7f1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.430.4", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer, Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "Will the undertaking given by the Home Secretary's right hon. Friend mean that in the case of new negotiations, or a variation, discussion will take place in this House before a firm contract is entered into?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-22", "file": "debates1960-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2815040e0f7f1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is that a promise?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " hon. Member thinks that that is an academic point, may I trace through to its logical conclusion what would have happened if I.S.H.R.A. had provided the £70 million and the Bill had been for only the £50 million for Colvilles? It would have meant that I.S.H.R.A. would have furnished the £70 million for Richard Thomas and Baldwins, which is to be denationalised in the course of the next few weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-22", "file": "debates1960-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2815040e0f7f1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Until 1965.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ernment and Colvilles broken, vitiated or weakened in any way whatsoever. But Colvilles were coerced in the matter of this loan. I am not at all satisfied that a Tory Government should be creating a position whereby State moneys will still be invested in steel as far ahead as 1974. Has any hon. Member yet realised that what we are doing today is keeping State money in steel until the middle 1970s?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-22", "file": "debates1960-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2815040e0f7f1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "rect in his interpretation. The Bill states that the last date for making a loan is 31st March, 1965, but the loans are for a duration of up to ten years, and are normally for ten years, which would carry us to the middle 1970s before all the money was repaid. I do not believe that I was elected as a Conservative Member in this Parliament to prolong State ownership of steel until the middle 1970s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-22a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-23", "file": "debates1960-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ed53df2bfcd3b9ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-23a.477.3", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Who was the leaseholder who insisted on putting this clause in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-23a.477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-23", "file": "debates1960-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ed53df2bfcd3b9ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-23a.480.2", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that it will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-23a.480.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-23", "file": "debates1960-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ed53df2bfcd3b9ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-23a.480.4", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that under his powers to give general directions he can, if he desires to, control any part of the policy? Is he aware that if he answers Questions about things that go wrong with the nationalised industries, as I did very frequently when Minister of Fuel and Power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-23a.480.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-23", "file": "debates1960-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ed53df2bfcd3b9ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-23a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "It would have a significant effect but I do not think it would have the effect that the right hon. Gentleman assumes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-23a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-23", "file": "debates1960-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ed53df2bfcd3b9ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-23a.616.3", "colnum": "616", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. John Hay)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. John Hay)", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House will agree that the hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) has made a very stimulating and interesting contribution to our debate. I was especially pleased to hear him compliment my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport in the terms in which he did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-23a.616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-24", "file": "debates1960-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "301725240acbb404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-24a.643.5", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SWAZILAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "With all the excuses which the hon. Gentleman made, is it not outrageous that in an African country the expenditure upon each European child should be nearly three times that upon an African child?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-24a.643.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-24", "file": "debates1960-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "301725240acbb404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-24a.645.4", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "In the particular case of Mr. Michael Faber, who was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-24a.645.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-24", "file": "debates1960-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "301725240acbb404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-24a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oafish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ber to criticise my Rulings, not from any lack of modesty, but because to do so is out of order, except on the appropriate Motion which, no doubt, the hon. Member will table if he thinks fit. I do not want to be inaccurate about the matter. I think that the phrase used by the hon. Member for Wednesbury was \"apish stupidity\". I might not be right. The words are within the recollection of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-24a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-24", "file": "debates1960-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "301725240acbb404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-24a.652.12", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Put down a Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. There are many more questions which hon. Members on this side of the House would like to ask about this terrible tragedy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-24a.652.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-24", "file": "debates1960-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "301725240acbb404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-24a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "Taking the first part of the right hon. Gentleman's question, we shall be putting the Motion on the Order Paper tonight, so that hon. Members may see it. It will simply take note of the measures which we have under consideration for improving accommodation and facilities and will be of a general and straightforward character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-24a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-24", "file": "debates1960-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "301725240acbb404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-24a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CARAVAN SITES AND CONTROL OF DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": " nevertheless hope that in everything that takes place under this Bill when it becomes an Act, the underlying policy of the green belt will not be destroyed. That is basic for all the areas around London. We want to be fair to our fellow countrymen and give them freedoms and liberties in which people in a free country should engage, but if they want to five in South-East England, as most of us do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-24a.723.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-03-25", "file": "debates1960-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "3875a769b409c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-25a.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "BALLISTIC MISSILE EARLY WARNING STATION, FYLINGDALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : What does that mean?", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "preceding_text": "er side of the Atlantic is in favour of this type of installation. I have dealt already with the risk of nuclear war being precipitated by the use of an instrument which is not entirely infallible. It is a ludicrous argument; it just does not hold water. One might as well say that as the first makers of buckets could not fill up all the holes in the buckets they should not have had buckets at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-25a.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-25", "file": "debates1960-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "3875a769b409c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-25a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "BALLISTIC MISSILE EARLY WARNING STATION, FYLINGDALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "hat we know a lot more about these things \"— that is, guided missiles— than we did ten years ago.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 21st March, 1960; Vol. 620, c. 22.] Fylingdales, also, is a relatively new development. How do we know that in ten years' time we shall not find that it has been a far more costly business than we expected? I believe that Fylingdales is a tombstone erected to the death of democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-25a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-25", "file": "debates1960-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "3875a769b409c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-25a.870.2", "colnum": "870", "heading": "BALLISTIC MISSILE EARLY WARNING STATION, FYLINGDALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And on Fylingdales Moor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, and I will leave the point entirely. Spring is here. The daffodils are growing in St. James's Park—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-25a.870.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-25", "file": "debates1960-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "3875a769b409c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-25a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "BALLISTIC MISSILE EARLY WARNING STATION, FYLINGDALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If I ever answer back, I am doing it. I was only going on to say that I rather hoped that we might stop doing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-25a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-25", "file": "debates1960-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "3875a769b409c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-25a.893.4", "colnum": "893", "heading": "BALLISTIC MISSILE EARLY WARNING STATION, FYLINGDALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The House has been informed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-25a.893.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-25", "file": "debates1960-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "3875a769b409c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-25a.893.4", "colnum": "893", "heading": "BALLISTIC MISSILE EARLY WARNING STATION, FYLINGDALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The House has been informed—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"]—that the high-powered radar at this station can pick up any object above the radar horizon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-25a.893.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-25", "file": "debates1960-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "3875a769b409c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-25a.904.3", "colnum": "904", "heading": "BALLISTIC MISSILE EARLY WARNING STATION, FYLINGDALES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four acres?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "preceding_text": "I think that it has already been made clear in the debate that the reason for the siting of this installation at this place was necessitated by having it in this particular geographical position. It has also been pointed out that it takes up only about four acres—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-25a.904.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-25", "file": "debates1960-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "3875a769b409c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-25a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "BALLISTIC MISSILE EARLY WARNING STATION, FYLINGDALES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "preceding_text": "tion with it? Your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, does not restrict me only to the subject of footpaths because the Amendment leaves an important part of the Motion standing. The Amendment is equally unfortunate in its timing, because it leaves implicit a criticism of the policy of setting up the installation at Fylingdales and, therefore, criticises the Government for erecting an installation of this type.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-25a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-28", "file": "debates1960-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "90e7abb0c55ce98b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-28a.926.6", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "An Hon. Member: Like votes to speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-28a.926.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-28", "file": "debates1960-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "90e7abb0c55ce98b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-28a.958.3", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. During the Committee stage some of us raised several points which received widespread support. We were rightly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-28a.958.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-28", "file": "debates1960-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "90e7abb0c55ce98b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-28a.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "I am not disagreeing with that in the least.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-28a.976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-28", "file": "debates1960-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "90e7abb0c55ce98b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-28a.982.2", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "re being made in the course of honouring solemn obligations and contracts entered into before the last General Election. This claim has again been made this afternoon from the Treasury Bench and from the Opposition Front Bench. I do not dispute it. These obligations were entered into, and, of course, in the early hours of last Wednesday morning, I was faced with the appallingly difficult decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-28a.982.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-28", "file": "debates1960-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "90e7abb0c55ce98b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-28a.995.3", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "It was evidently misleading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-28a.995.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-03-28", "file": "debates1960-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "90e7abb0c55ce98b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-28a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What would the hon. Member have done?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "The rules of the House forbid us learning that secret.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-28a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-03-28", "file": "debates1960-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "90e7abb0c55ce98b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-28a.1014.2", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": " Government and only £10 was paid to the shareholders. If that precedent is followed at something like the same rate, then, of the increased profits, for every £10 that goes to the shareholders, the Government may reasonably expect to get £50. If my hon. Friend now says that this also applies to other companies and, therefore, it is irrelevant, I cannot help that. I think that it is very relevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-28a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-29", "file": "debates1960-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc713e5c4263f11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that many local authorities deliberately discriminate against applications by landlords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-29", "file": "debates1960-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc713e5c4263f11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1129.2", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I am very much afraid that that is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-29", "file": "debates1960-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc713e5c4263f11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1141.4", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "WAREHOUSE FIRE, GLASGOW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "Widows of firemen will be entitled to pensions under the Fire- men's Pensions Scheme and I understand that immediate payments will be made from the Fire Service National Benevo-dent Fund and also by the Fire Brigades' Union in cases of need. The National Assistance Board is, of course, available to provide help if necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1141.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-29", "file": "debates1960-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc713e5c4263f11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1150.2", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "SPECIAL COMMISSION (SUEZ OPERATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dingle Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dingle Foot", "preceding_text": "wever reluctant the Government may afterwards be to accept its findings. But when it is Ministers themselves whose conduct is impugned, then darkness falls. Without a rational explanation, we are told again and again that these events must not be subject to any inquiry whatever, in any form and at any time. We on this side of the House believe that this is a very serious matter—not a party matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1150.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-29", "file": "debates1960-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc713e5c4263f11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "SPECIAL COMMISSION (SUEZ OPERATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "I rise to oppose the Motion, and I do so for two reasons. The first is that the effect of what the hon. and learned Member for Ipswich (Mr. Foot) has proposed to the House could very easily damage international relations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-29", "file": "debates1960-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc713e5c4263f11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1154.3", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "SPECIAL COMMISSION (SUEZ OPERATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "I would have thought that, as to the first, it must be apparent to all that the Middle East is still an area of great sensitivity and potential danger. Its peoples are all too ready to react—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-29", "file": "debates1960-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc713e5c4263f11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1154.3", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "SPECIAL COMMISSION (SUEZ OPERATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "licts and present grievances. Recent events on the Syrian border have shown how quickly tension can be brought to breaking point, and how swiftly animosity can burst into flame. Surely, against this background, it should be the aim of all of us in this House so to conduct ourselves and so to weigh our words that we reduce the tension, if we can—not add to it. Surely, too, it should be our purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-29", "file": "debates1960-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc713e5c4263f11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1154.3", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "SPECIAL COMMISSION (SUEZ OPERATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "itude and activities of Egypt in the period prior to the Suez intervention. That story is not a pleasant one. It is bound to involve an account of the events leading up to the seizure of an international waterway. It is bound to include reference to the Fedayeen raids across the borders of Israel. Inevitably, whatever the rights or wrongs—I am not at the moment concerned with the rights or wrongs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-29", "file": "debates1960-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc713e5c4263f11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1154.3", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "SPECIAL COMMISSION (SUEZ OPERATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Write a book about it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": " Are not the bridges being repaired? The hon. and learned Gentleman is seeking this afternoon to demolish them. Nor does the matter end there. An inquiry would have to take into account consideration of whether, and if so how far, the Soviet Union made a contribution to events leading to the crisis. Is this really the moment, when we are on the eve of Summit talks, when all our hopes are directed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-29", "file": "debates1960-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc713e5c4263f11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (EGG PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "nvisaged, where is the burden of that cut-back to fall? Let me give a concrete example. I have over 3,000 farms in my constituency, but over 1,400 of them are of 20 acres or under. Some hon. Members would not call them farms, but a man and his wife and son or daughter work hard morning, noon and night on the hill farms in my constituency and make a living. Eggs and milk are their bread and butter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-29", "file": "debates1960-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc713e5c4263f11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (EGG PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Advertising.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ade—I do not call it an industry. They were really appalled by the complexities now thrust upon them by what the Parliamentary Secretary is pleased to call machinery for implementing support for egg prices. If my hon. Friend doubts all that, he will get a number of county newspapers from me this week. I have a report here of the Royal Society of Arts in the January, 1960, issue of Fullo'-Pep News.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-29a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-30", "file": "debates1960-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "771aceffa9c4a76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-30a.1300.6", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that his Answer will be received with great disappointment? Why is he continuing to barricade himself behind a series of committees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-30a.1300.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-30", "file": "debates1960-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "771aceffa9c4a76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-30a.1302.0", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "No, Sir; I have not given up that sort of thing for Lent. I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman should put it that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-30a.1302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-30", "file": "debates1960-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "771aceffa9c4a76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-30a.1313.5", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I quite agree with my hon. Friend, but everybody in this House keeps pointing out the difficulty and nobody points out the remedy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-30a.1313.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-30", "file": "debates1960-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "771aceffa9c4a76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-30a.1316.0", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "me that the Government intervened in the affairs of this industry in the same way as it has done in some other industries, and adopted policies similar to those adopted by the Minister of Aviation in the aviation industry, particularly in regard to concentration of the production resources of the industry and the provision of development contracts in order to improve the productive and scientific—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-30a.1316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-30", "file": "debates1960-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "771aceffa9c4a76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-30a.1335.0", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA (SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And elsewhere.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman whether there are not occasions when issues may arise inside a country which will so disturb the people in other countries that there is a danger to peace? Is he aware that the situation in South Africa is moving millions of people in the whole continent of Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-30a.1335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-30", "file": "debates1960-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "771aceffa9c4a76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-30a.1336.7", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAYMENT OF WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "This Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-30a.1336.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-30", "file": "debates1960-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "771aceffa9c4a76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-30a.1459.1", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. McLaughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. McLaughlin", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way. I want to give the Minister time to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-30a.1459.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-03-31", "file": "debates1960-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "88e8edec42ff6957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1509.4", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-31", "file": "debates1960-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "88e8edec42ff6957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1514.2", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "BECHUANALAND (MR. TAMBO AND MR. SEGAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No, he did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister of State really saying that, whatever the High Commissioner decides in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1514.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-31", "file": "debates1960-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "88e8edec42ff6957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1515.4", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "BECHUANALAND (MR. TAMBO AND MR. SEGAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, this is a very serious matter involving the honour of our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1515.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-31", "file": "debates1960-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "88e8edec42ff6957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1515.5", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "BECHUANALAND (MR. TAMBO AND MR. SEGAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"That is what we asked for.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "Certainly. If I have not yet made that clear, I certainly will make it clear now that there is no question of these men being sent back by force. The question does not arise in these circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1515.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-31", "file": "debates1960-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "88e8edec42ff6957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1522.2", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Works (Lord John Hope)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It would destroy it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Works (Lord John Hope)", "preceding_text": "he desirability of having an office block, which would have to be a large building, if it is to be a real office block, with offices shut off from each other, and so on. There cannot fail to be. I know that there is a strong feeling on both sides of the House, though I am not suggesting that it is unanimous, that to do this would change the essential character of the House, and not for the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1522.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-31", "file": "debates1960-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "88e8edec42ff6957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1529.5", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "t is only when the House is not in session that authority rests with the Lord Great Chamberlain. I realise, of course, that the Opposition's Amendment raises a point of importance and significance, and I am sure that we shall hear it discussed during the debate, but the Government do not feel able to accept it, because, whatever may be said about it in theory, the present system works in practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1529.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-31", "file": "debates1960-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "88e8edec42ff6957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1535.2", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ttee. They do not like having to accommodate their staff in one rest room. Has the noble Lord looked into the conditions in which our cafeteria staff work? They are even worse. We have 35 female staff and cleaners sharing 29 lockers in one small room. Some of them have to \"double up\". They have this tiny room in which to change and to rest and also to store their mops, buckets, brushes and brooms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-31", "file": "debates1960-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "88e8edec42ff6957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1535.2", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " the House. The way in which we have tried to deal with the accommodation problem in the past was ludicrous—by setting up a Select Committee once every ten years or so. The Stokes Committee went to a lot of trouble and a number of hon. Members worked themselves to the bone on it, like my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, West (Mr. C. Pannell) and many other hon. Members on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-31", "file": "debates1960-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "88e8edec42ff6957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1573.3", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Agnew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Agnew", "preceding_text": "I answer that straight away. It should be contrary to rules framed by the Serjeant at Arms for typewriters to be used in those places. They would be places where Members would go when they wished to meditate with a view to composing their speeches —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1573.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-31", "file": "debates1960-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "88e8edec42ff6957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1573.3", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Agnew", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Agnew", "preceding_text": "ould take a very long time to carry out. I should not be against that in principle, but I think it is a somewhat visionary proposal for those hon. Members who have not a great number of years before them in which they may hope to serve in this House of Commons. It would take a very long time and it would be very expensive. In my view, the Minister should concentrate on the provision of more desks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1573.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-31", "file": "debates1960-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "88e8edec42ff6957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1583.1", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " being made and carried into fruition, there must also be a short-term plan on what we are to do to accommodate all the people we have in this building at the moment. I have ventured to intervene in the debate only because, as the youngest Member, I thought that, if there are to be far-reaching changes, at least I shall have the chance or being here longer to enjoy them than any other hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-31", "file": "debates1960-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "88e8edec42ff6957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "is whether it works. Whatever alternative I have looked at, I cannot find a better alternative which I could be sure would work as well as the present system even with all its faults. For that reason, we had better leave the control over this Palace alone unless we are certain that we can get something better. I do not believe that to make the Minister of Works responsible would be an improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-31", "file": "debates1960-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "88e8edec42ff6957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1629.3", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "te that in that Select Committee we did not attempt to get agreement. We put forward starkly a majority and a minority point of view. Then, we had the Stokes Committee on House of Commons Accommodation. It was a unanimous Committee. Following that, we met the then Leader of the House, now Viscount Crookshank, who, I was sure then and am still sure now, had never read the Stokes Committee's Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1629.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-31", "file": "debates1960-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "88e8edec42ff6957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1637.1", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Thank God.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "ough sometimes I do not think the public deserves it so much when one bears in mind the remuneration of Members compared with those of many Legislatures in other parts of the world. Then, of course, we face the question of service and accommodation. Nobody who has visited many other Parliaments can say that we are well treated, or claim that we are a pampered Legislature. It is rather the reverse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-03-31", "file": "debates1960-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "88e8edec42ff6957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1640.1", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "try, ever heard of a dictating machine, and I should think that he rarely, if ever, saw a secretary. These things come from the heart and from conviction, and if the Opposition want to attack us, their attack will not be strengthened by improved arrangements for research in the Library; essentially the attack will come from their own policy and convictions. That seems to be a little controversial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-03-31a.1640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-04", "file": "debates1960-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "72662c3f6d35d16d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.6.8", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Cullen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Cullen", "preceding_text": "Is that reply not sufficient evidence to prove that the retirement pension is quite inadequate? What does the Minister propose doing about; it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.6.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-04", "file": "debates1960-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "72662c3f6d35d16d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.9.5", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The formula suggested by the hon. Member would mean that the single retirement pension would have to be reduced by about 2s. 2d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.9.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-04", "file": "debates1960-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "72662c3f6d35d16d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.17.5", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member will be aware, the interest of the pensioner is not the past rate but the present one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.17.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-04", "file": "debates1960-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "72662c3f6d35d16d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Owing to the sorry and lamentable picture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-04", "file": "debates1960-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "72662c3f6d35d16d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "With due deference, to you, Mr. Speaker, I am coming to my point of order. It is that because of this picture of the plight of the old people that has been painted by the Answers to all these Questions today, and the cold callousness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-04", "file": "debates1960-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "72662c3f6d35d16d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "With due deference, to you, Mr. Speaker, I am coming to my point of order. It is that because of this picture of the plight of the old people that has been painted by the Answers to all these Questions today, and the cold callousness—[ Interruption. ] —where these people are concerned, and, again, I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-04", "file": "debates1960-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "72662c3f6d35d16d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROSPECTS FOR 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ciently to meet the claims on them. These claims will be higher in the coming year for several reasons. First, our import bill may well be higher. The growth in home production will call for higher imports of materials and there may, of course, be some rise in import prices. We cannot expect that the very favourable terms of trade which we have enjoyed in the last few years will always be with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-04", "file": "debates1960-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "72662c3f6d35d16d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER PROSPECTS FOR 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t in these calculations I have not taken account of any receipts which may come to the Exchequer from the Iron and Steel Realisation Account. I fully expect however that the Agency will be able to make significant progress during the year with sales of securities and that the Iron and Steel Realisation Account will yield some very substantial relief to the below-the-line burden on the Exchequer. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-04", "file": "debates1960-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "72662c3f6d35d16d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — N.A.T.O.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Sir Otho Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Sir Otho Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "time we are taking early steps. The raising of the Bank Rate was one step, and the standstill Budget is another. Hon. Members opposite will do less than justice to themselves if they do not realise that we on this side of the Committee are wholeheartedly behind the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his attempts to stop up tax avoidance. In fact, I had devoted a whole page of my notes to that subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-04", "file": "debates1960-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "72662c3f6d35d16d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — N.A.T.O.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCann", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCann", "preceding_text": "increase in the Tobacco Duty can cause only alarm and despondency among the people in the lower income brackets, because they are the only section of the community being attacked. I do not smoke, so the proposal does not affect me Since coming to the House of Commons, I have put on weight so rapidly that I decided to start smoking, but I shall not do so now. I have decided to give my lungs a rest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-04", "file": "debates1960-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "72662c3f6d35d16d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — N.A.T.O.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ustry, and the taxpayer is saddled with this loss. The commanding height has become a sombre depth to the taxpayer. The policy of taking over these so-called commanding heights will always lead us into this kind of loss. The Labour Party said at the last election —presumably, it will say it at the next election—\"We intend to take over steel because it is a commanding height, because it is a peak\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-04a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.196.4", "colnum": "196", "heading": "AIR FARES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "So as to get some idea of the consequences of the agreements arrived at between the Corporations and the independent airlines, and to see whether special benefit has gone in any direction, will the right hon. Gentleman publish the agreements which have been reached?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.196.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.204.7", "colnum": "204", "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": "reduce Surtax. The real problem that we are facing is value for money, the avoidance of waste, tighter systems of controlling expenditure. I cannot help feeling that if a few Ministers spent more time discharging their responsibilities as guardians of the public purse, and less time seeking personal publicity for themselves, we should be debating very different figures and a very different Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.204.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.210.3", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What would the Opposition do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "perty. Over and above a maldistribution of income and wealth and social privilege, they have perpetuated a system of fiscal privilege which makes nonsense of the Prime Minister's post-election claim that we have become one nation. The Chancellor knows that even if he tried to deal with this problem his party would never let him do it, because there are too many Tory crusts dipping into this gravy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "ent. higher than last year and 46 per cent. higher than in 1951, when the party opposite was in power. If the right hon. Gentleman wants any knowledge of what has been holding back investment, he should look at the change in business intentions before and after the General Election. That is a clear sign of why there has been any damper on recent investment. Then, look at the unemployment position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "amper on recent investment. Then, look at the unemployment position. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Scotland?\"] I will come to the position of particular areas. As the right hon. Gentleman is so often fond of comparing the production position in this country with what it is in other countries, as he did today, he should also compare the unemployment position, in which our record stands second to none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "is party, which is not altogether surprising. The right hon. Gentleman said In a sense the point we have been making has been proved. It is clear that if we have an expansion, if we have a rapid rise in income and a rapid rise in production … we get a rise in revenue at the same time.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th April, 1960; Vol. 621, c. 77.] That is precisely the point we made at the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": " I could get some publicity on the subject. Oddly enough, when I have asked these Questions it has been noticeable that I did not have the terrific volume of support from hon. Members opposite which one is now led to believe was there all the time. Clearly, there are a number of points to be taken into account here. Just because dividend stripping is the one which has received the most stripping —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.269.5", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hilton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A non-drinker?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hilton", "preceding_text": "ions of the Chancellor, I think that he could have gone a great deal further this time. However, I welcome the fact that he is making some concession. There is one thing about which I am not pleased and that is the reduction in the duty on wine and the increase in the tobacco duty. In this connection I think that the Chancellor was rather mixed. I must declare an interest here. I am a non-drinker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.269.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.280.8", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "gree that this is one of the most fantastic fiscal abuses of the age. The country is divided into two groups financially. There is the master race, those who are taxed under Schedule D, and there are their inferiors, who are taxed under Schedule E. I am speaking in purely financial terms. We might well look at what is said on the subject by a magazine which is not noted for its Left-wing politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.280.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Dempsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Dempsey", "preceding_text": "arge towns and villages. It is compelled to do so because of the past effect of the Entertainments Duty on the industry. I was convinced that if the representations from all quarters throughout the country made themselves sufficiently felt the Chancellor of the Exchequer would grant that concession. I have heard it argued that, looking at the situation generally, the Budget is a standstill Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "dest and restricted relief which my right hon. Friend is giving in respect of Estate Duty covenants. There I part company from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I say it literally that the sector of agreement between the Chancellor and myself on this occasion is very small and limited. I disagree with many of the fundamentals upon which his Budget propositions are based. I particularly feel queasy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "l sense. I make this analogy between 1960 and 1955. In 1955, the Conservative Party, led by Sir Anthony Eden, was returned to the House with a majority of nearly 60. We came back from the hustings, in the full flush of victory, early in June of that year, largely re-elected on a ticket of continuing reductions of taxation. Within four months, an autumn Budget which slapped up taxes was introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.300.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e the Chancellor's proud boast on 10th November: …I have recommended to Parliament, and Parliament has approved, a reduction of something like £120 million in Purchase Tax …\" —[OFFICIAL REPORT, 10th November. 1959; Vol. 613, c. 177.] All the Chancellor has done has been progressively to increase Purchase Tax, yet claim mendaciously to the House and the country that he has reduced it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.308.5", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "oast, to have reduced Purchase Tax by £120 million is only as wildly inaccurate as his budgeting last year, the margins of error being not dissimilar in character. That is why I have little confidence in his Budget proposals and his taxation increases at the present time. The fourth proposal should have been that the commencement level of Surtax be raised from £2,000 to £3,000, a bonus for brains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.308.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.308.5", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ly supported by many of my hon. Friends. Fifth and last, I make to him a proposition in connection with Profits Tax. Profits Tax is highly inflationary. The addition of 2½ per cent. to the Profits Tax will simply mean that a large number of companies with a steady record of profits will recoup the increase in Profits Tax by an approximately commensurate rise in the prices of their products—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.308.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will the hon. Gentleman vote?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "60; Vol. 621, c. 48.] The Chancellor has been very provocative in making that decision. He will reap his due reward. He wants a debate on the National Coal Board, the electricity boards, the gas boards, the Airways Corporations and the British Transport Commission on the appropriate Clauses of the Finance Bill. He will have it. I will see to it that he has the necessary Amendments and so long as —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.311.5", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Drive him out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friends and myself, and we will endeavour to repair matters during the Committee stage of the Finance Bill. I proclaim my intentions clearly this evening. I intend to continue the struggle for annual accountability of capital investment sums in all the State boards before the money is spent and not in retrospect. I want to drive the present Chancellor of the Exchequer to a position whereby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.311.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.311.5", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Nabarro Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e State boards before the money is spent and not in retrospect. I want to drive the present Chancellor of the Exchequer to a position whereby—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Drive him out.\"] No, I do not want to drive him out; he is a decent chap. I want to drive him to a position whereby he will take this Clause for financing nationalised industries out of the Finance Bill and have instead an annual Bill called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.311.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.311.5", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will the hon. Member vote?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ant to drive him to a position whereby he will take this Clause for financing nationalised industries out of the Finance Bill and have instead an annual Bill called—[HON. MEMBERS: \"The Nabarro Bill.\"]—\"Nationalised Industries (Capital Investment) Bill\", with a separate Clause for the annual investment required for each of these State boards. By that means, we can devote appropriate scrutiny to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.311.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your group?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ainst my party on several matters, not on Thursday evening next —the hon. Member for Greenwich will be interested to know this—because I could not vote then against the entire Budget without voting against, for example, the modest relief given in the repayment of post-war credits or the other modest reliefs. On the specific issues in Committee, however, I shall suggest to my group of hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-05", "file": "debates1960-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "001cfe7d14b91965", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.314.3", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "—who have characterised their every action in the last few months by flatulence and by indecision on every major issue. I shall reserve my position, and many of my hon. Friends will reserve their position, until the Committee, although we will not vote against the Government on Thursday evening. I say without sorrow to my right hon. Friend that it has been painful for me to make my speech tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-05a.314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.359.6", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "That could not be a more harmful supplementary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.359.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.367.3", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his personal contribution to the success of this conference. Is not its outcome an effective reply to those Jeremiahs who have been forecasting the early demise of N.A.T.O.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " part which deplored the policies of the South African Government, the part which expressed regret that the disturbances should have led to great loss of life, the part that recognised that the situation had led to international friction, the part which called on the South African Government to initiate measures aimed at bringing about racial harmony based on equality, or the part which requested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "It is all right for the hon. Gentleman to do that, because he is not in a position of authority. I prefer to be careful. He asked me about the speech of my right hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.394.10", "colnum": "394", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ADVISORY GROUP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "We did think of having the Transport Commission represented on the advisory body, but, on reflection and after a great deal of thought, it was decided that the advisory body should be small and that neither the Commission nor the trade unions should be on it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.394.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.395.2", "colnum": "395", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ADVISORY GROUP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "Is it not implicit in the Minister's statement that the Transport Commission is at present incapable of running its own business?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.396.5", "colnum": "396", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ADVISORY GROUP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I think that I can assure my hon. Friend that the terms of reference are wide enough for this body to be able to make almost any recommendation it likes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.396.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.397.3", "colnum": "397", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ADVISORY GROUP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "These men have been chosen not on any sectional basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.404.7", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "preceding_text": "der issues in the Budget proposals, there is one matter that I would like to mention. Yesterday, the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition and the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) suggested that the economic affairs of the country had been so arranged as to provide an easy Budget before the election and what the right hon. Gentleman called a tough Budget after the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.404.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ar in year out. One might as well suggest that a doctor should offer the same prescription irrespective of whether the patient has a high temperature or a low one. I believe that when these years come to be seen in their proper perspective it will be agreed that it would have been wrong of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer to have acted differently either last year or this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.407.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about 1957?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "years. So far as this year is concerned, I can assure the Committee that even a slight increase in taxation is unpalatable to me, but I do not think that it will be thought too high a price to pay to prevent the sort of rip-roaring inflation which we experienced under the Labour Government. Once the economy gets out of hand, as it did then, and the reserves go pouring out, the corrective measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "t the old-age pensioners know perfectly well what happened, or, rather, what did not happen, year after year under the Labour Government. They know what has happened under a Conservative Government and they gave their verdict very clearly at the last election. We have pledged ourselves to give the pensioner a share in our increasing prosperity and that is a pledge which will certainly be honoured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.415.3", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We shall be bankrupt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " shall do some- thing. We have done it in the past and in the future we shall continue to honour our pledges. One thing which is absolutely certain is that if we had to return to the sort of inflation which bedevilled this country in the years after 1946, to which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Huyton referred, there would be precious little prosperity in which the pensioners could share.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.415.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.416.3", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"After the war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "uttled from office we would have been bankrupt in eight or ten months. I want to be fair to the right hon. Gentleman. On this question of old-age pensioners, we all know that the Labour Government would have liked to do more for the old-age pensioners, but the fact was that in the circumstances of that time, which was to a great extent of their own making, they found that they could not afford it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "e, a noble cause, though one sometimes wonders whether we are all that safer for spending an extra £100 million, to spend for roads, always popular, and if for roads then for railways—true they may run parallel with the roads—and another £1,000 million is planned for investment in them. Then there is the Health Service, though the less said about the finance spent on the Health Service the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ell the Committee what I really do think —is grossly unfair, and I resent it. It seems that we have hon. Members on all sides of the House of Commons who have a queer kind of dual personality. Nine-tenths of the time we come to the House and demand that more money shall be spent on pet subjects which suit us or our constituencies, and then once a year we have to pay for it and we squeal like pigs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "rms of trade would land us in a deficit which would give us the shivers. There is not enough reserve in our economy to take care of that. We shall not always be so lucky. I have just returned from South Africa. There I saw people working for wages that made me shudder. The problem in Africa will be solved not by politics but by putting up wages and by giving the people a decent standard of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "e organisations. That is the dilemma they face. One thing which is healthy about what is happening in this Budget debate and which, presumably, will go on happening in debates on the Finance Bill is that this dilemma in the Conservative ranks is coming more into the open. I hope that it will destroy the image of the Conservative Party as a united party and of the Labour Party as a party of splits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Stevens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Stevens", "preceding_text": "the Member for Torquay (Mr. F. M. Bennett) said something yesterday. I am glad that my right hon. Friend did not fall for the wheedlings and blandishments of the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) and Mr. Nicholas Kaldor, for two reasons. First, it seems to me that a capital gains tax would run completely counter to Conservative political philosophy. Secondly, on a purely practical note—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "on. Member would answer the point I had just made. The fact that he did not indicates that there is substance, as obviously there is, in what I have said. If by giving ourselves more leisure we reduce the amount of goods and services available for export, how can we in the same breath call for more assistance for the under-developed countries? I am not making any party political point out of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-06", "file": "debates1960-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f463904166263791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.518.2", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheer up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "she otherwise would have had he or she dashes round the corner on a mad spending spree. They do not spend it; they save it. However, I do not look the gifts inter vivos provisions horse in the mouth and I welcome it. Now for a very odd thing indeed. It seems that right hon. and hon. Members opposite like this Budget That, of course, at once makes me feel that there must be something wrong with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-06a.518.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-07", "file": "debates1960-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4753c1d46d87bc90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "a previous Answer, the Parliamentary Secretary said that about 50 per cent. of old-age pensioners' incomes was spent on food. Is he aware that in the official cost-of-living index the weighting for food is only 350 points out of 1,000, slightly more than a third? Does not this prove conclusively that the general cost-of-living index has no real relation to the cost of living of old-age pensioners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-07", "file": "debates1960-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4753c1d46d87bc90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "nly 350 points out of 1,000, slightly more than a third? Does not this prove conclusively that the general cost-of-living index has no real relation to the cost of living of old-age pensioners? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] Will the hon. Gentleman convey that to his right hon. Friend the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance and ask him to stop refusing the claims of pensioners on the ground of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-07", "file": "debates1960-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4753c1d46d87bc90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.565.3", "colnum": "565", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "In view of the disappointment caused in Wales last week by the fact that the Leasehold Tenure (Wales) Bill, the Second Reading of which was moved by the hon. Member for Barry (Mr. Gower), was talked out at the instigation of one of the Government Whips—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-07", "file": "debates1960-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4753c1d46d87bc90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Translate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "g of a net outflow. Against that picture, against those facts, I believe that it would be a bold man who would urge my right hon. Friend to pile another £100 million or £200 million on to his deficit. I want to refer here to what I would call the \"Kidderminster doctrine.\" I do so not because Kidderminster has a monopoly in the doctrine, but, if my hon. Friend will allow me, I do it honoris causa —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-07", "file": "debates1960-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4753c1d46d87bc90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt the Chancellor of the Exchequer again. He has now admitted what many of us have said, that the loss of revenue is a matter of millions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-07", "file": "debates1960-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4753c1d46d87bc90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " 5th April. 1960; Vol. 621, c. 312.] I make that suggestion to the Chancellor again this evening. I ask him to withdraw this procedural Motion. I ask my right hon. Friend the Patronage Secretary—and I am delighted to have him listening to me—to consider what will happen to his timetable on the Committee stage of the Finance Bill if my hon. Friends and I—and this is in no way a threatening gesture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-07", "file": "debates1960-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4753c1d46d87bc90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "debate of that kind would be wholly unsuited to the later Committee stages of a Finance Bill. I hope that the Chancellor will give some consideration to this matter, recognising that a new situation has now arisen. It was not until we were ruled out of order on the Consolidated Fund Bill—my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Knutsford (Lieut-Colonel Bromley-Davenport) is the cause of all this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-07", "file": "debates1960-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4753c1d46d87bc90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " raised it on the Consolidated Fund Bill and complained about capital expenditure. You, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, pulled him up and said, \"This may not be debated\". I questioned it. I was ruled to be wrong by you, and your decision was confirmed by Mr. Speaker. I then began to probe around to find out where and when I could raise it. I found out. The Patronage Secretary is very cross with me at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-07", "file": "debates1960-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4753c1d46d87bc90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "preceding_text": "ll when it came to the Committee stage if this Motion went through. I would remind him, with the best of good humour, that I looked up what happened during the Committee stage of the Finance Bill last year when dealing with a similar clause, and the only reference I could find to my hon. Friend was a remark by the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) that he was not present for the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-07", "file": "debates1960-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4753c1d46d87bc90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.713.0", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE [EXCHEQUER ADVANCES]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend answer this question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-07", "file": "debates1960-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4753c1d46d87bc90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.724.3", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE [EXCHEQUER ADVANCES]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "They are Supply days. I have protested about this year after year and I have been told that we on the Government benches do not select the subjects.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-07a.724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-11", "file": "debates1960-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf5ab942956beb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.856.9", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "In view of the Minister's answer to the previous Question, where he made it clear for the first time that the Government admitted that they were importing more fuel oil than they were exporting, surely they should get a move on with stopping electricity stations converting to oil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.856.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-11", "file": "debates1960-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf5ab942956beb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.886.0", "colnum": "886", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS. \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I should like to deal with the point made about the Public Accounts Committee. There is nothing to conceal because all this will come out in a report to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.886.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-11", "file": "debates1960-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf5ab942956beb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.900.3", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND ROADS IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "storing the car. Therefore, when next he comes back from South Africa he will have a reasonable bill to pay for inconveniencing all those people in Kensington who want to keep their cars moving in the streets. Another case that Clause 12 will cover is one which we found in the Pink Zone. During the Pink Zone period we found a man in Hanover Square—I know his name, and I know the number of his car—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.900.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-11", "file": "debates1960-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf5ab942956beb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.900.3", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND ROADS IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": " back from South Africa he will have a reasonable bill to pay for inconveniencing all those people in Kensington who want to keep their cars moving in the streets. Another case that Clause 12 will cover is one which we found in the Pink Zone. During the Pink Zone period we found a man in Hanover Square—I know his name, and I know the number of his car—[ Interruption. ] No, I will not divulge them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.900.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-11", "file": "debates1960-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf5ab942956beb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.900.3", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND ROADS IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": " of his car—[ Interruption. ] No, I will not divulge them—[ Interruption. ] No, he is a Labour man, I think. He used to leave his car in Hanover Square, and the police used to take it away to Tottenham Court Road. The man would then ring the police and ask them, \"Where's my car?\" He would be told, and would collect the car. The point is that that man was using the police as chauffeurs for himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.900.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-11", "file": "debates1960-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf5ab942956beb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.902.2", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND ROADS IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At a profit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "No, they will not be allowed to go into business in that way, but what they can do is to buy the property, erect the garage, let someone else run it and provide the services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.902.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-11", "file": "debates1960-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf5ab942956beb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND ROADS IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not a fact.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is making heavy weather of this. Surely, it is a fact that in any court, a person who pleads guilty will be fined rather less than somebody who makes a fuss about it. That is a fact in magistrates' courts. It is an abuse of justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-11", "file": "debates1960-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf5ab942956beb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND ROADS IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "ies and other centres of learning will begin to teach and train for it. The Bill fails to deal with the long-term problem. The motor car presents us with a double challenge. On the one hand, it is a lethal weapon which seems to release the worst sorts of psychological feelings in people—the demand for dominance, competition, mastery and so forth—and it produces in consequence, appalling accidents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-11", "file": "debates1960-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf5ab942956beb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND ROADS IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Nugent", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman rides a horse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Nugent", "preceding_text": "ntioned—traffic wardens and the ticket system. I welcome both, but reluctantly. I agree that they are the second-best to the kind of system which we now operate, but sheer, practical necessity drives us to these expedients if we are to civilise the motor car, which is rapidly becoming the universal motor car and which may one day even become a possession of the right hon. Member for South Shields.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-11", "file": "debates1960-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf5ab942956beb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND ROADS IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "preceding_text": "hority to stop a vehicle. A traffic warden should have all the powers which normally are authorised to be applied by a police constable. Then they would be able to do the job efficiently and we should get the right type of person. If we say that these traffic wardens are to be retired pensioners, from the police force or elsewhere, we shall be approaching the problem in an entirely indefinite way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-11", "file": "debates1960-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf5ab942956beb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.963.3", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND ROADS IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So are we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "imself, for the Hereditary Standard Bearer of Scotland or the Lyon King of Arms in dealing with the Bill. I must confess that Scottish law is quite foreign to me as it applies to these matters. I cannot follow the hon. Gentleman because I do not know what he was talking about. I did once run for a Scottish constituency, but, after hearing the hon. Gentleman, I am rather glad that I did not get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-11", "file": "debates1960-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf5ab942956beb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND ROADS IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Yes, they will.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "an Act of Parliament something which may be used by the civil power for something other than its original intention. I am not talking about the old fear of strike breaking when people were afraid of special constables being used in industrial disputes. That is not what I have in mind. We already have traffic wardens for schools, but I assume that they will not be incorporated into the new wardens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-11", "file": "debates1960-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf5ab942956beb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND ROADS IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear that. I am sure that they will be extremely helpful to motorists. Clause 7 is also of great interest. It covers pedestrians, exemptions from restrictions and the disc system. I am glad that pedestrians are mentioned in the Bill, because they, along with the dogs and the drunks, to whom other hon. Members have referred, cause a good many casualties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-11", "file": "debates1960-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf5ab942956beb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.996.2", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND ROADS IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under the Bill it would cost £6.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": " for instance, cover the total cost of towing the car away? I ask this because when I was abroad recently, my stepdaughter, using my car, thought nothing of having it towed away because of bad parking three times in one week. I should have considered it a terrible penalty, but, apparently, the only trouble involved was to go to Vauxhall to collect the vehicle and no great inconvenience was caused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-11a.996.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-12", "file": "debates1960-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea3854c22600c23f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-12a.1058.7", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "Reviews have just been completed of the acoustics in the House of Commons Chamber and in Committee Room No. 14. I am satisfied that in the Chamber the amplification system works well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-12a.1058.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-12", "file": "debates1960-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea3854c22600c23f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-12a.1058.10", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"YOU are lucky.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that from the bench where I sit it is impossible to hear my hon. Friends the Members for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes), Oldham, West (Mr. Hale) and Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-12a.1058.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-12", "file": "debates1960-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea3854c22600c23f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-12a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Clause 4.—(SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "That might be so, and it might be that is the case in this instance. We were certainly told that the forms were practically completed. There were apparently no discussions to take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-12a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-12", "file": "debates1960-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea3854c22600c23f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-12a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Schedule.—(PARTICULARS WHICH MAY BE REQUIRED.\")", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I should like to say a fond farewell to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-12a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1262.0", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that the Newcastle upon Tyne Corporation Bill, which passed its Committee stage last week, has been blocked on two occasions this week by some of his hon. Friends? I have ascertained that this was done on the instructions of the Government Whips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1262.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the Minister of Aviation?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept the right hon. Gentleman's views. Everybody has a right to make guesses about any particular weapon. As my right hon. Friend the present Minister of Aviation said in the defence debate of last year, the decision then—which was a perfectly right military decision—was that, because there was no better mobile alternative, work should go forward with this missile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1269.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1271.3", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member had better study defence matters a little more carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": " about space—is a very important one. The Americans have invested and are investing an immense sum of money in space research, both for its military and scientific and industrial value. At the moment we can only get into space by the American offer to launch British satellites under their terms. Therefore, Blue Streak, which, in conjunction with Black Knight, is a possible space launching vehicle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1273.4", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Would hon. Members be good enough to clear the Bar?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1273.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1274.5", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware, however, that whatever his personal position may be in this matter the Government as a whole cannot escape responsibility for the earlier decisions? May I again press upon him our demand for an inquiry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1274.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "perfectly willing to answer, but I thought that we would be interrupted by another matter. All that I would say at the moment is that I am quite prepared to go on answering questions which you, Mr. Speaker, will allow and which disclose the full facts. I have said that the further progress of this missile has to be examined in the context of space research, and, therefore, no inquiry is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1275.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1275.3", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Lock the doors.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1275.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1275.5", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1275.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1275.10", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Gentleman-Usher of the Black Rod", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1275.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I think that it would be unfair, Mr. Speaker, to ask you to reply at once to a further supplementary point. You will obviously make a statement at some time in the future about this matter. I think, however, that you did use words, Sir, if I heard you correctly, which asked the House to consult its dignity. With very great respect, I think that those words were a trifle unfortunate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1285.2", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA (CITIZENS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND COLONIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "Our anxiety is to get urgently �ž", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1290.10", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "shed in June, 1959. Appendix III on page 43 gives these facts about the percentages of households receiving National Insurance benefits which are also receiving National Assistance: \"Retirement pensions 20·4 Sickness benefit 11·6 Widow's benefits 11·6 Unemployment benefits 19·1\" One in five of all our pensioners who have earned their pensions by their own contributions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1290.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the non-smokers? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "n today in terms of 1946 prices, when the pension was 26s., is 29s. l0d. I accept those figures, although there are some who doubt whether the calculation is right. For the purpose of my argument and for the purpose of my claim I will accept that. I am going to accept, therefore, that in real terms pensioners are now 3s. l0d. per week better off than they were in 1946 when the 26s. was first paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1298.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1305.0", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "is right hon. Friend left the National Insurance Fund with an increasing and, indeed, an unlimited deficit. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his observation, but in fairness to the Committee I must not allow myself to be further deflected by it. I think that the right hon. Gentleman and many of his hon. Friends have really let themselves be deluded by their own propaganda on these subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman could hardly have piled more inaccuracies into less space. What is more, he knows it. The right hon. Gentleman knows that the standard of pension, which in due course will be improved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1324.4", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Chataway", "preceding_text": "e wrong way of going about it. The hon. Member for Coventry, East argued that a selective increase of the type which I am urging would be a breach of our election pledge. I do not accept that. The Prime Minister said that the Conservative Government would ensure that the old-age pensioners shared in the increasing prosperity of the country. It is a question of how that share should be distributed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1324.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "y get their due. If hon. Members cannot find the names, I can tell them that far from there being half a million—I accept that some people still may not desire to go to the Board— we have not had 100,000. We have not even had one in five. Unless the half million is a myth cooked up in Transport House, it should be substantiated by better evidence. The hon. Member for Coventry, East then suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "There are many other points to which I would have been very happy to reply, but we agreed with the Opposition to close the debate as near to seven o'clock as possible. I should like to conclude by saying that we adhere to our pledge that we shall see that the old-age pensioner joins in and shares the prosperity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1354.3", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Class IX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": " Advisory Group said that they would like some restrictions to be removed from the Transport Commission, if it were possible to do it administratively the Government would make the decision and remove those restrictions. If legislation is needed, the Government will give instructions for it to be drafted; and if a Bill is necessary, it will be introduced. It is not intended to publish any reports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1355.0", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Class IX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a bad precedent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I will deal with that. Those were the terms of reference on that occasion. The members of the group were business people. No trade union member was included.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1356.5", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Class IX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "s place now—I thought he would stay—has an advisory group on transport which is appointed by him and consists of the hon. Members for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) and for Bermondsey (Mr. Mellish). The rank and file, however, have chosen differently. They have chosen the hon. Members for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, West (Mr. Popplewell) and for Bradford, East (Mr. McLeavy) as the chosen representatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1356.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1356.5", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Class IX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": " of the Advisory Group. He will invite the Transport Commission and the interested unions to see him and he will invite all the interested unions, of whom there are quite a number, either together or separately as they choose; the choice is theirs. In this way, the views of the unions will be considered in two different ways. First, the advisers will listen to them before they tender their advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1356.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Class IX", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "preceding_text": "entleman answer the question which has been repeatedly asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Collick)? He has been asking why the Advisory Group's report is to be secret. After all, the Guillebaud Report was a secret report to the Transport Commission and the unions, but it was made public because of the great public interest in this matter. Why, then, is this report to be secret?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1360.1", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Class IX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "cause so many other hon. Members wish to take part in the debate. In conclusion, I appeal to the Government to withdraw their proposal for an advisory board. It is an unwanted child —unwanted by everybody. Let transport men do the job, not transport dilettantes, because that is what these people are. We do not want take-over bid tycoons such as Sir Ivan Stedeford as Chairman of the Advisory Group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Class IX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ation in detail, that is a function of management. Sir Ivan Stedeford, whatever his qualities—and none of us has made disrespectful reference to him— was not interested in railways a month ago and will not be six months hence. Therefore, any recommendations made by him to be applied in detail are not likely to be taken by the Commission which will know that his interest in transport is transitory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Class IX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "us able to pay 4 per cent. In 1938, the dividend dropped to 0·5 per cent. and the G.W.R. lost its trustee status and was considered unworthy to receive the earnings of people under the Trustee Acts. The chairman, when asked why he did not pay the dividend out of reserves, said, \"We have paid out £8 million from reserves to dividends in the last fifteen years and we cannot pay out any more\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Class IX", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. John Hay)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. John Hay)", "preceding_text": "body to conduct a large-scale inquisition into the affairs of the Transport Commission. It is a group of advisers possessed of special knowledge, and in due course I will come to what that knowledge is and how it will be useful to us. I will not go over again the major principles and policies that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced in his statement on 10th March, except to say this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-13", "file": "debates1960-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1363c0c82ee7c0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1394.1", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Class IX", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "om the Government as to why they abandoned the Prime Minister's suggestion of a planning board and have come now to an Advisory Group. The hon. Gentleman will remember that in the debate on the British Transport Commission Bill, he himself said it was the intention of the Government to alter the structure of the Commission. That is what he said. In the terms of reference of this new advisory body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-13a.1394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-14", "file": "debates1960-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "9ece4872e721ce4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-14a.1445.4", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I have already paid tribute to the right hon. Gentleman's knowledge of these matters", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-14a.1445.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-14", "file": "debates1960-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "9ece4872e721ce4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-14a.1452.4", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "While thanking my hon. Friend for that reply, may I ask him to bear in mind that this theatre has rather a Communist reputation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-14a.1452.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-14", "file": "debates1960-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "9ece4872e721ce4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-14a.1460.4", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "The Colonial Secretary will be aware that the political climate in Kenya has been much improved since his success at the Kenya Constitutional Conference. Is he aware that good will will be still further improved if Jomo Kenyatta is released?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-14a.1460.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-26", "file": "debates1960-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e20bcedc759119c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.10.7", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman be pleased even if the two occupational therapists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.10.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-26", "file": "debates1960-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e20bcedc759119c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.18.3", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "Does not my hon. Friend realise that 25 per cent. of the local authorities which have used direct labour forces for house building since 1951 have now given them up? Will he consider giving the strongest warning to local authorities that direct labour forces usually cost the ratepayers large sums of money?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.18.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-26", "file": "debates1960-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e20bcedc759119c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.32.7", "colnum": "32", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " is a very important topic and that its implications can range over a very wide field? I have ascertained that there is very strong feeling, not only on this side of the House, but on the other side, among hon. Members who feel that they would like to take part in this debate. In the circumstances, will the right hon. Gentleman agree that the debate should continue until the usual time of 10 p.m.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.32.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-26", "file": "debates1960-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e20bcedc759119c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "now agree that the debate should continue until 10 p.m.? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that if the debate is curtailed in the manner indicated, it will mean that back-bench Members will be almost completely excluded from the debate, because there will be two speakers from the Front Bench on this side of the House and two speakers from the Government Front Bench, and possibly a Liberal speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-26", "file": "debates1960-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e20bcedc759119c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.60.3", "colnum": "60", "heading": "CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": " continuous and much more serious effort into our investment of funds, both in quality and in quantity. We have failed to do this year after year. I have not the figures with me, because I was not fully aware that the number of hon. Members wishing to catch Mr. Speaker's eye would be as slight as it has turned out to be. But in the last four years industrial productivity has hardly gone up at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.60.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-26", "file": "debates1960-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e20bcedc759119c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "t to push it, in which case the reason which resulted in hon. Gentlemen opposite staying on the benches opposite will continue to apply, namely, that being a conservative-minded nation and a conservative-minded business community they will continue to be conservative-minded in terms of replacing plant. This, I am satisfied, stems from our national attitude. We are by nature a conservative country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-26", "file": "debates1960-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e20bcedc759119c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.76.2", "colnum": "76", "heading": "CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"TO get more wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. The hon. Member for Dunbartonshire, East (Mr. Bence) must surely know that business is run on an economic basis. It is not run on the basis that it is run for one particular side. For example, in Scotland there is now an apprentices' strike. For what purpose?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.76.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-26", "file": "debates1960-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e20bcedc759119c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "car industry represents such a high proportion of the expansion of the economy, it is because the demand for motor cars represents such a high proportion of the total increase in demand in the economy. I should like also to refer to the hon. Member's extraordinary remark about property investment in New York when he said that it was a bad thing to make a profitable investment in the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-26", "file": "debates1960-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e20bcedc759119c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "WORLD REFUGEE PROBLEM", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Robert Allan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Forced?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Robert Allan)", "preceding_text": " by my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford (Mr. Woodhouse). I emphasise it not as an excuse for what has been criticised today as inadequate Government support to the Year's programme; I say it in all sincerity, and I suggest to the House that whereas a voluntary gift, like mercy, is twice blessed, a forced gift in the form of a Government contribution is by no means certain of a double benediction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-26a.148.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.182.6", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A red herring.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "preceding_text": "Is it not very discouraging for youths entering industry when they read in the newspapers about men being sent to Coventry for working too hard or because they do not join some particular union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.182.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.198.8", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear. hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "The pay of officers and men arises directly out of that decision and is not according to the use which is made of \"Britannia\" or where she goes. I should have thought that it was the general view of this House that after the manifold duties which Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret undertakes at home and in the Commonwealth, she should on this occasion enjoy a very happy voyage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.198.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.204.7", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "l crux of the matter is that mechanical failures and road failures are not, in my view, as important as the human failures, and these are things which cannot be legislated for; it is selfishness, sometimes, and the difficulties of human beings which make for accidents. I am bound to say that there has been exaggeration in this respect. Let us have it in perspective. I agree that, whatever deaths —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.204.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.205.3", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "There will be quite a number of measures announced, but I am bound to point out that the hon. Gentleman himself did a disservice to the country when he said that the reduced number of deaths at Easter was a national disaster although it was less than it was last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " have to announce, after they have spent £100 million on it, that we cannot have it makes the decision to go ahead with it a mistake. Whether one can forgive a mistake in starting, I do not know. It depends on the balance of the argument then. But what one cannot forgive is the mistake in going on with it. It was a mistake in starting. It has to be that, because if it is a failure it is a mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " hopefully of Skybolt, which does not exist, than of Polaris, which does\", and thirdly, \"We understand that the Americans will sell it to us\". What he does not say is, \"We do not know when it will exist\"—do we? He says, \"We do not know whether it will exist\"— do we? He says, \"We do not know what it will cost, if and when it exists, and we do not know on what conditions it will be available to us.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "mber that it is the credibility outside that matters and not the self-delusion in which we engage inside. If this is true, then it changes much. The argument for maintaining an independent British deterrent for basic political reasons is one thing when we have it and can talk of maintaining it. The argument for going back into the business once we are out of it is altogether different by any test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "financial grounds. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Belper asked about the total cost. The figure I gave to the House, £65 million, is a perfectly accurate figure of the amount spent on this missile to date. As far as I can estimate—and I think that the House should pay some attention to what my right hon. Friend said in answer to a Question today, the other costs have yet to be negotiated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "at the House should pay some attention to what my right hon. Friend said in answer to a Question today, the other costs have yet to be negotiated— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Certainly. I would say at the moment that a figure of at least £100 million is involved. I quite accept that, and that figure—and let us get this in proper scale—is 1½ per cent. of defence spendings over the last five years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Woomera?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman has raised that matter, because I want to be as informative as I can. The £65 million is the total expenditure on the project as a whole, and that certainly includes expenditure on Spadeadam as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.234.5", "colnum": "234", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "ke their correct dispositions on defence matters because, at some time or other, they may be accused in the House of spending money on projects that have to be cut short, then, I say again, it is the most dangerous thing that we could possibly do for the defence of this country. There is, of course, a current \"crack\" in America about weapons—\"If it works it's obsolete.\" I do not go as far as that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.234.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is asking, I take it, whether they include tactical atomic weapons. Yes and no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.265.5", "colnum": "265", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I hope hon. Members will notice that it is always the hon. and learned Members and, of course, the intellectuals who rise to their feet to interrupt me. But as a working-class product, may I be excused if I do not give way? It distracts my attention. I do not want to speak at length because I know that many of my hon. Friends wish to speak. Indeed, it was not my intention to speak at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.265.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "preceding_text": "I grant the hon. Member that—at least double. The groundnuts scheme, which I take as an illustration, was an exasperating waste of taxpayers' money; but this is more than that. This has involved a humiliation to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.277.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "idance? It is not possible for me to call your attention to the fact that there are not a sufficient number of hon. Members in the Chamber, because there is a sufficient number on this side of the House. But is there any way in which it is possible to call attention to the fact that on the Government benches, during the debate on a Motion of censure, there are only five back bench Members present?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speir", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speir", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale) has himself not been in the Chamber for very long, and I should like to point out to him that the benches opposite were considerably depleted of Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.316.2", "colnum": "316", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way. I promised to sit down in a few moments and I wish to keep that promise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.317.5", "colnum": "317", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ent on to boast that he could unite his own side of the House and challenged us to do the same. Apart from the little friendly tiff of the last couple of minutes, I think that I can say that during this debate our side of the House has been in complete agreement. That certainly cannot be said of the party opposite. Let me say to right hon. Members opposite—I wish that the Prime Minister were here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.317.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Was there an inquiry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " although we have got a new Minister, it is still the same Government, I am sorry to say, and they still have the same collective responsibility, and they still have the same Prime Minister. … He added: This House regards as essential and urgent a full inquiry into the present situation and the future prospects. …\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 18th July, 1950; Vol. 477, c. 2160.] We do not get—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " it. It should be operational by the time we need it. The right hon. Member for Belper said that there would be strings attached to Skybolt. As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister explained at Question Time yesterday, the United States Government have told us that they are willing to supply us with these missiles without any conditions which would limit our freedom to use them in self-defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.338.3", "colnum": "338", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Have the inquiry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "After hearing the factual account that I have given, I ask the Opposition whether they are still prepared to say that we ought to have stopped Blue Streak sooner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "have stopped it, and they cannot say. There are some who regard it as monstrously extravagant to contemplate spending £500 million on rockets. It is, of course, a lot of money. In order to see things in perspective, we must remember that Blue Streak was designed to succeed the V-bomber force as our nuclear weapon carrier and, as has been said during the debate, if we had not developed Blue Streak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.339.5", "colnum": "339", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " implications of such a project. I cannot yet say what the outcome of the study will be. But, in further following up the point made by the right hon. Member for Huyton, I would say that if we decide to go ahead we shall certainly consider inviting other Commonwealth and European countries to participate with us in a joint space programme. Having regard to the utter unpredictability of the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.339.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "us to wait a while, before we have to decide what weapon we shall have to adopt if by then, it is still necessary. So long as the world remains divided by fear and mistrust, we must continue to play our part in deterring aggression, but we cannot accept that peace is to be permanently preserved by a precarious balance of nuclear power. We must continue to work unceasingly for complete disarmament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.340.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-04-27", "file": "debates1960-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "265106081e2bb3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE (BLUE STREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "next few years, we can make good progress towards disarmament, as I personally believe we shall, then, perhaps, we may never need a replacement for Blue Streak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-27a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-28", "file": "debates1960-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7edd30cce78d585d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-28a.367.2", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend for that reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-28a.367.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-28", "file": "debates1960-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7edd30cce78d585d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-28a.372.3", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Being apprised of this intention, I had a look at the precedents this morning. I do not think we are in a position to stop it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-28a.372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-28", "file": "debates1960-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7edd30cce78d585d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-28a.372.3", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "nteresting, but I believe that is right. I hope that, on any view, the hon. Gentleman would bear this in mind; I do not know at all what the Minister's intentions are, but it presumably means that he has prepared one answer to all these sixteen Questions. If we were to deal with them singly, I suppose he would be entitled to repeat the same answer sixteen times, which really is not very much help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-28a.372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-28", "file": "debates1960-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7edd30cce78d585d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-28a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "rious Questions, but we know that they cover a fairly wide range of industries and different aspects arising out of the economic weakness of those industries. You said that if the answer did not meet our point we could put down another Question, but the right hon. Gentleman will have departed to the bottom of the list of Questions and we shall not be able to get at him for another period of time —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-28a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-28", "file": "debates1960-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7edd30cce78d585d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-28a.375.5", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that many more statistics are available to the Government than are available to hon. Members in the published documents to which he referred?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-28a.375.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-28", "file": "debates1960-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7edd30cce78d585d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-28a.396.0", "colnum": "396", "heading": "CONTROL OF CREDIT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "This statement will come as a great shock, if not—after the experience of the present Home Secretary a few years ago, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer—as a great surprise. We are now back in the position in which we were in the autumn of 1955 and early 1956—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-28a.396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-28", "file": "debates1960-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7edd30cce78d585d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-28a.404.2", "colnum": "404", "heading": "LAW OF THE SEA (CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "e. I understand that today the trawler owners are having a meeting at which they will decide whether or not they will return to Icelandic waters. What they will decide is, of course, entirely up to them, because the Government do not recognise anything except the 3-mile limit. I hope that it is clear from what I have said that our naval vessels, for the time being, will not patrol within 12 miles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-28a.404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-28", "file": "debates1960-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7edd30cce78d585d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-28a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Clause 9.—(REPEAL OF CERTAIN ENACTMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "ows the first thing about running large-scale organisations knows that the success of an organisation depends on the spirit of the workers in it. By \"the workers\" I mean from top to bottom, from chairman downwards. The spirit in the two Corporations, which I have seen recently, is excellent. By the Bill, they are being told that they no longer enjoy the confidence of this Government or the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-28a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-29", "file": "debates1960-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "fa685d5095ab343c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-29a.563.3", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including by pedestrians.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "several parts. In Part I, I am endeavouring to say, \"Let us use in full the existing road safety laws, the laws against dangerous driving, against careless driving, against a breach of the speed limit, and so on.\" How many times a day does one see dangerous conduct on the road? Any hon. Member who drives or walks in the street sees dangerous or careless conduct on the road innumerable times a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-29a.563.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-29", "file": "debates1960-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "fa685d5095ab343c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-29a.592.7", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "d not been \"tight\" at the time, it would never have happened. In spite of the fact that careers may be ruined because of acts like these, for which there is often a very good medical reason, some who have been found drunk in charge have come back here as large as life and have spoken on road safety, traffic control and transport matters with all the brazen effrontery under the sun. That is a fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-29a.592.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-29", "file": "debates1960-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "fa685d5095ab343c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-29a.640.3", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": " my hon. Friend the Member for Ber-mondsey (Mr. Mellish) and myself for what he described as doing a disservice to the cause of road safety by drawing attention to it. In politics, everything depends upon the timing. If we could get, as I believe we have today, a coincidence of public desire for road safety with the support of the Opposition, which is not given to every Minister on every occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-29a.640.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-04-29", "file": "debates1960-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "fa685d5095ab343c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-29a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " a thing could happen in a British Court. As a matter of fact, while I do not make any personal reference to the gentleman concerned, that case has probably done something to draw attention to the fact that dangerous driving regularly goes on and is accepted, so that if a driver hits a man with his car he is not as ashamed as if he had been caught shoplifting, which is a much less serious offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-04-29a.645.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-05-02", "file": "debates1960-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "015e585881cc56c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.673.5", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Would not a much better contribution to noise abatement be that no jet aircraft should be allowed to take off from London Airport after 12 midnight?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.673.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-02", "file": "debates1960-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "015e585881cc56c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the thoughtful manner in which the hon. Member for Fulham (Mr. M. Stewart) has spoken, and the care with which I know he has studied the subjects now under discussion. Frankly, I had thought that we might be in for a Motion of censure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-02", "file": "debates1960-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "015e585881cc56c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "towns and cities make it harder for themselves, and far harder for the people on their waiting lists, by heavily subsidising out of the rates council tenants who are sufficiently well off not to need subsidy. These are the people who, in a great many cases, could afford to buy a house for themselves, partly thanks to the stimulus which Her Majesty's present Government have given to house purchase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-02", "file": "debates1960-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "015e585881cc56c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not timid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " great many cases, could afford to buy a house for themselves, partly thanks to the stimulus which Her Majesty's present Government have given to house purchase. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Instead they are being paid by the local authority to keep more deserving people out of council flats and houses. When I mentioned the stimulus to house purchase there were some timid jeers from the benches opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-02", "file": "debates1960-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "015e585881cc56c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give them a chance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "the figures afresh, including the figures in the formula which are said by some local authorities to be unfair to them. I must say that I believe, after two years' experience of the general grant and the accompanying rate deficiency grant, that there will be few people who would want to go back to the far more complicated and less just system of percentage grants and Exchequer equalisation grants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-02", "file": "debates1960-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "015e585881cc56c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "se. The Government are deeply committed to educational advance. I had imagined that the Opposition were, too. But education advance costs money, and unless the Exchequer meets all the excess with 100 per cent. grant some part is bound to fall upon the rates. If the Opposition want 100 per cent. Exchequer grants, let them say so. I must warn that it would mean, of course, the end of local autonomy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.727.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-05-02", "file": "debates1960-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "015e585881cc56c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-02", "file": "debates1960-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "015e585881cc56c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "I suggest that one of two things must be true. Either Glasgow has not taken advantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-02", "file": "debates1960-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "015e585881cc56c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "t be true. Either Glasgow has not taken advantage—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Hon. Members can murmur if they like. It is always surprising that, in this Committee, when one says something which hon. Members do not like to have to accept or which is not liked, hon. Members start to groan. As I say, it is either that Glasgow Corporation has not been taking advantage of what the slum clearance Acts allow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-02", "file": "debates1960-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "015e585881cc56c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.773.11", "colnum": "773", "heading": "HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "I have not tried to suggest anything about the political complexion of cities in Scotland. All I have suggested is that other cities in Scotland, Socialist-controlled cities, are dealing to some extent with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.773.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-02", "file": "debates1960-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "015e585881cc56c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.773.11", "colnum": "773", "heading": "HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "I have not tried to suggest anything about the political complexion of cities in Scotland. All I have suggested is that other cities in Scotland, Socialist-controlled cities, are dealing to some extent with this matter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] Dundee. I come now to the second point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.773.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-02", "file": "debates1960-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "015e585881cc56c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.812.3", "colnum": "812", "heading": "HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": " and natural, certain constituency problems. There have been some very good and interesting speeches on both sides of the Committee in relation to special problems of hon. Members' constituencies, but there has been no substance in the general charge that the Government's housing policy in England. Wales or Scotland is failing the nation. I do not want to waste time on purely controversial issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.812.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-02", "file": "debates1960-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "015e585881cc56c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": ", because one cannot reduce overcrowding in these big houses, urgent as that is, unless one has somewhere else for the excess people to go. My right hon. Friend's concern is to work out the best solution for the overspill needs of each big city individually in co-operation with the city council concerned—and that deals with the question about overspill policy asked by the hon. Member for Hamilton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-02", "file": "debates1960-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "015e585881cc56c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman made charges against my right hon. Friend of not approaching his quasi-judicial function on appeal in an unbiased fashion. That is a grave charge which anybody who knows my right hon. Friend will know has no possible substance. I have a lot of personal experience of this problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-02", "file": "debates1960-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "015e585881cc56c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": ". In 1949, 25,847 houses were completed by all sources—local authority, Scottish Special Housing Association and private building. In 1950, 25,811 houses were completed, falling again in 1951 to 22,928. The party opposite did not realise that but for their tight controls throughout the whole economy it would have been possible to build more houses and, at the same time, more schools and hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-02a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-03", "file": "debates1960-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "48629918e41bc7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-03a.863.3", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "I do not think the hon. Member is right in saying that this will be the last section of A.74. In any case, I must tell him that my right hon. Friend does not see his way to authorise this scheme within the current four-year programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-03a.863.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-03", "file": "debates1960-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "48629918e41bc7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-03a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I wrote to the Minister about this. Here is a bridge which is to carry by-pass traffic until such time as a new—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-03a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-03", "file": "debates1960-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "48629918e41bc7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-03a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Many of us did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "preceding_text": "hout being subsidised and without any bribery at all. That is our view of the situation. The right hon. Gentleman complained somewhat that hon. Members who have spoken from both sides of the House had directed their attention to the provisions of the Finance Bill, and he said that we ought to have had a further discussion on the Budget. I had the good fortune to be called during the Budget debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-03a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-03", "file": "debates1960-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "48629918e41bc7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-03a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was last year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " it. The hon. Member is in error if he thinks that to pump out Treasury bills is not inflationary. One asks why there have been so many long faces and so many disappointed people who have been growling away in their beards about the things that my right hon. Friend has failed to do. Those people suffer from the error that they regard each year's Budget as a sort of annual distribution of largesse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-03a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-03", "file": "debates1960-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "48629918e41bc7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-03a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A. good thing, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "ise the money for these desirable ends? First, I believe that Government accounting is a muddle. The so-called distinction between above and below the line, between capital and current account, is such an inaccurate distinction in practice that if any of us presented accounts like that in our private business we would be going off to be Her Majesty's guests in Dartmoor for quite a number of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-03a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-03", "file": "debates1960-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "48629918e41bc7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-03a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "always been given is that it was an anomaly. The Royal Commission on the Taxation of Profits and Income suggested that the allowance should be withdrawn. It has always been regarded as an anomaly. Every Chancellor has said, \"We cannot remedy the anomaly because this allowance should never have been given\". I have written to my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary, who is a very attractive bachelor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-03a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-04", "file": "debates1960-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "97a0f62d929dd3e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-04a.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Lady realise that the post office at Low Valley is right on the fringe of Womb-well and some way away from the centre of Darfield? Does she also realise that letters that are written in the evening are not posted until next day in Darfield because it is needless so to do, and that the collecting van which comes from Barnsley to Wombwell could easily be diverted round Darfield?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-04a.1071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-04", "file": "debates1960-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "97a0f62d929dd3e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-04a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Judith Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Judith Hart", "preceding_text": "t the progress of this Bill and of the way in which it fails to fulfil the terms of the White Paper. The public at large, and I think that part of the Press which has shown concern, would not be happy to know that the Government are trying to safeguard public health on the cheap in this Measure. The Government hope by this administrative Measure that they will satisfy the conscience of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-04a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-04", "file": "debates1960-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "97a0f62d929dd3e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-04a.1200.5", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "BRITANNIC SC5 AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "ent had decided to place an order with Short Bros. and Harland of Belfast for the Britannic, and it is worth while having a look at the words which he used. He was answering a number of Questions which had been put down by right hon. and hon. Members opposite, some of whom represent Belfast constituencies, and with whom I have great sympathy. I have even more sympathy with their poor constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-04a.1200.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-04", "file": "debates1960-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "97a0f62d929dd3e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-04a.1215.4", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "BRITANNIC SC5 AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "he facts are as stated by my hon. Friend and by the hon. Member opposite, then there is surely a demand for an inquiry. I suspect that this is only one of a series of scandals connected with the aircraft production industry and the Ministry of Aviation. I would like to see not only an inquiry into the financial and military implications of Blue Streak and of the Britannic, but also into the Swift.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-04a.1215.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-04", "file": "debates1960-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "97a0f62d929dd3e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-04a.1225.3", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "BRITANNIC SC5 AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "efore I thought it right to deal with it last, although I appreciate that it is extremely important. I do not think I can add very much to what was said in answer to a very recent Question —only on Monday, in fact. It is appreciated that what we have in mind is a fixed price contract, and that necessarily entails a great deal of work in relation to an aircraft which will cost well over £1 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-04a.1225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-05", "file": "debates1960-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "dca065c2c61792ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-05a.1366.2", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And others.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. It is appropriate at this point to make a protest about the absence of the Secretary of State for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-05a.1366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-05", "file": "debates1960-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "dca065c2c61792ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-05a.1368.0", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We did not know where he was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "egree. The point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) is valid. As he knows, we bitterly complained during the Committee stage about the absence of the Home Secretary. Indeed, we had a whole meeting in which we discussed his absence from the Committee proceedings. We did not talk about the Secretary of State for Scotland, and I admit that it was an omission on our part, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-05a.1368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-05", "file": "debates1960-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "dca065c2c61792ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-05a.1375.0", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "preceding_text": "enalty for the first offence should be a fine of not more than £10 and for the second and subsequent offences a fine not exceeding £50. The right hon. Member for Smethwick wishes to go a little further in one respect and not quite so far in another. For the second offence, he proposes a maximum penalty of £25, but for subsequent offences he considers that a term of imprisonment should be possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-05a.1375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-05", "file": "debates1960-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "dca065c2c61792ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-05a.1395.3", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "orth of that line should be rewarded by being allowed to set up new betting shops. Their livelihoods will at once become legal and, in one sense, they will be rewarded for their past endeavours. Bookmakers south of the line, on the other hand, who also have been carrying on activities in betting equally illegally, are not to be rewarded or even left as they are now; they are to be firmly punished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-05a.1395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-09", "file": "debates1960-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "cb927fe5f6c3eec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-09a.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEDICAL RESEARCH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby Gore", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby Gore", "preceding_text": "No adjournment has been announced, but it is quite normal in the course of negotiations that at certain periods there are no meetings between the two principals involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-09a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-09", "file": "debates1960-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "cb927fe5f6c3eec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-09a.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which part?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that I have the right to speak on behalf of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-09a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-09", "file": "debates1960-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "cb927fe5f6c3eec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-09a.105.11", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member voted against it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "on these lines, he would put it up to the Bishop. I did so, using in my Amendment as nearly as possible the actual words which the Church authorities themselves used in the disciplinary Measures sent to us some years ago from the Church Assembly. I know that there are one or two hon. Members here today who took part in the whole series of debates—the Incumbents' (Discipline) Measure and the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-09a.105.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-09", "file": "debates1960-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "cb927fe5f6c3eec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-09a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Agnew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Agnew", "preceding_text": "ased on this simple ground—that if this Bishop of London, and that is unthinkable, or if any Bishop of London or the bishop of any diocese based his administrative decisions of a parallel kind to this on the considerations given in the Amendment it would be clearly a gross abuse of his supreme pastoral authority. To put these considerations into the Bill would be to restrict and fetter the Bishop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-09a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-09", "file": "debates1960-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "cb927fe5f6c3eec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-09a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "No, I did not. Hitler did that. I did the best I could to restore the damage which he inflicted. This seems to me an amazing power to be put into the hands of a very limited number of people, to make representations with regard to the incumbent in certain circumstances which this Amendment seeks to avoid. I support the ground on which my hon. Friend the Member for Driberg—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-09a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-09", "file": "debates1960-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "cb927fe5f6c3eec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-09a.124.2", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John E. Talbot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John E. Talbot", "preceding_text": "is Amendment is unnecessary because those who propose it are seeking to legislate for something which will never come to pass. If it is to have any value, it postulates to improprieties. First, that the Aldermen and Councillors of the guild churches will make a representation, the spirit of which is wrong, and secondly, that the Bishop of London will accept that representation in a similar spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-09a.124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-09", "file": "debates1960-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "cb927fe5f6c3eec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-09a.134.5", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "ave been brought to my notice. I feel that any progressive and forward-looking alteration in the constitution of the Royal College would bring it into the esteem that it rightly should have in the eyes of everyone. Judging from the attitude of the hon. Member for Bristol, West (Mr. Robert Cooke), there may be one or two hon. Members who ask themselves: why should we in this house intervene at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-09a.134.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-10", "file": "debates1960-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9afff84b3bac2057", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-10a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "With permission, I will answer Questions Nos. 22, 27, 28, 30, 34, 36, 37—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-10a.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-10", "file": "debates1960-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9afff84b3bac2057", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-10a.188.6", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to raise a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-10a.188.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-10", "file": "debates1960-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9afff84b3bac2057", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-10a.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I do not wish to sound too self-important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-10a.200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-10", "file": "debates1960-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9afff84b3bac2057", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-10a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": " industry. It is carried on regardless of the social consequences and it is clear that the Bill will reward it. Last Thursday, the hon. Member for Southend, West (Mr. Channon) pointed out what the Bill will do. Those bookmakers in the North who have established betting shops outside the law are to be given a substantial reward. They will at once be promoted officially into the Surtax-paying class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-10a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-11", "file": "debates1960-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d07a7078106bc38b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.394.5", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "When I saw the Press report on this matter, I naturally made some inquiries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.394.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-11", "file": "debates1960-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d07a7078106bc38b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE-PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " should have no hesitation in saying that the proper deposit for a person to pay for any article, from a three-piece bedroom suite to a motor vehicle, is 20 per cent. If the person cannot afford to pay 20 per cent., let him go away, do without the article for a few months, and save up the deposit so that it is 20 per cent. I say that a maximum time for repayment on any article should be two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-11", "file": "debates1960-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d07a7078106bc38b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE-PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ce heating, water heating and cooking. It is all part of one article of equipment, yet it is subject to two rates and to alternative periods for repayment. I say to my right hon. Friend that he must take this Order back to his advisers and ask them to consider these points which, to say the least, are incongruous, especially in view of the interests of the National Coal Board. The Sunday Express —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-11", "file": "debates1960-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d07a7078106bc38b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE-PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " of equipment, yet it is subject to two rates and to alternative periods for repayment. I say to my right hon. Friend that he must take this Order back to his advisers and ask them to consider these points which, to say the least, are incongruous, especially in view of the interests of the National Coal Board. The Sunday Express —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] A very good newspaper —on 8th May, on page 10—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-11", "file": "debates1960-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d07a7078106bc38b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE-PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " and ask them to consider these points which, to say the least, are incongruous, especially in view of the interests of the National Coal Board. The Sunday Express —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] A very good newspaper —on 8th May, on page 10—[ Interruption. ] Yes, I know that it accused me in its leading article a few weeks ago of cowardice, but I did not issue a writ against the newspaper on that account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-11", "file": "debates1960-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d07a7078106bc38b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE-PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ertisement appeared on 8th May, after this Order had been published. Mr. Speaker, you will see on the Order itself that it was made on 27th April. What is my right hon. Friend doing about enforcement? Does he propose to enforce these things? I do not want the Coal Board to be inhibited in putting in modern appliances. I do not want it to be inhibited. I want it to support my clean air legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-11", "file": "debates1960-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d07a7078106bc38b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE-PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A flaw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " legislation—[ Laughter. ] There is nothing to laugh at; it is a very serious matter. Furthermore, I want to encourage people to burn coal more efficiently. The Board promises five years in which to pay, but the Order maximises the period either at two years, interpreted in one way, or four years interpreted in another. Here, however, is the nub of the matter—from whom does one buy the appliances?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-11", "file": "debates1960-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d07a7078106bc38b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE-PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Press him tonight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "rtant matter, for Parliament, if it does nothing else, should surely secure equitable treatment within the financial field for all agencies of every character in the support and financing of hire-purchase transactions. Subject only to those few modest and relatively mild criticisms of my right hon. Friend, I will support these Orders in the Lobby, this evening, but I shall press him unremittingly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-11", "file": "debates1960-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d07a7078106bc38b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.555.3", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE-PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Bigamy now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "I think that my hon. Friend did not hear me well. I did not suggest that the Chancellor attacked any specific housewife. I used the word in the plural—housewives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-11", "file": "debates1960-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d07a7078106bc38b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.573.3", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE-PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "t why they were treated exceptionally, and we have continued the same treatment for the same reasons on this occasion. There was a certain amount of political argument from the right hon. Gentleman back to his old theme about our opportunist and cynical policy, but that was, I think, dealt with by my hon. Friend the Member for Barry (Mr. Gower), among others. The right hon. Gentleman talked about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.573.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-11", "file": "debates1960-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d07a7078106bc38b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.573.3", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE-PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " go ahead and expand consumer demand and expand it faster than we did at the time. Now, we are told by the right hon. Gentleman that hon. Members opposite agree now that there should be restraint. They agreed with us then, they agree with us now. Why is the Opposition's motive pure and ours opportunist and cynical when we both arrive at the right conclusion in the interest of the national economy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.573.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-11", "file": "debates1960-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d07a7078106bc38b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.586.2", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH WALES COALFIELDS (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "e. That is the agreement. The hon. Gentleman ought to have known that. There is a hardship allowance reducing the 16 per cent. by 10 per cent. and there is an open quota enabling the small mineowners to produce all the anthracite they like. The majority of the small mineowners have agreed to the position and have accepted the licences. The agreement was accepted by the mineowners' representatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-11a.586.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-12", "file": "debates1960-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a4ca64dc3eb0827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-12a.623.0", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "May I have your guidance, Mr. Speaker? Is it in order for me to remind the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-12a.623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-12", "file": "debates1960-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a4ca64dc3eb0827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-12a.623.2", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Then may I remind the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-12a.623.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-12", "file": "debates1960-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a4ca64dc3eb0827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-12a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "That feeling of complacency is ill-founded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-12a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-12", "file": "debates1960-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a4ca64dc3eb0827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-12a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "That feeling of complacency is ill-founded. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I do not want to be unduly polemical but it really was the Opposition that said again and again, \"All you have to do is to have a Summit meeting.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-12a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-12", "file": "debates1960-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a4ca64dc3eb0827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-12a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is obvious.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that intervention and I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman does not approve Mr. Khrushchev's plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-12a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-12", "file": "debates1960-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a4ca64dc3eb0827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-12a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " of their declared diplomatic aims—in other words, to stop the spread of atomic weapons. I urge the Government seriously to consider now the proposal which we have often pressed on them in the past, namely, to make a public offer that Britain will renounce her existing atomic weapons if other countries in the world, other than the Soviet Union and the United States, will agree not to produce them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-12a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-12", "file": "debates1960-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a4ca64dc3eb0827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-12a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " have failed. I do not blame the Foreign Secretary for stealing our policy. I am delighted. Nor do I blame him for following the natural practice of a car thief of putting his own number plate on the car when he steals it. The trade name is not important as long as the product is the one we want. I look forward to the time when the Government will formally adopt our whole policy for disengagement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-12a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-13", "file": "debates1960-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "4129349b9f3c14f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-13a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC BODIES (ADMISSION TO MEETINGS) BILL (changed from \"PUBLIC BODIES (ADMISSION OF THE PRESS TO MEETINGS) BILL\")", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that, but I imagine that such action is taken to instil into the public an idea of better conduct at these meetings. But I agree that this is covered by the Bill. The provision of agendas and enough documents to make the business intelligible, not only to the members of the Press but to members of the public, is to be welcomed. Some councils have been very backward in this regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-13a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-13", "file": "debates1960-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "4129349b9f3c14f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-13a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC BODIES (ADMISSION TO MEETINGS) BILL (changed from \"PUBLIC BODIES (ADMISSION OF THE PRESS TO MEETINGS) BILL\")", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "at they import into those reports. I am one who believes that if people ask for privileges they ought to accept the responsibilities that go with those privileges in a completely unbiased manner, and the newspapers should tell the public exactly what is happening in their local authorities. If they did that without bias we would not have seen the results which have occurred in the local elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-13a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-16", "file": "debates1960-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "66dbbd2d1a242015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept the first part of the hon. Gentleman's statement. These documents have been made freely available both in the Berlin Centre and the Washington Centre to people who have a genuine interest in exposing Nazi crimes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-16", "file": "debates1960-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "66dbbd2d1a242015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.893.6", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": " and instructions. My right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture explained most carefully what the position is in an interchange with the hon. and learned Gentleman the other day. As an earnest of our good faith, we have said that at present we will patrol with Her Majesty's ships only outside the 12-mile limit. The trawlers have been asked not to go inside the 12-mile limit for the time being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.893.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-05-16", "file": "debates1960-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "66dbbd2d1a242015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "It is covered, I am afraid, by the Answer I have just given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-16", "file": "debates1960-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "66dbbd2d1a242015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.923.3", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On Sundays?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister not realise that this surcharge is prejudicial to the trade and industry of the whole north-east of Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.923.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-16", "file": "debates1960-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "66dbbd2d1a242015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "incipal victim of the Government's failure to produce either a comprehensive or comprehensible policy. I have said that we know the root of the trouble. Any policy in favour of this support for agriculture demands some measure of planning, and the right hon. Gentleman's difficulties sit behind him. The Tory Party Central Office election confusion about Conservative agricultural policy has cleared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-16", "file": "debates1960-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "66dbbd2d1a242015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.936.1", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "I am not going to answer that point at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-16", "file": "debates1960-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "66dbbd2d1a242015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "ore that increasing efficiency is a powerful offset to increases in costs. This figure of £25 million amounts to about 2 per cent. of the value of gross output of the Review commodities. Its validity has been borne out by experience over the years. It has been published in White Papers from 1955 onwards and has never been seriously challenged by the farmers' Unions or anybody else until this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-16", "file": "debates1960-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "66dbbd2d1a242015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.995.2", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I accept that. But, even despite that, it is as I have stated—real farm incomes have declined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.995.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-16", "file": "debates1960-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "66dbbd2d1a242015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "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": "n. Members opposite have picked up some articles in various newspapers and, having read them, they have done their best to make speeches on them—except for the few practical farmers who have put forward some good points. There was, however, no sign of the political purpose for which the hon. Member for Workington was looking. He said that this was the place for politics, but he could not find any.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-16", "file": "debates1960-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "66dbbd2d1a242015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "ver, no sign of the political purpose for which the hon. Member for Workington was looking. He said that this was the place for politics, but he could not find any. [ Interruption. ] Whenever anything is said that hon. Members opposite do not like, they are always apt to make that kind of interjection, as I have noticed from long experience. I must not take up too much time with the preliminaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-16", "file": "debates1960-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "66dbbd2d1a242015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So are members of the Scottish N.F.U.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I will study very carefully what he said. My hon. Friend stressed several matters which I shall take up as I go on with my speech. My hon. Friend the Member for King's Lynn made an extremely useful and constructive speech. I am sorry that more hon. Members opposite did not hear his speech. His deduction from this Price Review was that it is not a restrictive Price Review. He is a practical farmer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-16", "file": "debates1960-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "66dbbd2d1a242015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": " am sorry that more hon. Members opposite did not hear his speech. His deduction from this Price Review was that it is not a restrictive Price Review. He is a practical farmer. [An HON. MEMBER: \"So are members of the Scottish N.F.U.\"] There are many reasons why both the English and Scottish N.F.U. may say things which hon. Members in their individual capacities as farmers may not fully understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-16", "file": "debates1960-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "66dbbd2d1a242015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "ed by the market and at reasonable prices\". There is certainly no restriction there. We shall welcome increased production. The paragraph says: for mutton and lamb the need is to check expansion and to discourage production of animals less acceptable to the market\". The hon. Member for Workington had something to say about this. It should be noted that the operative words are \"to check expansion\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-16", "file": "debates1960-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "66dbbd2d1a242015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "same rapid rate of expansion all the time.\" I do not believe that any hon. Member opposite will say that, regardless of price or of unit cost, of whether the commodity is what the housewife wants or the market will take, the rate of expansion should go on unchanged indefinitely. If hon. Members will read the paragraphs carefully—it may be that the wording could be plainer and easier to understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-16", "file": "debates1960-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "66dbbd2d1a242015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "at we should go on with the expansion of the production of the right commodity at the right price, and that it will get to the proper market. The remaining one is paragraph (vii) which says: for pigs the aim should be to secure a moderate increase in the breeding herd, but to avoid an increase to a level which would put an unreasonable burden on the taxpayer. There is no sign of restriction there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-16", "file": "debates1960-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "66dbbd2d1a242015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "them look at the record. The Government have shown by their actions genuine concern for the welfare of the farming community, as is shown by the record of the last four years. In 1957, the Agriculture Act gave the farmers long-term guarantees and farm improvement schemes. The 1958 Agriculture Act did away with the disciplinary powers and put the landlord-tenant relationship on a much better basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-16a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-17", "file": "debates1960-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "732885e983bc67f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-17a.1074.2", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "While accepting your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, may I ask the right hon. Gentleman what further evidence he requires than that provided in the Report fo the Comptroller and Auditor General, in view of the fact that the manufacturers refuse to supply the chemical except on a cost-plus basis, and insisted upon a minimum profit of 17 per cent., rising to 45 per cent., and, in addition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-17a.1074.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-17", "file": "debates1960-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "732885e983bc67f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-17a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gough", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend be surprised if I told him that a certain individual from the Middle East deposited as much as £3 million in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-17a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-17", "file": "debates1960-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "732885e983bc67f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-17a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GHANA (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is nothing wrong with that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "n Accra, and lived in Christiansborg Castle. That was noticed and gave the impression to his countrymen and supporters that a change had taken place. I may be wrong, but I think that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah has always been seized with the idea that he was born to lead all Africans. Ghana was the first African State to be released from colonial bondage and his aim was to create a United States of Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-17a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-17", "file": "debates1960-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "732885e983bc67f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-17a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GHANA (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not there now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "rought in preventive detention and 40 of the United Opposition Party members were put into prison. Having worked in this fashion, he ensured that the Opposition was deprived of many of its leaders. This might have been part of a preconceived plan, partly to make clear that he was ready to become the republican leader. I do not know whether Professor Busia is still in Ghana or has left the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-17a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-17", "file": "debates1960-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "732885e983bc67f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-17a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GHANA (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "are thinking that the new Constitution is coming in without the consent of the people, they should reflect on the fact that about 50 per cent. of the electorate voted for the new Constitution and for Dr. Nkrumah, whereas at the last General Election in this country only 38·9 per cent. of the electorate voted for the Conservative Party. I think that the supporters of Dr. Nkrumah could boast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-17a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-17", "file": "debates1960-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "732885e983bc67f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-17a.1229.4", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES (TOMATOES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "a Valley but in various areas surrounding London. It was said, particularly at the beginning of the debate, that British growers do not make the best use of their glass outside the tomato season. I rebut that statement. Our horticulturists in Kent maintain full production of one crop or another throughout the year. They get the best possible use of their equipment. I therefore welcome the subsidy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-17a.1229.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-17", "file": "debates1960-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "732885e983bc67f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-17a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES (TOMATOES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some hon. Members forget them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "se horticulture is a different type of industry from a manufacturing industry. We are here dealing with an entirely different form of product from factory industrial production. The question of the interests of the consumer arises. I think it was the hon. Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Central who referred particularly to the fact that we all have constituents, as if we did not know that already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-17a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1273.2", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I think that the Americans will be the first in the field because they are already half-way in the construction of a nuclear ship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1276.2", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I must refer the hon. Gentleman to the debate on 21st March when all this was explained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "I hope that hon. Members on this side of the Committee will treat the arguments of the hon. Member for Buckinghamshire, South (Mr. Ronald Bell) with the contempt that they deserve. Hon. Members on this side have always argued that there should be as much free trade as possible throughout the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1290.5", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "gainst any one branch of the wine trade when those two branches of the wine trade, port and sherry, have always been treated the same. I do not know whether my right hon. Friend was right to reduce the duty on port. Perhaps he had good international reasons for doing so, but, having reached that conclusion, it follows as night follows day that all fortified wines must receive the same concessions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1290.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1312.5", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Of course, I am very familiar with the whole position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1312.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1318.0", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "That is a faulty argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1325.2", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "imes as many people smoke in this country as those who consume the wines referred to in Clauses 1 and 2. Twelve times as many people are interested in the Amendment as are interested in Clauses 1 and 2. The great majority of people, I think, smoke either cigarettes or a pipe. I do not like a fiscal policy which reduces the price of beer by 2d. one year and puts it on cigarettes the following year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1325.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1325.4", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e inconvenience to the public involved in having to receive 5½d. change on 10 cigarettes or 5d. on 20 cigarettes of a standard brand and the costs of up to £750,000 in altering 100,000 machines … that are said to be in operation. As a result of that telegram to my right hon. Friend the Chancellor, and as they could not expect any earlier reply, the manufacturers communicated with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1325.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1325.4", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fell.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e to the Economic Secretary two analogies. I wonder what would have happened to the Postmaster-General had he decided to increase the price of a postage stamp to 3¼d. My hon. Friends laugh in derision, but that would be just about as sensible as making the price of a packet of 10 cigarettes 2s. 0½d.—just about as sensible. At one foul swoop every coin slot machine for selling stamps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1325.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has been a member of the House of Commons since—1945? No, 1950. Does he not know the simple procedural point, that had I put on the Notice Paper an Amendment to abolish the whole 3s. 4d. it would not have been in order and would not have been called?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1343.1", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friends seem to foe waiting a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1344.0", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "are all very interesting, but they do not affect the argument which I have adduced in support of the contention which was argued by the hon. Member for Kidderminster. There is no Amendment on the Order Paper to leave out the Clause. Since this matter has been raised, I will deal with it and I hope that I can deal with it without interruption. If I am provoked, I will provide the necessary replies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1344.0", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ormed about the intentions of the Opposition Front Bench. Let us have it out now. It will be within the recollection of hon. Members that I did not start this quarrel. All I was doing was to support what I thought was a reasonable argument to reduce the Tobacco Duty. I understand that we are still a democracy, in spite of the desire of some people to prohibit some of us from expressing an opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1344.0", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ason than that he has produced substantial arguments which appeal to what intelligence I possess. I support him, but I make it clear that I do not enter a fight of this kind unless I go all the way. I do not care for starting a fight and then running away. One should be beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, once having entered it, one should go all the way. I agree with Shakespeare in that regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1348.1", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " as I assumed that the rate of duty would be the same—this would be the inevitable consequence. Of course, I hope that it will be possible to reduce the duty in due course. So I return to the main reason why this Amendment is not acceptable. Surely it would not be right for the Chancellor to abandon a proposal to raise £20 million in taxation, not on any fiscal grounds, not on any social grounds —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Historic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman used the word \"never\", I refer him to the evening of Thursday, 7th April—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1350.4", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He got the sack.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Freeth", "preceding_text": "I have not resigned from anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1357.2", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "rounds the choice of Tellers—namely, the hon. Member for Loughborough and the hon. Member for Aberdare—was made and why, as I initiated this Amendment and was supported by a right hon. Gentleman opposite who had agreed to tell with me—I am glad to see that the right hon. Gentleman is now nodding assent—we were precluded from acting as Tellers, especially having regard to the fact that two Tellers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1357.2", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "s Amendment and was supported by a right hon. Gentleman opposite who had agreed to tell with me—I am glad to see that the right hon. Gentleman is now nodding assent—we were precluded from acting as Tellers, especially having regard to the fact that two Tellers— [ Interruption. ] No, I did not want someone who knew the job. I can line up at the Table much more smartly than those two hon. Gentlemen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1358.0", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Sir William. I would not wish you to think that I am casting any reflection at all on the conduct of the Chair. What I am endeavouring to bring to your attention is the manifest unfairness of the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1358.0", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ifest unfairness of the situation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Yes, the unfairness of the situation. I cannot go from my seat on these benches to the Table as fast as an hon. Gentleman sitting where the hon. Member for Aberdare and the hon. Member for Loughborough were sitting. The hon. Member for Aberdare had two names on a piece of paper which he put on the Table immediately the voices were collected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "es of the Tellers for the Noes. I should mention the reason I did so, so that the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) may realise that no discourtesy was intended towards him at all. The hon. Member for Kidderminster had announced several times in his speech that he would lead the Opposition through the Division Lobby and I did not see how he could do that and be a Teller at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1366.0", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": "me pensioners, with foreboding. It is so easy to say that anyone who would oppose this modest concession is hard hearted. I certainly like concessions given by private people in the nature of cheaper tickets to go into football matches, and so on, but when it comes to administration by the State, ultimately the most desirable thing is an increase in the basic pension. I cannot develop that aspect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1396.0", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"'It is not charity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "charity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-18", "file": "debates1960-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "904625abc95b0956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1401.6", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " secure that he gets to bed early before he reaches Clause 12. If he is still in difficulty I advise him to skip some Clauses and get on to Clause 26; but I would be out of order in discussing the merits or demerits of Clause 26 tonight. As I have said, while, throughout the Bill, we want a full debate on some of the big issues raised, we do not want to spend much time on the minutiae of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-18a.1401.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-05-19", "file": "debates1960-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "79d96d51f07d76be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1494.3", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House says chat he cannot control his hon. Friends. Is he aware that some of them allege that they object to Bills promoted by hon. Members on this side of the House not because they know what is in the Bills, but because they have been instructed to do so by the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1494.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-19", "file": "debates1960-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "79d96d51f07d76be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1504.2", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ises an extra £70 million by increasing the rates of duty and the rates of taxes. What has been lost on the nation so far is that he is increasing tax this year by £242 million—in his collection of Income Tax by itself, let alone Surtax or death duties or other contributions of that kind. The growth of the Income Tax and the yield from it in recent years of Tory administration has been stupendous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1504.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-19", "file": "debates1960-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "79d96d51f07d76be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1504.2", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "so far is that he is increasing tax this year by £242 million—in his collection of Income Tax by itself, let alone Surtax or death duties or other contributions of that kind. The growth of the Income Tax and the yield from it in recent years of Tory administration has been stupendous. [ Laughter. ] This is no cause for laughing on the part of my hon. Friends. They should hang their heads in shame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1504.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-19", "file": "debates1960-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "79d96d51f07d76be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1508.3", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " in the £ within the next four years.\" A jolly good objective, but I hope that those of my hon. Friends who were indicating some dissent from my words a few moments ago will not now consider that I am being too cautious, when my distinguished friend the Member for Langstone offers three times as much to his society—of which, of course, I am a member, and to which I send him an annual subscription—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-19", "file": "debates1960-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "79d96d51f07d76be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1508.3", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ninepence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ne offers three times as much to his society—of which, of course, I am a member, and to which I send him an annual subscription— [ Interruption. ] An hon. Member suggests that I should be made president of the society, tout no, they would not have me as president—I am much too modest in Income Tax matters. I only want 3d. off the standard rate of Income Tax this year, but my hon. Friend wants 8d.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-19", "file": "debates1960-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "79d96d51f07d76be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1508.3", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth (Mr. Thorneycroft) wrote an article in the April, 1960, issue of an important journal called the Director, which is the house journal of the Institute of Directors. My right hon. Friend, is of course, a member of the Institute, and carries all the authority of an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer. Of course, I am a member of the Institute of Directors, as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-19", "file": "debates1960-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "79d96d51f07d76be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "to Pay Less Tax, by Mr. Alexander Thomson of the Evening Standard, in which one finds passages dealing with the \"The Family Man\" and \"The Businessman\". As the Committee knows, the family man pays Income Tax and the businessman pays Income Tax. There is a heading \"The Seven-year Gift\", and a whole host of other associated matters. Most tax evasion springs from an excessive level of direct taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-19", "file": "debates1960-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "79d96d51f07d76be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1516.1", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "tain direct taxation in this country at these excessive and exorbitant levels so will this wretched incubus of tax evasion and avoidance continue to grow. The Parliamentary result, of course, is that we have 73-Clause Finance Bills, and attendant Schedules, such as the present one, a large part of which is devoted to trying to plug up the holes of tax evasion. I shall not vote against this Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-19", "file": "debates1960-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "79d96d51f07d76be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1516.1", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "the holes of tax evasion. I shall not vote against this Clause. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The hon. Member for Gloucestershire, West (Mr. Loughlin) who immediately starts chortling, after having been in the House of Commons, possibly, for only five months, has not yet realised that it is almost impossible for any Member of the Committee to vote against the standard annual Clause raising the Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1516.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-05-19", "file": "debates1960-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "79d96d51f07d76be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am sure my hon. Friend would not wish to misinterpret what I said. I said that there were 18 million Income Tax payers, which was five times the number pre-war, and that, in contradistinction to the hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison), I supported the net being cast as wide as that, but I did not say that I wished to increase it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-19", "file": "debates1960-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "79d96d51f07d76be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "ow and I do not know what I shall do if the answer is in the negative, for no one will want to divide against this Amendment. My goodness, sometimes I hate being a Member of Parliament because of the injustices which ought to be remedied but are not remedied and I do not know what to do about it. If I cannot find a way of remedying this injustice, I do not know what to do about it. I throw myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-19", "file": "debates1960-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "79d96d51f07d76be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1608.0", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": " bouncing up and down at each other confirming the chaos that would result if we tried to give people the tax allowances that were due on the premiums they have paid. As justification for not doing so, the hon. Member for Sowerby described the Government's proposal as rough justice. When he used those two words, a ripple of applause went along the benches opposite. Rough justice is what they want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-19a.1608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-20", "file": "debates1960-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "2f64f03167a579c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1650.2", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "HEADS OF GOVERNMENT (PARIS MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, \"hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hat interruption. I would not be surprised if we were to lose a little ground in the first few weeks, but I hope that we may make it up again. With regard to my hon. Friend's second supplementary question, I have considered this, but I hope to be excused from making any broadcasts either here or through the Eurovision link. I do not think that we want to deal with this as a matter of great crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1650.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-20", "file": "debates1960-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "2f64f03167a579c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1653.3", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I apologise to the hon. Member for St. Helens (Mr. Spriggs) for interrupting him at this stage, but it might be for the convenience of the House if we could have clarification of the terminology of the Motion. In his Motion, the hon. Gentleman refers to old-age pensions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1653.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-20", "file": "debates1960-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "2f64f03167a579c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1653.5", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rents.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "preceding_text": "ng since that date. Those Members of Parliament who never do any shopping would do well in the service of this House and of those for whom we are speaking today if they were to ask their wives, \"Has the cost of living gone up? Has the cost of meat gone up? Has the cost of bread and other commodities gone up?\" Whenever we read the financial columns we find that there has been an increase somewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1653.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-20", "file": "debates1960-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "2f64f03167a579c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1679.1", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry Studholme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes, we did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry Studholme", "preceding_text": " means the general taxpayer. It is easy to talk airily about increased pensions and not to say anything about the cost. That is what the party opposite did at the last General Election. Hon. Members opposite said that they would immediately increase pensions to £3 a week, but I have never heard or read of any members of the party opposite at the time of the election saying anything about the cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-20", "file": "debates1960-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "2f64f03167a579c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1698.1", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not necessarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "so, at the same time, increased the personal capital which a person could have before he could claim assistance. So we must of necessity see an increase in the figures. Another point which I want to make in all seriousness to the House is this. No matter what Government may be in power there will be a need for the National Assistance Board to deal with pensions for almost the rest of this century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-20", "file": "debates1960-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "2f64f03167a579c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1709.1", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Loyalty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "t in our social service problem, and he comes from every section of the community, rich and poor alike. Retirement pensioners are—like any other age group—a complete cross-section of our complex and variegated society. I am therefore bound to say that in the controversy between the hon. Member for St. Helens and my toon. Friend the Member for Ilford, North, I found myself on my hon. Friend's side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-20", "file": "debates1960-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "2f64f03167a579c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1713.3", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about contributions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "e Board of Trade took that step I thought the criticisms from the benches opposite were that he ought to have done more rather than less. Be that as it may, the hon. Gentleman did not appreciate the very great expansion in the amount of expenditure on pensions, rising from about £250 million in 1950–51 to £617 million in 1958–59. If the hon. Gentleman is going to put forward figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1713.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-20", "file": "debates1960-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "2f64f03167a579c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1721.1", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the hon. Member?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "—which shows, as the Minister says, that my hon. Friend has tact, as well as great force and sincerity when he speaks. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for St. Helens (Mr. Spriggs) on his success in the Ballot and in choosing this important subject for his Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-20", "file": "debates1960-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "2f64f03167a579c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1721.1", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Where is he? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "nd the Member for St. Helens (Mr. Spriggs) on his success in the Ballot and in choosing this important subject for his Motion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the hon. Member?\"] Many of my hon. Friends envy him the opportunity that he has had, and which he has so ably taken this morning, in moving the Motion. His was the authentic voice of the great mass of the British people on this vast social problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-20", "file": "debates1960-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "2f64f03167a579c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1724.2", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "ody, or would not have given a married couple double the amount of a single person. It does not matter what we do, the Minister's dialectical skill it brought to bear on any weakness in the terms of the Motion so that he can evade the main issue of giving a plain answer to a plain question, which is: are the Government in favour of raising the basic retirement pension? Is the answer \"yes\" or \"no\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-20", "file": "debates1960-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "2f64f03167a579c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1734.1", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "I tried to draw attention as contributing to the welfare of the elderly. I encourage the House to think constructively and, above all, coherently on these lines while keeping the standard rates of pensions and corresponding contributions in line with the expansion of our economy. I ask hon. Members not to be beguiled by such Motions as that which has been moved today into a morbid obsession about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-20a.1734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-23", "file": "debates1960-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b0f844d1ebbbd782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-23a.14.2", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows, it does not lie in my hands to compel employers to recognise particular forces with which they should negotiate. In this case the union was a party to the employees' side of the machinery,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-23a.14.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-05-23", "file": "debates1960-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b0f844d1ebbbd782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-23a.51.2", "colnum": "51", "heading": "PEPPIATT REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "It does not upset me to read the last sentence. It says: Weighing the evidence as a whole, we consider that a levy is desirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-23a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-23", "file": "debates1960-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b0f844d1ebbbd782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-23a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Clause 4.—(COMPULSORY ACQUISITION OF LAND FOR PURPOSES OF ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "I am saying that the argument which is always put forward is that Lancashire's dependence on cotton puts it in a special position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-23a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-23", "file": "debates1960-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b0f844d1ebbbd782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-23a.136.4", "colnum": "136", "heading": "ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL (FULLBRIDGE, MALDON) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Harry Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Harry Pursey", "preceding_text": "y of Transport) and the sole objector is the petitioner. I will not debate that statement except to say it is one thing not to object and another to approve. I suggest that the answer to the council's letter is, why should not the little man be able to sail his little boat up the little river and under the little bridge as he has done for two or three centuries? In 1800, which is a day or two ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-23a.136.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-24", "file": "debates1960-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0e9d5c1b7f4173c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.193.0", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "In response to the rather critical tone of the hon. Member's question, I must say that I think the building societies do a very fine job. It must be remembered that they have to borrow before they can lend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-24", "file": "debates1960-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0e9d5c1b7f4173c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.194.5", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "I hope I have self-respect, and it is for that reason that I should like to quarrel most strongly with the hon. and learned Member's statement that the Government are neglecting Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.194.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-24", "file": "debates1960-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0e9d5c1b7f4173c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.197.2", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the form of tender for the supply of police gloves issued on 15th March, 1960—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.197.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-24", "file": "debates1960-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0e9d5c1b7f4173c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.197.4", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "preceding_text": "The condition was that none of the goods supplied in respect of the tender should be of South African origin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.197.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-24", "file": "debates1960-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0e9d5c1b7f4173c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.197.4", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "preceding_text": "The condition was that none of the goods supplied in respect of the tender should be of South African origin. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Is my right hon. Friend further aware that this idiotic boycott, thought up by the party opposite, is likely to do greater harm to innocent people, including Africans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.197.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-24", "file": "debates1960-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0e9d5c1b7f4173c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.210.0", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that I was there on 1st May and saw these Labour Party ties being removed from boys in the City Square?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-24", "file": "debates1960-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0e9d5c1b7f4173c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tutton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One or two?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tutton", "preceding_text": "e other way round. I think that there is a great deal of exaggerated talk about this business of what is called hobby farming. I quote from the Report of the Royal Commission on this matter: In the result, we have come to the conclusion that the complaints against the losses of the hobby-farmer are probably exaggerated …. I do not say that there are not one or two hobby farmers near London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-24", "file": "debates1960-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0e9d5c1b7f4173c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.240.5", "colnum": "240", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "ations of the moment if the onus of proof rests upon the taxpayer, where it rightly rests and where it can only conveniently rest. With the safeguards that are provided, I have not the slightest doubt that the Clause, in this respect, will operate fairly and will be a suitable safeguard for the Revenue, which is being literally milked by hobby farmers, who are using their occupation for amenities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.240.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-24", "file": "debates1960-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0e9d5c1b7f4173c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "coal mines, we should have the situation that there is one law for the stockbroker farmer and another for the Coal Board farmer, because the nationalised industries are said to be excluded from the provisions of this Clause, and the farms concerned in the North-East, which are very substantial farms, are part of that nationalised industry. My right hon. and learned Friend cannot have it both ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-24", "file": "debates1960-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0e9d5c1b7f4173c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": ". The very simple answer to that is. \"Go and see how farmers did under the Labour Government, and how they did, either since then or, even more forcibly, how they did in the period after the First World War when they had a rotten time under a succession of non-Labour Governments.\" I am not going into that. It seems to me that that sort of remark simply indicates that one has nothing better to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.314.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-05-24", "file": "debates1960-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0e9d5c1b7f4173c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.342.5", "colnum": "342", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Broke.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "story of almost daylight robbery of the public by property sharks who are raised to the stature of national heroes; who appear on the television, who are interviewed in the newspapers and who say, \"I made £1 million. I started with £10. Then I bought something and sold it. Then I bought something else and sold that. Then I bought something with money I had not got and sold it, and look at me now\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.342.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-24", "file": "debates1960-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0e9d5c1b7f4173c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.345.3", "colnum": "345", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "object of the exercise. This is not a new point, and I hope that the hon. Member's remarks have rubbed it in. I want to raise two points about subsection (1, b ) where reference is made to forming: a substantial part of the assets of the company. What is meant by \"a substantial part\"? That is important. I do not want to protect the \"sharks\" in any way, but I want to protect legitimate enterprises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-24", "file": "debates1960-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0e9d5c1b7f4173c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.402.4", "colnum": "402", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ree that I make this suggestion without any desire to hold up the passage of the Bill. I do so simply in order that we may go to bed at a reasonable hour now. Of course, the Chancellor knows that, if we had wanted to hold up the Bill, it would have been possible to move 100, or perhaps 1,000, Amendments. There could be no easier Finance Bill for that purpose. We have, indeed, been very abstemious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-24a.402.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-25", "file": "debates1960-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "88023626e0cf41ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.420.2", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I am advised that the United States Air Force has introduced the following measures to reduce disturbance. Engine running on the ground is prohibited between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. except when there is a strong operational need. Periods of continuous engine run-up at full throttle are kept to a minimum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.420.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-25", "file": "debates1960-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "88023626e0cf41ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "We are not unsympathetic to the circumstances which the hon. Gentleman has described, but the two matters are not really related at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-25", "file": "debates1960-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "88023626e0cf41ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.434.5", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But the right hon. Gentleman did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "hat supplementary question that if testing stations were run …either by the State or by municipal authorities there would not have been four years' wrangling.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 30th March, 1960; Vol. 620, c. 1308.] I replied that I did not think that there had been four years' wrangling. I should have added the words \"in respect of making administrative arrangements for testing stations.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.434.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-25", "file": "debates1960-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "88023626e0cf41ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.435.3", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the Minister denied using the words which he now agrees that he did use two days before—and it makes not the slightest difference what interpretation I put on it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-25", "file": "debates1960-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "88023626e0cf41ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.435.4", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I admit freely that I used the phrase \"four years' wrangling\". I admit that I used it in the question of the legal interpretation which my Department was seeking to put on the question of testing of vehicles. But the supplementary question which the right hon. Gentleman asked was not about the legal interpretation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.435.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-25", "file": "debates1960-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "88023626e0cf41ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.439.6", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not fast enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "They have been announced in more comprehensive detail than ever in the past. They were never announced in this comprehensive detail by the party opposite. The programme is rising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.439.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-25", "file": "debates1960-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "88023626e0cf41ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.439.6", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "They have been announced in more comprehensive detail than ever in the past. They were never announced in this comprehensive detail by the party opposite. The programme is rising—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Not fast enough.\"] Of course it is not rising as quickly as people would like it to, but neither is the number of schools, houses, shops and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.439.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-25", "file": "debates1960-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "88023626e0cf41ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": ". Pickthorn) and myself. I certainly come down on the side of constitutionality, and would rather that the law should not be unduly tweaked by the Treasury, as against those who say, \"We do not give a tinker's cuss for the law provided we stop tax dodgers.\" People who hold that view fall into the category of those who want to give complete discretion to the Inland Revenue, a complete dictatorship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-25", "file": "debates1960-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "88023626e0cf41ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "I was asking my right hon. and learned Friend quite how that would happen. I admit that I am not a lawyer and cannot easily understand these matters. It seems clear to me, however, that any law which allows the Inland Revenue to act in effect as a kind of Star Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-25", "file": "debates1960-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "88023626e0cf41ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "il the next Budget for dealing with this type of practice. That has not been met by this Clause. Another method is sought, and that other method, as I understand it, is not to define narrowly and too exactly the particular practices we want to cover, but to define them in terms rather wider than a narrow definition, because that is the only way in which we can catch what it is intended to prevent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-25", "file": "debates1960-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "88023626e0cf41ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.551.3", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "Sir William, naturally I accept your Ruling without hesitation. I merely point out that there is no inconsistency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-25", "file": "debates1960-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "88023626e0cf41ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "ble for him to give a selection of facts and circumstances which can only lead the tribunal to the view that there is no prima facie case. The Inland Revenue, which may have suspicions about the transaction, cannot have access to the full facts and is, therefore, not in a position to answer all the points made by the taxpayer. I do not expect the Government to be willing to withdraw the Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-25", "file": "debates1960-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "88023626e0cf41ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "mass of ordinary British taxpayers, on the other. Of course, we are discussing nothing of the kind. We are discussing the relationship between a tribunal and the sort of people who would be likely to be affected by the operation of Clause 26. These simply are not ordinary taxpayers. They are not constituents of the hon. Member for Crosby, they are not my constituents or anyone else's constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-25", "file": "debates1960-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "88023626e0cf41ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "by one or other of two things. First of all, they must, in any event, have access to sums of capital sufficient to make these various devices possible for them. Secondly, they may or may not be potential tax avoiders. No one will be affected by the Clause, by the tribunal or by the appeal procedure in the slightest degree who has not access in some way or other to very substantial sums of capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.603.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-05-25", "file": "debates1960-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "88023626e0cf41ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.608.3", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.608.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-25", "file": "debates1960-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "88023626e0cf41ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "ive a reasonable answer—as to whether or not that transaction is within or without a particular Section of the Finance Act. It is precisely because of its rather vague and uncertain terms that I am not at all happy about this Clause. The Chancellor and his learned colleagues on the Front Bench, having had another look at the Clause, have been very good, and have made very considerable concessions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-25a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-26", "file": "debates1960-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c658143188c43e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.672.3", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stones", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stones", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that the replies to my Questions are a sufficient indication in themselves of the determination of the Durham County Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-26", "file": "debates1960-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c658143188c43e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.677.4", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION AND COMMON MARKET", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "After that meaningless mumbo-jumbo of qualified qualification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.677.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-05-26", "file": "debates1960-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c658143188c43e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.677.6", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION AND COMMON MARKET", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We must hear what the question is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-26", "file": "debates1960-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c658143188c43e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.682.4", "colnum": "682", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "gn affairs debate, and we understand that the Foreign Secretary wishes to go abroad, and a large number of hon. Members with all kinds of different points of view wish to speak in the debate, we wish to say that we respond to that generosity and that we do not want any time from the right hon. Gentleman now. I wish to say, also, that there is no imputation of impartiality against you, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.682.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-05-26", "file": "debates1960-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c658143188c43e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.683.3", "colnum": "683", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I think that that proposition would command universal support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-26", "file": "debates1960-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c658143188c43e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Sir Edward Boyle)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Sir Edward Boyle)", "preceding_text": "rofessions. Although I am not a lawyer myself I think that I am right in saying that this at one time or another has been blessed and recognised by the courts. As the hon. Gentleman the Member for Islington, East said, barristers cannot sue for their fees and, therefore, they can only be assessed on the basis of their receipts; and the cash basis is then the only legal method of computing profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-26", "file": "debates1960-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c658143188c43e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On a different subject\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "preceding_text": "I listened to the hon. Member for Gloucester (Mr. Diamond) making his ninth speech on the same subject last night. I cannot say that I congratulate him on making his tenth speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-26", "file": "debates1960-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c658143188c43e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.705.4", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Deal with the Amendment\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I should like to finish a sentence before I give way. One could make an alteration generally and, if one liked, tax as income something never regarded as income since Income Tax started, but that would be for general application. There is no ground for singling out the barrister in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.705.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-05-26", "file": "debates1960-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c658143188c43e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.720.2", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "The question is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-26", "file": "debates1960-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c658143188c43e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.730.0", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " in subsection (4, a ) were meant to cover losses and to enable losses to be carried forward if they could have been deducted from the assessable profits of the continuing business if the business had continued to be carried on. If there is any doubt about it we shall certainly look at the terms to make sure that that happens. My hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) is not here —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.730.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-26", "file": "debates1960-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c658143188c43e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.790.5", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(RELIEFS IN RESPECT OF TAX UNDER SECTION THIRTY-FIVE.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "group of payments to be top sliced by reference to the same period starting with the payment for which the period is the longest. In this way the payment to be top sliced for the longest period is taxed at the rate which would apply to what is called the appropriate fraction of it if it were the top slice of an income which consisted of that appropriate fraction together with all the other income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.790.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-26", "file": "debates1960-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c658143188c43e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 37.—(APPLICATION OF INCOME TAX ACTS TO PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "h cannot be levied upon by way of assessment. I suggest that there is no ground for running that risk. I have dealt with the matter as narrowly as I could because the Amendment is wider than the Clause which stems from the Whitworth Park case. If one uses the word \"retrospective\" in its narrow sense, that is, that it has effect in relation to things which have been done before, it is retrospective", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-26a.814.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-30", "file": "debates1960-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "7f39db126a152851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-30a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "We must keep this in proportion. The farmers get the direct benefit of the subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-30a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-30", "file": "debates1960-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "7f39db126a152851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-30a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "nd, great capitalist nation, as it is—and it is great, despite all its faults. Then there is our nation, which could be democratically Socialist. We went too quickly for people to respond. One of our biggest faults when my party was in power was that it went much too quickly for people to respond to the treatment it gave them, and so brought about some trouble to some extent, but also contentment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-30a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-30", "file": "debates1960-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "7f39db126a152851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-30a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I cannot go into those supplementary questions about the alert.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-30a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-30", "file": "debates1960-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "7f39db126a152851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-30a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"0h\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "ng about it Why cannot the Government take as strong an attitude as General de Gaulle and say that the bases in this country from which those planes go should not be in American hands? That is the real case against the Government. My constituents believe that the American forces in this country and the American bases constitute at the present time a many-sided danger to the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-30a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-31", "file": "debates1960-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "765f672e2eb3fc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1169.2", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "Christian Council of Kenya, has revealed a very grave situation to which the Colonial Office does not seem to be sizing up at all? Is it not ridiculously complacent to say that they are working towards the provision some time in the future of subsistence for the African workers whilst hon. Members opposite are complaining about lawlessness and violence? No wonder there is lawlessness and violence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-31", "file": "debates1960-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "765f672e2eb3fc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1183.3", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I shall not come\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e ought not to be discovered. Nevertheless, strange as it may seem, I extend to my hon. Friend 100 per cent. support, though for a different reason. Let us suppose that the Amendment of my hon. Friend the Member for Brixton (Mr. Lipton) were carried and the House did not go into Recess for the contemplated fortnight or seventeen days, as the case may be. What do hon. Members think would transpire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-31", "file": "debates1960-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "765f672e2eb3fc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1183.3", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "l and international concern? Of course not. If I thought—I am sure that other hon. Members will share my view—that we should debate matters of profound interest to the nation and the world at large, I should take a different view. But that would not happen at all. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition would pin our faces to the ground with a lot of footling, meandering legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-31", "file": "debates1960-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "765f672e2eb3fc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1192.2", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "preceding_text": "hon. and hon. Members that we should all be assembled in a patriotic mood of agreement with one another and with the Government. If that is what the right hon. Gentleman meant to convey, is he going on to say that the speakers who took part in the debate were contributing to the demonstration of national unity behind the Government? Is he suggesting that they were called with that purpose in mind?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-31", "file": "debates1960-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "765f672e2eb3fc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "s in respect of the previous year. It is because of that purely practical difficulty that we have undertaken the rather more cumbrous approach in subsection (3). What it does is to give credit for the tax deducted in the year for which the assessment is made, that is, year 1 in the way indicated earlier. I do not know whether the Committee would like me to spell out the way in which it would work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-31", "file": "debates1960-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "765f672e2eb3fc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1286.0", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 59.—(ESTATE DUTY: GRADUATION OF CHARGE ON GIFTS, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Major W. Hicks Beach", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Major W. Hicks Beach", "preceding_text": "imple point as I made clear. I put the, point to the Committee, I hope quite fairly, from a practical point of view. Some hon. Members not concerned with practical matters are apt to talk from the economic point of view and not the practical point of view. It was my view then that from a practical point of view the proper period, if we are to have Estate Duty, which I personally do not approve Of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-31", "file": "debates1960-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "765f672e2eb3fc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1287.2", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 59.—(ESTATE DUTY: GRADUATION OF CHARGE ON GIFTS, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Major Hicks Beach", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Hicks Beach", "preceding_text": "that I would be in order in dealing with the observations of the hon. and learned Member for Paisley (Mr. D. Johnston), for whose legal knowledge I have the greatest possible respect, concerning discretionary trusts and Estate Duty. He is a Scottish lawyer and I am an English lawyer, but seriously to suggest that it is possible to create a discretionary trust which goes on for ever is unrealistic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-31", "file": "debates1960-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "765f672e2eb3fc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1288.0", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 59.—(ESTATE DUTY: GRADUATION OF CHARGE ON GIFTS, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreeable?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "We have spent nearly an hour on the Question, \"That the Clause stand part of the Bill,\" and it may be that the Committee feels that the time has now come to take a decision on it. I think that we have had a very agreeable debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1288.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-05-31", "file": "debates1960-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "765f672e2eb3fc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1296.6", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 59.—(ESTATE DUTY: GRADUATION OF CHARGE ON GIFTS, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Mr. Nabarro rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-31", "file": "debates1960-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "765f672e2eb3fc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1303.0", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 61.—(INCREASE OF RATE OF PROFITS TAX.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": " are driven to the Public Works Loans Board, they have to pay a rate which tends to rise and has in fact risen with the increasing profits, some of which are profits of other bodies which are caught by Profits Tax. They are the very lase people to be made to pay an increase of this kind. I have not said much about co-operative societies. They are not able to make profits as a limited company does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-31", "file": "debates1960-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "765f672e2eb3fc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 61.—(INCREASE OF RATE OF PROFITS TAX.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "y possible occasion against what the right hon. Gentleman is doing. The figure mentioned in the Amendment is 3 per cent. That was the interest rate which operated up to 1951. As the Chancellor knows, it is now 5⅞ per cent. This has had a colossal effect. As the Chancellor knows, a £1,500 house—these figures are engraved on my heart as Calais was engraved on the heart of Mary Queen of scots—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-31", "file": "debates1960-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "765f672e2eb3fc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1316.0", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 61.—(INCREASE OF RATE OF PROFITS TAX.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "The same could be said of co-operative societies. They are local democracies in that they are run and operated by consumers on the basis of \"one shareholder, one vote\", and there cannot be any exploitation through or by a co-operative society. They are quite unlike commercial companies to which the word \"profits\" usually applies. There are no profits in co-operative societies. They make surpluses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-31", "file": "debates1960-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "765f672e2eb3fc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1356.7", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 72.—(EXCHEQUER ADVANCES TO NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES AND UNDERTAKINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "mit of £700 millions in respect of a period of two years, ending in 1958. In Section 36 of the Finance Act, 1958, we increased the figure from £700 million to £1,070 million. In the Finance Act, 1959, Section 36, we increased that figure to £1,620 million. This year, the Chancellor proposes to raise it from £1,620 million to £2,050 million, an increase of £430 million. The first of the Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1356.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-31", "file": "debates1960-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "765f672e2eb3fc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1362.0", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 72.—(EXCHEQUER ADVANCES TO NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES AND UNDERTAKINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "u, Sir William, that it is out of order for me or any hon. Member of the Committee to discuss the capital investment programmes of any of these great industries. That means that Parliament is not in a position of being able to perform the duties commonly understood by the electorate to be laid on its shoulders. We are not asking a great deal when we demand that borrowers should explain to lenders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-05-31", "file": "debates1960-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "765f672e2eb3fc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 72.—(EXCHEQUER ADVANCES TO NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES AND UNDERTAKINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "preceding_text": "and that the nationalised industries be self-financing when they have stopped the National Coal Board over the last ten years from developing its own resources to try to finance its own capital expenditure? The taxpayer should know that all the shouting tonight is only about lending money to the nationalised industries. It is a long term investment by the taxpayer, for which he is paid 6 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-05-31a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-01", "file": "debates1960-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "ceef25764246e95d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-01a.1414.2", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ropner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ropner", "preceding_text": "in my Question was given. His right hon. Friend made the same statement not long ago and offered to have a tripartite conference between myself, himself and my right hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Bedfordshire. When my right hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Bedfordshire accepted that invitation, my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport said that his remark should not have been taken seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-01a.1414.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-06-01", "file": "debates1960-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "ceef25764246e95d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-01a.1456.4", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC (WHITSUN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, which will be recorded in HANSARD and will show that most hon. Members of the House agree with me in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-01a.1456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-01", "file": "debates1960-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "ceef25764246e95d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-01a.1548.1", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND ROADS IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "way in which he \"manoeuvred us\" —the way in which he managed hon. Members on the Opposition side of the Committee. Having said all those nice things, I wish now to express a personal point of view regarding this Bill. Clauses 1 and 2 are the most important parts of the Measure. They introduce something which we have never had in this country before—a country which is conservative with a small \"c\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-01a.1548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-02", "file": "debates1960-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9fcc8ce605f295d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-02a.1612.0", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "What advice on the facts of life a headmaster gives to his pupils is entirely within the province of the headmaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-02a.1612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-02", "file": "debates1960-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9fcc8ce605f295d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-02a.1612.2", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "The headmaster informed me—as, I think, I said in my original answer—that no inquiries were made about boys in the school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-02a.1612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-20", "file": "debates1960-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "1b523c5b90697b77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-20a.3.2", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "preceding_text": "As far as I am aware, there has been a steady increase in the external services, both European and overseas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-20a.3.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-20", "file": "debates1960-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "1b523c5b90697b77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-20a.4.0", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman would not expect me to answer that now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-20a.4.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-20", "file": "debates1960-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "1b523c5b90697b77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-20a.13.6", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the White Paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": " had to take place? Does it mean that the programme of 5,000 megawatts, which originally was due to be received at the end of 1965 and was then put back to the end of 1966, has now been deferred to the end of 1968? Would he say whether the cause of this is that there is now a large amount of coal and oil, especially oil, coming into the country which is not being priced on purely economic grounds?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-20a.13.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-20", "file": "debates1960-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "1b523c5b90697b77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-20a.17.6", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "It is a little early to say that the proposals will meet with opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-20a.17.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-06-21", "file": "debates1960-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8e0cd8a4b6ed5383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EAST AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The number of those in Kenya, 478, is, I suppose, something like a half of 1 per cent. of those who were in detention at the height of the emergency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-21", "file": "debates1960-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8e0cd8a4b6ed5383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (NATIONAL GOVERNOR FOR WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Welsh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "May I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-21", "file": "debates1960-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8e0cd8a4b6ed5383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.243.5", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "For a variety of reasons—in many instances because of ignorance of their statutory rights and privileges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.243.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-21", "file": "debates1960-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8e0cd8a4b6ed5383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.245.5", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"My hon. Friend bullied the inspector.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I wish that everyone would not contradict me in the Committee. My hon. Friend says that I am wrong. If he will kindly look at a set of papers which I am prepared to send him relating to my personal Income Tax Schedule A assessment for 1959–60 he will find admitted there the cost of regravelling my garden paths at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.245.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-21", "file": "debates1960-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8e0cd8a4b6ed5383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member referred to exceptional circumstances. As he well knows, there is nothing exceptional about me. I have never paid a penny in Schedule A tax in my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-21", "file": "debates1960-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8e0cd8a4b6ed5383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Tories.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "the House. I ask him to do this, if not this year then next year, for the sake of our own party. I regard this as being within the very heart of Tory philosophy. Those of my hon. Friends who are associated with me on this matter want this done, for very good party political reasons. The Labour Party have, I think, been unabashed about doing certain things for party reasons when they were in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-21", "file": "debates1960-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8e0cd8a4b6ed5383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "ew years about this fact of home ownership. If we want to know the way in which the other parties have reacted, we have only to look at the way in which the Liberal Party is making a great platform today of owner-ownership as part of its wider policy of co-ownership. The Labour Party used to talk a good deal about council houses and council subsidies, but it is not half as strong for it as it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-21", "file": "debates1960-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8e0cd8a4b6ed5383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": " pressure on the Chancellor in this matter. I hope that if the Chancellor cannot meet us this year, he will give us a firm pledge that this is something to which he will give the highest priority in the future. Secondly, although far less important, it would save him a great deal of administrative time now used by his inspectors in dealing with claims. The new rich, the £12 to £15 a week artisans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-21", "file": "debates1960-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8e0cd8a4b6ed5383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "e so big that he will try to keep it between 330 and 340 points That is why we have this jack-in-the-box on the Stock Exhange. But the person who suffers—and this is the trouble—is the good old Tory house owner, and now the Liberal house owner and the Labour house owner, the small people with a few hundred £s invested on the Stock Exchange, the same people who have a large mortgage on their homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-21", "file": "debates1960-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8e0cd8a4b6ed5383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But the social grounds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "one else has £5,000 invested and decides to keep the investment and to use the income to rent a house, and if he does that, then he pays tax on the income on his investment. With Schedule A charged on the owner these two are in substantially the same position. Therefore, if Schedule A is taken away from the owner-occupier, then, to that extent, it is discrimination in favour of the owner-occupier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.263.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-21", "file": "debates1960-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8e0cd8a4b6ed5383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He will not be there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Member that the Chancellor will not be able to get away with this indefinitely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-21", "file": "debates1960-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8e0cd8a4b6ed5383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.282.5", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "te predecessor resigned because he did not approve of the policy of the Cabinet, which was that of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer. So, in fact, the policy of the Government has been entirely continuous, and on this occasion—he does not often do it—I think the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) has shot himself down in flames. I do not wish to detain the Committee further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-21a.282.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.392.5", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I think that the reputations of all Ministers stand on their doing what they say they will do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.392.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.394.2", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I am sure the right hon. Gentleman does not want to make difficult negotiations even more difficult. I said that it was in the interests of Cypriot unemployment that we should go on with the programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.394.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.398.2", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman likes to put down a Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not forced to tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I have put down Question No. 25, which reads: what arrangements and commitments he has made… The Minister began by assuring us that he had not made any commitments. He now says that he cannot tell us what commitments he made. He made commitments. He entered into arrangements. Why should the House and the British public be denied the knowledge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.399.2", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "May I not press the point? The Minister chose to say, first, that we had not entered into commitments for expenditure. Then he said that they were not large commitments. Now, when I ask how much he has entered into spending, he says that it is a small amount. When we ask how much is small, he says that he cannot tell us because he does not know. With your permission, Mr. Speaker, may I not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.399.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.401.4", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Would it be a fair summary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.401.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.405.7", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Will not the Minister say how long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.405.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "S. G. BROWN, LTD. (SALE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "These dealings are confidential. That is why I do not desire to give the price at this juncture. But if there are strong feelings—and I agree that there is a special case—I will approach the buyers of this company to see whether they have any objection to the price being given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ave a broad base. Secondly, if differences between one article and another are too great, the result will be that the tax will be riddled with fantastic anomalies. I claim that the differences are still far too great and that the number of rates is still far too great. That led to my second century of Purchase Tax Questions last year and my third century this year. I am not saying that boastfully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, North-West (Mr. Harris) has made a point which I intended to make later.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.472.3", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "the fourth category, cosmetics. The cosmetics industry of this country is quite a large one. It is doing very well and covers a lot of exports, but they labour under another subtle disability. One cannot sell cosmetics and toilet preparations abroad unless they are highly attractively packaged. That, of course, is one of the strengths of the French and the German export trade in these commodities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.472.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"37½ per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": "am concerned with full employment in the motor industry and with the place of that industry in the nation's economy. That is why, although, in principle, quite obviously, like everyone else, I am in favour of a reduction of taxation, and of a reduction in Purchase Tax as soon as possible, I believe that the time has not arrived for a reduction of the Purchase Tax from 50 per cent. to 35 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.483.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "There are special reasons why it was decided at the outset of Purchase Tax that books should not be included.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.506.4", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "I wish to make one or two points with regard to the effect of Purchase Tax on motor vehicles. As I understand the hon. Gentleman's argument, he was arguing that a reduction in the Purchase Tax on motor vehicles would assist the motor industry in increasing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.506.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.507.2", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman is running away.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged. The reason why I did not reply to the intervention of the hon. Gentleman who is now addressing the Committee is that, in my opinion, it is completely out of order to talk about articles which are not within the Purchase Tax range at 50 per cent., and that is why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.507.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.537.6", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "June. 1956. If he will look at the speech which I then made, which he will find in col. 198 of HANSARD, he will see the whole thing simply laid out with facts and figures. I do not wish to delay the Committee much longer, because it is quite apparent that we are going to get nowhere with the Government, in spite of the fact that, in 1955, when Sir Anthony Eden, then the Leader of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.537.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.585.0", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "I admit that tips and gratuities are subject to tax if the Treasury ever finds out about them. Does my right hon. Friend really suggest that the Treasury rakes in even 50 per cent. of the tax due on tips and gratuities given for services rendered? It is very offensive indeed to put offerings at Easter-time on the same level as tips and gratuities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.585.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-22", "file": "debates1960-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "c28f58535560df8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.594.0", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "obably have not got as far as it has, because the Chancellor would not have been here, and the Financial Secretary, who has a nice tight little brief from the Inland Revenue, would have given a hundred reasons why it could not be done and not one of the good reasons why it could, and we should have had an even bigger split on the benches opposite than we have had in the presence of the Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-22a.594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-23", "file": "debates1960-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "6014ff4bf824dbb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-23a.656.4", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Since the higher Bank Rate produces so many social evils, cannot inflation be checked by making money scarcer rather than dearer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-23a.656.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-23", "file": "debates1960-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "6014ff4bf824dbb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-23a.672.4", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is a duiker?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "I thought that my right hon. Friend had already explained to the hon. Member that he has taken some action in this respect. I remind the House that duikers are very important animals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-23a.672.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-23", "file": "debates1960-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "6014ff4bf824dbb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-23a.678.2", "colnum": "678", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman will enjoy it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I should like to have, first, an opportunity of reading the debate which took place in the Scottish Grand Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-23a.678.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-24", "file": "debates1960-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b8549e4934b0cb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-24a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SHARES (WIDER OWNERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "y a lot of unnecessary things instead of selling them the desire to put back this year's profits into re-equipping so that the reconstruction of this country's industry may be planned. The problem of savings is two-pronged. We must excite the desire to save, but, at the same time, kill the theology that savings last for ever, because they do not. Gilt-edged should have a negative rate of interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-24a.860.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.950.2", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are you doing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I must not be lured, even by the blandishments of my hon. Friend, into answering questions about taxation. On the point of substance in her question, I have a great deal of sympathy with her concern in respect of the widow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.950.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "the management of Richard Thomas and Baldwins is engaged in the task of getting us out of the mess into which the private sector has landed us. \"Anarchy\" would be a mild expression for this kind of thing. This case most certainly proves that the national interest requires an immediate transfer of ownership of steel not from the public to the private sector, but in precisely the opposite way round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.971.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.978.6", "colnum": "978", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.978.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Wood)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Wood)", "preceding_text": "as not only a sensible but a flexible plan, because it laid down no hard and fast rule or programme and it aimed at exactly the right blend between centralised direction, which the industry needs, and the freedom of operation within that framework which we believe essential to achieve the industry's best performance. These were our convictions a few years ago and they remain our convictions today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Wood)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Wood)", "preceding_text": "e can claim—and I hope that the House will take this to be made with due moderation—that public opinion has not shown itself enthusiastic to preserve the nationalised structure. In fact, we claim a far stronger mandate for completing denationalisation than the party opposite ever had for bringing it into public ownership. I might perhaps deal with the question of how much has been achieved so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Wood)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Wood)", "preceding_text": "because the 1959 industry was a good deal larger than it was in 1951 or 1953. We are, therefore, led to the next question of whether or not, in the circumstances of the last few years, we should have disposed of more. It was clearly impossible to ignore the need to reinvest during the time that disposals were taking place in order to develop the industry and provide the steel needed by the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Wood)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Colvilles?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Wood)", "preceding_text": "e last few years, we should have disposed of more. It was clearly impossible to ignore the need to reinvest during the time that disposals were taking place in order to develop the industry and provide the steel needed by the nation. [ Interruption. ] Therefore, the Government had to take steps to ensure that companies sold could find the money which would be necessary for their further expansion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Wood)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Wood)", "preceding_text": "r further expansion. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Colvilles?\"] During the whole of the period of disposals there has been considerable uncertainty about the future of steel, which I hope has, to a large extent, now been dispersed. These uncertainties had an appreciable effect on the market, and made necessary the reinvestment of a large part of the sums which were realised from sales. In those circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "I should like to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "I should like to—[ Interruption. ]—point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "ve markets. Purchasers were at some risk, in that the right hon. Member for Vauxhall (Mr. Strauss) told them what the consequences might be if they purchased. I would like to come to the future intentions of the Government with regard the industry. If the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East knows them already he has no need to listen, but the House as a whole would like to know what our plans are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.988.2", "colnum": "988", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "We have received support at two successive General Elections, and we therefore feel fortified in our plans to go ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not admit that it is just cash for the boys?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "The whole of the investments would have been disposed of long ago if it had not been for the uncertainties created by the hon. Gentleman and hon. Gentlemen opposite. The third category is the firm of Richard Thomas and Baidwins itself, which we were discussing at one moment this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.989.6", "colnum": "989", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not leave them alone?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "—and it is to build a new one with ample room for extension at relatively low cost. The company's major scheme of expansion includes a fourth strip mill at Newport and other developments at Redbourn and Ebbw Vale. These development schemes have not remained unchanged either in their scope or in the pace which is thought desirable for their execution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.989.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.989.8", "colnum": "989", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "Because the need for expansion has been clearly shown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.989.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "—and its production of finished sheet from 620,000 to 855,000 tons a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "rnment must clearly decide whether to give priority to the devesting of Richard Thomas and Baldwins or to the completion of devesting of the denationalised companies in which the Government still hold considerable investments. This is a matter of priorities in which the Government must exercise judgment but, whichever comes first, it is our intention to press on till denationalisation is complete.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.992.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Highway robbery.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "te sale of the equity holding in Richard Thomas and Baldwins. The conclusion of the Government is that they must remain free to decide their programme and timing in the light of all the circumstances, but it is still the firm intention and, indeed, in the words of the Economic Secretary, the confident hope that the work of the Agency will be substantially complete before the next General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1001.5", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "pporters of the party opposite. The other biggest holders were the Church Commissioners. The Economist estimated that at one time. in 1957, they held 1,148,000 shares. Today they hold 2,190,000 shares. I say, good luck to the Church Commissioners for having the wisdom to purchase these shares. By so doing, they have helped to raise the salaries of men who are almost the lowest paid in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1001.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Better.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "in the case of Richard Thomas and Baldwins. As we have been told many times today, even if we did not know before, it has made profits at least as well as the companies the equity shares of which are privately owned. It has done as much good in producing steel for the country as have the other companies, and just as much good for those occupied in the industry, whether in management or as workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dithers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " and that, in the exceptionally favourable stock market conditions of last October and November, Richard Thomas and Bald-wins could have been put on the market immediately, to take advantage of the high prices which would then have been forthcoming for the assets. Here we are, nine months after the General Election, still dithering as to whether Richard Thomas and Baldwins is to be denationalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "hich I read with avidity and re-read last Sunday evening. I commend it to hon. Members opposite—\"Can Labour Win?\". They should think well before they continue denigrating the interests of the private investors, who, after all, are the majority of the population of this country today, including wage earners, through the various investment organisations the unit trusts, pensions funds, and so forth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Stick to carpets.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "riends in the City, the stockbrokers, to tell it where to invest its money in order to gain two benefits—the greatest possible capital improvement free of tax and the best possible dividend yield. Why is the hon. Member for Newton so rash as to comment unfavourably on the financial activities of his own union? He is very foolish. I shall have to come to Newton soon and address his trade unionists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "This debate began with a bang. I have sat through most of the somnolent hours while the Front Bench sputniks have been away in orbit elsewhere. I have listened with a good deal of care to the arguments which have been put from the other side of the House in favour of nationalisation, for that is what this debate is about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "mnolent hours while the Front Bench sputniks have been away in orbit elsewhere. I have listened with a good deal of care to the arguments which have been put from the other side of the House in favour of nationalisation, for that is what this debate is about. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] No one can suggest that there is anything other than a deep ideological argument between the two sides in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "himself. We on this side believe that Richard Thomas and Baldwins should be denationalised simply because we do not believe that the steel industry as a whole should be nationalised. We believe that it is better as a free enterprise industry. We believe that the people want it so. We want it so. Furthermore—and we have not heard much about this—many of the workers in the steel industry want it so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1077.3", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He won.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ish my speech so that I can listen to what the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition has to say. The constituency bordering on my own is represented by the hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison), whom I see at the end of the Opposition Front Bench, who knows that at the last election he fought on this issue in a steel working town and his majority was cut by nearly half.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1077.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1077.4", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "own is represented by the hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison), whom I see at the end of the Opposition Front Bench, who knows that at the last election he fought on this issue in a steel working town and his majority was cut by nearly half. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He won.\"] There was not a single steel industry constituency in the country where the majority of the party opposite went up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1077.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1077.6", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way. In most cases the majorities went down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1077.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1078.3", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "The truth is that the party opposite was blind at the last election on the whole question of nationalisation—some hon. Members opposite were. If we look at what has been happening over the last few months, if we read the newspapers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1078.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "All.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman would not wish to misquote me. Of course I did not say that all the steel industrial areas had voted Conservative. In fact, I quoted as an example the constituency of Kettering, which sent back the hon. and learned Gentleman who has sat for that constituency for some years. I said that there were many steel industrial areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1080.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ivate shareholders who happen to buy the shares. Who are the investors in question? We know the usual argument—they are all small men, they are all very poor people, they have only small holdings of a few shares, there are hundreds and thousands of them all over the country, little people who are just struggling along buying their own houses, the kind of people who vote Tory in the marginal seats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "n the claims that it is small men who own steel shares. There are the institutional investors, and we all know about them. The trade unions, the pension funds, the Co-operative insurance, the Church Commissioners, and so on. It is perfectly true and I do not see any reason why they should not invest their funds to get the best result for their members. We have never said anything contrary to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Dr. Charles Hill)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Dr. Charles Hill)", "preceding_text": "the fact that Ministers, confronted with an economic problem, were seeking to take into account social factors as well. At the time that the announcement was made about the strip mill in Scotland and the strip mill in Wales, I believe that this House regarded these developments as sensible and reasonable in the conditions obtaining. That is all forgotten now, but I want to make it perfectly plain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1091.2", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "Another criticism raised, particularly by the hon. Member for Ogmore (Mr. Padley) and, to some extent, by the hon. Member for Newton, was a criticism of the failure of the industry as a whole. The hon. Member for Ogmore blamed the steel industry for what he called the recession. The answer to that is supplied by the facts. The capacity of the steel industry has doubled between 1945 and 1957.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1091.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1091.6", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the correction, for the hon. Member will understand that I did not hear his words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1091.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1096.2", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. For the 23 minutes during which the Minister has been addressing the House, he has not given one reason why the Government are taking this action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1096.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-06-27", "file": "debates1960-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ee89dfae912a170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1960–61.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Amen.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I was in the middle of a rather complicated sentence, so I must read it again: Either collectivist or private ownership is consistent with widely varying degrees of liberty, democracy, equality, exploitation, class feeling, planning and workers control. Nationalisation is thus not only not a Socialist principle. Even as a means to an end, it is now less central to Socialist strategy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-27a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1128.6", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "preceding_text": "Is the Joint Under-Secretary aware that this is an absolute scandal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1128.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1129.5", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend take action and not only notice? This is another scandal in the area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1129.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1144.2", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s a very great setback. I do not understand the position that the Soviet Government have taken up. It was only on 7th June that the Russian Government put forward a new plan which they rightly said took into account the last Western plan. Last Sunday, they were informed unofficially that the Western Powers intended on the following day to table a new plan taking account of the Russians' last plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Say it in Welsh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of the fact that the position of the British Broadcasting Corporation's Welsh Council becomes worse with every passing day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1148.9", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "preceding_text": "nt was due to return within seven days of that date. I think that we are entitled to believe that this was a deliberate attempt to prevent Parliament functioning at all, so that when we returned we would be faced with a fait accompli. I believe that such an action shows the complete contempt in which the Tories hold the Parliamentary institution unless it happens to serve their particular purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1148.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "Government were determined to sell to the Bosch Arma Corporation, the affairs of S. G. Brown began to look up. The value of the firm stayed down until then, but afterwards it began to rise higher. I want now to refer to American ownership in general. We are told that there is only a 49 per cent. American interest in de Havillands. An interest of 49 per cent. is not control, but it is very near it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1186.2", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "priate form? If you do, here it is'.\" Why did the Civil Lord say, \"Look at all this money which we have given away\", when it was loaned on interest? I am by no means satisfied that this company was not starved of capital. I come to the most fundamental point. Why choose this moment to sell? I say seriously to hon. Members opposite that they have done themselves enormous damage yesterday and today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was a profit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "he facts as shown by the balance sheet. The balance sheet put to the chartered accountants, on which they based their valuation and said that it was a fair price, were accounts showing the worst possible situation in this company's history. It is no use the Civil Lord waving his hand at me. He has to show me a letter from the accountants saying that they did not have regard to this loss of £6,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farey-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farey-Jones", "preceding_text": "I am particularly happy to have an opportunity of entering this discussion, if for only one reason—and that is to clear up the muddle-mindedness, malicious and even malevolent thinking of the Opposition on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farey-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farey-Jones", "preceding_text": "s opposite ever form a Government in my lifetime again, should engage in any kind of business in peace time. That is a fundamental tenet of my belief. Secondly, it is the bounden duty of a good Government to create a climate in which business can prosper and thrive, native genius can develop and expand, and the fruits and rewards of hard work can be kept by the people who have done that hard work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1195.0", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farey-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why don't you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farey-Jones", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may be surprised to know that I would gladly put the Post Office in private hands tomorrow. I would love to put the telephone service in private hands, and see what happens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "n fact, this sale, so far from encouraging it, will prevent monopoly by giving added strength to the competitors of the Sperry Company, which is the firm in the strongest position in this field. There was a good deal of discussion about American control and investment. I agree very strongly with my hon. Friend the Member for Dover (Mr. Arbuthnot) who spoke about the cross-fertilisation of capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "OLDHAM CORPORATION BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I agree, but that is by agreement with the stockholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1253.0", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "OLDHAM CORPORATION BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "Is there not a basic fallacy in this argument? It is fascinating, as a piece of historical research, that when one considers that these debentures were issued in 1880 and that the debenture holders to whom the promise was made and with whom a contract was entered into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "OLDHAM CORPORATION BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Westhoughton (Mr. J. T. Price) is, of course, entitled to his view. It is quite clear from his intervention that his approach to this matter and my approach to it are fundamentally different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1258.0", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "OLDHAM CORPORATION BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that the hon. Member is trying to be fair and logical in the way in which he is presenting a very forceful argument, but surely this is a purely academic point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1268.1", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "OLDHAM CORPORATION BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ause this is the main respect in which stockholders would be getting something different from what they are at present. The real charge against the proposal is not against the terms proposed, which are not unfair, but against the breach which it represents of the principle that the terms of a contract between a lender and borrower cannot be subsequently altered without the consent of both parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1273.4", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "ESSO PETROLEUM COMPANY BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "preceding_text": " obviously, we ought to have information of that kind before we can pass judgment. If the Government are not able to give us this information, I certainly say that there is a case for delaying consideration of this Bill. If it is suggested that the existing pipeline and the projected ones are being operated by different companies, that is, from the point of view of the public interest, immaterial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1273.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "ESSO PETROLEUM COMPANY BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": " them on a publicly and not privately owned public utility. In other words, pipelines of this type ought to be owned and managed by the State and not by private companies. After all, the State has a network of about 1,200 miles of pipelines constructed for strategic purposes in this country during the war. What is happening to those pipelines now? Are they being used for the transportation of oil?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-28", "file": "debates1960-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7cb6902a82dacf27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "ESSO PETROLEUM COMPANY BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "at is happening to those pipelines now? Are they being used for the transportation of oil? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Some are.\"] I understand that some are, but I understand that some are not. I have already referred to one that is. It may be that others could be brought into use. I understand that some run across southern and western England and perhaps they could be used instead of the pro posed pipeline.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-28a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-06-29", "file": "debates1960-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1ca83073b15ff69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1363.2", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "That really is a very different question from that on the Order Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-29", "file": "debates1960-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1ca83073b15ff69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1366.0", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPANISH FOREIGN MINISTER (VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "Is the Foreign Secretary aware that the overwhelming mass of the British people of all political parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-29", "file": "debates1960-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1ca83073b15ff69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1367.1", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPANISH FOREIGN MINISTER (VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Edwards", "preceding_text": "itary adventures on behalf of Hitler? Is he aware that in his written speech it is stated that he considered that Spain was still technically at war with the Soviet Union? Will the Foreign Secretary also bear in mind that the American trade union movement has placed on record its opposition to Mr. Herter's statement, and that this is the view of the whole trade union movement of the Western world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-29", "file": "debates1960-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1ca83073b15ff69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1367.3", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPANISH FOREIGN MINISTER (VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "fter the collapse of the Summit meeting for pushing the entry of Spain into N.A.T.O. and that Portugal and Spain intend to put these proposals to the British Government quite soon and hope to exert pressure for their acceptance? Will he take this opportunity to give the House an assurance that the British Government will resist any such pressure and any such proposals? Will he further affirm that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-29", "file": "debates1960-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1ca83073b15ff69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1462.1", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS (MAGISTRATES' COURTS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. F. Deedes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. F. Deedes", "preceding_text": "ence of what one wants to say. I do not propose to do that. Broadly, it seems to me that the more the subject is debated the more the public is likely to see the force of the main Wolfenden recommendations. I make no secret of that, but I think that there will always remain an adamant minority, and perhaps a majority, opposed to a change. We are dealing with a law which has obtained for 400 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-29", "file": "debates1960-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1ca83073b15ff69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1472.1", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS (MAGISTRATES' COURTS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "preceding_text": "With the limited time which we have for this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-29", "file": "debates1960-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1ca83073b15ff69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS (MAGISTRATES' COURTS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of what sort?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "preceding_text": "vent that. We have driven the less fortunate sisters of these people into the cellars, where they are now controlled by the criminal population. We must be extremely careful before we allow full rein to these people to practise in this country the very horrible sin of the homosexual. I agree that if these people are sent to prison they should, if necessary, have compulsory medical treatment there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-29", "file": "debates1960-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1ca83073b15ff69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS (MAGISTRATES' COURTS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "preceding_text": ". I agree that if these people are sent to prison they should, if necessary, have compulsory medical treatment there. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Of what sort?\"] It has already been admitted by the highest medical authorities in this country that many homosexuals could benefit from medical treatment. If they could, and if they find themselves in prison, we should make sure that medical treatment is available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-29", "file": "debates1960-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1ca83073b15ff69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1508.0", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS (MAGISTRATES' COURTS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": " that the homosexuals of this country want just that. They want the removal of the crimes of sodomy and buggery from the annals of our crime sheet. If I believed that all that they really wanted was the removal of what was never intended by Parliament in 1885, that could have been done a long time ago. What we realise today is the contrary of this argument. This is the point which we have to meet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-29a.1508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-30", "file": "debates1960-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "1db02cfe1a5efed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-30a.1629.3", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "That is the Government's promise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-30a.1629.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-06-30", "file": "debates1960-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "1db02cfe1a5efed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-30a.1629.3", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "That is the Government's promise. [ Interruption. ] We shall see as we proceed. I am talking about those who have qualified, and I understand that the undertaking given by the Government is as I have expressed it. Those who have qualified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-06-30a.1629.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-04", "file": "debates1960-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d80a3b071547f7d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-04a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH PRIME MINISTERS' CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Longbottom", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Longbottom", "preceding_text": "ity in all matters I have always respected, will forgive me if I do not follow him too closely in his argument as, otherwise, I might delve into the forbidden territory of controversy. I have the honour to represent the City of York, a city which is rich in the traditions of the history of this country and a city which has given its name to England's greatest county and to its greatest cricketers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-04a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-04", "file": "debates1960-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d80a3b071547f7d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-04a.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH PRIME MINISTERS' CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ca. I was not present to hear the speech of the noble Lord the Member for Dorset, South (Viscount Hinchingbrooke), but I understand that he said that the Labour Party ought to say clearly where we stand on this matter. At the moment I think that the overwhelming majority of people in Britain, if asked to reply to this question, would say that they prefer South Africa not to be in the Commonwealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-04a.151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-05", "file": "debates1960-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "6750a843238e89e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-05a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-05a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-05", "file": "debates1960-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "6750a843238e89e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-05a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "se of Commons to examine all Bills in Committee, whether upstairs or on the Floor of the House, with meticulous care. If the Government find that as a result of the arguments to which they have listened it is necessary to amend a Bill —and that, I understand, is the defence of the Chancellor, who tells us that he has been so generous in listening to what my right hon. Friends and others have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-05a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-05", "file": "debates1960-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "6750a843238e89e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-05a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Fourth Schedule.—(RELIEFS IN RESPECT OF TAX UNDER SECTION THIRTY-SIX.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "gement it is better on that account. I should have thought that if we are to lean to one side or the other in this figure it is better to lean to the lower fraction, for the reason that what the Government are doing here is exempting people from a provision designed to limit severely the golden handshake operation—an operation which I should not have thought anybody in the Committee would approve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-05a.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-06", "file": "debates1960-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8784ed0f0e5766f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.422.3", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that the Government's present economic policies will result in the creation of unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-06", "file": "debates1960-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8784ed0f0e5766f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "This Administration is continually in process of redeeming its pledges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-06", "file": "debates1960-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8784ed0f0e5766f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "The words the Under-Secretary used were, \"I am not prepared to confirm or deny\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-06", "file": "debates1960-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8784ed0f0e5766f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "ds the Under-Secretary used were, \"I am not prepared to confirm or deny\"—[ Interruption .]—this must be a peculiar Tory mentality. The lives of British people are at stake and the whole policy of Britain is a stake. If Ministers want to persist in denying that, that is O.K. and I will leave it, but I want there to be no misunderstanding—the Minister is refusing to answer yes or no to the Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-06", "file": "debates1960-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8784ed0f0e5766f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "red to confirm or deny\"—[ Interruption .]—this must be a peculiar Tory mentality. The lives of British people are at stake and the whole policy of Britain is a stake. If Ministers want to persist in denying that, that is O.K. and I will leave it, but I want there to be no misunderstanding—the Minister is refusing to answer yes or no to the Question—[ Interruption .]—I will go on when you shut up.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-06", "file": "debates1960-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8784ed0f0e5766f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.451.4", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "The Under-Secretary of State is sitting next to the Home Secretary who is the best stone-wailer in the business, but stone-walling has its complications. We are now playing with people's lives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.451.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-06", "file": "debates1960-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8784ed0f0e5766f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.455.5", "colnum": "455", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "ough to put down a Question again so that he could straighten the matter out. I then did so and asked the Minister whether he would ask your permission, Mr. Speaker, to answer the Question orally as he had orally repudiated what I said and which he now wished to put right. I warned the right hon. Gentleman that if he would not ask your permission, if he refused to do so, I should raise this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.455.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-06", "file": "debates1960-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8784ed0f0e5766f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a paint of order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-06", "file": "debates1960-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8784ed0f0e5766f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a paint of order\"] I submit that this is a real point of order of substance. I was orally repudiated in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.456.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-06", "file": "debates1960-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8784ed0f0e5766f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a paint of order\"] I submit that this is a real point of order of substance. I was orally repudiated in this House—[ Laughter .] I understand hon. Members opposite laughing because they know perfectly well the skill of the Minister of Defence at trying to avoid any mistake he makes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-06", "file": "debates1960-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8784ed0f0e5766f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.457.6", "colnum": "457", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "I was trying to give the Leader of the House a chance to behave in an honourable way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.457.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-06", "file": "debates1960-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8784ed0f0e5766f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.461.5", "colnum": "461", "heading": "POST OFFICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "Yes. There have been a considerable number of cases in which private enterprise has brought down prices during the last twelve months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.461.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-06", "file": "debates1960-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8784ed0f0e5766f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "New Clause.—(VOLUNTARY OFFERINGS TO CLERGYMEN.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "No. If it were one that occurred year after year—and, as I understand it, and someone will correct me if I am wrong, the only time when they get voluntary offerings of that kind is at Easter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-06", "file": "debates1960-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8784ed0f0e5766f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Clause 24.—(TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN ASSOCIATED DEALING COMPANIES AND OTHER COMPANIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Barlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Barlow", "preceding_text": "ar trades that stock is valued for tax purposes at the lower of cost or market value. It is, therefore, quite equitable that any depreciation suffered on shares held in an associated non-dealing company should be regarded as taxable income of the latter company, particularly as the circumstances would be beyond the control of either company and would not in any way benefit the non-dealing company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-06", "file": "debates1960-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8784ed0f0e5766f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Clause 45.—(PENALTY FOR FRAUDULENTLY MAKING INCORRECT RETURNS, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Member for Portsmouth, Langstone (Mr. Stevens) is not here to celebrate his several victories. I read in the newspaper this morning that when the Division bells rang last night he was found wandering in the precincts in his pyjamas. I do not know in what condition he would be if the Division bells rang now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-06a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-07", "file": "debates1960-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d5f8278b2dcb315c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-07a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BAHRAIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "e that these men would never have been convicted in a British court, and that he himself has a responsibility in this matter? Will he not promise the House, because he has a very good reputation for liberal behaviour, that he will look into the whole circumstances of this case and have these men released, because anybody who has been looking into this case, and I myself have interviewed these men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-07a.676.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-07", "file": "debates1960-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d5f8278b2dcb315c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-07a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN (TRIBUTES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "or all those in his own party and in the movements with which he was associated this sad event is, of course, a special loss. But, more than that, it marks the passing of a man who has impressed his character upon all those who were privileged to be in contact with him. We all, inside and outside the House, of every party and of every shade of opinion, are the poorer by the death of Aneurin Bevan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-07a.702.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-07", "file": "debates1960-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d5f8278b2dcb315c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-07a.709.0", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN (TRIBUTES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "evan. He was upright; he was downright; he was forthright. Statesman, administrator, Parliamentarian, orator, incomparable advocate for the weak and the suffering and for justice everywhere, he was, at the same time, a true, sincere, lovable friend, whose memory every one of us will long cherish. To his widow, who has long been our colleague, every one of us desires to extend our deepest sympathy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-07a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-07", "file": "debates1960-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d5f8278b2dcb315c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-07a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "BEACHES (POLLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ernment are indifferent, that their policy is hampering public services and that we stand for private affluance and public squalor—I am quoting hon. Members opposite—I intend now to give the Committee some figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-07a.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-07", "file": "debates1960-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d5f8278b2dcb315c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-07a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "o years' time the prop of the Colonial Development Corporation should gradually be pushed away? If so, is this any real encouragement to these inspired men who have been working in the development of this public corporation in Uganda? It has done such a remarkably successful job that I am sure it will appeal even to the capitalists sitting on the benches opposite. The profit has been considerable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-07a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-11", "file": "debates1960-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "fc21562b6effaf7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brookway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brookway", "preceding_text": "May I put a particular question on the Republic of Congo? While all of us poignantly deplore what is happening there, may I ask whether recognition of the Government does not mean that troops from British territories should not be involved except at the request of the Government, which, in fact, is doing everything possible to restore peaceful conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-11", "file": "debates1960-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "fc21562b6effaf7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "CONGO (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that we need to have categorical assurances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.986.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-11", "file": "debates1960-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "fc21562b6effaf7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.988.0", "colnum": "988", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "he hustings, but typical of them were the boasts of the Prime Minister, whose regard for objective truth in these matters has always been somewhat elliptical, not least on the hustings. This is what he said: …today, the British economy is sounder than at any time since the First World War. Sterling has been re-established as a sound and respected currency. Our balance of payments is strong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.987.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-11", "file": "debates1960-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "fc21562b6effaf7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.988.2", "colnum": "988", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman also said: I do not remember any time in my life when the economy has been so sound and the prosperity of our people at home so widely spread.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-11", "file": "debates1960-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "fc21562b6effaf7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "fice that he holds. Whatever our differences—and they are, and have been, fundamental—we have nothing but the highest praise for the courtesy and consideration that the right hon. Gentleman has shown to us and to the whole House at all times. In every personal sense, we wish him well. Our feelings about the right hon. Gentleman's retirement, of course, are not eased by rumours about his successor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-11", "file": "debates1960-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "fc21562b6effaf7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "n office. I can only say that that sort of ignorance is changing rapidly. My own constituency—and I was taught very early on that one should never miss in a debate, whether on Tibet or economic affairs, an opportunity of mentioning one's constituency—has dealt with this question of the Bank Rate and has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. At its last meeting, the Greenwich Borough Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-11", "file": "debates1960-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "fc21562b6effaf7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1057.3", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "One of the features of these figures is that with all types of economies in Europe, in many of the Scandinavian countries, in Germany and in France, this country cannot compete in the field of exports with any of them, and this is simply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1057.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-11", "file": "debates1960-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "fc21562b6effaf7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1106.3", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "r the right hon. Member for Belper, in an incursion into an economic debate which we hope will be repeated, I felt that neither in loudness nor in length did he compensate for the absence of good argument. There was no pointed or effective criticism of Government policy and certainly no shred of any alternative policy. The year 1959 was one of very rapid expansion in the economy, which carried us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-11", "file": "debates1960-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "fc21562b6effaf7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1106.3", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ion in the economy, which carried us—[ Interruption .] We listened quietly to the noisiness of the right hon. Member for Belper. The party opposite should learn to take as well as to give. The year 1959 saw record levels of real wages, record levels of consumption and record levels of personal savings. Civil employment was at an all-time high level and unemployment was down to 1·4 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-11", "file": "debates1960-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "fc21562b6effaf7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1106.3", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " 5 per cent. over the last ten years. These are facts which should be taken into account. The expansion of 1959 arose from the expansion of demand which was the result of deliberate Government policy started by my right hon. Friend as long ago as the Finance Bill of 1958. Of course, the expansion of 10 per cent. or more in industrial production that we saw in 1959 cannot be fully repeated in 1960.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1106.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-11", "file": "debates1960-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "fc21562b6effaf7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "Mr. Cronin rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1109.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-11", "file": "debates1960-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "fc21562b6effaf7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1109.3", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I have not time to give way to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-11", "file": "debates1960-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "fc21562b6effaf7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1109.5", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You have never had it so good\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": ". It cannot be argued that there should be less restraint on investment unless we are prepared to accept the consequences that we must restrain consumption. But all the time we have had criticism of the Government for doing too much in the way of restraint, and I think that the party opposite are in a illogical muddle and dilemma on this point—although I agree there is nothing unusual about that—-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1109.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-11", "file": "debates1960-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "fc21562b6effaf7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "sure, have an immediate effect in restraining consumption. If we are to restrain the total demand, there must be effects which are felt in some fields. I think that the party opposite exaggerate the effect on the public sector investment. To judge by the evidence given by the local authorities to the Radcliffe Committee, the effect of the Bank Rate on their building programmes is relatively small—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-11", "file": "debates1960-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "fc21562b6effaf7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " in capital investment than long-term interest rates movements. If hon. Members opposite face that they would realise that they are greatly exaggerating. Unlike the right hon. Member for Belper, the right hon. Member for Huyton pointed out that in fact local authority loan rates have not risen and building society rates have not risen, and these are the things which are effective in these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-11", "file": "debates1960-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "fc21562b6effaf7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has recently become a great enthusiast for the European Common Market, an enthusiasm which is not shared by many of his hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-11a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1156.6", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that in some instances an extra room leads to less work rather than more? Is he not also aware that many of these old couples have families which occasionally like to come to visit them, and that, particularly in Scotland, they have odd members of the family who come from abroad and wish to stay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1156.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1161.5", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": "re that the information appearing on the Order Paper has been carefully checked and found to be quite accurate? Does not he realise that even the Scottish Sunday Mail published a chapter of unfortunate incidents in connection with this ambulance service and that the secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union in Scotland said that an inquiry would serve a useful purpose? In view of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1161.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the hon. Member gave notice to my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill) that he proposed to quote from his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course, consultations took place—ever since that agreement was made—as to the flights which may take place from this territory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman was in the Cabinet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "References were made several times by the Prime Minister and other right hon. and hon. Gentlemen to the terms of the Attlee-Truman agreement, as it has been described. Will the right hon. Gentleman be good enough to tell us what are the terms of that agreement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "UNITED STATES AIRCRAFT, BARENTS SEA (SOVIET NOTE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which part?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With regard to the last part of the right hon. Gentleman's supplementary question, I regret this incident. I think that it is better to leave it to Ministers or to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "UNITED STATES AIRCRAFT, BARENTS SEA (SOVIET NOTE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With regard to the last part of the right hon. Gentleman's supplementary question, I regret this incident. I think that it is better to leave it to Ministers or to me—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Which part?\"] The last part. I regret the incident. I regret the mistake by this official—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1182.2", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "UNITED STATES AIRCRAFT, BARENTS SEA (SOVIET NOTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that that is covered by what I have already said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1182.4", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "UNITED STATES AIRCRAFT, BARENTS SEA (SOVIET NOTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "Cannot the Prime Minister tell us whether we are told about these flights before they take place, or whether we are not told?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1182.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1183.7", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "UNITED STATES AIRCRAFT, BARENTS SEA (SOVIET NOTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "Why should there be this secrecy and confusion over what are, presumably, scientific flights to investigate the weather?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1183.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1184.2", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (COMPLAINT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": ". Lady the Assistant Postmaster-General, about anti-Semitic literature and literature directed against coloured people of the Commonwealth and circulated in telephone boxes in Leeds. Following the reply of the hon. Lady, and only arising from that reply—I stress that I have had no dealings with anybody outside except arising from that reply—I received a letter from the people who were responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1184.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (COMPLAINT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " (Mr. S. Silverman). In the main, it seems to me that his suggestion is the more sensible of the two before us. I can put the reason very shortly indeed. You, Mr. Speaker, have thought on this matter and have had longer notice of it than the rest of us, except the hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. C. Pannell), and in your judgment this is, as far as can be seen at this stage, a breach of Privilege.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (COMPLAINT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ggestion is the more sensible of the two before us. I can put the reason very shortly indeed. You, Mr. Speaker, have thought on this matter and have had longer notice of it than the rest of us, except the hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. C. Pannell), and in your judgment this is, as far as can be seen at this stage, a breach of Privilege. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]. As far as can be seen at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1218.0", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "t think very long and very carefully before imposing additional production costs upon any business. I agree that to prevent people expanding in an area which is commercially most suitable for them and to force them to go elsewhere was socially desirable. But what we are doing, in accordance with the wishes of the House, is to impose on them, in many cases, a competitive handicap of a certain size.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "t in Japan and elsewhere methods have been adopted which have got rid of the traditional handicaps to quick building and they are using modern methods. If that is the case, someone should be looking into that question here. If anything happens to the shipbuilding industry the Clyde will be sunk, and not only the Clyde but a great part of Scotland and Northern England which depends on the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1243.3", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wolrige-Gordon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wolrige-Gordon", "preceding_text": "I myself have nothing against trade with any country in any part of the world. I hope that answers the hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1254.2", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "They were in the pipeline. Is that what my right hon. Friend said?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1254.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1265.7", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "I have some of them here. One, from the Scotsman , reads: 300 industrialists flock to B.M.C. Supply Meeting. £35 million shopping list issue. Another one reads like this: Break through by Scottish steel. Native industry on the verge of new era of prosperity. Just to be fair in the matter, I will refer to the Daily Express , which is not a newspaper which particularly favours one side or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1265.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forbes Hendry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forbes Hendry", "preceding_text": "t has been said by hon. Gentlemen opposite, until today, happily, and that is the moaning and groaning about what is happening to us in Scotland. I should like the hon. and learned Gentleman to think about it and tell us on another occasion what Norwegian fishermen have which our Scottish fishermen have not. There is an answer to it, but I do not think that the hon. and learned Gentleman knows it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is what he has said in answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": "That is not what I asked the hon. and learned Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1296.1", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "us. That is what they are doing about jobs. The President of the Board of Trade said that we have got 7,500 jobs in schemes which have been approved and some 16,000 in the pipeline. I wish to say to the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland that I misled him a little. The President of the Board of Trade had, in fact, talked about 39,000 jobs, but he said that 14,000 of them had no firm promise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1303.1", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which recovery?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "What we are dealing with in this debate is the question of trends. The trend is definitely upwards now. That is the important thing. Nor can it be disputed that the measures taken in 1957 were absolutely necessary to restore the economy of the country and keep it on an even keel. The measures taken by the Government have certainly contributed to this recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1305.0", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": " indeed, last year—and that the jobs to be provided exceed those provided in any whole year except 1946. The hon. Member for Leith (Mr. Hoy) thought that this was not enough. He thought that it ought to have many more than that, because we need 12,000 a year, but my right hon. Friend referred to jobs to the number of nearly 24,000 that are in sight, including 7,500 in factories under construotion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-12", "file": "debates1960-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e0263ae3ac28cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "COTTON INDUSTRY (REORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "mpetition produce efficiency, that the more cut-throat the competition is, the nearer we get to a really competitive price, and so on. Restriction, so far as it consists of planning an organisation, is a Socialist theory, but it conflicts with another Socialist theory with which it must be adapted that we should produce goods for use and not for profit and that so long as people never have shirts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-12a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1370.3", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "rkers in Barcelona, and that 50 Barcelona shipyard workers are on trial today for trying to form a trade union thirteen years ago? Do not the figures quoted for 1941 prove that the Spanish workers employed at Gibraltar were not supporters of the present Foreign Minister of Spain, who tried to stab Britain in the back by opening a second front against Gibraltar—during this nation's greatest danger?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1370.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1375.6", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "No, because the section comes into force only in the event of the troops being asked for to support the civil power. There is no question of these troops being used in support of the civil power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1375.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1375.8", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "Does the Under-Secretary feel that the Bank of England could not afford it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1375.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1376.4", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I have absolutely no intention of abolishing this picket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1376.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1385.7", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The slip has been made.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "preceding_text": "Have we not reached a pretty pass when the Ministry responsible for information in this country cannot check whether its own telephone number is in the telephone directory? Is it not possible—as publishers do—to put an erratum or some slip in the directory to make things easier?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1385.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1390.5", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIRFORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ken place of U2s from Lakenheath airport were not connected with intelligence. The Secretary of State for Air, in replying to an earlier Question on this and in his reply to my hon. Friend's Question, has admitted that the U2 aircraft is concerned exclusively with intelligence activities. Will he inform the Prime Minister of this and ask him to stop misleading the House and the country about this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1390.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIRFORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "But did not the Secretary of State for Air, in the course of the debate to which I have referred, explicitly say that the V-bombers would require adaptation? If he said that, cannot I ask how many there are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1393.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1393.5", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIRFORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "Would not the Minister's answer be better put like this: \"As I do not know whether there will be a Skybolt ever, I have no clue\"? Is not that what he should have said?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1393.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1399.0", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "BLUE STEEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "inister wrote a letter to my hon. Friend in which he said: …I said something about Blue Steel which, now I come to read it in cold print, I realise does not clear up the matter as I would wish. The right hon. Gentleman then subsequently said that it was the bombers that were being fitted to take the bomb and not the bomb that was being fitted to the bombers. That is a very different matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1401.2", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "BLUE STEEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman now clear the matter up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1402.5", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "BLUE STEEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "Nonsense. The right hon. Gentleman can have his fun, but what I have to be concerned about is to establish the position of a weapon which is a very important part of our means of delivery of the nuclear deterrent. What I have said quite clearly is—I will say it again, in case there is any ambiguity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1402.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1407.13", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Treat 'em mean and keep 'em keen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "preceding_text": "Blue Book is in paragraph 76: …the industry was not fully employed, and the unused capacity, these are men— especially in Glasgow and the west, keep competition keen for new work. When I read that it reminded me of a previous President of the Board of Trade who jumped from education to trade and is now back in education. He said, \"Treat 'em rough and keep 'em keen\", or words to that effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1407.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "I have listened with great interest to the speech of the hon. Lady the Member for Lanarkshire, North (Miss Herbison). On this second day of our two-day debate on Scotland she has introduced some new subjects or some new aspects of this very important subject of employment and industry in Scotland, some of which will be dealt with by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "do something else and are not in dead-end jobs. In fact, I have come across a number of cases in which they have left a job to go on a course because they think they can get something better, and then they decide that they do not like it after all. I am making a general comment. It makes the situation more difficult. I turn now to the increase in the number of young people to which the young lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1454.3", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "preceding_text": "rustrating them. We all know that Scotsmen have gone all over the world. They can do anything anywhere. They helped to build the Commonwealth. But there is somebody stopping them building Scotland. Who is it? I am sure it is not the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State; he is too generous. But who it it? Who in the name of fortune, is stopping these clever Scotsmen from developing Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1476.9", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition suggested that there should be State industry in Scotland, but he also said that he did not wish it to be thought that he wanted to direct State industry to Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1476.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1489.2", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "The 39,000 new jobs which my right hon. Friend announced yesterday are jobs which will be created over a period of years. Over the last few months we have achieved 39,000, or just over one-quarter, of the 120,000 jobs required over the next ten years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1489.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1499.1", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Henderson", "preceding_text": "at the Opposition have utterly failed to expose any Government weaknesses. Over the years the Government have had a very difficult job. They have made a very wonderful contribution to the general prosperity of Scotland, and, while the Opposition may not approve of what they have done, the Government can rest content that the people of Scotland are proud of their achievements. I am extremely sorry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1499.3", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "preceding_text": "ng. One of them was the new unemployment figures and the other was the increase in the Bank Rate. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the first. He did not mention the second. He got annoyed with my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Mr. Hoy) last night for complaining about this. In these debates, the right hon. Gentleman has made many complaints about the Opposition selecting its facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1499.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1511.1", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. T. Fraser) sat down with a strength of emotion in his voice which had been there throughout his speech. I sometimes think of the hon. Gentleman's speeches that halfway through I am greatly affected by his delivery and their content and by the human element which he brings into them, but at the end I have to ask myself whether he has said anything constructive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1511.1", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "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": "ice which had been there throughout his speech. I sometimes think of the hon. Gentleman's speeches that halfway through I am greatly affected by his delivery and their content and by the human element which he brings into them, but at the end I have to ask myself whether he has said anything constructive. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] That is a perfectly fair comment. I am prepared to accept the argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "art of the Report. I do not mind that—here, I come back to a subject which hon. Members opposite do not like, but it is so important that I must refer to it—provided that we can get it into the heads of right hon. and hon. Members opposite that constructive criticism and political controversy are necessary, but that they must be careful not to project an image of Scotland which is basically wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "we achieve in these periods are the right developments for the long term. People have tended in these two days—this will not be denied—to discount the figures my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade has been giving. No one will fail to agree that they show that, during this particular period, at any rate, we have achieved a most remarkable movement of intention to build factories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1518.7", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND ROADS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "uld be laid before Parliament. That clearly implies that discussions are taking place between the Treasury and other Departments, and in that connection I will repeat what I said twice in answer to Questions a fortnight ago, namely, that considerations applying specially to Scotland are being taken very much into account. The Leader of the Opposition dealt quite lengthily with housing in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1518.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-13", "file": "debates1960-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "1969edcb74c08645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1523.2", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (ORDINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forbes Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forbes Hendry", "preceding_text": "am wrong—that Her Majesty's Privy Council has power to make the necessary inquiries and to advise itself on the matter, taking such steps as appear to Her Majesty in Council to be right and proper. This matter is very serious, and, in my humble submission, the Ordinance as drafted spells the death knell to scholarship in the real sense in the solicitors' branch of the legal profession in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-13a.1523.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-14", "file": "debates1960-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "af6c6cc7a076e366", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-14a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (POLARIS MISSILE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Again the right hon. Gentleman has repeated exactly what I have said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-14a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-14", "file": "debates1960-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "af6c6cc7a076e366", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-14a.1602.0", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (POLARIS MISSILE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that it is a very important question. If the hon. and learned Member will allow me to correct him, at present the strategic deterrent is in the hands of the British Government and the American Government. The question is: should it be handed over to N.A.T.O.? I understand that that is the policy of the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-14a.1602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-14", "file": "debates1960-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "af6c6cc7a076e366", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-14a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "CONGO (UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that is very helpful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-14a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-14", "file": "debates1960-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "af6c6cc7a076e366", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-14a.1616.1", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "t lies, I suppose, somewhere between Ambassador and High Commissioner, and, no doubt, after the decision has been taken by Cyprus and the Commonwealth Prime Ministers, the appropriate title will then be introduced. Frankly, I do not propose, unless the House wishes to ask any particular questions on it, to commend on Clause 3. It is one of those Clauses which it is almost impossible to understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-14a.1616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-14", "file": "debates1960-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "af6c6cc7a076e366", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-14a.1633.1", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Four years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-14a.1633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-14", "file": "debates1960-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "af6c6cc7a076e366", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-14a.1658.1", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": " whether any bases of this kind, wherever they may be sited, will have any real military value within a year or two, if they have any value now. This is because the growing range of bombing aircraft and missiles renders all such bases, wherever they may be, unnecessary, dangerous and useless. Even if bases of this kind at present have some military value, which I very much doubt, and even if they—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-14a.1658.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-14", "file": "debates1960-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "af6c6cc7a076e366", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-14a.1736.6", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Running away again.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-14a.1736.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-14", "file": "debates1960-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "af6c6cc7a076e366", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-14a.1740.0", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman sits down, will he clear up a discrepancy in his reply to the point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Mr. Driberg)? In reply to my hon. Friend he indicated that United States aircraft would have the right to use the bases on the island.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-14a.1740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-15", "file": "debates1960-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "b21df7560ff60ebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-15a.1814.1", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NIGERIA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Creech Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "an orderly way and not by a course quite as devious as the one we were discussing in the House of Commons only last night respecting Cyprus. I am anxious to say a few words about the Bill because of my interest in Nigeria, first as a back bencher, for about twenty-five years. I think that I enjoy the rather unique distinction of having been elected an honorary Chief of the Yoruba Tribe in Nigeria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-15a.1814.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.9.10", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading a brief.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "Has the Minister any policy on the future planning of the consultant service? Is the S.H.M.O. grade to be absorbed into the grade of consultant or to become a permanent backwater or a career grade? Does the Minister wish to encourage consultants on a part-time basis, or would he not prefer more consultants to be full-time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.9.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPANISH FOREIGN MINISTER (VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "Is the Foreign Secretary aware that the whole House will be relieved that no question was raised of Spain's admission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.21.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.25.2", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "tion with this matter there has already been informal discussion with the N.A.T.O. Council? Is it not also the case that General Norstadt and M. Spaak discussed this with the British Government last week? Is not the Foreign Secretary aware that the evasiveness and refusal to answer clear questions on this matter is resented not only by the Opposition but by the vast majority of the British people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.25.6", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Really, the Foreign Secretary must be a little more direct with the House than he has been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.25.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "t. For all this we hold the Tory Government, by their sins of omission and their sins of commission, entirely responsible. Of course, underlying social forces are at work. We all know that. The population is growing, and growing rather faster than we had assumed. There are fewer persons per house. Families are smaller. People have higher living standards and particularly higher dwelling standards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "iscussing today, but it is fortunate indeed that the party whose one contribution so far to land price questions has been the development charge is not in a position now to impose on the country an equally ill-judged experiment. Each of the Conservative Measures to wipe out the legacy of development charge—the 1953 Act, the 1954 Act, and the 1959 Act—has been thoroughly approved by public opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.47.3", "colnum": "47", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "It was completely discredited as a remedy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.47.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.48.2", "colnum": "48", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does the right hon. Gentleman offer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I did so because the right hon. Gentleman did so. I think that he set a very bad example. The truth, of course, is that the Opposition do not know what they really want to offer as an alternative to that discredited remedy. They do not want to commit themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.48.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "ales as a whole, there is ample land allocated for housing purposes in development plans for years ahead. It may not necessarily be in the areas most sought after. It may not all be in the market. Some of it may be owned by people who do not want to see it developed at once; they may want to go on farming it for a time. Or it may have been bought up by builders in advance of their immediate needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.50.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " transactions. Buying in advance of building need was discouraged by the risk of having the land compulsorily bought from one at a fraction of its value. In that way the 1959 Act has removed an artificial limitation. That Act was—I remind the Committee again—supported in principle by all parties in the House of Commons because the warping effect of the previous law had become so unfair and unjust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.50.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Through the Government's mistakes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "d compulsorily bought from one at a fraction of its value. In that way the 1959 Act has removed an artificial limitation. That Act was—I remind the Committee again—supported in principle by all parties in the House of Commons because the warping effect of the previous law had become so unfair and unjust. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I say that it had become so unfair and unjust with the passage of years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.50.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "I am very much obliged to the Minister for giving way. I am not trying to make a cheap point. Some of us are worried about the very matter he has mentioned. In certain areas corruption is taking place. In some instances, there are previews of the maps and planning is breaking down. I know of it, but cannot prove it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.81.0", "colnum": "81", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the relevance of this?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "I do not want to intrude on the hon. Member's private business, but he has told the Committee about an offer that was made to him this morning. Does he feel willing to tell us whether he saw fit to buy the plot? If he replies \"No\", I shall respect his willingness to keep out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.81.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Gough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Gough", "preceding_text": " conscience about this subject. Let us take one topic about which the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington developed a great deal of heat—the difficulty for most people of buying a house of their own. I remember very well when the party opposite made it absolutely impossible for people to buy houses of their own and when hon. Gentlemen opposite said that it was a deplorable and bad thing to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Gough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Gough", "preceding_text": "gs -fight, we Should now return to that Policy. The problem before us is very simple, it is a question of the law of supply and demand. That is a law which is not recognised and appreciated by Socialists, but it goes back to the beginning of humanity. If people do not realise that, they should begin to think what a mess humanity has got into because of the scarcity of apples in the Garden of Eden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "The debate today is on a subject of the greatest possible human and public interest. Millions of people in this country want to own their own homes and they want to know that land is available at a price within their purse. I hope to be able to reassure them on both grounds this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "of land, the price of land and whether and how part of the price should be siphoned off by the community. I will try to deal with each of those, in turn, and I hope that I shall not be accused of forgetting one of them when, for the moment, I am dealing with another. I shall deal first with the shortage of land. The building industry is flat out. There is scarcely any unemployment in the industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" What about Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "and how part of the price should be siphoned off by the community. I will try to deal with each of those, in turn, and I hope that I shall not be accused of forgetting one of them when, for the moment, I am dealing with another. I shall deal first with the shortage of land. The building industry is flat out. There is scarcely any unemployment in the industry—[ Interruption. ]—in England and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": " keep the town town and the country country. The right hon. Gentleman also spoke about commuting. It can be a great burden on the individual involved. But it is, after all, a matter of degree. Some people travel long distances and some people less, but, one and all, they took the decision to move out with their eyes open, knowing that there would fall an obligation on one of the family to commute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "with the purchaser he will not have thought of the price out of his head with no reference to anything else. The price paid will generally be no more than an ever-increasing proportion of the population in turn is willing to pay for it. As the hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) said, when the consumer refuses to pay these high prices, then prices will tend to start to come down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "LAND (USE AND PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "the centre of London are beginning to evidence. The fashion of building offices outside the centre is beginning to take hold. We regard this as a most important development which we shall seek to encourage, but I point out to the Committee that to apply to offices the control at present applied to factories would be almost certainly completely impracticable, although we shall continue to study it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.160.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.192.2", "colnum": "192", "heading": "ROYAL PARKS (SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Works (Lord John Hope)", "preceding_text": ". Member for Edinburgh, East (Mr. Willis) on the Adjournment on 28th June, I said, as he reminded the House, that I was engaged in a tidying up operation, and also that in my submission 30 m.p.h. was a very slow speed and a very safe speed and 20 m.p.h. was an unreasonably slow speed. I said that I believed it to be wrong to connive at a statutory obligation which cannot reasonably be carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "ROYAL PARKS (SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "ight I outlined the history of the 20 miles per hour speed limit. I will not weary hon. Members by repeating it. Most hon. Members must know it as well as I do. It goes back to the beginning of the century and to the days of the horse. There is nothing sacred about it. The simple position is that the decision has gradually been made to increase it so as to conform with the speed outside the parks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.193.5", "colnum": "193", "heading": "ROYAL PARKS (SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will listen to what I have to say, I think he will be satisfied. There is plenty of evidence to show that what he believes is not happening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.193.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "ROYAL PARKS (SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "That has already been dealt with by my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, West, and I do not want to repeat what he has said. I quoted the remark of the chairman of the Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-18", "file": "debates1960-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f9eb6321ad55496b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.213.9", "colnum": "213", "heading": "SCHOOL PUPILS (POLITICAL INQUIRIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "—whether the boy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-18a.213.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.229.3", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "preceding_text": "in reply to Question No. 9 by my hon. Friend the Member for Durham (Mr. Grey), there is no justification whatever for allowing these Japanese radio sets to be imported in this way and thus deprive many of our people of work? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the electrical industry offers the prospect of increased employment for many of our young people on leaving school? Is he further aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.229.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where in Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "I cannot agree that the Local Employment Act has not produced new industry in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.235.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "Would not the hon. Gentleman and the Chancellor of the Exchequer consider at least some extraordinary means to deal with an extraordinary situation? Why cannot they let the banks give credit to industry starting up in Scotland without restriction, instead of leaving them tied as they are?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.250.5", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I think that in fairness the Prime Minister ought to know that my Question——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.250.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "WALES (HOSPITAL SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Miss Edith Pitt)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Miss Edith Pitt)", "preceding_text": "iting, as well as day centres and social clubs. Of the proposals already put into effect I mention only the new training centres opened at Hafodyrynys, Monmouthshire, in October, 1959; at Barry, Glamorgan, in April, 1960; and at Swansea in March, 1960, bringing the total number of centres in Wales up to 16, providing 1,057 places. A further centre is under construction at Ystrad Mynach, Glamorgan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "WALES (HOSPITAL SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Welsh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "English and one other—I cannot remember the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.278.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "e? That is what the Prime Minister said: If the Minister does so, no one in Wales will believe him. I do not think that any hon. Member opposite will dare to get up and say that this is the best person of all those available in Wales. I invite hon. Members opposite to do so. If they do, not even their constituents and supporters will believe them. I will give way if any hon. Member wants to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Their silence is more eloquent than anything they can say. One last word, for I want to give other hon. Members a chance. It is not such a long time ago that we had a General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " fortunate in that respect, and so it issued an election broadsheet, entitled \"A New Era for Wales\", which was circulated in Cardiff, North, in Barry, in Swansea, West and elsewhere. Hon. Members opposite all know this and are very proud of it. On the back, we have a picture of the Minister, a very good one. He's Your Voice in the Cabinet it says, and then, on page 2, there is an article in Welsh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " He's Your Voice in the Cabinet it says, and then, on page 2, there is an article in Welsh. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] I do not know whether it is the original or a translation. The heading is, \"Codi'r Hen Wlad\"—\"Raising the Old Country\". For the benefit of hon. Members in the House and for the benefit of the Minister, I want to make a quotation from it, but I propose to translate it into English.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.345.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I could read it in Welsh, but I propose to read it in English, or one paragraph from it. It says: The Conservatives have a special responsibility to preserve the Welsh language\"— hon. Members should listen to that— for to preserve is one of the fundamental principles of Conservatism. It goes on to say: The Welsh language has its special friends in the Conservative Government\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "Hon. Member: \"That is what it says.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": " a little more attention to the wording of the Charter than the right hon. Gentleman devoted to it. As the right hon. Gentleman said, it states that the person should be selected in virtue of his knowledge of the culture, characteristics and affairs of Our People in Wales and his close touch with Welsh opinion. The first important factor to note is that there is no reference to the Welsh language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.348.3", "colnum": "348", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "person selected should have a knowledge of the culture, characteristics and affairs of Our People in Wales. I like to think that those who framed this description had in mind a wider description, namely, that the person should have a deep and generous sympathy for Wales and all things Welsh. These words are not easily capable of precise definition. What is Welsh culture? What indeed is a Welshman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "s fifty years ago, when the North supported the idea of Home Rule which was rejected completely in South Wales. Then we must relate these specified requirements to the personality of the new Chairman, to this lady under discussion. I confess that when I first heard the news of this appointment I shared many of the feelings expressed by critics today. This lady had one or two obvious disadvantages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "ese specified requirements to the personality of the new Chairman, to this lady under discussion. I confess that when I first heard the news of this appointment I shared many of the feelings expressed by critics today. This lady had one or two obvious disadvantages. [ Interruption. ] I heard the news on the radio when I was shaving one morning. I readily admit that the name was not a familiar one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How does the hon. Member know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "rruption. ] I heard the news on the radio when I was shaving one morning. I readily admit that the name was not a familiar one. [ Interruption. ] She was not one of those stalwarts who served so valiantly on our numerous committees in Wales, nor indeed was she known politically. Here I refer to what the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Llanelly said—this was in no sense a political appointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "rm of the number of committees on which we have served. It may well be an advantage and a useful new departure that this much criticised appointment takes us outside the normal field of selection. Then there was a feeling which I had when I first heard the news, that Mrs. Jones was not well known. That no longer obtains. Today she is possibly the best-known of any Welsh women since Queen Boadicea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame. Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "suited by her personality, her abilities, and her deep interest in and her devotion to Wales. Her abilities are such that for no party political reasons she has commended herself not only to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, but also to my right hon. Friend the Minister for Welsh Affairs. She has commended herself in that way without possessing the trimmings which usually attract attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Box", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Such as?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Box", "preceding_text": "second television channel for Wales. While all this is very assuring for hon. Members on this side, it can bring no comfort to the lady who so unwittingly and undeservedly has become the subject of this debate, but she can take heart from the fact that the Opposition have an uncanny knack of invariably attacking at the outset those appointments that in the end turn out to be the biggest successes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Box", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Welsh language.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Box", "preceding_text": "ted by a rumble of Welsh mirth that would echo from Cardiff to Conway. It seems, therefore, that the greater the outcry from the Opposition at an appointment in Wales the more likely the success of the appointee. I am certain that this will be no exception to that rule. The Motion of censure before us is based on the contention that Mrs. Jones has insufficient knowledge of Wales and Welsh affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Box", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Box", "preceding_text": "I shall leave that to my right hon. Friend", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.357.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Rev. Llywelyn Williams", "preceding_text": "I happen to be able to speak with some authority on this matter. May I submit that the hon. Member is wrong on both counts. In the first instance, Lord Macdonald was in Wales when he was appointed to this post and always lived in Wales during his tenure of the post. Secondly, very few people in Wales listened more often to Welsh programmes than did Lord Macdonald in the last few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.359.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Obscurity\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "preceding_text": "have translated the passage I want to quote from Y Llan, because I do know a little English. I would not be here representing Merioneth if I could not speak Welsh as well. This is what the weekly paper of the Church, in which this lady's husband is a highlight, said: The star of Brecon is very high in the firmament. Some time ago Mr. Lewis, as he then was, was rocketed from comparative security\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "has been created by a few hotheads in Wales. Let me remind the Prime Minister that here in the City of London there are 500,000 Welsh people and that they produce their own magazine. It is called the London Welshman. I have a copy here. The colour should please hon. Members opposite; it is true blue. But when I open it, they will find themselves \"in the red\". This is what The London Welshman says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.363.3", "colnum": "363", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Tory Party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister did, if the Prime Minister were a lady. So let us forget all that. As a matter of fact, we hold nothing against this lady, nothing at all. Indeed, I am told that she is a very charming woman. But the Charter does not ask for charm. It asks explicitly for a knowledge of the culture, interests and tastes of the people of Wales. Has she ever been connected with cultural movements?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": " out a success, she will not be reappointed, but if the people of Wales believe that her appointment has helped towards further progress with the Welsh Home Service, which is not free from its critics at present, then I believe it will be the ultimate test that the Government were right in recommending this appointment. It will be submitted, in the last resort, to the test of Welsh public opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "arges as were levelled against my noble Friend Lord Brecon. I was told, and I was in the House at the time of the previous Welsh debate, that this was an arbitrary and irresponsible appointment, and that it was the missing of a great opportunity. As far as hon. Members representing Welsh constituencies are concerned, I doubt whether anyone would come out in his constituency and attack Lord Brecon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They were never asked.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "A long list of people was considered, a great many of whom could not have been appointed because of the reason I have mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "sing to find out whether it was attacking someone who would be a valuable friend to the Welsh culture which it rightly wants to see defended. It is no use talking, as the right hon. Gentleman did, about unity between the English-speaking and Welsh-speaking peoples in Wales and then instantly leaping to the false conclusion that anyone who does not speak Welsh is not a friend of the Welsh language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "WELSH BROADCASTING COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "that this appointment is justified. Never from this Box have I spoken with greater conviction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.377.6", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " of past debates we would certainly guess that they do not. However, it may be that the back benchers have had a conversion similar to that of Saul on the road to Damascus and that they have now seen the light and are ready to agree in 1960 what they denied in 1954. Better late than never. It is not a bad thing that hon. Members opposite should be faced with the consequences of their own speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.377.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.380.3", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "—and, certainly, after tragedy—as a result of a great deal of reaction on the part of persons like the noble Lord who have themselves fomented the trouble that exists between these two communities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "May I put it in this way? No one in this country gave more encouragement to Makarios to continue his battle for Enosis than the Opposition. They were the people who were content to sit back and let the Archbishop get away with refusing to condemn terrorism. There was no pressure from the Opposition to get the Archbishop to give up terrorism, and the implication of that is surely this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "tarted this might now agree that we in this Chamber would do very much better if we were to try to heal old wounds. My only reason for saying what I have said tonight is because of the foul slander which the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East made against this side of the Committee. The implication of that slander was that we were the people who were responsible for bringing about the 600 deaths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.389.3", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman turn his mind back to the things said by his party about hon. Members on this; side of the Committee after India was given her freedom and when there was certain bloodshed there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.400.4", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why historic?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "time of that debate. The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies remembers the argument to Captain Waterhouse. I remember an historic debate when we decided to go to Cyprus at the beginning We can read it in HANSARD Reports for July, 1954. Then the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends were completely opposed to going to Cyprus at all. Captain Waterhouse made an historic speech, which I supported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.400.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.404.2", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is nothing to do with them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "gested in my hon. Friend's Amendment, a representative of the Republic of Cyprus will be consulted. 11.30 p.m. I appreciate that there is one difference between the British bases in Cyprus and the American bases here. The bases in Cyprus will be on land under British sovereignty. I beg the right hon. Gentleman not to justify a failure to consult with the people of Cyprus upon that technical ground", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Iraq.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "y can be obliterated. This is one of my objections to the sort of base and to the type of agreement that has been concluded, not that I wish to overturn it now. Unreality will soon be completely realistic and the Government will see in five years' time that they will have to say something more to us. Take CENTO. I do not know for what those initials, stand, but they include Iran, Pakistan, Turkey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not forget the United Kingdom.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "has been concluded, not that I wish to overturn it now. Unreality will soon be completely realistic and the Government will see in five years' time that they will have to say something more to us. Take CENTO. I do not know for what those initials, stand, but they include Iran, Pakistan, Turkey. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Iraq.\"] No. I cannot remember what the other countries are, but it is those three.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " stand, but they include Iran, Pakistan, Turkey. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Iraq.\"] No. I cannot remember what the other countries are, but it is those three. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not forget the United Kingdom.\"] I will not forget the United Kingdom. If we want a base for CENTO purposes, would it not be better to have one in one of the CENTO countries which is on the spot rather than have it in Cyprus?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I should have said over the period of five years. And at the end of that five years a fresh agreement will have to be negotiated and we shall have to consider whether it is worth while again. I would not, for the reasons I have given earlier, support my hon. Friend (Mr. Emrys Hughes) in the Division Lobby on this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-19", "file": "debates1960-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "dc741191e8542038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "With respect, Sir William, I should like to have an opportunity to make just a few points on Clause 4—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-19a.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-20", "file": "debates1960-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9aa4af4a77275b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.481.6", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Do I understand the Postmaster-General to say that he proposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.481.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-20", "file": "debates1960-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9aa4af4a77275b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.485.2", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I am in no position to say what the demand for local broadcasting is, but it would be very unfair to give an assurance of the sort asked for by the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.485.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-20", "file": "debates1960-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9aa4af4a77275b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.492.3", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "The whole of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question is based on a false assumption. I am not setting up a committee. All that I am setting up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-20", "file": "debates1960-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9aa4af4a77275b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "policy changes and my reasons for saying why we should accept them. I am attacking the Government for evasion and for what I believe to be downright deceit. I am not now examining what they should have done. I am pointing out that they have no right for claiming what they say will be so and I am examining the position on their awn evidence. Nobody knows when Skybolt may exist or what it will cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-20", "file": "debates1960-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9aa4af4a77275b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.527.7", "colnum": "527", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "k the Thor missile, which is deployed operationally today, should also be swept away, and his judgment is that that is so because a fixed site missile is too vulnerable. I agree; that is why we did cancel Blue Streak. But let us look again at the time scale. Blue Streak would not have been operational till after 1965. That is when, it was quite certain, fixed site missiles would be too vulnerable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.527.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-20", "file": "debates1960-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9aa4af4a77275b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "at was said in the debate he will see. The right hon. Gentleman quite fairly tried to present the facts of his case. I must present the facts of mine, and if the hon. Gentleman will be kind enough to look at what was said in that debate and also to look at what he says in his own party document here, he will see that it is clearly so, that no examination is made of the quite different time scales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-20", "file": "debates1960-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9aa4af4a77275b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yet?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is presumably asking me to comment on an article in a daily newspaper. I have seen the article. I can only tell him that no decision of that kind has yet been taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-20", "file": "debates1960-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9aa4af4a77275b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "What the Americans have decided is to put a very large number of millions of dollars into the development of this weapon. We are now negotiating an agreement to purchase it from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-20", "file": "debates1960-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9aa4af4a77275b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.534.3", "colnum": "534", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "d States Air Force has disclosed a very large requirement for a very large number of missiles. That is what I was told by General Power who commands the force. We, also, have disclosed a requirement for, of course, a much smaller number of missiles. We are now negotiating a firm agreement with the American Government which will ensure us a supply of these missiles, provided that the missile works.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-20", "file": "debates1960-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9aa4af4a77275b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "s, because that today, as I have said, is the most dangerous thing that this country and this House of Commons can do. I have shown that on the whole our weapons systems, our state of preparedness and the value for our money, stand up extremely well to any kind of examination. In the Sunday Times last week there was an editorial which was headed, \"The Socialist Diehards \". I shall not read it all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-20", "file": "debates1960-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9aa4af4a77275b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "t dangerous thing that this country and this House of Commons can do. I have shown that on the whole our weapons systems, our state of preparedness and the value for our money, stand up extremely well to any kind of examination. In the Sunday Times last week there was an editorial which was headed, \"The Socialist Diehards \". I shall not read it all. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] I will with pleasure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-20", "file": "debates1960-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9aa4af4a77275b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "ad suffered three defeats in a row. The Commander gathered his officers about him. 'Perhaps', he said, 'our weapons and strategy are a bit out-of-date…We won the last battle but three, didn't we? So we can win again. Anyway, it is better to die for the old regiment than mess about with this new-fangled gear. It's dangerous out there in the twentieth century.' \". It \"is\" dangerous out there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-20", "file": "debates1960-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9aa4af4a77275b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.544.3", "colnum": "544", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "le and the V-bombers, such as they are, are capable of reaching the target? Which target is he talking about? Was he thinking of Soviet Russia? Surely, he does not intend to mislead or deceive the Committee. He knows very well that neither the Thor missiles nor our V-bombers carrying megaton bombs with warheads are capable of reaching the target. Heaven help them if they ever get near the 'target.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.544.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-20", "file": "debates1960-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9aa4af4a77275b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "at shall we do in the meantime? Something will happen between 1960 and 1970. It may happen in Berlin. Who can tell? I believe that that may well be the focal point of danger, and we must make up OUT minds what is to be done if something occurs. We have not got an independent deterrent but we hope to have it some day. Perhaps it may come, or it may not come. We do not know. This is not good enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-20", "file": "debates1960-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9aa4af4a77275b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " it is making a disarmament agreement infinitely more difficult to achieve and more difficult to control, although it is admitted by all of us on both sides of the Committee that a disarmament agreement is the only real road to security in the modern world. It is a sad reflection for all of us that more than once in the last ten years it is the West which has taken the initiative in the arms race.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-20", "file": "debates1960-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9aa4af4a77275b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.616.4", "colnum": "616", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1960–61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "th the Americans to purchase from them one of a number of missiles which they are developing and which we believe will be available to us in the middle 1960s. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Belper has made much of the fact that the missile—Skybolt—does not at present exist. It would not be any use to us if it did exist because if it existed now it would be out of date by the middle 1960s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-20a.616.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.733.6", "colnum": "733", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "ign. The Economic League spent £208,000, and Mr. Hurry, on his anti-nationalisation campaign, spent £475,000. The very nature and technique of these \"front\" organisations involves a continuous proliferation of new ones. I have recently come on the trail of a new, rather sinister and secret \"front\" organisation for the Conservative Party, which is very reluctant indeed to disclose what it is doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.733.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "o clarify the law after the Tronoh Mines case. The second partial remedy would be for the Conservative Party to adopt the normal political practice of publishing its accounts. The need to do this is really all the greater now that the central parties have become the really decisive factor in election contests. I am sure that many hon. Members opposite must be somewhat troubled in their conscience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "ade unions. Before a political fund is set up, as in the trade unions, there would have to be a resolution of the shareholders and then, as in the trade unions, a ballot of the members. Then, if the proposal were carried, prominence would have to be given to the right of shareholders to contract out and, of course, to receive an appropriate remission, presumably, in the form of increased dividend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Toby Low", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Toby Low", "preceding_text": "seems to imagine and, secondly—and much more important—some of the implications for our way of life are either very serious, because they threaten vital freedoms, or are farcical because of their curious consequences. The case for an inquiry can be treated separately from the case for control. I shall deal with the case for control, because if that case falls flat, so does the case for an inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": "ve always known that the Labour Party has an aversion to this firm. There is now a further reason for it to have an aversion. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman is aware of this, but the Labour Party's best man, Mr. McWhinnie, the veteran Daily Herald executive, and the party's publicity expert at its headquarters during the election, has naw joined the Colman Prentis and Varley group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.747.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "A subsidiary.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": "rsion. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman is aware of this, but the Labour Party's best man, Mr. McWhinnie, the veteran Daily Herald executive, and the party's publicity expert at its headquarters during the election, has naw joined the Colman Prentis and Varley group. [ Laughter. ] In the midst of the laughter, the House may not have noticed that I said that he has joined the \"group.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Tory Party's accounts?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": " whether it is generally recognised that more than two-thirds of trade union political funds are used by the trade unions for political purposes and do not pass through the Labour Party's accounts. In 1957, the Labour Party's accounts showed that only £200,000 was provided from the trade unions political funds and that the total of its funds was over £700,000. I think that these figures are right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.749.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.750.2", "colnum": "750", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. When a completely untruthful statement like that is made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.750.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.751.3", "colnum": "751", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Lady cannot take it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Harriet Slater", "preceding_text": "Mrs. Harriet Slater (Stoke-on-Trent, North) rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.751.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.751.6", "colnum": "751", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Try to learn to take it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Mendelson rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.751.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.753.2", "colnum": "753", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": "ing much wider? Immediately, we bring into this field of control any expressions of opinion—I suppose, following on what the right hon. Gentleman says, any expressions of opinion which cost money in some way and which may have a bearing on an election. That may be speeches by chairmen of companies on restrictive practices, or even attacking the Chancellor for bad economic policies. It may be that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.753.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have an inquiry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": "The way that the hon. Member does it is to leave out about four-fifths of the expenditure, and that I regard as extremely misleading. If the right hon. Member is really sincere in telling the House that his main objection to the present system is the incursion into this field by outside bodies, how would the publication of party accounts deal with that point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Including yourself?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "preceding_text": "ic opinion in this country is changed by two forces. It is changed partly by alterations in material conditions and partly—this is the point which I want to emphasise—by the writers and the people who deal in ideas. It is the writers and dealers in ideas more than anybody else who bring about changes in the climate of public opinion, not the Press agents. I want to give some illustrations of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "cue_text": "Hon. Members \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "preceding_text": "which had been erected in this country during the war. It had an enormous impact upon British public opinion. Everybody in this country knows one phrase from \"Animal Farm\"—the phrase about some men being more equal than others. Four years later—it came out in 1950 when he was dying—he published a book called \"Nineteen Eighty Four.\" That was a picture of what life is like in England under Socialism", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is the publisher?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "preceding_text": "nion, is likely to have as big an impact as Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty Four . I have no connection with the author, or with the publisher. The novel is entitled. When The Kissing Had to Stop . The hon. Gentleman's erudition will tell him that it is a quotation from Browning. The author of the novel is Constantine Fitzgibbon, a novelist whom I have never met. I want to make this point about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.776.3", "colnum": "776", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "rvative Party did not display the Prime Minister in all his nakedness. That portrayal will come when public opinion is formed and the autumn by-elections are in progress. We know that there are the eight organisations which spent £1½ million. They spent £400,000 more than the total cost of the General Election campaign. Now, we know the sources from which political parties draw their money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ge, not for the first time. Another aspect of American law which might well be considered is that individuals are restricted. They may not give more than 5,000 dollars a year for any one candidate or committee. That might be a little restrictive on certain Conservative financiers, the sort of people who are president of the local association and do nothing except subscribe £5,000 or £6,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.781.3", "colnum": "781", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lloyd-George.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "upporters. Would not the Labour Party feel happier if it knew that every penny that it receives from trade union sources came from people who deliberately, voluntarily and consciously contracted in, so that no possible suggestion could be made that anyone paid simply because he felt that there was duress or that it might be politically inexpedient to contract out? Let us have a clean-up all round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.781.3", "colnum": "781", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give us the accounts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "orge.\"] I hear the name of Lloyd-George. I am very sorry that there should be disagreement in the Tory Party about this issue. Let me say, in fairness to it, that the Lloyd-George Fund was principally used for fighting five General Elections, for producing the inquiry on the land, known as the \"Green Book,\" the \"Yellow Book\" on Britain's industrial future and the policy \"We can cure unemployment\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.781.3", "colnum": "781", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both of them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "for the two major parties to come out into the open market with their money. Do not let us have it quietly subscribed by firms and shareholders. Do not let it be possible to suggest that a trade unionist is subscribing because of the contracting-out system, but is opposed to such a subscription. We—the other Opposition Party—are asking in this Amendment, with the wholehearted support of our party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "POLITICAL EXPENDITURE (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "preceding_text": "eration is an example of how money was spent by big business. It spent £68,000 in August, 1955. The right hon. Member for Blackpool, North has been giving us some of the answers today and I wonder whether he would care to answer a question of mine. I understand that the right hon. Member is a director of Dorman Long. Can he say how much the shareholders of Dorman Long contributed to this campaign?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Robinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Robinson", "preceding_text": "ack of leadership from the Ministry. The Royal Commission on Mental Health and the Mental Health Act both envisage a fairly rapid development of psychiatric units in general hospitals. This is a development which we all find extremely desirable, and indeed urgent, or at any rate nearly all of us do. Among doctors in general hospitals there is undoubtedly a very marked prejudice against psychiatry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-21", "file": "debates1960-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e5738541813c695", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.851.3", "colnum": "851", "heading": "HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is confining it to doctors. There are a great many people in the Health Service besides doctors. We have got pay settlements in regard to nurses, midwives, administrative and clerical workers, manual workers, radiographers and all sorts of people, and soon we shall have the doctors and dentists under hatches as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-21a.851.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-22", "file": "debates1960-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "bee41df31c733665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-22a.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Belfast, East (Mr. McMaster) has left me very little time to reply to his speech advocating this proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-22a.1028.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-25", "file": "debates1960-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "af39135d8287077d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1059.2", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONGO (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has made it clear that Katanga is part of the Congo and will remain part of the Congo,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1059.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-25", "file": "debates1960-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "af39135d8287077d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR GHANA (ASSAULT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations (Mr. C. J. M. Alport):", "preceding_text": "ffairs on 24th July and replied in this sense. I would like to add that Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom greatly value Sir Edward Asafu-Adjaye's work in London and the talent and skill which he has brought to his ask. I am sure that right hon. and hon. Members will join with me in wishing Sir Edward a speedy recovery from any ill-effects which may have been occasioned by the assault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1080.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-25", "file": "debates1960-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "af39135d8287077d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": " my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg), may I put it in this way to the Patronage Secretary? Will he give an assurance that the Motion for the Adjournment of the House for the Summer Recess will be timed to come after the announcement of Government changes, so that Members will have an opportunity to discuss them? It is very important that this should be done. May we have that assurance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-25", "file": "debates1960-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "af39135d8287077d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1085.8", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tonight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "If the Motion is to be tabled tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1085.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-25", "file": "debates1960-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "af39135d8287077d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "CONGO (UNITED NATIONS FORCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "preceding_text": "e eased a trifle if my right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary could announce today whether this is a fact or not? If it is not the fact, then the sooner it is cleared up the bettor. If it is the fact then it is surely now a matter of urgent public business to which the House Should address itself. I understand from your Ruling that you accept that this is urgent, that it is immediate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-25", "file": "debates1960-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "af39135d8287077d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Evaded them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ccasions when the Prime Minister represented him to be one. From the day during the Suez crisis when the Prime Minister, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, turned to him and said, \"Selwyn, this is your finest hour\", he has never looked forward, but during his tenure of the Foreign Office he has always had the grace to answer Questions from the Dispatch Box and not from another Box in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-25", "file": "debates1960-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "af39135d8287077d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": " the words because I have not them here. If the right hon. Gentleman will read carefully the Article about the regulations which may be introduced, he will see that it is clear that that Article is for the purpose of ensuring that there is no indiscriminate mass movement of workers from one country to another. In any case, this can easily be confirmed or otherwise by careful reading of the Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-25", "file": "debates1960-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "af39135d8287077d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "ons which may be introduced, he will see that it is clear that that Article is for the purpose of ensuring that there is no indiscriminate mass movement of workers from one country to another. In any case, this can easily be confirmed or otherwise by careful reading of the Treaty. [ Laughter. ] I do not know what the amusement is about. I suggest that hon. Members should read the Treaty carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-25", "file": "debates1960-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "af39135d8287077d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1182.0", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "preceding_text": "rinciples which have been accepted by the Common Market in respect of France. There is really no reason why we should not have special consideration similar to that which has been given to France in that respect. However, who am I to speak for agriculture? I have neither been a farmer nor am I the son of a farmer. To be quite frank, I am not very interested in the agricultural side of our economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-25a.1182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1282.0", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "The requirements of export publicity vary too greatly from country to country, not least as regards language, and from product to product, and the range of products exported by British industry is too wide, for a Government publication of this kind to be practicable, but I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for his suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1287.2", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Was it not categorically denied just before we adjourned for the Easter Recess that there were any dealings going on at all with Mr. Clore? Secondly, in the recent debate, was it not stated that the Government would not proceed with this act of vandalism either?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1289.5", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman and his right hon. Friend try to realise that this question of the increased interest rates on housing is a Very real burden and a very real problem to many thousands of people in this country? Even at this late stage, in spite of the apparent lack of interest of the Opposition, cannot the Chancellor at least persuade his right hon. Friend the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1289.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1303.3", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that the House of Commons should adjourn for a holiday at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1303.3", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "e House this afternoon only because I feel so intensely that this is a serious time, both for the future of Britain and of those people for whom we have considerable responsibility, particularly those in Africa. I should like, as would all other hon. Members, to spend the next few weeks, and, indeed, the next three months, with my constituents. I believe, however, that they can well do without me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1303.3", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "ent without being able to have the advice of the back benchers of the House of Commons in coming to a decision. It may be asked, why not leave the affairs of the Congo and of United Nations troops during the holidays to Her Majesty's Government? The reason why I would not like to leave it to Her Majesty's Government—and I must be frank—is that I believe that Her Majesty's Government are paralysed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1305.2", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "tion, that Parliament will be recalled if our friend, the friend of the West, Mr. Tshombe, should at any time make another appeal to this country or to any of our friends. Secondly, I should like to have an assurance that Parliament will be recalled immediately if there is any substantial talk of United Nations forces entering into the State of Katanga. Thirdly, and I do not make this a condition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1305.2", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So soon?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "to have an assurance that Parliament will be recalled immediately if there is any substantial talk of United Nations forces entering into the State of Katanga. Thirdly, and I do not make this a condition—[ Laughter .] All right, I am only one Member, but I have a right to make conditions. I do not make this a condition, but I would ask that the Government will recall Parliament within a fortnight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Ask whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I thank you for your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, but we are deciding here today—are we not?—whether we can hand over responsibility for guiding it foreign policy for three months to a Foreign Secretary who, at the moment, is unknown to us, and I think that we are entitled to ask of the Government a very clear statement of what their policy is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1309.2", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "o turn the other cheek throughout the Recess? Are we to continue to let the United Nations: conduct our foreign policy? Indeed, who today is conducting our foreign policy? Only this morning, in the B.B.C.'s news bulletins at 7.30, and again at 8.30 Mr. Hammarskjoeld is reported as having assured Mr. Lumumba that \"there is no question of recognising Katanga.\" This is a most extraordinary statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1309.4", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I want to come immediately to the point of my speech and ask: what is our foreign policy? Have we a foreign policy? Or are we playing it through the United Nations? Have the Government Front Bench decided what is to be Britain's new policy? If so, is not the House entitled to know before we go into recess for three months? The Foreign Secretary has said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1309.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "That is a very silly intervention. Our Government will not transfer their responsibilities where they lie to any other Government. Yesterday, the House touched for a few moments on the provocative, irresponsible and inflammatory statement made by a servant of the United Nations, General van Horn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1313.3", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "In that case, I am very glad to hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1313.3", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Make him Foreign Secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "er for Wycombe (Mr. Hall) has said and I withdraw that. I am glad to hear that no such statement was made, but yesterday we should have liked to have heard this denial from a Minister sitting on the Treasury Bench. We asked to be reassured on these matters and we had no reassurance. I am glad that the reassurance has now come—not from one of Her Majesty's Ministers but from one of my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1317.5", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "sited. Naturally, therefore, there was delay, pending his retirement, before his successor could be appointed. The situation is much simpler than the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition makes out. Nevertheless, it is gratifying to the Government that there should be such anxiety and interest as to who is to succeed to this important office. Indeed, there is such a wealth of material—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1317.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are anxious that the United Nations should not make war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "m the right lion. Gentleman that he will promise not to listen to anything that is said from below the Gangway opposite but will stand by the United Nations and ensure that this vacuum in the Congo is filled, so giving the United Nations a chance to prevent a world war. If we are thinking of parallels, I would point out that there is a parallel with the 1914–18 war where we had a situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1340.3", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I agree that we cannot discuss it, Mr. Deputy-Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1341.3", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I draw your attention to the fact that I am putting to you another reason why I feel that we should oppose the Motion—I am speaking on the Motion—that the House should adjourn for three months. I am putting to you a reason why we, should not agree to the Motion standing in the Prime Minister's name. I am entitled, if hon. Gentlemen opposite would just be quiet for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1341.3", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "tempted to explain, namely, that I have a fear the t, if and when we agree to the Motion anti adjourn, we shall have a position whereby the Government, who according to the Leader of the House will bring in a new Chancellor of the Exchequer, may well impose a restriction upon building authorities and thus again deprive my constituents of an opportunity of being rehoused. I will conclude by asking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1341.3", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " and thus again deprive my constituents of an opportunity of being rehoused. I will conclude by asking—[Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] If hon. Gentlemen want me to go on, I will go on. I can explain several reasons why I think the House should not adjourn. I can do it even by explaining to the House that I think that there are many hon. Members opposite who ought to fill the Foreign Secretary's job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1424.5", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "I remember the hon. Member making that suggestion. I thought at the time that this was probably not the sort of case in which an inquiry of the kind he had in mind would help us. The purpose of an inquiry, particularly if conducted by a committee, is usually to find out the facts. There is comparatively little dispute, I understand, about the facts. What is wanted is action of a certain kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1424.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1427.5", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "inst surprise attack, a field again in which we know the Soviet Union is very sensitive. It is this proposal put forward by President Eisenhower at the Geneva talks in 1955 as what he called the \"curtain raiser\" to disarmament, the test of Soviet sincerity, which led to the breakdown of the previous disarmament talks, because we know that the Soviet Union will not accept aerial survey of the kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1427.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, \"hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " find quite clearly that the obstacles to disarmament at the moment are not technical but political. The technical solutions are there and could be built upon. It is a favourite trick of the Western nations to keep returning to the theme that control and inspection are the key to disarmament. Of course they are. But then they add that the Soviet Union has never get down to the question of control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Before the pow-wow started I was referring to the dangers of aircraft visiting the shores of another country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1465.3", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "to remember that fact. I hope that hon. Gentlemen within my hearing tonight, whenever they go to the constituencies and want to get a few cheers when speaking about the records of some of my hon. Friends about Suez,. will remember the function performed by the Conservatice Administration, which was to collect Income Tax for President Nasser. I have no doubt that they did it very effectively indeed", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1465.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1568.0", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "I have never written such an article. I do not know where the hon. Member got it from. I do not live in a council house. I am paying the Minister's 6¼ per cent. interest to buy my own house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1567.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "If I have made an error, I withdraw. I would not imply that the hon. Member had said that he had difficulty. It has, however, been implied, and it was implied in the hon. Member's words tonight, that it would be difficult to live in a council house on a Member of Parliament's pay. The hon. Member is implying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1568.3", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "like another type of person whom I represent—the immigrant in London—are causing a great deal of trouble in London housing. The man who does not want to pay the full economic rent and the man who goes into London expecting to find accommodation at a low rent and who sometimes is willing to accept a low standard of housing to get into London are causing a gnat deal of the housing trouble in Landon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1568.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1569.3", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "is into a long speech, but the point is and must be realised that if there is a market for low grade accommodation at high rents it is because people are coming in from somewhere. It is no use a landlord going to his respectable tenants in a block in, say, Bermondsey, and where they have been living for years, and saying to them, \"I will raise your rents by £4 or £5 a week,\" or whatever it may be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1569.3", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "low grade accommodation at high rents it is because people are coming in from somewhere. It is no use a landlord going to his respectable tenants in a block in, say, Bermondsey, and where they have been living for years, and saying to them, \"I will raise your rents by £4 or £5 a week,\" or whatever it may be. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They do.\"] I know they do, but they cannot do it unless there is a market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1571.2", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "They cannot be enforced on the local authorities, but it is up to the local authorities to enforce them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1571.4", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether that remark was addressed to me through you, Mr. Speaker. I accept that it was. If the hon. Member believes in a property-owning democracy he certainly gave no impression of doing so, except on the one occasion when he said it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1571.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1572.5", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Let us have some telephone numbers.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Edwards", "preceding_text": "The agricultural worker's wage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1572.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1572.6", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not street offences.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members ask for telephone numbers. This is a housing debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1572.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1572.6", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members ask for telephone numbers. This is a housing debate. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Not street offences.\"] I agree, it is not a debate on street offences. My point is that it is possible to charge those rents and get an economic return. That is not to say that those rents are being charged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1572.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1572.8", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But the hon. Member has his hand in his pocket.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member regards the dignity of the House with as much respect as he regards my speech, then I can quite understand why he addresses the Chair with his hands in his pockets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1572.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-26", "file": "debates1960-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "dbe4bfefe3cfbef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1600.0", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "nd in every case where it is alleged that a landlord has taken over property and is seeking to demand extortionate rents that those tenants should get together to make sure that they have some well-qualified professional man negotiating on their behalf with the landlord, because the one thing that the landlord cannot afford is to have the whole property left on his hands empty, which he will have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-26a.1600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-27", "file": "debates1960-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b26ce2ac0315c17e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-27a.1631.4", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "—that there has been a tendency in that direction in the cinema and the theatre in recent years, but I do not believe that it has been so extensive on the television—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-27a.1631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-27", "file": "debates1960-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b26ce2ac0315c17e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-27a.1632.0", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I think that that is a very unfair allegation to make against the Independent Television Authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-27a.1632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-27", "file": "debates1960-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b26ce2ac0315c17e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-27a.1647.0", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (BRITISH SUBJECTS AND BRITISH-PROTECTED PERSONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "that, therefore, it is for him and for Her Majesty's Government to make clear to the Government of Southern Rhodesia whether they believe that the policy which is being followed there is likely to promote law and order, or is likely to discourage it? Will he also take note that many hon. Members on this side of the House as well as this—for I have read the debate today, even though I was not here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-27a.1647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-27", "file": "debates1960-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b26ce2ac0315c17e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-27a.1696.6", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "MENTAL HEALTH (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment. This is consequential on Amendments which were made in Committee and, of course, I am prepared to give credit where credit is due.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-27a.1696.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-27", "file": "debates1960-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b26ce2ac0315c17e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-27a.1797.1", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "SCOTLAND (UNIVERSITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forbes Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forbes Hendry", "preceding_text": "ouse of Commons. I recommend to my hon. Friend the Joint Under-Secretary of State that he should take this matter up with his right hon. Friend the Prime Minister in his consideration of electoral reform. After all, it was right hon. and hon. Members opposite who did away with the very close liaison between the universities and this House which lasted for many years through the University Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-27a.1797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1859.5", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "My noble Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1859.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1886.2", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "it, and 1 think that it would be very much better, therefore, if I got on to my own speech. I say to the hon. Member for Bermondsey that we have realistically calculated the resources available—and I really have spent a lot of time on it. We have to do that, otherwise we might have a \"Finish the Roads\" campaign in the same way as we once had a \"Finish the Houses\" campaign, and we do not want that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1886.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1890.3", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "one on the other side of Oxford Street. I have recently made an order for an area of Holborn, north of New Oxford Street, which will come into effect in October, and I shall soon make an order for the Woolwich shopping centre. I cannot see either of the hon. Members for Woolwich present, but I am sure that they will be very surprised. Parking meters help to ameliorate road congestion a great deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1890.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1905.1", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Five years?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": " in June, 1959, about the Highland programme. It will also enable me to increase the funds available to local highway authorities for improvement works on classified roads, including those within urban areas. Excluding the bridge and the tunnel, expenditure on the general classified road programme will rise from the present level of £2 million per annum to over £5 million at the end of five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "we as Members of Parliament must answer is how much we can afford to spend on these roads and how much we ought to spend on them. We can congratulate the Minister today in saying, as I understood it, that he is to double the road programme in the next five years. The Minister may have expressed a little surprise, but he well deserved his second place in the popularity poll in the Daily Mail today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1934.3", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "The Socialist argument is to spend a few more millions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1934.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1960.1", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. John Hay)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. John Hay)", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend announced a five-year expenditure programme for classified roads. He said that it is planned substantially to complete the five major projects and at least to start the London-Yorkshire motorway during the next five or six years. We have had regard in all this to the necessity for forward planning. Planning, at one time, became almost a dirty word and we are now getting away from that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1979.1", "colnum": "1979", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "he noble Lord's postwar record. He was not here very much. The last speech that he made in this House was during the debate on the Persian question on 21st June, 1951, and the contribution made by the noble Lord, Lord Dunglass as he then was, was to suggest that the British Government should put the troops in not just to protect the lives of British nationals but to protect their property as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1979.1", "colnum": "1979", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "want the right hon. Gentleman when he replies to say that the protection which His Majesty's Government give will not only be if the lives of the British people in Abadan are threatened, but will extend to them if the Persians try to take physical control of the refinery and interfere with them in their legitimate duties.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 21st June, 1951; Vol. 489, c. 771.] That is what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1979.1", "colnum": "1979", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "he control of the Foreign Office must be in the hands of the Foreign Secretary of the day. That brings me to the peculiar set-up which, we are now offered. The Foreign Secretary, is to be in the House of Lords. The Prime Minister is apparently to continue to deal with the absolutely major issues of foreign policy in the House of Commons. But on other questions we are to have the Paymaster-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1983.3", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": " thing. The right hon. Gentleman must, by his speech, have shown beyond all doubt that he has lost all hope of ever becoming Prime Minister himself. I say that very largely because of something reported in the Guardian this morning, when Mr. Morgan Phillips comes into the picture again. This is what I understand the National Executive of the Labour Party is now to try to get approved by the party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1983.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1984.2", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "—\"however representative of the party, could not be regarded as representative of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1984.3", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I thought that hon. Members would jeer a little when they heard that. I ask the Leader of the Opposition this question quite seriously. If he had been Prime Minister today, and had selected a Cabinet round him, would he, no matter what the opposition before him had tried to do, have given way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1984.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1984.5", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "f what he said tonight not to change the Prime Minister's decision—for he knows that he will not do that, and he also knows that if he were the Prime Minister and had taken this decision, he would not change his mind, either—but possibly to lower the reputation of the British Foreign Secretary? have been greatly interrupted in my speech. I had much else I wanted to say, but perhaps I may conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1984.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1984.5", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "s. The first question is: do we or do we not believe in a bicameral Parliamentary system? If we do —and I for one, do, although I know that hon. Members opposite sincerely disagree with me—we must be prepared to follow it through to its logical conclusion. The logical conclusion is that because another place, however differently composed, is just as much part of Parliament as we are in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1984.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1989.1", "colnum": "1989", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Got used to it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "re their announcement by the Prime Minister. Number 10, Downing Street, today looks like a very leaky colander. I thought it quite incredible that the Guardian , about ten days ago, could have reliably forecast the name of the present Foreign Secretary. Indeed, that forecast was received with incredulity by the majority of my hon. Friends and myself. But, as time went on, more and more newspapers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1990.1", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " between 1945 and 1950. It is not a safe Conservative seat. My constituents are not very happy about this. What they are unhappy about—and I have every right to report the views of my constituents—is that the Foreign Secretary cannot sit where my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is sitting at this moment and be rigorously and relentlessly cross-examined by myself on his policies and decisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1990.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1991.0", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " Lords. But if it is the Prime Minister's view that there is no equal of Lord Home in diplomacy and in international negotiations and affairs, I bow at once to the superior wisdom and perspicacity of the Prime Minister. I would not, of course, question his judgment. I can only express my own view. My own view is that the Treasury Bench is strewn with much greater talent which could be called upon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1992.3", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"As Foreign Secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "the Government and the House. We shall miss him because of his single-minded devotion to the public service and also because of the charm and wit which he brought to his duties and made him universally popular. I hope that he will have a good holiday and good sailing and I am sure that he will soon be called upon to dedicate in one form or another his great abilities to the service of his country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1992.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1992.3", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "ne in the House knows, his coming resignation was made known over quite a long period. Normally, when a Government is formed, it is made either immediately after an election or, if a Prime Minister resigns or dies, immediately a new Prime Minister receives the Queen's commission. It is a matter of three or four days. I utterly deny that any leak came from my office or, so far as I know, any other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1992.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1994.3", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "great pressure there was a need for a lighter task for him. I had the necessity to choose his successor. I will tell the House quite simply why I recommended the appointment of my noble Friend Lord Home. I will tell the House simply, and I ask for its support. It is because, after watching his work for so many years in the Commonwealth Relations Office, I felt that he was the best man for the job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1994.3", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " birth, or the mere fact that my noble Friend sits in another place, should debar me from the right to choose the man I wanted at my side, or deprive him of the opportunity to serve. Of course, it is true that under the development of our Constitution more and more weight is placed on the House of Commons. Of course, it is true that the Chancellor of the Exchequer must sit in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1994.3", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What about the Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "N. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because since the passing of the Parliament Act the House of Lords has no control over finance at all. That is a special case. Nevertheless, I think that it would be a very bad precedent to set to say that this or that Ministry should be for ever debarred from being given to a Member of the House of Lords, with a fixed pattern of which posts are to be allocated to either House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1994.3", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "eless, I think that it would be a very bad precedent to set to say that this or that Ministry should be for ever debarred from being given to a Member of the House of Lords, with a fixed pattern of which posts are to be allocated to either House. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"What about the Prime Minister?\"] The Prime Minister is not appointed by the Prime Minister. The matter rests entirely with the Sovereign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1994.3", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he new Lord Privy Seal will have special care of Foreign Office interests in these European matters, will make for efficiency. It may be argued that this arrangement of a Foreign Secretary with a deputy of Cabinet rank will lead to jealousies, internal pressures and friction. I think that I may say—I hope I say nothing which will arouse too much opposition—that it all depends on the personalities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-07-28", "file": "debates1960-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "05aa2a4d156ea06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1994.3", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will have to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ued that this arrangement of a Foreign Secretary with a deputy of Cabinet rank will lead to jealousies, internal pressures and friction. I think that I may say—I hope I say nothing which will arouse too much opposition—that it all depends on the personalities—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said it?\"]. I am satisfied that my noble Friend and my right hon. Friend will work together in harmony and co-operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-07-28a.1994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-25", "file": "debates1960-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "bf80fb68446e9285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2130.8", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I think it is better that Lanarkshire should pay the market rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2130.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-10-25", "file": "debates1960-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "bf80fb68446e9285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2134.3", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "Does not this policy amount to the fact that people were told to move out of the centre of London, but they have to come back for work and now we get more congestion on the roads and more root causes of unhappiness? Why should not we have an inquiry and let the whole world know? Why should not we have an independent inquiry and find out what is the position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-25", "file": "debates1960-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "bf80fb68446e9285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2139.6", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"TWO?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "The circular has been very successful in its effect already. As I have said, in two cases agreement has been reached between tenant and landlord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2139.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-25", "file": "debates1960-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "bf80fb68446e9285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2146.2", "colnum": "2146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES BASES, UNITED KINGDOM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that this position is entirely unsatisfactory for the people of this country, who are gravely concerned about the use of American bases here? Is he further aware that what the Opposition asked for last July—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2146.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-25", "file": "debates1960-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "bf80fb68446e9285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2155.1", "colnum": "2155", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why make it, then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "e of the Press and will appreciate that when someone is asked, on the spur of the moment, to make a statement on a very controversial issue it is not always possible to make a statement which afterwards, on the facts of the case then known, can be taken out of its context. Perhaps I may say that when the Army spokesman made his statement about the numbers we did not know what the facts truly were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-25", "file": "debates1960-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "bf80fb68446e9285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2163.3", "colnum": "2163", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Mellish", "preceding_text": "I understand, Mr. Speaker, that this is a debatable Motion. May I refer to the point that I made a little earlier? I feel that perhaps I did not make myself very clear, and I should now like to do so. As I understand, my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, East (Mr. Fletcher) has now given notice orally of his intention under the Ten Minutes Rule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-25", "file": "debates1960-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "bf80fb68446e9285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2164.1", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "The point I am trying to make—and I should have thought that if it was clearly stated the hon. Member would have understood it—is that, if this Motion goes through, we understand that Thursday's business will terminate at 12 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-25", "file": "debates1960-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "bf80fb68446e9285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2232.2", "colnum": "2232", "heading": "Second Schedule.—(THE INVESTIGATING AND DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEES).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "at therefore these powers are essential. I should be sorry to think that they were likely to be abused. The medical men—and I say this with some hesitation, having had some experience in medicine myself—are trained all through their lifetime to look dispassionately and to listen dispassionately to what is said to them and to do their best to sift the truth from the false, the real from the unreal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-25", "file": "debates1960-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "bf80fb68446e9285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2254.0", "colnum": "2254", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I have listened with interest to what the right hon. Gentleman said. It may be that I have not fully followed him, but as I understand him this means that no Member for the future, if this Standing Order is accepted in its new form, can by rising in his seat and uttering just the word \"Object\" postpone the business to another day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-25", "file": "debates1960-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "bf80fb68446e9285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2271.2", "colnum": "2271", "heading": "CONTROL OF EXPENDITURE (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. Turton (Thirsk and Malton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Slumbering.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. Turton (Thirsk and Malton)", "preceding_text": "hough great and kind tributes have been paid in this House to the work of the Select Committee, I have read in the columns and correspondence columns of such organs as The Times a number of criticisms of its work. Before I address myself to the new duties that the House wishes us to undertake, I want to put on record some of the difficulties we face. The Times regards us as a \"lumbering watchdog\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-25a.2271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2324.1", "colnum": "2324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that he has now been in office twelve months and the road situation is worse than when he took over?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2324.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2352.0", "colnum": "2352", "heading": "ACCOMMODATION (REPORT OF MR. SPEAKER'S COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "rial accommodation for the Leader of the Opposition has been provided during the Recess. Also, facilities for the Press Gallery refreshment staff have been improved. With the permission of the House, I will circulate a summary in the OFFICIAL REPORT. I am sure that hon. Members would wish me to thank the Committee for the valuable work which it has been able to do so far on this difficult subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2351.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2360.2", "colnum": "2360", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "t through discourtesy I do not give way, but merely because this is an intricate subject of great magnitude and I want to make a coherent statement to the House so that it may have a basis on which the debate may proceed. One more remark of a general nature before I deal in detail with the Accounts and with the Select Committee's Report. We must have a railway system. There is no doubt about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2360.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2405.1", "colnum": "2405", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ained in the past. For example, the North Kent line has been electrified. There has been a great improvement in the service, with trains running more frequently. It seems to me that the timekeeping is 100 per cent. Instead of trains being regularly half an hour late they are now getting in a minute or two early. But travelling in the rolling stock on this line has to be experienced to be believed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2473.1", "colnum": "2473", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "0F4;le of the Commission. Sympathy has been expressed for Sir Brian Robertson, and I will not go into that. My hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) made clear what we on this side feel about that. For many years Sir Brian has suffered from the fact that from many hon. Members opposite, including the present Minister of Transport, there has been almost hatred of the Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2476.1", "colnum": "2476", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "at. He regards the House as a place which he can flit in and out of, but he is the Minister of Transport and is supposed to be listening to the debate. In any case, I am speaking on behalf of my party, and I am entitled to expect some attention from him. He does not gain from being flippant throughout the debate. He may think it amusing, but I do not. The T.U.C., in its report, made the following—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2476.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2500.2", "colnum": "2500", "heading": "HOUSING (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "How many rooms?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "All those I have mentioned so far have been exclusive figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2505.1", "colnum": "2505", "heading": "HOUSING (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "Now that the hon. Member for Fulham (Mr. M. Stewart) has had his say, I wish to put this problem into the right perspective. There is a problem here, a problem almost entirely confined to the London area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2505.6", "colnum": "2505", "heading": "HOUSING (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "All I am saying is that, during the Recess, during this time when the situation has been said to be so difficult, hardly a single complaint has come from anywhere outside the Greater London area. It is a problem almost entirely—I say almost entirely—confined to London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2505.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2509.2", "colnum": "2509", "heading": "HOUSING (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "re enlisted to try to find a solution to the problem. These, however, are the people who deserve the utmost sympathy—the people who live on fixed incomes, who have for many years been accustomed to live in a particular street or block of flats. The reasonable rent of their accommodation has now gone beyond their means. It is not the landlord's fault, it is not their fault, but those are the cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2509.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2509.2", "colnum": "2509", "heading": "HOUSING (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the Government's fault.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "e, however, are the people who deserve the utmost sympathy—the people who live on fixed incomes, who have for many years been accustomed to live in a particular street or block of flats. The reasonable rent of their accommodation has now gone beyond their means. It is not the landlord's fault, it is not their fault, but those are the cases—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault is it?\"] It is nobody's fault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2509.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2510.3", "colnum": "2510", "heading": "HOUSING (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes, they can. Local authorities have shown that they have been able to do so in certain cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2510.3", "colnum": "2510", "heading": "HOUSING (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes, they can. Local authorities have shown that they have been able to do so in certain cases. [ Interruption. ] In certain cases, friends or relations can suggest somewhere where they can go, or voluntary agencies can do so. In some cases, it is found that the person can move to a cheaper flat elsewhere, perhaps in the possession of the same landlord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2516.1", "colnum": "2516", "heading": "HOUSING (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "situation there has deteriorated to the point at which there has been bloodshed. We have had what have been probably the most serious civil disorders seen in the London area since the war. This is the result of a Conservative council's housing policy, which has been publicly and specifically commended by the Minister. This is the result of a council introducing a vicious differential rents policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2518.3", "colnum": "2518", "heading": "HOUSING (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "00 this year. Let us now consider the position which has resulted from the Rent Act, the very matter which we are discussing tonight. Before the Act was passed, controlled houses, that is to say, houses which were subject to the control of the Rent Acts, were literally falling to pieces, because landlords could not do the repairs because they could not get sufficient rents to enable them to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2518.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2520.3", "colnum": "2520", "heading": "HOUSING (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "I will explain why. They are occupying premises which are too big for their requirements, and they are forced to do so for the simple reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-26", "file": "debates1960-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "625e964c88d90e06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2521.3", "colnum": "2521", "heading": "HOUSING (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": " or, on the contrary, become fashionable and the rents vary according to the movements of the population and the popularity of the neighbourhood. It would be a retrograde and fatal step if, in the interests of some hard cases, we were to freeze the situation as it now is, which apparently hon. Members opposite want to do. Of course, hon. Members of all parties wish to seek to alleviate hard cases,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-26a.2521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-27", "file": "debates1960-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "03dc96828b9dfcbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-27a.2565.1", "colnum": "2565", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "It is our intention to sell the company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-27a.2565.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-10-27", "file": "debates1960-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "03dc96828b9dfcbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-27a.2572.6", "colnum": "2572", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "It is always sad when any of these newspapers, national or local, goes under, but it is not a subject for the Monopolies Commission at all. Regarding the hon. Gentleman's references to the Royal Commission on the Press and its Report, I think that is more in regard to the local than the national Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-27a.2572.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-10-27", "file": "debates1960-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "03dc96828b9dfcbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-27a.2573.7", "colnum": "2573", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, in London.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ould not the Minister consider whether there has not been a case within the meaning of Section 3 (2) of the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices Act, 1948, whereby two people have deliberately restricted the supply of newspapers in this country—one by a straightforward commercial enterprise and the other one I will not mention—whereby there are now only two evening newspapers left in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-10-27a.2573.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-02", "file": "debates1960-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "0ddf8497c0e6c93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-02a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "FLOODS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What for?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-02a.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-02", "file": "debates1960-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "0ddf8497c0e6c93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-02a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "FLOODS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What for?\"]—for his expression of sympathy", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-02a.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-02", "file": "debates1960-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "0ddf8497c0e6c93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-02a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "PENSIONS AND BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "tributions under the Industrial Injuries Scheme are in excess of the requirements of existing benefits? The Government Actuary estimates that at the end of the century there will be about £600 million surplus in the fund. We shall want to know what relationship between the Industrial Injuries contribution and the National Insurance contribution the Minister has brought into his proposals. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-02a.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-02", "file": "debates1960-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "0ddf8497c0e6c93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-02a.174.0", "colnum": "174", "heading": "PENSIONS AND BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "isability war pensioner rise from 85s. to 97s. 6d. per week, a very considerable rise for which, I am sure, they will be much indebted. The rate for Industrial Injuries pensioners is to rise to precisely the same extent. There is a strong feeling throughout the country that the war disability pensioner ought now to have some differential between his case and that of a man with industrial injuries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-02a.174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-02", "file": "debates1960-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "0ddf8497c0e6c93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-02a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS [SECOND DAY]", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does that ment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) began and concluded his \"Election Address\" with some very offensive remarks about some of my right hon. Friends. I do not propose to follow him in that. De morituris nil nisi bonum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-02a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-02", "file": "debates1960-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "0ddf8497c0e6c93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-02a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS [SECOND DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ce was made, and that is the Weights and Measures Bill. Most members of the party opposite have always taken a great interest in the protection of the consumer This, after all, is a very important Measure to protect the consumer. We believe that the best protection for any consumer is competition and common sense—the right of the consumer to choose between different traders and different products.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-02a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-02", "file": "debates1960-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "0ddf8497c0e6c93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-02a.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS [SECOND DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "Hon. Members \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "That brings me to another point which was referred to by the President of the Board of Trade. In the days of fierce price competition the tendency was for the price to fall and for the quality of the product to fall with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-02a.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-02", "file": "debates1960-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "0ddf8497c0e6c93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-02a.307.4", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS [SECOND DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "ton (Mr. Lee) referred sarcastically to a phrase of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister that under the Tories, the people had never had it so good. That was a kind of echo of an earlier phrase in the hon. Member's speech when he said that under a Tory Government appeared to be no time for increases in wage rates. I was surprised to hear the hon. Member say that in the early part of his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-02a.307.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-03", "file": "debates1960-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c9978c641b8a3e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE (MOTION AND AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "that. But the Standing Order also provides for private Members, in particular, asking Mr. Speaker for reasons for his decision. With great respect, that is all we are doing. We are keeping within those narrow limits. I recognise that you have a great responsibility, and that you are in a difficult position, but I hope that you will look at the matter afresh from the point of view I have expressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.340.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-03", "file": "debates1960-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c9978c641b8a3e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE (MOTION AND AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Baxter", "preceding_text": "nfluenced, Mr. Speaker, to some degree by the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Dunbartonshire, West (Mr. Steele), may I draw you attention and the attention of the House to the fact that I have received a communication dated 1st November and signed by the hon. Member for Dunbartonshire, West suggesting that there is a great volume of public opinion in that area against this proposed base.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-03", "file": "debates1960-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c9978c641b8a3e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "tomorrow afternoon, that will not satisfy hon. Members who have appended their signatures to this Amendment. May I also direct the right hon. Gentleman's attention to the fact that what is required on an urgent and controversial issue of this kind is not only a debate but, if necessary, a vote, if the Government's reply is unsatisfactory. May I put this further point? On this I feel very strongly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-03", "file": "debates1960-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c9978c641b8a3e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "if the Government's reply is unsatisfactory. May I put this further point? On this I feel very strongly. [ Interruption. ] I am not concerned about what my hon. Friends on the Front Bench may think about it. My hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) had better await what happens tonight. Perhaps he will not be as cocky after that as he is at present. May I ask, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-03", "file": "debates1960-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c9978c641b8a3e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.352.3", "colnum": "352", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I express regret to you again, Sir. I am sorry if I have said anything improper which bears on your conduct or the proceedings of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.352.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-03", "file": "debates1960-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c9978c641b8a3e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.354.2", "colnum": "354", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ld like to see it reversed. He will quite clearly do nothing to assist it, although for the moment he is the Leader of the party in the House. For the Leader of the House it has this relevance: when he comes to agreements with the usual channels about time in the House for discussing defence, he is in negotiation with representatives of a minority and not of a majority opinion in the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.354.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-03", "file": "debates1960-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c9978c641b8a3e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.358.2", "colnum": "358", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "It is not fair to put up a representative in another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.358.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-03", "file": "debates1960-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c9978c641b8a3e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "leman's side, but there is certainly a considerable number of hon. Members on his side, as well as on this side, who believe that it is absolute folly on the part of the British Government to deny the Colonial Development Corporation the opportunity of operating in these newly independent territories to the extent of putting in additional capital. Why it should be cut off we have never understood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-03", "file": "debates1960-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c9978c641b8a3e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.384.3", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "In that case, the hon. Member wants to understand them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-03", "file": "debates1960-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c9978c641b8a3e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting that the Commission came into discussion, and what the Prime Minister said to Sir Edgar Whitehead is no more evidence than what the soldier said in the well-known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-03", "file": "debates1960-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c9978c641b8a3e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "s on all sides. Why cannot we make up our minds? Surely, we know perfectly well the right course of action in Nyasaland, despite the winds of change—the hurricanes of change—we know, and that all the talk and guff about freedom, independence and democracy means nothing. Surely we know what is the right course of action there. The right course of action is to keep the Federation going at all costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-03a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-04", "file": "debates1960-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "be9fe59199cb5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "upset the existing balance of power in the world but to stabilise it. In my opinion, one such step is the decision of the American Government to rely increasingly for its deterrent force on highly mobile atomic submarines rather than on land-based aircraft or missiles. I know perfectly well that some of my hon. Friends will oppose this proposal of the United States Government, because they reject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-04", "file": "debates1960-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "be9fe59199cb5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.506.2", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I should be glad to continue these amiable exchanges with the hon. Gentleman in another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.506.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-04", "file": "debates1960-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "be9fe59199cb5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.514.2", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "and the British Government can no longer shelter behind the argument that this is purely an internal French problem, any more than they any longer shelter behind the argument that what happens inside South Africa is purely an internal problem for the South African Government. On the question of full, vigorous and active support for the United Nations, this side of the House, irrespective of party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.514.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-04", "file": "debates1960-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "be9fe59199cb5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "at that will emerge as the debate goes along. I hope that the House will not think me discourteous if I deal with some of the things fairly fully. Most of all, I hope that the hon. Lady the Member for Cannock (Miss Lee) will not judge me discourteous. This is an occasion when we should fully review these affairs. It is a pity perhaps that today, a Friday, has been chosen for a debate of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.517.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-04", "file": "debates1960-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "be9fe59199cb5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.528.0", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "sals at this stage. No. Our proposals are included in the plans at present on the table. I turn to the admission of China to the United Nations. Hon. Members on both sides are asking whether it is realistic that China should remain outside the United Nations. Of course, the problem is really not whether China remains outside. It is a question of which China is to be admitted to the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.527.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-04", "file": "debates1960-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "be9fe59199cb5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame. That is untrue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": "ut to defence contractors, that there was the most appalling expenditure, and yet, in terms—talking strictly of weapons—so little to show for it when war broke out. For me, that is not the essence of the situation. The essence of the situation is that hon. Members opposite in the main, almost without exception, were so in love with what Hitler stood for and what Mussolini stood for before the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-04", "file": "debates1960-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "be9fe59199cb5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "eement were first reached on this with the United States, because the one thing which the Communist Powers always try to do is to drive a wedge between Great Britain and the United States. If they can do it in the forum of U.N.O. so much the better for them. I do not think it is any good in our trying to initiate the admission of Communist China to U.N.O. unless the United States are in agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-04", "file": "debates1960-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "be9fe59199cb5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "y I suggest that hon. Members on both sides of the House should read the speeches of my right hon. Friend the Member for Dundee, West and of the present Minister of Agriculture. The speech a year ago of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Dundee, West on the Army Continuance Order was not only false in concept; it was also false in detail. The Labour Party is in a position of great difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-04", "file": "debates1960-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "be9fe59199cb5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": " has moved, so that we will be left in a dwindling majority of nations as a result of this policy, when everybody knows that Britain's vote would change the situation and do a great deal to win the non-involved nations to our side. This would be different if we had won the General Election. If we had won, China would now be seated in the United Nations, because Britain would have changed its vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-04", "file": "debates1960-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "be9fe59199cb5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.594.3", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "preceding_text": "ne thing. Whatever our views may be, I am sure that we all want to try to keep a peaceful world; to try to stop a war starting—and I must say this because we know it to be true—which could destroy our civilisation as we know it today. When I say, \"our civilisation\", I mean Russian civilisation, North American civilisation—probably that of most of the world except, perhaps, as has been said, China.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-04", "file": "debates1960-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "be9fe59199cb5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "irmed. The Prime Minister went on to deal with what arrangements this meant in practice. The phrase he used here was that there would be . . the fullest possible previous consultation …\".—[ Official Report 1st November, 1960; Vol. 629, c. 38.] I think that the misunderstanding in America, so far as I can track it down, occurred because some reports of his speech omitted the word \"possible\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-04a.602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-07", "file": "debates1960-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8a895eab376719f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-07a.659.3", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. White", "preceding_text": " under the local education authorities. I know that the Minister can produce some figures of extra buildings which are now being built but, not withstanding that, we are told quite emphatically that the gap between the public schools which are being financed by industry and the maintained schools has widened appreciably in the last two years. There is one law for the rich and another for the poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-07a.659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-07", "file": "debates1960-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8a895eab376719f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-07a.710.3", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hannan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hannan", "preceding_text": " thoughts. I hope that they have had them and I hope that they will now plan and take the initiative in this matter in order to help. It is not sufficient for the Government to say that they are spending so much money now compared with what they were spending a few years ago or to say what they are spending in comparison with the days of the Labour Government. That argument is as dead as the dodo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-07a.710.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-07", "file": "debates1960-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8a895eab376719f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-07a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not completed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "n about them. This is a case in which the best may be the enemy of the good. I have warned local authorities and, frankly, members of my own Department that they should not always strive for absolute perfection in this matter, or they will never get work started. I assure hon. Members that I am not complacent about this matter, but the fact is that we are working on the programme which we set out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-07a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.832.3", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to publish a paper giving details of this agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.832.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it a written agreement?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I quite understand the right hon. Gentleman's points. First, there has been an interchange and an agreement made. I am not prepared to publish it. I have given a full account of it in my answers and in my statement. There is certainly an agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.835.0", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I still ask what \"the first time\" means—the first time in the world, or the first time by the allies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Yates", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the majority of the British people are absolutely in favour of and will support the American alliance, whether it is with nuclear weapons or ordinary conventional weapons? I should like to say that on behalf of the majority of people in this House and in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.839.2", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that if his purpose really were to unite maximum opposition to this project the way in which he answers Questions in the House about it would be the exactly right way to go about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.839.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "he is correctly reported in the Observer of 30th October last, when he said that A national housing shortage no longer exists. It is, I suppose, as the Americans would put it, merely a rumour put about by those who have nowhere adequate to live. The right hon. Gentleman went on to say that what remained were \"purely local problems.\" Let us be charitable to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.848.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.860.2", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "debated the London situation a fortnight ago. The terms of the Amendment call, as I read them, for a reimposition of rent control on the houses and flats that have been decontrolled. I must say that they contain no suggestion of how that is to be done without bringing back all the evils that every housing expert agrees rent control has inflicted on landlords and tenants and on the nation at large.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A racket.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": " we have put it right it will cost £5,000. We have just been able to pay off our mortgage. The point I want to make is that this story illustrates that as a result of the Rent Act, for which the right hon. Gentleman and the Government are responsible, the landowning and property classes of this country must have had millions of pounds put into their pockets through the increased value of property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.910.3", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "preceding_text": "I will give way presently, but I have hardly started my speech yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.910.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "preceding_text": " difficulties that ordinary people encounter in being housed, what is one to do with the sort of letter that I have here, which I quote as a concrete example: Dear Mr. Skeffington, I am writing to you as my last hope. This is how letters from desperate cases always start. They have already been to the local authorities and to the house agents and have put up postcard advertisements in local shops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.918.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Four.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Yates", "preceding_text": "working in the national interest. Another great difference between the party opposite and ours is that we believe that council houses should be built for those who need them and not just for those who want them. Everybody wants one—I should like to live in one if I could. Some of my hon. Friends live in London County Council houses. I have been told by Members opposite that two of my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "preceding_text": "n this total. If this £66 million is divided among the 4 million council houses, it gives an average annual subsidy of £16 or £17 a year. To my mind, subsidies are a form of State assistance to tenants. No one would suggest that National Assistance should be operated on a local scale in as much as local authorities should determine the scale under which a man or woman receives National Assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, yes, we did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "r-occupation in houses throughout the country. In 1938, there were 13½ million houses and flats and in 1959 there were 16 million, an increase of 2½ million. From 1938 to 1959, the population increased from 46 million to 50 million, an increase of 4 million. When, however, we calculate the number of persons per house, we find that in 1938, when we did not have the long waiting lists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "lly watched, with the broad principle that the existing tenant of the house, which is now too large for him, should have the right to any one of the flats that remains after the conversion at either the old rent or twice the gross value of the new accommodation, or whichever figure is the lower. We should then find, I think, that tenants would be extremely grateful to forswear their accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e tender price was about £1,350 to £1,400 for a house. The repayment on that by a local authority, borrowing the money over sixty years, was £2,900. In 1959, as a result of the right hon. Gentleman's administration, the tender became £1,600, not a vast rise but it was for a poorer house—a markedly poorer house which was being put up compared with that when Mr. Aneurin Bevan was Minister of Health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " the repayment over sixty years is £6,000, so that the repayments are more than doubled, whereas the actual cost of building has gone up very little. In the case of private ownership, if one borrowed £2,000 in 1951, one repaid £2,900. If one borrowed it today, one would pay £3,500. That is quite notional, because when I had to borrow in 1951, for every two years I paid I pretty well fell back one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.958.3", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Belper mentioned the questions of Africa, of defence, of a new stagnation in our economy, of overseas trading, and took about five minutes on these subjects. I was proposing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.958.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.958.3", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " stagnation in our economy, of overseas trading, and took about five minutes on these subjects. I was proposing—[ Interruption. ] The right hon. Member for Belper need not get so excited. I was proposing to occupy four or five minutes on one or two issues and then to devote the rest of my speech to housing, which is the subject of the Amendment on the Order Paper. That is a reasonable thing to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.958.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.958.3", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "nd, with your permission, Mr. Speaker, and a perfect atmosphere of give and take, I propose to do it. There was no Amendment on the vital matter of prices, for the very good reason that we have had the longest period of price stability since the war. In the debate on trade and industry last week, my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade was able to indicate the remarkable progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.958.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "out of place in dealing with the Rent Act for the moment to remind hon. Members what was the general object of the Act. They may not agree with it, but, although some of the effects may have been severe—and I should like to be the first to answer the right hon. Member for Belper in acknowledging that—the object of the Act was a farseeing one and I believe it is going to bring dividends in the end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.961.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-08", "file": "debates1960-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a421f8737f6befe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (NON-PARTICIPATING EMPLOYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-08a.1000.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-09", "file": "debates1960-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4a5290560088c71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The whole point, which the Minister is avoiding, is that we on this side have been pressing for at least a year that some control of pedestrians will be necessary to get road safety. Will the hon. Gentleman give an assurance that this will be included in his new Road Safety Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-09", "file": "debates1960-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4a5290560088c71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "To my mind, it is by no means settled what we shall do, but so far as tunnels and bridges are concerned, I think tolls are desirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-09", "file": "debates1960-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4a5290560088c71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "Is there not a clear difference of principle between these cases? Does not this bridge and tunnel save the motorist from a long journey round? Therefore, there is understanding of a toll in that case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-09", "file": "debates1960-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4a5290560088c71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "Is there not a clear difference of principle between these cases? Does not this bridge and tunnel save the motorist from a long journey round? Therefore, there is understanding of a toll in that case—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"]—whereas the motorway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1024.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-09", "file": "debates1960-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4a5290560088c71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1024.3", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "No, I am afraid not now, because a decision has been taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1024.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-09", "file": "debates1960-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4a5290560088c71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1025.3", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Jolly good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that that adds up to a capital expenditure of £1,000 per car?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1025.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-09", "file": "debates1960-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4a5290560088c71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "preceding_text": "licence costs two-thirds less than the A-licence? Is he aware that, in the first place, these people are dodging taxation and, in the second place, are able to undercut the honest man in the prices that they charge for their work? Is he aware that it is terribly difficult for a policeman or anyone else to check these people if one has to wait until the vehicle stops before one can see the licence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-09", "file": "debates1960-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4a5290560088c71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "preceding_text": " to check these people if one has to wait until the vehicle stops before one can see the licence? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] Would it not be better to have a requirement that some much bigger sign, marked A, B or C, should be placed on the vehicle so that anyone at a glance could see whether or not these men were avoiding taxation and the proper responsibilities that they have in case of accidents?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-09", "file": "debates1960-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4a5290560088c71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has raised a number of points and I hope that she will forgive me if I do not reply to them all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-09", "file": "debates1960-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4a5290560088c71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1098.2", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "then we shall succeed. This is not a plea for the Cottons and Clores of this world to take over all the railways, but it is a plea that there should be an entirely separate corporation of British Railways which should be responsible for running the property and land assets side, and that it should be as far away as possible from the gentlemen running the railways, and have no connection with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1098.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-09", "file": "debates1960-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4a5290560088c71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "teel as only one example, but the second is that of Cunard's with £18 million to be invested; the third is that of cotton with £30 million; the fourth is the motor industry with £9 million; and the fifth is the jute industry. The Secretary of State for Scotland is in his place, but a Member from Dundee is not present. Admittedly, the Dundee Members did not know that I was going to talk about jute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-09", "file": "debates1960-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4a5290560088c71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get down to brass tacks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "jute. [ Laughter. ] There is no cause for ribaldry. Jute is one of the raw material constituent elements in the manufacture of a carpet and I happen to represent Kidderminster and, therefore, jute is one of my constant preoccupations. Why is jute still nationalised? Are not public funds concerned with jute? Why do we not stop, in accordance with our principles, the bulk buying and selling of jute?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-09", "file": "debates1960-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4a5290560088c71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ll, after receiving a Second Reading in this House, would then pass to a Standing Committee, and such a Standing Committee could debate each Clause separately with a view to amendment in amount, thus giving Parliament control over capital investment in each individual industry. I do not expect Socialists to agree with me, because the Socialist Party believes that all investment is good investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-09", "file": "debates1960-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4a5290560088c71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I do not think that there is anything imbecile about running a business on commercial lines. Of course, a Socialist thinks that there is. A Socialist will always say that the test of profitability is imbecile, but it is the private sector of British industry which today is paying for the losses in the nationalised industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-09", "file": "debates1960-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4a5290560088c71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1118.3", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "llion losses forward, there is a total of £164 million of public moneys totally sterilised. I think that my right hon. Friend the Minister of Power will find himself, either shortly before Christmas or shortly after, in the unenviable position of having to come to the House and ask for more money for the National Coal Board. He will get a very hostile reception from me and many of my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-09a.1118.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-10", "file": "debates1960-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "d4948ae56d728f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1210.4", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "tention that the industry would gain by adopting mass production methods. The main emphasis of the recommendations is on the need for a greater research and development effort to enable the industry to meet to an increasing extent the requirements for more and more highly specialised machine tools. This in turn will demand a substantial increase in the number of qualified engineers and scientists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1210.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-10", "file": "debates1960-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "d4948ae56d728f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1211.2", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Circulate it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "This is an important matter. The Government welcome the main lines of the Report. I am already examining the detailed recommendations in consultation with the industry and with my colleagues. It is inevitable that a comprehensive Report on any industry of such size and complexity will contain some criticisms. Arising from this, I should like to make one general observation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-10", "file": "debates1960-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "d4948ae56d728f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1219.6", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PATRONAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1219.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-10", "file": "debates1960-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "d4948ae56d728f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1219.8", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PATRONAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the country as a whole does not regard it as a very funny matter? Is he aware that in recent appointments there has been evidence of gross abuse of the exercise of this power?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1219.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-10", "file": "debates1960-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "d4948ae56d728f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1220.0", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PATRONAGE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ouch of the hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes), who does this sort of thing in a much more charming manner. It is my duty to recommend appointments. This appointment had to be given to a Member of the House of Lords because of the adjustment of the three Ministers being in the House of Commons. I am quite prepared to defend my appointments. I try to make the best appointments I can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-10", "file": "debates1960-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "d4948ae56d728f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1220.0", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PATRONAGE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ming manner. It is my duty to recommend appointments. This appointment had to be given to a Member of the House of Lords because of the adjustment of the three Ministers being in the House of Commons. I am quite prepared to defend my appointments. I try to make the best appointments I can. [ Laughter. ] All I can say is that if ever the sad day came when appointments had to be made from that side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-10", "file": "debates1960-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "d4948ae56d728f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1226.2", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "of Privilege? He may remember that I mentioned that 150 hon. Members had been invited to the Federation of Central Africa. That has never been denied. But I notice that in no national newspaper which I have looked at has that statement been reported. May I ask whether he has any idea—there are rumours circulating—of the possibility that advertising agents have some control over the national Press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1226.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-10", "file": "debates1960-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "d4948ae56d728f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ease production. In other words, one must have a balance. It is simply not true to suggest that we are today in danger of throttling the expansion of the economy because of a shortage of these basic services. At least, I hope that the Opposition share our satisfaction in having moved some way from that painful period of fuel shortages and electricity cuts that we used to experience some years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-10", "file": "debates1960-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "d4948ae56d728f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1247.0", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I think that everyone will agree that we are doing very much better than we did in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-10", "file": "debates1960-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "d4948ae56d728f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1343.1", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": " whether employment has not been overfull so far. The second inference is that the pricing policies of the nationalised industries have been wrong, and the third, that labour has been too immobile. Whenever we talk about the mobility of labour, I always think that just a little bit of the human factor arises. The idea that a person should dig himself up by the roots and go off to some other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-10", "file": "debates1960-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "d4948ae56d728f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear that, and I have no doubt that all sides in the steel industry will do so. That, however, is not a picture of stagnation. Does anybody say that the picture in the textile industry is one of stagnation? Things have been bad, but now they are certainly going up again. Then, there are chemicals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-10", "file": "debates1960-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "d4948ae56d728f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "tely false picture of the situation to suggest that throughout the whole area of the economy there is nothing but stagnation. That just is not true. I think it is important that we should not talk ourselves, talk the country, and talk other people into thinking that the picture here is just simply one of dead, steady stagnation. There is great growth going on in certain areas of our economic body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-10a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-14", "file": "debates1960-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "166d78731b8c9fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-14a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that his decision to supplant Renfrew Airport with Abbotsinch will be very warmly welcomed by the large and increasing number of people at present using Renfrew Airport?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-14a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-14", "file": "debates1960-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "166d78731b8c9fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-14a.98.2", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND DRAINAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "nhabitants, probably denying the people who live around the the valley one drop of that water, and drawing the water out without reference to any other corporation which might have an equal claim to it. To use a word which has not yet been alluded to on this side of the House, we shall not solve our water problems until we have outright nationalisation of water, and the sooner it comes the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-14a.98.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-15", "file": "debates1960-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d4036a08ebe9af3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.204.6", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend was drawing attention to the fact that the national problem had been largely solved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.204.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-15", "file": "debates1960-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d4036a08ebe9af3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think it is within the knowledge of the House that whereas some years ago this was the most terrific, pressing problem, and our biggest problem, in many parts of the country and in some authorities it has now very largely been satisfied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.205.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-15", "file": "debates1960-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d4036a08ebe9af3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DAGENHAM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "peaker, that I wished to put a new point to the Chancellor, if I might be allowed to do so: that is, that he has not answered the first question put to him from the other side of the House. When he makes a statement, may I ask him not to present the House with a fait accompli, but to give the House an oppor- tunity of expressing its views before he takes a decision? Could I have an answer to that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.211.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-15", "file": "debates1960-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d4036a08ebe9af3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DAGENHAM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Could the Chancellor of the Exchequer make the statement when he has received the application, as my right hon. Friend asks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-15", "file": "debates1960-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d4036a08ebe9af3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": " all the wrong criteria, but before coming to that I want to deal with the delay. Why has it taken so long? Why have these people—6 million altogether—had to wait so long for the relief which is now so much overdue? It is likely that the Bill would never have been introduced but for the election pledge of the party opposite when stung into making it by the more positive policy of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-15", "file": "debates1960-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d4036a08ebe9af3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Spencer Summers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Spencer Summers", "preceding_text": "uced for the sick and unemployed. In many of the debates on what we should be doing in the sphere of national insurance the topic of finance arises. One of my quarrels with the speech of the hon. Member for Sowerby (Mr. Houghton) was that he seemed all along to say, \"Let us decide what people ought to get and then give it to them irrespective of the consequences of the financing of the operation\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-15", "file": "debates1960-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d4036a08ebe9af3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The price of a dog licence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "nister says, \"Hear, hear.\" The message has gone out to the motor car industry that if it can only wait until the first week in April it will have the old-age pensioners queueing up for the goods which our expanding economy is producing—for the motor cars, the refrigerators and all the other things produced in the consumer boom, and all for a 7s. 6d. increase in the old-age pension. It is nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-15", "file": "debates1960-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d4036a08ebe9af3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Lady", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "I am very much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-15", "file": "debates1960-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d4036a08ebe9af3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Brown", "preceding_text": "The answer to the question I put is not in keeping with what I desired.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-15a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-16", "file": "debates1960-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "9bf01037c4498bdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-16a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I quite accept that the right hon. Gentleman is as keen as I am to get recruitment going. I am not going to be pinned down to particular dates in particular years which are two years away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-16a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-16", "file": "debates1960-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "9bf01037c4498bdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-16a.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And vote against.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Or the full content of the resolution. In his speech the British delegate made it absolutely plain that, of course, we are opposed to racial discrimination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-16a.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-16", "file": "debates1960-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "9bf01037c4498bdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-16a.386.4", "colnum": "386", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The word \"cowardice\" was strangely reminiscent to me, having regard to my activities during the last few weeks. As I have unintentionally—I emphasise \"unintentionally\"—been guilty of an abuse of Parliamentary Privilege, as you have just ruled, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-16a.386.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-16", "file": "debates1960-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "9bf01037c4498bdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-16a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUMBERNAULD NEW TOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "wn cost. The houses appear to be good houses, and the people in them to whom I spoke were satisfied with their housing situation. I agree again with my hon. Friend the Member for Hamilton that I should have liked perhaps to see Cumbernauld a little nearer East Kilbride, but I think that he will agree with me that it is probably true that Scotland will never be able to afford another East Kilbride.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-16a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-17", "file": "debates1960-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fe19c4fe4e11a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": "nry Ford has said that he wants absolute control in order to have greater flexibility? Does not this \"greater flexibility\" mean, in plain English, the power to manipulate British Fords, and, therefore, the British motor industry, in the interests of American Fords? Is the Chancellor aware that 100,000 workers in the British car industry, who now face the winter in want and in considerable anxiety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-17", "file": "debates1960-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fe19c4fe4e11a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.542.8", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Since we were first told about this matter, which was shortly before the announcement in the Press, I have been considering it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.542.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-17", "file": "debates1960-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fe19c4fe4e11a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Friend?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-17", "file": "debates1960-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fe19c4fe4e11a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.588.1", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ern notion of the law of evidence, which stems from the Star Chamber, and otherwise from the common law as applied by the judges—the bulk of the law on habeas corpus as a guarantee of freedom, are laws made by judges; and we ought to stop this claptrap about not being governed by judges and that we ought to be governed by the persons selected by the Opposition as having thought about these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-17", "file": "debates1960-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fe19c4fe4e11a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.608.3", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "ve great respect for the average probation officer. Indeed, in my own County of Ayr, they are very good and valued and helpful friends of mine. But has it struck anyone in the House that, if our views are correct and corporal punishment is restored with the effect that we believe that it will have of stopping or diminishing juvenile crime, the jobs of the probation officers will largely disappear?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-17", "file": "debates1960-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fe19c4fe4e11a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.608.3", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "cer. Indeed, in my own County of Ayr, they are very good and valued and helpful friends of mine. But has it struck anyone in the House that, if our views are correct and corporal punishment is restored with the effect that we believe that it will have of stopping or diminishing juvenile crime, the jobs of the probation officers will largely disappear? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I will leave it at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.608.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-17", "file": "debates1960-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fe19c4fe4e11a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.609.4", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "Let me make my speech in my own way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.609.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-17", "file": "debates1960-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fe19c4fe4e11a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.609.4", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "Let me make my speech in my own way. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] I have testified to my respect for the probation officers. I have many good and valued friends among them. I only ask the House if it recognises the point that I have made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.609.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-17", "file": "debates1960-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fe19c4fe4e11a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.668.2", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the statistics of crime?", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "e is nothing to prove that corporal punishment is effective. There is a great deal to prove that it is not. I realise that it up to those who reject judicial corporal punishment to produce other methods. It has been said during the debate, as it is said in other places, that other methods of dealing with young offenders have failed. That is not true. The other methods have not been tried properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-17a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-21", "file": "debates1960-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "35184fddd6c68c2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DAGENHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ted also that, if there are to be market sharing arrangements—an allocation of markets between Detroit, Dagenham and Cologne—there may be advantages from the point of view of American anti-trust legislation. Did the Chancellor go into that when he discussed this with Fords? These are complicated issues, and we do not know, but as the House of Commons we ought to know. The Government ought to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-21", "file": "debates1960-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "35184fddd6c68c2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DAGENHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "preceding_text": " laid off from work in a depression can get up to 65 per cent. of their wages. I think that that is probably an exaggeration. In fact, I have today learned from Detroit that what is said about the purchase of shares at a cheaper price is not correct and that there are certain conditions attached to the second benefit which makes it difficult to understand how the scheme would work in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-21", "file": "debates1960-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "35184fddd6c68c2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DAGENHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "preceding_text": "erently and, with great enterprise, it built on that site, much of the factory being constructed on piles at a very high cost. The 562-acre site now occupied shows the wisdom of that decision. Since the Ford Motor Company came to this country, it has built factories at Doncaster, Leamington, Southampton, Langley, Brentford, Croydon, Woolwich, Walthamstow, Romford, Basildon, Rainham and Birmingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-21", "file": "debates1960-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "35184fddd6c68c2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DAGENHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "preceding_text": " they are entitled to every single penny they earn. There will be nine British and two Amenican directors on the board of directors which is to be left. Sir Patrick Hennessy, we are told, will be the chairman, and there are other names on the board which are well known in industry—Mr. Thacker, Sir Rowland Smith, and Mr. J. M. A. Smith, for instance, all names which stand for something in industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-21", "file": "debates1960-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "35184fddd6c68c2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DAGENHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "—and, as my hon. Friend reminds me, telling the Press first about their decisions. This sort of totalitarian contempt for Parliament helps to explain why the Government and the Chancellor scurry so sycophantically to obey the crack of the whip of American big business when it seeks to establish itself in a more totalitarian position vis-à-vis our own workers and people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-21", "file": "debates1960-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "35184fddd6c68c2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DAGENHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leonard Cleaver", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leonard Cleaver", "preceding_text": "ber for Huyton suggested that it was possible that the Ford Company would prefer to get rid of its holding of dollars and to invest in a stable currency. What a compliment that is to the way in which the Government have exercised financial control over the past few years and what confidence it shows in their ability to do it in the future. For my part, I do net think that the offer is good enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-21", "file": "debates1960-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "35184fddd6c68c2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DAGENHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cleaver", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On whose side is the hon. Member?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cleaver", "preceding_text": "eling amongst any employees that possibly the control of their company is far away and that there is an absentee boss. On the one hand, we do not wish to interfere in any way with the freedom of the buyer and seller which will encourage private industry to be both enterprising and efficient. On the other hand, there is a limit beyond which we should not go. We have before us the example of Canada.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-21", "file": "debates1960-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "35184fddd6c68c2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.889.2", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DAGENHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the speech of the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley (Mr. Cleaver) was written in Dagenham or in Detroit, but it was a little difficult to follow which side he was on. The present Chancellor of the Exchequer has never had much reputation for being a successful defender of British interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.889.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-21", "file": "debates1960-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "35184fddd6c68c2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.889.2", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DAGENHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or the Russians.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "plain tonight what those principles are? Do the Government know by what principles these things are governed? If we do not know, I am bound to ask whether the Government would take no action if some German interests were buying total control of I.C.I., or if they found that the French aircraft industry was buying control of Rolls-Royce, or the American steel industry of the Steel Company of Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.889.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-21", "file": "debates1960-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "35184fddd6c68c2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DAGENHAM", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "There has been a rather noticeable difference between the arguments put forward from the back benches opposite and from the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-21", "file": "debates1960-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "35184fddd6c68c2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DAGENHAM", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the other side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "There has been a rather noticeable difference between the arguments put forward from the back benches opposite and from the Front Bench. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Which side?\"] It has been apparent that a number of hon. Members on the back benches opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-21", "file": "debates1960-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "35184fddd6c68c2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.899.4", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DAGENHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is completely dodging the issue. There has been no mention today from these benches of any objection to American capital coming here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.899.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-21", "file": "debates1960-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "35184fddd6c68c2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DAGENHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I will come to that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-21", "file": "debates1960-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "35184fddd6c68c2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.902.3", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DAGENHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "There is a great contraction in the motor industry all over the world because there is a contraction of sales, but, despite that contraction, the Ford Company thinks it worth while to put £128 million into the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.902.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-21", "file": "debates1960-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "35184fddd6c68c2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYERS (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Goodhart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Chelsea's?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Goodhart", "preceding_text": "from acute insecurity of employment. Both are only too likely to suffer from premature retirement. We both do our work for the most part in public, and our mistakes are subject to the harshest criticism. The Saturday afternoon before last I went to see Chelsea play Arsenal, and I must admit that on that occasion the two Arsenal inside forwards did not, perhaps, acquit themselves particularly well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-21a.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-22", "file": "debates1960-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "da0c0d6340699c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-22a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": " to the Committee that feelings are running high on the benches behind me. It is also disappointing that only one hon. Member opposite has risen to his feet and commented on the matter. Sometimes Members opposite make the impudent claim that because of the \"incompetence\" of the official Opposition they are having to do the opposing themselves. There has been precious little evidence of that today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-22a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-22", "file": "debates1960-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "da0c0d6340699c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-22a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": " as in this case, the proposal is not simply to measure the value of the pension but also to give the pensioners an increase in real terms. On this Bill we had a second reading debate last week, and we have three days this week for the remaining stages. Yet hon. Members opposite say they would sweep all this procedure away, the proposal could be automatic and subject only to a negative Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-22a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-22", "file": "debates1960-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "da0c0d6340699c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-22a.1084.2", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": " the details now because I think that it would not be in order to do so, but anyone can calculate what the figures are. It may surprise the hon. Member for Ince (Mr. T. Brown), who raised this point on Second Reading, to know that the average wage-earner in this country would have to pay more if the cost of this Measure were borne on taxation instead of being borne in the way proposed in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-22a.1084.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-22", "file": "debates1960-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "da0c0d6340699c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-22a.1087.4", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, it is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "That is a negative thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-22a.1087.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-23", "file": "debates1960-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "59030c3a86de67fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-23a.1124.8", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member ought to be fair. The situation is not satisfactory, but it is very much better than it was a year ago. There has been an improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-23a.1124.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-23", "file": "debates1960-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "59030c3a86de67fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-23a.1129.3", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that that is my policy, and that it has been the policy of my predecessors. I think that it is the policy of hon. Members opposite, too, but he is knowledgeable in these matters and will apreciate that, until people agree, one cannot get them to do things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-23a.1129.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-23", "file": "debates1960-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "59030c3a86de67fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-23a.1130.0", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister see the employers in this case and, even if he does not wish to say it publicly, will he assure us that he will in private—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-23a.1130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-23", "file": "debates1960-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "59030c3a86de67fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-23a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "t. Any doctor will say that respiratory diseases amongst old people are very prevalent from January right on till the end of the spring period. Because of these diseases, the death rate amongst old people is high. This is not something new. Those of us who are familiar with the works of Burns know that on the 25th January A blast o' Janwar win' blew hansel in on Robin\". That is the one that kills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-23a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-23", "file": "debates1960-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "59030c3a86de67fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-23a.1160.0", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "I made a noise because the hon. Gentleman was making such an unworthy sort of statement about this matter. Why does he exaggerate like this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-23a.1160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-23", "file": "debates1960-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "59030c3a86de67fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-23a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "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": "ements represented the first real, substantial increase in National Assistance scales, as opposed to adjustments to meet cost-of-living changes, which had been made since the Board was set up in 1948. In this winter, during the time to which hon. Members have devoted so much of their speeches, that improvement in standards for the poorest section of the people, already in force, will be available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-23a.1177.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-24", "file": "debates1960-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbd100ff6ce2f2c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1317.5", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "LOWDHAM GRANGE BORSTAL INSTITUTION (MR. GASH)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "While ignoring the somewhat offensive character of the remarks which have been passed by hon. Members opposite, perhaps I might explain, for the benefit of some Members of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1317.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-24", "file": "debates1960-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbd100ff6ce2f2c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1318.4", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "LOWDHAM GRANGE BORSTAL INSTITUTION (MR. GASH)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "It was only yesterday that it was announced that this man had been suspended. It was only at half-past twelve today that I got your permission, Mr. Speaker, to put down the Question. Therefore, I had no time to consult the hon. Member for Newark (Mr. Deer).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1318.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-24", "file": "debates1960-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbd100ff6ce2f2c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1319.3", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "LOWDHAM GRANGE BORSTAL INSTITUTION (MR. GASH)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "That is what I want to do, Mr. Speaker—to ask my question. May I try to complete it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1319.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-24", "file": "debates1960-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbd100ff6ce2f2c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1319.6", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "LOWDHAM GRANGE BORSTAL INSTITUTION (MR. GASH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "Is it not quite clear, would not the right hon. Gentleman agree, that the motive which lies behind the putting of this Question is that the hon. Gentleman the Member for Ayr (Sir T. Moore) is not so concerned about the freedom and liberty of the individual as with putting across his own particular point of view, which has now become an obsession with him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1319.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-24", "file": "debates1960-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbd100ff6ce2f2c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1320.3", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL AMENDMENT (MEMBER'S NAME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bingham", "preceding_text": "minal Justice Bill which was handed in yesterday, Wednesday, 23rd November, in Standing Committee B, advocating that the courts should have power to sentence young offenders to corporal punishment of all kinds for all crimes of violence bears my name, as does the manuscript Amendment which I saw only shortly before luncheon. I do not know the circumstances in which my signature came to be written.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-24", "file": "debates1960-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbd100ff6ce2f2c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1320.3", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL AMENDMENT (MEMBER'S NAME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bingham", "preceding_text": "ay, Wednesday, 23rd November, in Standing Committee B, advocating that the courts should have power to sentence young offenders to corporal punishment of all kinds for all crimes of violence bears my name, as does the manuscript Amendment which I saw only shortly before luncheon. I do not know the circumstances in which my signature came to be written. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is not my signature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1320.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-24", "file": "debates1960-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbd100ff6ce2f2c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1321.1", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL AMENDMENT (MEMBER'S NAME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-24", "file": "debates1960-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbd100ff6ce2f2c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1321.3", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL AMENDMENT (MEMBER'S NAME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I deeply apologise, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-24", "file": "debates1960-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbd100ff6ce2f2c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1348.3", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Withdraw those offensive remarks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman follows us through the Division Lobby, he will do a great deal more than he has done so far for old people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-24", "file": "debates1960-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbd100ff6ce2f2c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1358.0", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": "gain be in the strong position of being able to say that even the second move by the Government was behind the figures put forward by them in the second half of 1960. 5.45 p.m. The difference between the two sides of the Committee, if I may say so with great respect to the last two speakers from the Opposition, is that we are more concerned than they are about the financing of these big increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1358.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-24", "file": "debates1960-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbd100ff6ce2f2c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1361.0", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Navy.", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": "ain point which I want to make. If the Amendment were accepted it would involve an immediate increase of between £100 million and £150 million, perhaps more, and that would have to be borne by taxation. If hon. Members opposite want that, they had better come to the House tomorrow morning and vote against the continuation of the Army, because that would be one method of saving such a sum of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-24", "file": "debates1960-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbd100ff6ce2f2c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1377.0", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "imately £140 million, of which all but £17 million is being passed straight on to the contributor. The £17 million is the additional contribution that will be made under the proportionate Exchequer contribution. I said in my Second Reading speech that I believed that an obligation rested upon the Exchequer to carry much more than £17 million of the increased cost of these benefits of £140 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-24", "file": "debates1960-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbd100ff6ce2f2c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1381.7", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Certainly he can.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman can pick his index of prices as much as he likes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1381.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-24", "file": "debates1960-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbd100ff6ce2f2c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1381.9", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "—three halfpence a week during the time that the right hon. Gentleman has been in charge of the finances of the old folk. And, indeed, when one bears in mind the new burdens which have been placed on the old people in respect of the 1s. per item per prescription, that advance has been wiped out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1381.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-24", "file": "debates1960-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbd100ff6ce2f2c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1386.0", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McKay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McKay", "preceding_text": "but by about 3s. 8d. This means that we shall be reaching a deadlock in National Insurance. We shall be raising the contribution to such an extent that it will be regarded as deplorable—even if the donkey is willing to subscribe. It is all very nice to say that the donkey at the back is doing all the labour and is suffering all the indignities of producing dirty commodities under dirty conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-24", "file": "debates1960-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbd100ff6ce2f2c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "sympathise with the right hon. Lady, and perhaps more especially with the hon. Gentleman, for being confronted with this bewildering array of figures, benefits, conditions and qualifications which they have had to master to enable them to play their part during the Committee stage of the Bill. I am sure that the House would wish to congratulate them co their performances on many intricate matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-24a.1425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Soskice", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Soskice", "preceding_text": "istration of our affairs by the present Government, they are, nevertheless, to be congratulated in approaching boldly—some might even say audaciously—two difficult, long-standing social problems. I refer to the Betting and Gaming Act, which we recently enacted, and the present Licensing Bill. I should explain at once that, speaking as I do, from the Opposition Front Bench, I speak only for myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "use he could drink as much as he wanted, wherever he wanted, and whenever he wanted; but perhaps we should take warning from the anxiety expressed by members of French Governments in recent years on a number of occasions as to the consumption of alcohol in France and from the campaign inaugurated by M. Mendes-France to substitute milk as the national beverage for the French people instead of beer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.56.2", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may remind my right hon. and learned Friend that the Home Secretary said that he had had numerous representations in favour of 3 o'clock closing on Sunday, though he did not give any details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.56.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "Before passing on, I wish to raise one more point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "t that exceedingly, and I think that during the Committee stage we shall have to table Amendments and, if possible, get them embodied in the Bill. Convictions for drunkenness are now at their highest for thirty years. Road accidents have increased, are increasing and are likely to increase further at an accelerating speed. In France today one Frenchman dies from alcohol poisoning every 33 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "ut cogently to me that five minutes or ten minutes—though I find that licensees on the whole prefer five minutes—would be fully adequate for the purpose in mind. It has this advantage; if a man at 29 minutes past the hour asks for three pints which he proposes to drink in a line along the bar, palpably and obviously he cannot do so in the short drink-up period, and is merely abusing the provision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "ountry. I am a vice-president, and I therefore admit to the House that I come with a vested interest—but it is not a financial interest. A good many Members who have interests in the brewing industry will, no doubt, be pleased to declare their interest as the debate proceeds, and I am quite sure we know where they will be found. They will not be found on this side of the House—at least I hope not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "e was a public clamour for reforms such as are initiated in this Measure? It was the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill) who described the party opposite as the party that always has an open hand at the public door. I must say that the party opposite, in bringing forward this Measure, is in perfect harmony with its long tradition of acting for the brewers in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.81.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Member saying that this Bill is a brewers' ramp?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am trying to be fair, but I cannot for the life of me compare local option on the question of drink and local option on cinemas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.98.3", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " There will be no temptation by a moderate extension of hours of increased drunkenness. There is a very good argument that an extension of hours in fact decreases the amount of drunkenness. This has a scientific background, because 90 per cent. of the alcoholic intake of a person is absorbed by the metabolic processes, and it is true to say that if one drinks slowly enough one can never get drunk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.98.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.104.3", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "preceding_text": "learly with that impression, so I am told by those people, when they came to London. They had a rude awakening. I ask again: who on earth advises the Minister for Welsh Affairs? I am certain of one thing—that this is a brewers' Bill; that it is instigated by the brewers. I am sure in my mind about that. I have always contended that the brewers subscribe handsomely to the coffers of the Tory Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.104.3", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "preceding_text": "a thing as circumstantial evidence and when I think back on the record of the Government regarding the brewers I am convinced that the brewers must be heavy subscribers to the funds. It is an old saying that he who pays the piper calls the tune. This Bill is a clear instance of that. Not a demand from a single quarter in Wales has come for this change—not from the clubs and not from the licensees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.104.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Church of England?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "bsolutely barefaced lies. The fact is that the most responsible religious organisations in Wales are against the Bill. Wales is still, thank God, a Nonconformist country—very much so. The most responsible religious denominations in Wales—the Baptists, the Congregationalists, the Presbyterians and the Methodists—are all against the Bill. There is not a single Church in Wales which would support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.105.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iorwerth Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iorwerth Thomas", "preceding_text": "In this context I say that the majority of Welsh hon. Members do not reflect the opinions of the Welsh people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iorwerth Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iorwerth Thomas", "preceding_text": "isitors with a guilty expression on their faces knowing that they are going into these clubs when they are not always welcome. I hope that the Government will remain firm on Clause 6. I do not want to see it taken from the Bill. It is said that Bills are sent upstairs to have their throats cut. If Clause 6 is referred to a Welsh Standing Committee it will be taken down to the cellar and strangled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-28", "file": "debates1960-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1c65f9ea3bfca9c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "g that it is unthinkable. I should not be at all surprised if an Amendment to this effect were moved and discussed in Committee. But the proposal for a poll on a national basis would raise more far-reaching questions. It would raise the question of when we ought to have a referendum in England on an English issue, or a referendum in Scotland on a Scottish issue. I am not sure where we should stop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-28a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-29", "file": "debates1960-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "97133390f97aa536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.182.8", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Is a picture of Icarus, who crashed in \"the drink\", really particularly suitable for Cranwell?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.182.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-29", "file": "debates1960-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "97133390f97aa536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.201.5", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes) is against this weapon in any form. I quite understand that and many of us recognise his perfect sincerity. On the other hand, this is a question of the opinion of the great mass of the House and, I understand, of the country who believe that this weapon must be used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.201.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-29", "file": "debates1960-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "97133390f97aa536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "s places in which to reside? Anyone seeking accommodation would have to be very careful, especially women. The accommodation problem, in London especially, is bad enough without being made worse. At present, I am in a boarding house. There are twenty or more residents—only two of us women—and I do not feel that it would be a fit place in which to stay if drink were introduced. This is a real fear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-29", "file": "debates1960-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "97133390f97aa536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "I am sure that we have all listened with great interest and, during his preliminary remarks, with amusement to the speech of the hon. Member for Notting Hill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-29", "file": "debates1960-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "97133390f97aa536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And a change of Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "l, and there are some who say that it goes too far. But there are equally many who contend that it is really rather a timid little mouse, that the extension of the boundaries of freedom undertaken by my right hon. Friend are anæmic, insignificant, and perhaps over-cautious. I do not agree. I believe that what the public want today is a change in our licensing laws, but not their demolition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-29", "file": "debates1960-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "97133390f97aa536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "Speaking for myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-29", "file": "debates1960-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "97133390f97aa536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.270.3", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": " stage, I ought to explain that I am not personally a teetotaller, although my family had close connections with the temperance movement for many years and my grandfather, when a Member of this House, was very active in it. I think that that right hon. Gentleman would not have approved when I tell the House that I enjoy a pint of beer and sometimes a glass of wine, or stout, although I must admit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-29", "file": "debates1960-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "97133390f97aa536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All right for the brewers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "we could keep to six hours and still have a four-hour break in the afternoon. We could have from 12 o'clock to 2 o'clock and from 6 o'clock to 10 o'clock, or perhaps 10.30 p.m., as on weekdays. In this way we would protect the churches in the morning, with matins until 12 o'clock, nor would customers ruin the roast beef, which would make the women happy. You could open the \"pubs\" until 10 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-29", "file": "debates1960-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "97133390f97aa536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "ory. There are good reasons for them, but I certainly do not take the view that we ought to abolish drink altogether or that we should approach the matter by the way we draft the licensing laws. However, Sunday closing in Wales is a Welsh question. I think that it is wrong and unfair for hon. Members opposite to say, as they have said, that there is hypocrisy about this and that it is out of date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-29", "file": "debates1960-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "97133390f97aa536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the brewers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "preceding_text": "ional extension to 11 p.m. For those who still feel that the closing hour is too late, I direct the attention of the House to Clause 7 (8) which declares the statutory right to close early. I know that it is argued that licensees will be afraid to take advantage of this provision on the ground that they will lose custom, but surely that is a matter for them to sort out and not one for legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-29", "file": "debates1960-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "97133390f97aa536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "preceding_text": " that has grown very rapidly in recent months. The hon. Member for Swindon referred to a pamphlet advertising alcoholic liquor, a copy of which he gave me. The least I can do is to promise to read it. Lastly, there has been reference to road safety. All of us must be concerned with this problem. In drafting the Bill we have been in constant touch with my right hon Friend the Minister of Transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-29a.323.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-11-30", "file": "debates1960-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c31c146d99a7e814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-30a.361.8", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. John Hare)", "preceding_text": "-sixth birthday of the Father of the House, my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill), and I am sure that hon. and right hon. Members on both sides of the House will wish to join with millions of people in the country in sending my right hon. Friend many happy returns of the day and expressing their hope of seeing him back in this House in his place fully recovered very soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-30a.361.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-30", "file": "debates1960-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c31c146d99a7e814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-30a.387.6", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-30a.387.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-30", "file": "debates1960-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c31c146d99a7e814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-30a.467.3", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "e to take another look at Clause 2 which gives the Minister carte blanche to make a cushion if householders are likely to get it in the neck too hard. Clause 2 (2) says: In this subsection the reference to a county includes a reference to the Isles of Scilly. I think it rather strange that the Scilly Isles should be introduced, because they are generally taken to be part of the County of Cornwall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-30a.467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-30", "file": "debates1960-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c31c146d99a7e814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-30a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "oment and in representations since the Pritchard Committee's Report the colleges have made clear that they regard the question of value as an entirely separate issue from that of rate relief. In general, the Government view the Oxford and Cambridge colleges as closer to educational establishments than grant-aided universities, but I assure my hon. Friend, without giving him any assurance whatever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-30a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-30", "file": "debates1960-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c31c146d99a7e814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-30a.535.2", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the Leader of the Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "I can only hope that the reason for the Prime Minister's sudden departure was to try to find either the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Lord Advocate or a representative of the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-30a.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-30", "file": "debates1960-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c31c146d99a7e814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-30a.535.2", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "I can only hope that the reason for the Prime Minister's sudden departure was to try to find either the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Lord Advocate or a representative of the Treasury. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the Leader of the Opposition.\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-30a.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-11-30", "file": "debates1960-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c31c146d99a7e814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-30a.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "I am ready to explain the Financial Resolution. Speaking as Minister for Welsh Affairs, however, it seems to me strange that if Clauses 22 and 25 are together so vital to the Scottish economy no Scottish Members sought to take part in the Second Reading debate on this important Bill. Indeed, so far as I can recollect, they were conspicuous by their absence throughout.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-11-30a.536.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-12-01", "file": "debates1960-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "5aba85946d7ad9b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.562.9", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. We have had supplementary questions on a number of important subjects, but it appears, unfortunately, that no one on this side of the House has caught your eye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.562.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-01", "file": "debates1960-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "5aba85946d7ad9b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I believe that I am right in saying that in the last several years, apart from this case, there has been only one case of a United Kingdom citizen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-01", "file": "debates1960-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "5aba85946d7ad9b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.577.2", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman did not refer to Gateshead Corporation. I have in my possession a letter from Gateshead Education Committee in which it is made perfectly clear that no special bonus payments are made. Will he advise his hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.577.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-01", "file": "debates1960-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "5aba85946d7ad9b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.579.6", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I cannot give that assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.579.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-01", "file": "debates1960-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "5aba85946d7ad9b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.581.5", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATOMIC ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "s year, this application has been in his hands for at least two years? Does he not think that the universities ought to have attached to them low-power nuclear reactors, in view of the fact that in Western Germany and in France—not to mention the U.S.S.R. or the U.S.A.—lowpower reactors are attached to universities? Does he realise that if we want to train nuclear engineers and reactor physicists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.581.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-01", "file": "debates1960-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "5aba85946d7ad9b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.582.5", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TANGANYIKA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "a fully Africanised Civil Service is essential to the well-being of Tanganyika? Is he aware that at the moment there are 3,400 officers in the Civil Service of whom a mere 380 are Africans, and that last year only 324 took the school certificate while 762 vacancies awaited? Does he realise that these disgraceful figures are due to the fact that successive Tory Governments have failed to recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.582.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-12-01", "file": "debates1960-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "5aba85946d7ad9b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.588.0", "colnum": "588", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "rwise frame a supplementary question, which must to some extent be contesting the Answer which the Minister has just given, or it is of no use? We cannot swallow everything which Ministers tell us. We have discovered that time and time again. If the idea of incorporating some measure of argument or disagreement is to be barred from supplementary questions, what the hell is the use of putting them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.587.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-01", "file": "debates1960-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "5aba85946d7ad9b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Further to my point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-01", "file": "debates1960-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "5aba85946d7ad9b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member was not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Further to my point of order. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Is it not the case that on Monday of this week we reached Question No. 58?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-01", "file": "debates1960-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "5aba85946d7ad9b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " way, the improvement over 1958 is 15 per cent. single and 16 per cent. married for insurance, and 19 per cent. single and 18 per cent. married for assistance. The hon. Member for Kilmarnock was very firm about one point. Is it now the case of hon. Members opposite that on every occasion when National Insurance benefits are increased the Assistance scales must be increased to the same full extent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-01", "file": "debates1960-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "5aba85946d7ad9b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Why worry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " parliamentary time. As a matter of history, since 1948 this is the fifth increase in insurance and the eighth increase in National Assistance. Let us see where we are leading. If we move National Assistance and National Insurance by the same amount, we are in a dilemma; we must never move National Assistance separately at all, otherwise we shall have Assistance scales very far ahead of insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-01", "file": "debates1960-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "5aba85946d7ad9b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.715.1", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPBUILDING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "preceding_text": " or Britain, always to seem to be denigrating Britain or Scotland, but there are many spheres in which we have been seen to be trailing behind other countries who used to look up to us as a country whose example was worth while following. We were the first country to harness atomic power for peaceful purposes, thanks to the publicly-owned Atomic Energy Authority and the work undertaken at Harwell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-01a.715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-02", "file": "debates1960-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "afa2a6fa71ecda72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-02a.745.5", "colnum": "745", "heading": "CLOSURE OF NEWSPAPERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Curran", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is too cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Curran", "preceding_text": " a product sold to the consumer at a price far below the cost of producing it. I was glad to hear the hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Donnelly) say that the only part of the cost of a newspaper which has not gone up enormously is the cost of buying it. The reader is still getting it very much on the cheap. The result is that Fleet Street is still a cut-price emporium, and every day is a bargain day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-02a.745.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-02", "file": "debates1960-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "afa2a6fa71ecda72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-02a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "CLOSURE OF NEWSPAPERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Better managed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "It is difficult to disentangle the proportion, because we have not seen the detailed accounts of the News Chronicle and the Star. In the figures of the Beaverbrook Press the total wages and salaries are put together. However, judging by the Guardian and the Manchester Evening News. I should say that the News Chronicle and the Star were overstaffed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-02a.782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-02", "file": "debates1960-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "afa2a6fa71ecda72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-02a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "CLOSURE OF NEWSPAPERS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Dennis Vosper)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Recently?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Dennis Vosper)", "preceding_text": " fruit machines and one-armed bandits which feature in today's newspapers. My object in intervening at this stage is, while agreeing with much that appears in the Motion, to suggest the difficulties and, to some extent, the undesirability of Government intervention. I shall, quite naturally, refer more than once to the Report of the Royal Commission on the Press which appeared as recently as 1949.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-02a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-05", "file": "debates1960-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "dad7f91c3d6cf245", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-05a.844.5", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that, whatever else is happening in other nationalised industries, we are trying to run these two Corporations as effective business corporations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-05a.844.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-05", "file": "debates1960-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "dad7f91c3d6cf245", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-05a.844.5", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that, whatever else is happening in other nationalised industries, we are trying to run these two Corporations as effective business corporations? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are 'we'?\"] The Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-05a.844.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-05", "file": "debates1960-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "dad7f91c3d6cf245", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-05a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "FLOODS (RELIEF MEASURES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "The Government were thinking about this before the House of Commons was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-05a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-06", "file": "debates1960-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fc2e4fd735597792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "If the German Government still owe us £120 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-06", "file": "debates1960-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fc2e4fd735597792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED KINGDOM AND UNITED STATES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Foreign Office.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I know nothing about a statement issued in Rome. If it is said that I coined the phrase \"Atlantic Union\", I am afraid that the spokesman has made an obvious mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-06", "file": "debates1960-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fc2e4fd735597792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1088.3", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "Again, we are discussing a highly specialised car and this is not going there in numbers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1088.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-06", "file": "debates1960-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fc2e4fd735597792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ent set up and which has been working for several years. What is the point of getting rid of the Council and having a working party instead? If such a working party were to be an advisory body it would not improve on the present Council. If it were to be an executive body, then that is a different matter. Whether the hon. Member is still hankering after some form of nationalisation, I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-06", "file": "debates1960-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fc2e4fd735597792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1103.2", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is your opinion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "Yes, if applied at the right time, I agree. But the question is: what is the right time? My right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer is of the opinion that the right time is not now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-06", "file": "debates1960-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fc2e4fd735597792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hocking", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hocking", "preceding_text": " would have a real effect and would help the industry to maintain production and to keep up sales in the home market. In the long term, however, attention must be paid to Purchase Tax. I fully understand that my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer cannot, in the near future, abolish Purchase Tax on motor cars. In present circumstances, it would probably be wrong to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-06", "file": "debates1960-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fc2e4fd735597792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hocking", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hocking", "preceding_text": "e paid to Purchase Tax. I fully understand that my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer cannot, in the near future, abolish Purchase Tax on motor cars. In present circumstances, it would probably be wrong to do so. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"] I explained in the debate on the Queen's Speech that I did not consider it a good idea to abolish Purchase Tax now or even to reduce it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-06", "file": "debates1960-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fc2e4fd735597792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have two cars.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "and this boom? It is not the Labour Party, as the posters foretold. It is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has ruined it with all the restrictions which are now in force. There was one poster, in particular, which depicted a happy family expressing their enjoyment of this better life by standing round and polishing a newly acquired car. I very much wonder what has become of that family today.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-06", "file": "debates1960-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fc2e4fd735597792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have heard this.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I will be the first to admit that it is inconvenient to have to change one's job, but the great majority of those made redundant have so far had little difficulty in obtaining other work. I have brought to the House an example. I am sorry that it does not relate to Coventry, but I think it will serve its purpose well. It is the case of Vauxhall Motors, who dismissed about 950 employees in October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-06", "file": "debates1960-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fc2e4fd735597792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "ber of hire-purchase transactions for new cars fell to any significant extent below the corresponding level of 1959 when there were no restrictions in force. The point of restrictions, as I tried to explain to the right hon. Gentleman, is that they force people to put down a little more of their own money, thus helping to mop up money which would otherwise be used for the purchase of other things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-06", "file": "debates1960-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fc2e4fd735597792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1226.3", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FLOOD PREVENTION AND RELIEF", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "preceding_text": " which might ensue to his fellow men, he would certainly be held to be guilty of an act of negligence. That act would have given rise to the right of action for damages. If, as often happens, he takes steps to remove the danger after the injury has been sustained, having known the possibility of damage beforehand, surely that is regarded as evidence against him. I see some learned Members present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-06a.1226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-07", "file": "debates1960-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "4a9cd7e8d19a7087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-07a.1249.11", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "Recognising that Portugal is our oldest Fascist ally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-07a.1249.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-07", "file": "debates1960-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "4a9cd7e8d19a7087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-07a.1251.0", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "I shall try to address myself to the genuine side of that supplementary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-07a.1251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-07", "file": "debates1960-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "4a9cd7e8d19a7087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-07a.1260.2", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "preceding_text": "Whilst appreciating the immediate actions which are suggested in the reply of the Postmaster-General, may I in the first place ask him to convey to those servants of his own Department and to the servants of British Railways who have been the victims of foul and dastardly attacks the sense of concern and sympathy in all parts of this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-07a.1260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-07", "file": "debates1960-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "4a9cd7e8d19a7087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-07a.1265.2", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I think I can best answer the hon. Gentleman by asking him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-07a.1265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-07", "file": "debates1960-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "4a9cd7e8d19a7087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-07a.1266.2", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "First, may I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his new assignment on the Opposition Front Bench. I may say that I am quite sure that both the B.B.C. and the I.T.A. are sensitive to public criticisms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-07a.1266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-07", "file": "debates1960-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "4a9cd7e8d19a7087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-07a.1348.1", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COVENT GARDEN MARKET BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Nugent", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would they do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Nugent", "preceding_text": "thin an area of, perhaps, five miles or so of Charing Cross; something of that order; perhaps a bit more—seven or eight miles. But if to avoid serious traffic congestion—let us face it—we move out the central Market to King's Cross, we find that there is as serious a traffic problem, and if we push it out ten or twelve miles then it will be so far out that the traders would undoubtedly not follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-07a.1348.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-12-08", "file": "debates1960-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8e1edfab794ac5ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-08a.1420.2", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wrong Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hornby", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend yet say whether he thinks the establishment of these day colleges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-08a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-08", "file": "debates1960-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8e1edfab794ac5ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-08a.1446.4", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "CLOSURE OF NEWSPAPERS (RESOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "e, made on Friday was made after consultation with the Minister's colleagues in the Government, but was not this in order to arrive at a decision on what advice the Government would offer the House of Commons on that occasion? Now that the advice has been offered and has been unanimously rejected by the House of Commons, will not the right hon. Gentleman reconsider the matter in the light of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-08a.1446.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-08", "file": "debates1960-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8e1edfab794ac5ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-08a.1447.0", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "CLOSURE OF NEWSPAPERS (RESOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eleven years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I have explained the position as I see it. I do not think that the Government are obliged to act. We will certainly keep this matter under review if we feel that anything useful can be done in the light of the debate, but we have given our reason why we think that to add an inquiry to the recent Royal Commission's Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-08a.1447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-08", "file": "debates1960-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8e1edfab794ac5ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-08a.1450.6", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This was a majority.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I say with respect to the hon. Gentleman that he should not make a speech about it. I do everything I conceive to be proper to protect the rights of minorities in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-08a.1450.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-08", "file": "debates1960-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8e1edfab794ac5ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-08a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT GENERAL GRANT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "tals just under £6 million, of which Lanarkshire's share was £0·64 million, which was 10·7 per cent. of the total. Strangely enough, the county's population is also 10·7 per cent. of Scotland's total population. The speed of what has happened is not because of Government restrictions. A good deal more work would have been done in recent periods had it not been for bad weather.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-08a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-09", "file": "debates1960-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b38fc4dca55e3cba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-09a.1592.1", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Harrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Harrison", "preceding_text": "that co-operatives are in a very responsible position, in the same way as are building societies. In both cases, there are many small members in the society, and, therefore, it is necessary for the House to make doubly sure that the interests of those members are fully protected. I realise full well the difference between a peasant co-operative and one in a semi-sophisticated society like our own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-09a.1592.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-12-09", "file": "debates1960-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b38fc4dca55e3cba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-09a.1614.2", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Harcourt.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "preceding_text": "his great forbearance in avoiding partisan political issues during his exposition is also to be commended. One hon. Member said that it was a non-startling Bill, but it has produced a remarkably good and interesting debate. The only comment I make is that, if I remember rightly, it was in the early years of this century when I believe Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman said, \"We are all Socialists now.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-09a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-09", "file": "debates1960-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b38fc4dca55e3cba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-09a.1662.3", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBRARIES (PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Barnett Stross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bring him within the Libraries Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Barnett Stross", "preceding_text": "ere one has to be a formidable artist to be accepted. There is no evidence that modern contemporary painters as yet get a tremendous amount of money for their work. There are paintings in the Tate by Sutherland that were bought by the Tate for as little as £4. If Sutherland had had a penny a look since those £4 paintings went up he would have had an income commensurate with his value as an artist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-09a.1662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-12", "file": "debates1960-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a5eb88fd61477bf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-12a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "CHINA AND THE UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Eleven years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "e vote which he will, no doubt, cast later today. I am sure that the House is very grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Pembroke (Mr. Donnelly) for giving us this opportunity of discussing this extremely important matter. He has traced the events over the past few years. He has reminded us that it is now nine years since this country gave de jure recognition to the People's Republic of China.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-12a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-12", "file": "debates1960-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a5eb88fd61477bf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-12a.56.3", "colnum": "56", "heading": "CHINA AND THE UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "I am amazed at the speech not only of the hon. Member for Hertfordshire, South-West (Mr. Longden), but the speech of the hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Mr. Tilney). If this is the best that back benchers on the opposite side can do to support their Front Bench, I shall be sorry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-12a.56.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-12", "file": "debates1960-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a5eb88fd61477bf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-12a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "CHINA AND THE UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "A sort of Crosland of the Communist set.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-12a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-12", "file": "debates1960-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a5eb88fd61477bf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-12a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "CHINA AND THE UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the hon. Member who is speaking does not give way, the hon. Member who wishes to interrupt must resume his seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-12a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-12", "file": "debates1960-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a5eb88fd61477bf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-12a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "CHINA AND THE UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "eeting was five months before the Korean war broke out. I am not trying to make any particular point. I am just recognising the difficulty of the situation by pointing out that the party opposite, when in power, had the same sort of difficulties, and the United Kingdom delegate certainly said nothing about envoys and difficulties of that kind. He made this short statement which I have just quoted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-12a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-12", "file": "debates1960-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a5eb88fd61477bf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-12a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "CHINA AND THE UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. J. B. Godber)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. J. B. Godber)", "preceding_text": "riptive right to be a member of the United Nations; I say simply that as a practical matter we think that it should be in. Here again, other States take different views. In the specific case of the People's Republic of China it is argued that she has not yet purged herself of the aggression in Korea for which she was condemned by the United Nations and of which we have been reminded in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-12a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ter of Defence said pretty well as much this afternoon, although some of his hon. Friends have not understood what he was saying. The Prime Minister says that, above all else and at all costs, the credibility of the deterrent must be kept burnished and unmistakable. If that is the case, it means that at the final moment of crisis all the shackles of control and consultation have to be swept aside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": ". [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members opposite have not thought about these things although they have been voting for them. What it means is that the Government and the Minister of Defence say that the maintenance of the credibility of the deterrent must be put before all other claims, even the claim of this country to be a democracy or even the claim that we should govern ourselves through Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes, he did. He said that the maintenance of the credibility of the deterrent was paramount. Now it is not to be paramount. This disease which comes from the back benches is contagious and it has spread to the Government Front Bench. That was what the Minister said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ntic Union—if I am allowed to mention that phrase—all add up to General Norstad's proposals for piling up more and more nuclear weapons in Europe. My right hon. Friend the Member for Belper went very far in condemning this. I was glad to hear it. He said that this was extremely dangerous and that we might make, by this means, the Alliance more provocative than a deterrent. That is strong language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. He was then much more specific than he was in his earlier remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": ". It is a protest which I believe may be as significant as those protests which were made on the benches opposite against the pre-war Conservative Government, protests which at that time commanded very little support from hon. Members opposite. We believe, however, that whatever may be our support in the House of Commons, we are speaking for the rank and file of the Labour movement in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Double Dutch.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "visions. Those divisions never materialised. The two Scandinavian members, Norway and Denmark, made a contribution that was of no significance whatever. The Dutch said that they were a maritime nation and wanted to provide warships. I remember having a very intense quarrel with them about it, but it made no difference. I had as much influence on the Dutch as I sometimes have on my own Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Before that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " just do not know. The right hon. Gentleman is not entirely to blame for what has happened. We had the right hon. Member for Woodford who did not stay long and then we had Lord Alexander of Tunis, a great military expert who got tired of it and threw up the sponge. Then we had the then Sir Walter Monckton, who threw the towel into the ring after a while, and then we had the present Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " this because I believe it to be true. Perhaps it is not very convincing to those who do not believe it, but I say it nevertheless, that the Amendment runs counter to the decision reached at the annual conference of the Labour Party. Because of that, I am sorry that I cannot support it. I understand that, as a result, there may be sanctions. I hope that nobody will try foolish tricks of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ricks of the kind which have been threatened, they will make the biggest mistake they have ever made in this party. Suggestions of that kind have been made. I warn them not to indulge in threats of that kind because that is not the way to build up unity in this party. If I am wrongly advised—and nothing of the sort has been suggested—all I can say is that that is not what I read in the newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "on of General Norstad's proposals in a quiet fashion, without undue heat or excitement. We could have discussed them in a pedestrian fashion, in the hope that we might have extracted more satisfactory assurances from the Government. That is my view. Nobody on this side doubts that the Government have been responsible for many failures in defence. Of course they have. We ought to be attacking them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arthur Vere Harvey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arthur Vere Harvey", "preceding_text": "e in 1945, when he did, and am probably more glad to see him back than some of his colleagues, frankly disappointed me with his speech, which made no real contribution to the debate. He quoted the R.B.47 incident off the North Russian coast, which, I thought, was most unfair. We know perfectly well that this aircraft was outside territorial waters, probably checking up on the Russian radar system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": ". In a speech in the country, the right hon. Gentleman hoped that 1961 would now prove to be a year of détente after the dialectical victory of Mr. Khrushchev over the Chinese. We all hope that that will be so, but those who have studied these documents will agree that if there has been a victory of Moscow over Peking, nevertheless the general line is one of fierce competitive co-existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "en ensue. On the other hand, we have always said that we were prepared, of course, to examine with our allies the concept of areas of control of armaments because we believe that progress can be made in that matter, as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said this afternoon. The plans in relation to surprise attack were put forward in 1957 and they still stand. We are prepared to support them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "TRADE WITH CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "tion as it stood before the change. I hope that hon. Gentlemen opposite will allow me to continue. I have only five minutes left. I appreciate the interest they are taking in the debate, which is, I recognise, an important and serious one. There would be little value in taking up a hypothetical case. In our view, we can only proceed usefully with this matter if we have clear and specific evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.376.4", "colnum": "376", "heading": "TRADE WITH CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "r. We are not able to approach China as though it was a free market. It is a market which is strictly closed and controlled by the Chinese State Trading Corporations. The market for some of the products to which the hon. Lady referred is not nearly as big as might be imagined. During the first ten months of this year, we exported to China only 32 motor cars, 14 commercial vehicles and 14 tractors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.376.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-13", "file": "debates1960-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "359dcd5e1096aab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "TRADE WITH CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "ng to let the design get into Chinese hands, or there may be marketing arrangements round the world. Unless, therefore, United Kingdom organisations are prepared themselves to advise us that it is refusal of permission by the American authorities which prevents them from exporting to China, we would be in danger of interfering—wrongly, in my view—in the internal affairs of the companies concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-13a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-14", "file": "debates1960-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9e3aaca51a302c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-14a.387.6", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that no one has any imputation to make whatsoever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-14a.387.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-14", "file": "debates1960-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9e3aaca51a302c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-14a.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may take this opportunity to congratulate the hon. Member for Woolwich, East (Mr. Mayhew) on his promotion and say that at least he will have the respect of our side of the House, and, I hope, of his side, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-14a.388.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-14", "file": "debates1960-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9e3aaca51a302c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-14a.404.2", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that that decision will be welcomed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-14a.404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-14", "file": "debates1960-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9e3aaca51a302c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-14a.406.7", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "It simply means that all major innovations in television broadcasting will not be permitted until such time as the Pilkington Committee has reported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-14a.406.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-15", "file": "debates1960-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "5db9361f3f819103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-15a.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Odd.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman explain to the House why it has not yet been found possible to find any time for the Motion standing in the names of myself and my hon. Friends—about 80-odd of them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-15a.603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-15", "file": "debates1960-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "5db9361f3f819103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-15a.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "FLOODS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "re that there is the smoothest possible co-operation between the central Government and local government and that there is sympathetic administration of all these funds. I shall listen to the rest of the debate with the greatest attention. The Government recognise the danger as a continuing one and that we shall not be out of the wood, or out of the wet, until the dry weather of next summer comes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-15a.632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.740.5", "colnum": "740", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I shall point out that I deplore Her Majesty's Government's decision to agree to basing the Polaris submarines or missiles in Great Britain. I shall say little about the Amendment. I simply wish to point out that it means that we do not want the Polaris missiles anywhere around us, but if they are somewhere else, then that is all right. \"I'm all right, Jack.\" That is the morality of the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.740.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I should like my hon. Friend to realise that a brain is as strong as its weakest think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I will give way later. On 1st November a decision was made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ch to its memories of bells and bell ringing and the murmur of ancient prayers. The Press, and some people who must know better really, try to denigrate the Labour Parity for its great differences. Whatever differences we have among us, I sincerely believe that we are making a greater effort to find the answer to the great problem confronting the world than any other party in the world at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "We see this gorgeous wriggling into a little hole to find answers to questions that cannot be answered. It is wriggling. That is the sort of casuistry that we might expect from the benches opposite. Let us see what an expert said in the Observer, a man who wrote a book on submarines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.749.5", "colnum": "749", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They said they wanted it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ne undetectable? No, we are not at all sure about it. In fact, the Minister of Defence himself is not sure. The Prime Minister, or somebody answering for the Government in this debate, should tell Britain this morning whether at Camp St. David—I am sorry, that is my Celtic feeling coming out—whether at Camp David the Prime Minister of Britain offered the base or whether the Americans asked for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.749.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "doom? Today the N.A.T.O. Council is meeting. What is it to talk about? It is to suggest this, but are our Government to accept it? Adenaeur, talking to the Pope says: \"My soldiers are the soldiers of God.\" Soldiers of God—we are all sons of God. Did any hon. or right hon. Member opposite see that horrible film \"Warsaw Ghetto\" the other day? Are they to put these \"soldiers of God\" on my Welsh soil?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The admiral said it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": "I still maintain, whatever Ed. Murrow may have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "The Earl of Dalkeith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Earl of Dalkeith", "preceding_text": " on defence, that we should not be too mealy-mouthed with our American allies, I suggest that there are different ways in which we can say the same thing, so as to produce the best results. It would be most unfortunate if, as a result of our unrestrained abuse of the Americans in opposing Polaris, we were to give the impression that this country was a hot-bed of Communism, which clearly it is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.798.3", "colnum": "798", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Anderson", "preceding_text": "Because there are many of us who do not wish any political decision influenced in that way. By all means let us put our moral judgments, as many of us do, but we must leave political decisions to the elected representatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.798.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is doing so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Anderson", "preceding_text": "The chairman of that Committee is a close personal friend for whom I have the greatest admiration. I have read the draft and report of that Committee for a number of years. I do not in any way underestimate the work which the Church or any other body does, but I think that the Church, as other bodies in this country, has to play its part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.807.2", "colnum": "807", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "It will be called a few things before the day is out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.807.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.808.4", "colnum": "808", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly willing to accept the second assurance. I will defend it, whether it goes to the Manchester Ship Canal or anywhere else, provided that we have a complete explanation from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.808.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not Aberdeen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": " Loch is the right place and possibly the only place; but that point of view and that of the Minister of State do not help to add any weight to the Amendment; and to imply that the base should go into somebody else's back garden because it is too filthy for one's own is a device to which I hesitate to give a name. Suggestions have been made about base sites on the East Coast and in North Aberdeen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.820.6", "colnum": "820", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Acceptable to whom? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " striking power so great that not only could it destroy the cities of Russia—that was not what they were primarily concerned with—but that it should be able to destroy the whole of the Russian capacity to injure them, or at least so great a proportion that the amount of damage which, at a second blow, the Russians could deliver would be in acceptable proportions. That was the idea of counterforce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.820.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.827.0", "colnum": "827", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where did it come from?", "preceding_speaker": "The Civil Lord of Admiralty (Mr. C. Ian Orr-Ewing)", "preceding_text": "ition and criticism of this staging post is initiated by those of the Left, those who believe in unilateral disarmament. One of the resolutions I saw was not untypical; it came from a town which was not on the Clyde but on the Forth and in which the town clerk said: My town council agreed to support the terms of a letter from the Communist Party and I was instructed to convey this decision to you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.826.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.827.3", "colnum": "827", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where did it come from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "Because, as I said, It was not untypical of the origin of others. If the cap fits, I ask the hon. Member to wear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.827.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.827.3", "colnum": "827", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "Because, as I said, It was not untypical of the origin of others. If the cap fits, I ask the hon. Member to wear it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where did it come from?\"] It would be courteous to ask the permission of the town clerk before I disclosed that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.827.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.827.3", "colnum": "827", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "Because, as I said, It was not untypical of the origin of others. If the cap fits, I ask the hon. Member to wear it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where did it come from?\"] It would be courteous to ask the permission of the town clerk before I disclosed that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If hon. Members do not think that that would be discourteous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.827.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-12-16", "file": "debates1960-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8fe13556e439491d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.828.7", "colnum": "828", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY AND POLARIS SUBMARINE BASE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-16a.828.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-19", "file": "debates1960-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "531f39099132c716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-19a.855.5", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I am advised that there is no hazard from radioactivity from imported tortoises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-19a.855.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-19", "file": "debates1960-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "531f39099132c716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-19a.871.7", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I understand that Mr. Lumumba was arrested on the fiat of Mr. Kasavubu, the head of State, and that it was on charges which his Parliamentary immunity did not cover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-19a.871.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-12-19", "file": "debates1960-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "531f39099132c716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-19a.875.9", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PASSPORT PHOTOGRAPHS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "This is a process which have been in operation for a considerable time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-19a.875.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-19", "file": "debates1960-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "531f39099132c716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-19a.894.6", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GUIDED WEAPONS (REPORTS FROM COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"A record.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "r's Session and to recognise that these questions were not put without a good deal of understanding and hard work behind them. In saying this, I am sure I am speaking for the whole Committee. I would pay tribute particularly to my hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield (Sir G. Benson), who has been a member of the Committee for over thirty years—practically one-third of the life of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-19a.894.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-19", "file": "debates1960-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "531f39099132c716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-19a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL OFFICE (REPORTS FROM SELECT COMMITTEE ON ESTIMATES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "h Relations Office and Colonial Office is harmful. The actual words of the Committee were: They believe that the continued existence of two separate Departments of State to deal with the affairs of a rapidly developing and changing Commonwealth leads to a dichotomy of thought and approach that militates against the unity of the Commonwealth. Those are very wise words. In fact, I wrote them myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-19a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-19", "file": "debates1960-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "531f39099132c716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-19a.1001.4", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL OFFICE (REPORTS FROM SELECT COMMITTEE ON ESTIMATES)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "cken feed?\" Most people would turn from that part of the inquiry and go in for something that would really save the taxpayers' money. The hon. Member for Farnham used it as an excuse for the brilliant flash of vision of combining the Commonwealth Office and the Colonial Office. The Report goes on to say that it would assure the future of the staff of the Colonial Office. The future is assured now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-19a.1001.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-12-19", "file": "debates1960-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "531f39099132c716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-19a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL OFFICE (REPORTS FROM SELECT COMMITTEE ON ESTIMATES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are amalgamated.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "now. Fourthly, The functions of the two Departments would have close affinities. That is not an argument for amalgamation. The functions of the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Relations Office have close affinities, but nobody thinks that they should be amalgamated. The functions of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force have close affinities, but nobody suggests that they should be amalgamated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-19a.1001.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1066.5", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No—we do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Although the Prime Minister no doubt thinks it very funny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1066.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1099.7", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "I, too, would be out of order if I were to discuss whether the manufacture of atomic bombs in Israel is right or wrong. What I am trying to argue is that the hon. Member for The Wrekin has advanced the argument that the House should not adjourn for the Christmas Recess unless the Government make a statement on this matter. There is nothing on which the Government can make a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1099.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING LEVY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At Newmarket.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I am astonished at some of the things which have been said, both in this debate and in the previous one. I remember introducing a Private Member's Bill which contained precisely the provisions of Clause I almost word for word. Where was the hon. Member for Gillingham (Mr. Burden) when that Bill was debated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1134.3", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING LEVY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Of course, the money does not come from the bookmakers. It comes from the punters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1134.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1149.2", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House do now adjourn. I commence with a word of explanation. First, I am speaking from this position, at the Dispatch Box—on a matter in which the Navy is but vaguely concerned—only because my voice is almost nil, and it is a great deal easier to use the amplifier. Otherwise I should be speaking from another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1153.2", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Master?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "If I may, I will leave this point by saying that these men had been in rebellion against their lawful master the Ruler of Bahrain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1157.0", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "s of the case, when the men were tried by the Ruler of Bahrain, the punishment awarded at that trial, rightly or wrongly, was fourteen years' imprisonment. The Ruler had decided with his family court to send these men to gaol for fourteen years. It was found inconvenient to incarcerate them in a prison in Bahrain and the co-operation of the British Government was sought through the usual channels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1157.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1167.6", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1167.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1168.4", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Yes—before the trial and the wording shows that it was \"in the event of conviction\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1168.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1168.4", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Yes—before the trial and the wording shows that it was \"in the event of conviction\"—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—that was why the request was made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1168.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1173.2", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who are \"we\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I have stated that it is a letter from the Ruler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1174.3", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I am sorry; I cannot give way again. I have given way on an innumerable number of times, and I should like to continue. Her Majesty's Government accept this as an obligation, and they are not going back on it with the Ruler of Bahrain. The obligation is for the prisoners to be detained in custody for the said period or until the Ruler agrees to their return—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1174.5", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "That is a further complication on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1174.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1174.5", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "eling in the House that they should not be detained in St. Helena. As we understood it, that was the view of the House expressed over the past few months. In those circumstances, the Ruler, who said that he did not feel himself able to commute the sentences, asked that they should be returned to his custody in Bahrain. It is not for me to explain why the Ruler felt unable to accede to the request—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1174.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I must make it plain that we raised this matter with the Ruler ourselves after the undertaking given by my right hon. and learned Friend, the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the House at the end of June. It has not been raised by the Ruler. We have expressed to the Ruler the doubts in this House about the continued detention of these men in St. Helena. Therefore, I am afraid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1181.2", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then why send them back?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The Ruler is not anxious to have them back in Bahrain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are we not supposed to change them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "ke to the House is this. There has been much talk from the other side about the conditions in Bahraini prisons and Bahraini courts and about the code which they follow and so on. The House must be realistic about this. It is not the slightest use trying to pretend that the standards of justice and the code of judicial proceedings in the Middle East are comparable to ours. They are quite different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1185.2", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We do.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "I am not going to give way. The anxiety in this respect voiced by hon. Gentlemen opposite about the code of justice and condition of prisons in Bahrain might carry a little more weight if they expressed similar anxieties about similar sentences passed for similar acts of violence by other kinds of people in other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1186.7", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "I think it was before 1914. It was a very old custom, but I cannot recollect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1186.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1186.7", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "I think it was before 1914. It was a very old custom, but I cannot recollect—[ Interruption. ] What was equally clear was that the acceptance of these Bahrainis for removal to the Island of St. Helena was conditional upon their return to the Ruler of Bahrain, if he so desired it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1186.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1187.3", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what we have done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "d the letter which has been the subject of recent controversy in this matter entirely differently from the way in which the hon. Member for Windsor (Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe) does. It seems to me that when that letter was written the Sheik of Bahrain may have thought that we would get tired of keeping these people and would say to him. \"Why should we keep your prisoners? Will you not take them back?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "gal position in Bahrain. We do not have unlimited jurisdiction over these prisoners. We have jurisdiction to deal with them in accordance with provisions of the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act and the Order which was made under that Act. This includes the right to make an agreement with the Ruler of Bahrain for the return of the prisoners to him at his own request. That is our legislative position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1206.1", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "or the return of these prisoners. This is quite a difficult and lengthy operation because special arrangements have to be made. I assure the House that it will not be possible to do this before the end of the Recess on which we are about to enter. I can therefore give an undertaking to the House that arrangements which may be made for their return will not take effect before the end of the Recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1207.0", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAHRAINI PRISONERS (ST. HELENA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Their release.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for some of the remarks made by the Lord Privy Seal. I do not think that my right hon. and hon. Friends would wish to divide the House on this matter if they had an assurance that Her Majesty's Government will again approach the Ruler on the question of the return of these men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-20", "file": "debates1960-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "afa1c34e59de163f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1227.2", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(APPEAL TRIBUNALS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "After all, the Home Secretary will appoint wise men to the Levy Board—he will appoint just men. He will have the same control over this as any hon. Member has over the nationalised industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-20a.1227.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-12-21", "file": "debates1960-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3bc9b6a33866b77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-21a.1279.12", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A window.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that if one puts a seat in a light van, one can then drive at the speeds permitted to a motor car?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-21a.1279.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1960-12-21", "file": "debates1960-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3bc9b6a33866b77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-21a.1307.4", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "BOXING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-21a.1307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-21", "file": "debates1960-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3bc9b6a33866b77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-21a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "BOXING", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I am trying to quote some absolutely objective authorities. A few skilled experts may escape, but after about fifty fights in a few years the ordinary fighter begins to show unmistakable signs of deterioration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-21a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-21", "file": "debates1960-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3bc9b6a33866b77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-21a.1358.3", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "UNITED NATIONS AND CONGO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "ed Cross should examine the conditions under which detained persons were held. This would apply, not only to Mr. Lumumba, about whose treatment the Congolese authorities have already given some assurances—and, incidentally, he has been allowed to see his doctor—but also to the Congolese Members of Parliament who should equally be considered, who are held in Stanleyville by Mr. Lumumba's followers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-21a.1358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-21", "file": "debates1960-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3bc9b6a33866b77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-21a.1361.3", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "UNITED NATIONS AND CONGO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it not really out of order to suggest that a request should be made to the Belgian Government about something that is clearly the responsibility of the Congo Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-21a.1361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1960-12-21", "file": "debates1960-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3bc9b6a33866b77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-21a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "UNITED NATIONS AND CONGO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was defeated.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "I am sorry; I thought I had dealt with that in reference to the resolution, to which I referred several times, and which we sponsored and was voted on yesterday in the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1960-12-21a.1364.1"}