{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-23", "file": "debates1962-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "59654f47ace15c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-23a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The claim of the union of Post Office workers, as the hon. Gentleman well knows, was based on comparisons with all outside manufacturing industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-23a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-23", "file": "debates1962-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "59654f47ace15c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-23a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I hope that I will be able to make a statement shortly on this whole question, but I should prefer to wait until the terms of it are ready.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-23a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-23", "file": "debates1962-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "59654f47ace15c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-23a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "RAILWAYS (WAGE NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with the right hon. Gentleman on either point. First, the established machinery can go ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-23a.42.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-01-23", "file": "debates1962-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "59654f47ace15c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-23a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "RAILWAYS (WAGE NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is an instruction.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but the hon. Member is wrong. He said that the Government had instructed the Chairman of the Commission. They have done no such thing. The last sentence of the communication reads: …the Government have asked the Chairman of the Commission to refer the claim to arbitration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-23a.43.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-23", "file": "debates1962-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "59654f47ace15c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-23a.44.3", "colnum": "44", "heading": "RAILWAYS (WAGE NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I do not see why that should arise at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-23a.44.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-23", "file": "debates1962-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "59654f47ace15c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-23a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "RAILWAYS (WAGE NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "The Chairman of the British Transport Commission has not received any instructions and, therefore, he is a free agent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-23a.46.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-01-24", "file": "debates1962-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "7767b44371ad5c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-24a.203.0", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WEST NEW GUINEA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "ement, may I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether Her Majesty's Government would use the utmost influence to secure a solution to this problem without hostilities and to recognise the fact that legalistically, and in accordance with the forces of history, in the Netherlands and even in Australia it is now recognised that a solution must be reached by which this territory becomes part of Indonesia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-24a.202.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-24", "file": "debates1962-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "7767b44371ad5c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-24a.208.6", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "ry had given expression to a slight undertone of resentment at our intrusion as lay critics into an expert field. This was all the more surprising, and, indeed, distressing, because of the friendly atmosphere and relationship that had existed throughout the inquiry. If anything that we said or wrote caused this change of atmosphere, I am sorry, and on behalf of the Committee I express our regrets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-24a.208.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-24", "file": "debates1962-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "7767b44371ad5c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-24a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "retary of the Cabinet combined in one function? I know that this arises out of the particular qualities of the most distinguished civil servant who occupies this post, but if there are to be changes in Treasury administration I hope that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will make this the occasion, not to repeat this operation, but to consider whether a top level alteration would be an improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-24a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-24", "file": "debates1962-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "7767b44371ad5c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-24a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "rk on the Estimates Committee receives no recognition at all. We cannot altogether overcome these human traits; the Press has its own idea about these things. But we could try to give the Committee an importance which it does not possess at present. I have spoken for rather a long time. I should not have done that but for the fact that I know that not many hon. Members wish to speak in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-24a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-24", "file": "debates1962-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "7767b44371ad5c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-24a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "supper time. Very, very briefly I would say this to the hon. Gentleman. I think her point, if I have got it right, is that it is impossible to get an accurate picture of the national income or any part of it simply by consolidating the production accounts. The reason is that those production accounts do not allow for what is called in national income analysis \"the flows of intermediate products \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-24a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.385.3", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Change the law.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The Commissioners of Customs and Excise are advised that as a matter of law racing cars are liable to tax under the relevant Schedule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.385.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.393.3", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.393.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.406.2", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That was not answered.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I was referring first to Question No. Q4 tabled by the hon. Member for Fife, West (Mr. W. Hamilton) and, secondly, to Question No. 29 tabled by the hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.421.2", "colnum": "421", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL AND ARMY RESERVE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "having to be recommitted, while that is a matter for the Chair, the Government would not oppose the Motion. I turn now to say a word about the Motion to report Progress at the end of the second day, which, in fact, led to an announcement of the intention of the Government to ask the House for the powers for which I am asking it today. This is what happened, or at least my version of what happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.421.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL AND ARMY RESERVE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "51, but I am not at all clear that hon Members opposite realise how few there were, despite the nature of the Measures we were then proposing, and despite the viciousness of the opposition to our programme in those days. Hon. Members who were not in the House in those days need be under no illusion that the viciousness of the then Opposition bore any comparison with what we are trying to do today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL AND ARMY RESERVE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three to one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": " minute nearly with us, about the Bill. In what sense is that a case for curtailing this discussion by imposing an allocation of time motion? On the Army Reserve Bill, the straight statistical record does not come out quite the same, but it is also interesting. We had 174 Opposition columns of debate on that and 501 Government columns, roughly two to one as against almost parity on the other Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL AND ARMY RESERVE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "general charge of the Bill for the Opposition, had been discussing with the Government what was regarded as reasonable progress. In fact, my hon. and learned Friend had offered four groups of Amendments privately. That had not been responded to by the Minister. I tried to open it up in public by making an offer and I got precisely the same answer as did my hon. and learned Friend—absolute ignoral.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL AND ARMY RESERVE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ch they may rely here, but, in the end, we are all answerable to public opinion for our views, right or wrong, and for the performance of our duties, good or bad. Ministers who practise this kind of thing delude themselves if they think that they add to their stature or their public support thereby. Hon. Members who support them in doing so will, in my submission, connive at their own destruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL AND ARMY RESERVE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": "South (Mr. Ellis Smith), who was asking leave to raise a point of order, 'There is no point of order'. At that stage you had not heard my hon. Friend. He went on to say: …but I submit that it is the inalienable right of any hon. Member if he feels that he has point of order, to put it to you before you tell him that he has not got a point of order. That was done by the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL AND ARMY RESERVE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": " MEMBERS: What is wrong with that?\"] Later, the right hon. Gentleman—this was just before the suspension and is what gave rise to the suspension—got up again on a point of order. He spoke to 37 lines of HANSARD and the Chairman then said: The right hon. Gentleman does not seem to be raising a point of order\".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 6th December, 1961; Vol. 650, c. 1471 and 1476.] So there we are again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.446.4", "colnum": "446", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL AND ARMY RESERVE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "fficult Measure. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and I both support the brotherhood of man. He went to a peculiar place to propound it, the Tory Party conference. Luther nailed his protestations to the door of the cathedral at Wittenberg, but the right hon. Gentleman seems to have nailed his to the front door of the Tory Party itself—I imagine something like the front door of the Vatican.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.446.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL AND ARMY RESERVE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ts of procedure with regard to the progress of a Bill should be within the competence of the Leader of the House and of no one else, because Ministers should not get mixed up in the kind of quarrel that arises over the question of how much business is to be done during the night. There was one occasion in particular when I saw the Leader of the House brushed aside by a Minister of some experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.470.2", "colnum": "470", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL AND ARMY RESERVE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Australia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "e feeling that I know exists in some parts of the country, a feeling that must exist in areas where our people are living cheek by jowl with large incursions of immigrants. It does not matter whether the immigrants come from the West Indies, India or Pakistan. At the moment they are coming from India and Pakistan, but tomorrow we might have immigrants from Hong Kong or any other part of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.470.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.518.1", "colnum": "518", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL AND ARMY RESERVE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. M. Foot)?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": " number of Members opposite. Their highest total has been 27. I thought that this would be a great Parliamentary occasion, and I came here thinking that the benches opposite would be packed with Members full of opposition and anger. Even at the beginning of the debate there was no anger. It was a happy debate. The only person who spoke with any fire was the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mrs. Castle).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.537.2", "colnum": "537", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL AND ARMY RESERVE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Trick.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "I never said that. I said that it might be possible that we would not have to use the powers under Clause 2, but I made it plain to the House that unless conditions in Europe changed by 1st April, everybody who then was in B.A.O.R. would have to consider himself held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL AND ARMY RESERVE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not tonight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "preceding_text": " listen to. Hon. Members on both sides of the House have addressed their minds to possible improvements of procedure. I think that there is a feeling among some hon. Members on both sides that our procedure may be capable of improvement. In past debates speakers on both sides have been apt to taunt speakers on the opposite side with what they have said previously when discussing a similar subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-25", "file": "debates1962-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "06e39f3230332100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.548.5", "colnum": "548", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL AND ARMY RESERVE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "of these debates by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary. He sought to suggest that the Home Secretary had in some way usurped the functions of the Leader of the House. I do not agree. I think that there is no substance at all in that statement and I would point out to the right hon. Gentleman that we on the Government Front Bench work as a team—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-25a.548.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-26", "file": "debates1962-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "431d6fb7dfccbf45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-26a.655.3", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (AIRPORTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "e goods. In point of fact, there is one shop which sells each sort of commodity and the com petition suffered by Messrs. Jaeger selling woolly sweaters in the middle of the night is not likely to keep up young ladies beyond the time when they would normally be up in any case. London Airport is uncomfortable and bad enough as it is. It is one of the worst international airports at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-26a.655.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LONDON AND SOUTHERN REGION (DISLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman associated himself with deploring these unfortunate strikes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.710.9", "colnum": "710", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS AND DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "cue_speaker": "Dr. King", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. King", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, as a manuscript Amendment, That the name of Sir Robert Grimston be lmitted from the Motion. It would be impossible for hon. Members, to whom this announcement by the Leader of the House has come as a complete surprise, to put forward an alternative name at a moment's notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.710.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "e national interest. I am sorry to have kept the House so long. There was a time when increased costs were passed on to the consumer, and profits, far from being reduced, increased at the same rate as wages. That time has passed. In July the Chancellor acted with courage and determination. He has been subjected to a barrage of criticism ever since, but, as events have shown, how right he has been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "t. But the Government did not know for how much the railway unions or the National Health Service unions would settle. They do not want to know. They are not interested in negotiation. They are interested in where this unhappy road is leading us. Why do they want to go there? I genuinely believe that the Government have deliberately embarked on this process purely and simply for electoral benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "s now needed. We cannot say that while, at the same time, expecting people to accept the pay pause, with all the odium that it involves and with all the admitted temporary injustices that it carries with it. They cannot be asked to accept these policies while, at the same time, they are being congratulated on doing rather well. We are not doing well and we have not been doing well for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are going down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "hink that we all accept this diagnosis. It has been said often enough in the past few months. If we want to cure this problem, we must first ask why it happens. It is true that, when the economy has expanded in this way, company profits, dividends and other forms of income which are often described as unearned have risen. In the recent past they have risen more slowly than earned personal incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": " the existing methods of wage negotiation and that there are not means by which we could improve the existing state of affairs. If, however, we could have the conditions under which a perfect wages system would work, we would not need a wages system at all. The thing that strikes me today is the absence of any understanding by hon. Members opposite of the dire position in which the country stands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "] Hon. Members opposite may laugh and think it highly amusing. Obviously, we cannot go about making declarations which are calculated to undermine the external value of the £. I ask any hon. Member opposite who laughs to consider what would have been the position of the country had not some of the external factors, the terms of trade and other things, been favourable during the last twelve months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Collick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Collick", "preceding_text": " said a moment ago about the reason for having something like a pay pause, I still cannot understand how any hon. Member opposite, including even the Chancellor, who wants the pay pause to be successful, could have gone about it in this way. The Chancellor must have been almost a madman to have gone about it in the way he did. He must be a one-eyed Chancellor who is little short of being a madman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Collick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Collick", "preceding_text": "million the rent going to landlords. That is why the pay pause is ridiculous and impossible. It is the reason why so late in the day the Chancellor has decided to abandon it. We were told today that on 31st March it comes to an end. On April Fools' Day we are to start something else. We are then to have the \"guiding light\". I do not know what that is, but apparently something is going to guide us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Spencer Summers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Spencer Summers", "preceding_text": "Almost every speaker during the last two hours or more has taken at least 30 minutes to make his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Spencer Summers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Spencer Summers", "preceding_text": ", but people realise that wages play a predominant part in costs and that a start has to be made somewhere. For ten or fifteen years no Government have been able to halt inflation, and public opinion is now determined to support any Government which are believed to be able to stop inflation. For that reason, I believe that the public fundamentally accepts the notion behind the Government's policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Elephant?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "st background, that a new economic policy was required. At that stage, the obviously sensible thing to do was to consult not only politicians, but the British Employers' Confederation and the T.U.C. The extraordinary thing is that he consulted neither body. It was not only the T.U.C. which complained that he did not consult it. He did not consult the B.E.C., either. He acted like a rogue elephant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "n and a puppet is acting in the case of the Post Office engineers. In every case, long-built-up negotiating machinery that ought to operate is prevented from operating. When Government speakers say, as they have been saying today, that people should not go on strike and should not do these things that have caused the chaos today, as an honest, blunt man I simply ask: what do they expect to happen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.817.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman offered were negotiations of his choosing, on his terms of reference. What he refused, and what today he is still refusing, are negotiations on free terms of reference between the two of them. It is no good the right hon. Gentleman waving his hand. I put this question to him. Will the Postmaster-General meet the U.P.W. tomorrow and discuss how the claim can be dealt with? Will he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.818.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.818.3", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "That is perfectly easily answered. The answer is yes, provided the union calls off industrial strife and the negotiations are free on both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.818.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.818.4", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "And free on both sides means that there is no limit to the increase which they might get and there is no pre-fixed date. Does it mean that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.818.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.818.5", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I should have thought it had been made perfectly clear by my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.818.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ty men are not allowed to have their award by arbitration because the Chancellor says that they must not have it. The lower-grade men are not allowed to have what they have been allowed by arbitration because the Chancellor says that they cannot be granted it. This is what has caused the chaos outside the House today and this is what has made people bitter and angry. The Government have done this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "s from what my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer said on 25th July: …a pause is essential as a basis for continued prosperity and growth. In those areas for which the Government have direct responsibility we shall act in accordance with this policy.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 25th July. 1961; Vol. 645, c. 223.] From those two sentences flows everything that has happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.826.3", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" The right hon. Gentleman does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether there are particular examples in that period. My impression is that there were. But I am not entirely sure about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.826.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.828.3", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Largely because of the difference in relation to the very first point that I put to the House of the deficit in regard to the railways. Certainly", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.828.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.828.3", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": " of the present size of the British Transport Commission's deficit. It has been asked on so many occasions that I think I should reply to it, would the Government accept the results of arbitration? The answer is that the results are not binding on the parties and the parties are the Commission and the unions. The Government themselves are not a party to an arbitration which I hope will take place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.828.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gunter", "preceding_text": "If the trade unions and the British Transport Commission agree to accept the findings, will the Government then accept them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.829.2", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "I have no intention of committing myself in advance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.829.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.829.4", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gunter", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-29", "file": "debates1962-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "60abb79a0d5e87e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Belper commented, \"Up till now\". With respect, these charges have been part of the stock in trade of the Labour Party for the whole of the ten or eleven years that we have been in office. Exactly the same charges were made against my noble Friend Lord Monckton in 1952.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-29a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-30", "file": "debates1962-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "73a503f024b063d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that I have in my hand thirteen large cities and small towns in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-30", "file": "debates1962-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "73a503f024b063d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.887.6", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS (CONSTITUENCY CASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister will be aware that I was asked to refer to him a statement made by the President of the Torquay Conservative Association which said that Ministers of the present Government dealt differently with constituency cases referred to them by members of his own party and more favourably than with cases referred by members of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.887.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-30", "file": "debates1962-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "73a503f024b063d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (PURCHASE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bring them home.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member fails to appreciate the very heavy balance of payments problem placed upon us by keeping large numbers of troops as part of the N.A.T.O. Alliance overseas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-30", "file": "debates1962-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "73a503f024b063d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES AND COURTAULDS (PROPOSED MERGER)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "preceding_text": "rnment have, on consideration, come to the conclusion that the circumstances of the offer which I.C.I. has announced its intention of making to the shareholders of Courtaulds, are not such as to justify them in departing from this well-established policy. They are satisfied that the advantages or disadvantages of a merger of the two companies, however it is achieved, can only be judged by results—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.895.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-30", "file": "debates1962-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "73a503f024b063d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES AND COURTAULDS (PROPOSED MERGER)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "preceding_text": "iaries of very large foreign companies. They have also had in mind the rights of users, either of primary materials or of finished products, to apply at any time for reductions in the level of the tariff. If the merger takes place, and if it operates in such a way that it appears to me to be acting against the public interest, then I would immediately make a reference to the Monopolies Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.895.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-30", "file": "debates1962-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "73a503f024b063d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES AND COURTAULDS (PROPOSED MERGER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "The Government have decided to adhere to their existing policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-30", "file": "debates1962-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "73a503f024b063d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES AND COURTAULDS (PROPOSED MERGER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As the Leader of the Opposition has given notice that he will raise this matter at an early date, presumably on a Supply day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.904.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-01-30", "file": "debates1962-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "73a503f024b063d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "SIERRA LEONE (GIFT OF A MACE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We return with a deep affection for this small new nation in the Commonwealth whose ties with us are so close and so historic, confident, also, that there is no other country in Africa where Parliamentary government in the Westminster tradition has a better chance of flourishing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-30", "file": "debates1962-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "73a503f024b063d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.941.2", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS ETC.) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Fettes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Unless my memory is playing me false, which is possible, I mentioned Loretto, Trinity College, Glenalmond, Morrison's Academy, Crieff, the Dollar Academy, and Gordonstoun, Morayshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.941.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-30", "file": "debates1962-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "73a503f024b063d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING (B.B.C. LICENCE AND AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Vodka, too?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "roadcasts inform us about the Communist countries without propaganda either for or against. I feel a personal interest in this because, in 1957, I visited the Soviet Union for the B.B.C. to try to get permission for some filming there. I had long conversations with Soviet authorities and they offered me the world—three sound film cameras, two studios, an orchestra, free travel—in fact, everything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-30a.995.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-01-31", "file": "debates1962-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "6c2929d4f544f8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-31a.1080.2", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "The Minister has said that he will keep his eyes on the health of the children and mothers. In other words, have we to wait complacently until mothers and children are ill as the result of these cuts? Is that what the Minister is waiting for?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-31a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-31", "file": "debates1962-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "6c2929d4f544f8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-31a.1099.2", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY RESERVE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "a little patience, you will see that there is something in the points I wish to raise. I am not used to raising points of order without there being something of substance in them. In Committee, something happened about which hon. Members are now having a similar experience. As a result of our patience, and being familiar with the Standing Orders, we were gradually winning the support of the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-31a.1099.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-31", "file": "debates1962-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "6c2929d4f544f8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-31a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY RESERVE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "All of us are only too anxious that the uncertainty should be removed as soon as possible. No one group of people is more responsible for the uncertainty continuing as long as it has than hon. Members of the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-31a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-31", "file": "debates1962-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "6c2929d4f544f8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-31a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY RESERVE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": " one has an inclination to do so on first thought. In the first place, I do not think that anybody except my hon. Friend the Member for Beckenham (Mr. Goodhart) has thought it out in the detail he should. Those people when retained will get an increase. They will be on Regular rates of pay, and that is a quite considerable increase for some of them. Therefore, there is some financial compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-31a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-01-31", "file": "debates1962-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "6c2929d4f544f8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-31a.1231.0", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY RESERVE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "First, we have been told that this power could be used in a civil emergency in order to get additional strike—breakers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-01-31a.1231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-01", "file": "debates1962-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ffb9fe8ffa40c46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-01a.1312.3", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY RESERVE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": " to an end. He has worked for the Army and what has to do with the Army is his principal interest. That applies not only to officers, but to most humble men such as batmen and mess orderlies. They work together as a team. My experience of the Territorial Army—a few years ago now—was that one gets a great degree of efficiency in a Territorial Army unit. Since I left I think that this has increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-01a.1312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-01", "file": "debates1962-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ffb9fe8ffa40c46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-01a.1323.3", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY RESERVE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But not militarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "a man in that position must be available to do at least 20 drills a year with his Territorial Army unit to be able to fill that round hole in the Regular Army? I believe that the Secretary of State thinks it is, but a man employed full-time in a factory doing this sort of work probably has at his disposal much better facilities to ensure that he knows his job than he would in the Territorial Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-01a.1323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-01", "file": "debates1962-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ffb9fe8ffa40c46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-01a.1407.7", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY RESERVE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "\"Never mind\", says the hon. Gentleman now. We do not know the total number of men whose lives will be affected by the Bill. My right hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (Mr. Bellenger) assumes that in a short time Clause 2 will be unnecessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-01a.1407.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-01", "file": "debates1962-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ffb9fe8ffa40c46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-01a.1407.7", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY RESERVE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "protest. They are there. The Army has the bodies. What is more, it has the swords. Prior to the introduction of this Bill, they had every right to assume that at a date now rapidly approaching they would be able to return to their homes. Did not the right hon. Gentleman tell us that about 2,000 men were eligible under the law as it stands to leave the Army on 2nd or 4th April, or a date like that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-01a.1407.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-01", "file": "debates1962-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ffb9fe8ffa40c46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-01a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY RESERVE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not be condescending.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "o get what they have said they want by this new Clause. I should be hoodwinking the right hon. Member if I agreed to accept this new Clause and he thought that he had got what he wanted. This is something quite different. I know what he has in mind, but it would not be achieved by this new Clause. I must look after his interests as well as the interests of other hon. Members and refuse to bargain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-01a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-02", "file": "debates1962-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9f6abba257defc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-02a.1439.0", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "Yes, I think it is. I have asked that anyone who has no real need to come into the centre of London should not come in. That was in my original statement, and the right hon. Member for Vauxhall (Mr. Strauss) said that it was unnecessary. I think it was necessary. Now the hon. Gentleman says that I should have extended my statement somewhat; so I am in rather a dilemma—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-02a.1439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-02", "file": "debates1962-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9f6abba257defc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-02a.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. More", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense! In which areas?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. More", "preceding_text": "I am willing that the hon. Gentleman should add to my lists, but my own list is so long that I do not want myself to add to it. The fourth scandal is that even now those who are rehoused from slum clearance schemes should be faced with the necessity of paying far higher rents than existing council tenants in the same areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-02a.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-02", "file": "debates1962-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9f6abba257defc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-02a.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. More", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. More", "preceding_text": "pursue the policy of encouraging councils to sell to those who can afford to buy. As my right hon. Friend said, every house vacated in that way provides a house for someone who needs one. Seventh, we should obviously encourage private building by loans. In the last six years we have had two Acts which give great hope and encouragement for the future—the Rent Act, 1957, and last year's Housing Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-02a.1530.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ther the culmination of a series of acts and expressions of opinion by the Government about the United Nations, which are reflected in that speech. Indeed, one could say that the speech was, as it were, the rationale of much that has been said and done by the Government in recent months. In putting down this censure Motion we are not, of course, making a personal attack upon the Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The figure was 87.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "solution of 14th December, 1960, and said: Such a resolution and others like it reveal an almost total lack of responsibility and certainly pay no heed to the main purpose of the United Nations which is secure order and security of peace. The Foreign Secretary then went on to refer to the fact that members were not paying their subscriptions, and he spoke of 82 of the 104 being in serious arrears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ble points: … the aims of the United Nations are sound … Communism may change, colonialism will not last, some decisions of the Security Council have helped, and the Secretary General has done good work. But even after that he said: There is no easy way out of our dilemma … He concluded that we should stay in the United Nations, but get back to the primary aims of the Charter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ction of India. It was a vote in which seven members of the Council voted for and four voted against—those four being Ceylon, Egypt, Russia—who vetoed it—and Liberia. As a matter of accuracy, I should add that these four nations were not voting for the use of force. They were opposing a resolution which deplored the action of India. Hon. Members opposite may say that that is just a quibble. Is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ment a policy on self-determination in her colonies, on which the United Kingdom abstained; or the Security Council resolution condemning Portuguese policy in Angola, on which the United Kingdom abstained. The truth is that the United Nations, whether in the Security Council or in the Assembly, has harassed very considerably those in open breach of the Charter over Hungary, Tibet and South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "otice that the Bow Group has recently published a slashing attack on all this, and on the Foreign Secretary. I know that there are a handful of hon. Members opposite—though not, I fear, many right hon. Members opposite—who opposed Suez. But whenever anything like a serious episode occurs they are unhappily overwhelmed by the solid block of knights and baronets whom the Prime Minister has rewarded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.46.2", "colnum": "46", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "Since this is a Motion of censure upon the Foreign Secretary—one of my principal colleagues, and one of the chief Ministers in the Government—I think it right that I should reply to it immediately. We always knew that the right hon. Gentleman disliked the Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.46.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.46.2", "colnum": "46", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "ew York of which we in the capital cities have hardly seen the context—perhaps we get it on the telephone—and in situations in which we are unable to appreciate the full implications. Many of the member Governments, I can assure the House, have given up the task in despair and give no instructions to their representatives. Some have given permanent instructions to their representatives to abstain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.46.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " as I believe they have in some countries, of affronting the conscience of the world and threatening its peace, it should be within the competence of the world to deal with them. In a very real sense the concept of trusteeship must replace the concept of colonialism. No man is an island, and the bells of Angola toll for us, for all of us except, of course, the shareholders of the Benguela Railway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "roughout that week, and the diversionary appeal for a cease-fire, recognised for what it was by practically every member of the United Nations. Then we had the dénouement, the squalor of that night in the House with the Prime Minister winding up the debate—his greatest hour—his carefully prepared restaging of Chamberlain's Munich act, a piece of paper and all, the pretence that his message—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman knew it three weeks previously.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ce of paper and all, the pretence that his message—[ Interruption ] I am coming to it again; we have heard about it before—to U Thant produced an answer from U Thant which altered United Nations policy. The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that the answer that he got that night was what the United Nations policy had been all along. The right hon. Gentleman knew before he spoke that night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " of narrow self-interest, which is what the Foreign Secretary, in his speech, was trying to condemn. At a crucial moment when the Government had agreed to supply the weapons for which the United Nations had asked, Sir Roy Welensky had only to hoist the flag of revolt behind the Government's back and 100 Members rushed to his support. That is why the change was made. I challenge the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "n that anyone who gives aid and comfort to the enemies of the United Nations is guilty of high treason. Why, then, does he manœuvre his way out of every action that he is asked to take against the enemies of the United Nations in this last operation? I will tell the House why. It is because in every question where Sir Roy Welensky calls the tune the right hon. Gentleman is powerless to act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "entleman is powerless to act. [ Interruption. ] We had it on Devlin, on Monckton and on the costly volte-face last year over the Northern Rhodesian constitution, on the bombs, on the United Nations observers. Not only in this country but abroad people are asking, \"Who is in charge? Whose hand is on the helm?\" I ask again—I want an answer to these things tonight—how can the House of Commons fulfil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "e last year over the Northern Rhodesian constitution, on the bombs, on the United Nations observers. Not only in this country but abroad people are asking, \"Who is in charge? Whose hand is on the helm?\" I ask again—I want an answer to these things tonight—how can the House of Commons fulfil—[ Laughter. ] If hon. Members opposite think that this is a joke, they really ought to think again. How can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "eally ought to think again. How can—[ Interruption. ] I intend to finish this, and the time will have to come out of that allowed for the Lord Privy Seal. I ask again: when is the Prime Minister going to exert himself and govern? I do not believe that he can. The panache has gone. On every issue, domestic and foreign, now we find the same faltering hand, the same dithering indecision and confusion", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "out of that allowed for the Lord Privy Seal. I ask again: when is the Prime Minister going to exert himself and govern? I do not believe that he can. The panache has gone. On every issue, domestic and foreign, now we find the same faltering hand, the same dithering indecision and confusion [ Interruption. ] What is more, hon. Members opposite know it, and some of them are even beginning to say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "hen is the Prime Minister going to exert himself and govern? I do not believe that he can. The panache has gone. On every issue, domestic and foreign, now we find the same faltering hand, the same dithering indecision and confusion [ Interruption. ] What is more, hon. Members opposite know it, and some of them are even beginning to say so. [ Interruption. ] The truth is that the MacWonder of 1959—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " himself and govern? I do not believe that he can. The panache has gone. On every issue, domestic and foreign, now we find the same faltering hand, the same dithering indecision and confusion [ Interruption. ] What is more, hon. Members opposite know it, and some of them are even beginning to say so. [ Interruption. ] The truth is that the MacWonder of 1959—[ Interruption. ] The MacWonder of 1959—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "pt a saying made famous by \"Nye\" Bevan, it is a little difficult now to know which is the organ grinder and which is the other. This is why the night hon. Gentleman has refused to disavow the speech of the Foreign Secretary. Personal ties apart, and the Prime Minister's almost suburban idolatry for the hereditary earl apart, his duty today was clear. He should have disavowed the Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "outnumbered by the votes of those who, every election, hand on heart, appeal for votes because they support the United Nations; but we shall have with us the support of millions of people in this country who believe that Britain has reached the parting of the ways, that the crisis of confidence is not in the United Nations but in the Government's ability to support the United Nations, who believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.157.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "territories today, with all the difficulties which face them at present in trying to reach independence? How can they justify the sort of language used here and at the same time be responsible in Government? To quote the resolution's words, it is not the British Government's policy … to transfer all powers to the peoples of those territories, without any conditions or reservations ….", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.157.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-05", "file": "debates1962-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "1370e7e7e910ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I repeat … without any conditions or reservations … This is a completely impractical proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-05a.164.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-06", "file": "debates1962-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab14ad1b76d166b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-06a.224.4", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MERGERS AND TAKE-OVER BIDS (CABINET MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Home Secretary, I must say that I think this is unworthy of him. He has been often a severe but always a fair critic. Everybody knows the long connection of my right hon. Friend with Courtaulds—a family connection. I can only say that on any occasion in Cabinet or in other Ministerial meetings when this matter has been under discussion my right hon. Friend has absented himself from those meetings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-06a.224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-06", "file": "debates1962-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab14ad1b76d166b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-06a.225.6", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OLD PEOPLE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And rents.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. Friend is not aware of these facts, how many people in the affluent section of society know how others, living on small fixed incomes or drawing retirement pensions and faced with increases in the prices of coal, gas and electricity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-06a.225.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-06", "file": "debates1962-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab14ad1b76d166b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-06a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " repeat them now—for securing enforcement. The point I made—which I make again because the hon. Member for Islington, East has perhaps not appreciated it—is that although my right hon. Friend has described this not as a wrecking Amendment or an Amendment seeking to drive a coach-and-four through the Bill, it would in fact make this Bill cease to be one which contains any power to curb immigration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-06a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-06", "file": "debates1962-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab14ad1b76d166b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-06a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I think my right hon. Friend must be suffering from a remarkable degree of deafness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-06a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-06", "file": "debates1962-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab14ad1b76d166b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-06a.299.2", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that it would have been clear that I meant by immigration coming into the country to settle here. I never imagined for a moment that anyone coming into this country for a holiday was an immigrant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-06a.299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-06", "file": "debates1962-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab14ad1b76d166b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-06a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I need to reveal all the detailed administrative arrangements which we make for occasions like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-06a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-06", "file": "debates1962-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab14ad1b76d166b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-06a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": " know that the decisions of doctors vary a great deal. It would not be right for an individual to be refused admission merely because one doctor says so and there is no possibility of appeal. The only case in which we do not suggest an appeal is that in which the Secretary of State decides to refuse admission on security grounds. We recognise that in those cases an appeal would not be appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-06a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-06", "file": "debates1962-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab14ad1b76d166b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-06a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "g the height of the war, this country was prepared to go into the individual case of any person against whom an order was made under Regulation 18B. It was very remarkable that, day in and day out, the committees used to sit and hear cases at that time. In this Bill we are not dealing with wartime conditions. We are dealing with these matters in times of peace. We are not even dealing with aliens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-06a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-07", "file": "debates1962-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4b36890cbab047bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-07a.412.5", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that I am very much obliged for that Answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-07a.412.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-07", "file": "debates1962-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4b36890cbab047bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-07a.415.3", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "There is no doubt whatsoever about that. The point is that since the original surveys were taken, before commencement of building, the pattern of traffic has changed, and it is necessary to do another survey, particularly in relation to tolls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-07a.415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-07", "file": "debates1962-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4b36890cbab047bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-07a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ble for the Irish to be included in the operation of the Bill and he doubted very much whether it was possible for them to be included even if it was desirable. The question of health has been introduced as a second fig leaf to cover the Home Secretary's nakedness. Some hon. Members opposite have made a great deal of the fact that there is a smallpox epidemic in parts of the country and that this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-07a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-07", "file": "debates1962-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4b36890cbab047bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-07a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "hich is really domiciled in the United States. Some Canadians came here and organised a strike in the London docks and I could not deal with any of them. Then, for some reason or other, the United States branch of the union did not think that the Canadians were prosecuting the strike vigorously enough and they sent two American officers of the union over. They were deported on the day they landed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-07a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-07", "file": "debates1962-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4b36890cbab047bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-07a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "Under the Magistrates' Courts Act?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-07a.535.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-07", "file": "debates1962-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4b36890cbab047bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-07a.555.5", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Weitzman", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Member please tell the Committee why he wants to limit this period to ten years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-07a.555.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-07", "file": "debates1962-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4b36890cbab047bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-07a.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GLASGOW UNIVERSITY (LINEAR ACCELERATOR)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary for Science (Mr. Denzil Freeth)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary for Science (Mr. Denzil Freeth)", "preceding_text": "major research project it is the scientific considerations which are paramount. Let me relate the history of Professor Dee's application. First, I would make it quite clear that it was an application for a machine for pure scientific research with no direct industrial application. Nor was it an application which could be regarded as teaching equipment in any generally understood sense of the term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-07a.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-08", "file": "debates1962-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "cbcb263d7de2a124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-08a.594.3", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why ask, then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "While thanking the Parliamentary Secretary for giving us knowledge which was already in our possession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-08a.594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-08", "file": "debates1962-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "cbcb263d7de2a124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-08a.602.3", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Malta are threatening Maltese citizens with utter damnation if they vote for the Labour Party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-08a.602.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-08", "file": "debates1962-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "cbcb263d7de2a124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-08a.626.4", "colnum": "626", "heading": "DISARMAMENT AND NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "at we have a duty to maintain the balance of power in the world…and to ensure that the security of free men is not overthrown because an aggressor suddenly becomes possessed of an overwhelming advantage.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 31st October, 1961; Vol. 648, c. 32.] I felt myself bound to accept, therefore, the military and scientific arguments in favour of preparations for a resumption of tests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-08a.626.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-08", "file": "debates1962-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "cbcb263d7de2a124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-08a.631.0", "colnum": "631", "heading": "DISARMAMENT AND NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "sagree, or that there will be any question of veto, but, of course, I am hoping that we will be able to agree that further tests can be postponed. If this initiative led to any really great results, then our political and military situation would be transformed; but I must make it clear to the House that we have reached agreement in principle about the moral justification for making further tests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-08a.631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-08", "file": "debates1962-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "cbcb263d7de2a124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-08a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "DISARMAMENT AND NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ach different conclusions. I say now—I must be frank—that neither Government will stand in the way of the other but I do not think that this will arise, for we do not work like that. My answer to the right hon. Gentleman's first point, which was whether we will postpone this decision until after the negotiations, is that they may be very prolonged. I do not think that I ought to go as far as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-08a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-08", "file": "debates1962-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "cbcb263d7de2a124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-08a.633.0", "colnum": "633", "heading": "DISARMAMENT AND NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that he has made a profoundly depressing announcement to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-08a.633.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-08", "file": "debates1962-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "cbcb263d7de2a124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-08a.640.0", "colnum": "640", "heading": "DISARMAMENT AND NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ortance, namely, the decision of Her Majesty's Government to initiate discussions to make Christmas Island available for the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons by the Government of the United States of America. My duty in deciding whether or no to leave this to the House clearly depends on the timetable. What I am told is that no one has started making any preparations on Christmas Island yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-08a.640.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-08", "file": "debates1962-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "cbcb263d7de2a124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-08a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY RESERVE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A good one, anyway.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget), in the middle of his gusty speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-08a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-09", "file": "debates1962-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "981d2037675ad0cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-09a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE FEDERATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is this the Committee stage?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I acknowledge that the hon. Gentleman has the advantage of me there. He has told the House something of which I was not aware. I am grateful to him, and I think that we can leave the matter at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-09a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-12", "file": "debates1962-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "83d9946efc914478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "se in total supplies, the market has fallen to such an extent. Some of the factors are, I hope, transient, but others, I hope even more strongly, are those which will be with us for some time to come, notably a high level of production of meat from our own farms. If this is to be so, it is most disturbing that the market seemed so incapable this year of adapting itself to these changed conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-12", "file": "debates1962-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "83d9946efc914478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "nd. If we examine retail prices we find that they vary from locality to locality, from the North of England to the South of England, and, indeed, the Scottish position might be quite different from that in the South. I cannot see how the Minister can be so dogmatic. After all, the Minister himself has argued that this is speculative. Again, the Estimates Committee examined the Minister's evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-12", "file": "debates1962-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "83d9946efc914478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.944.2", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Words.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": " week. The Government appointed an Interdepartmental Committee to examine the matter. The Committee argued that there was need for moderate concentration. I do not know why hon. Members opposite complain. That was then part of Government policy. We need more concentration of the abattoir system and this may well be one of the biggest items that will have to be considered by the proposed committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.944.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-12", "file": "debates1962-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "83d9946efc914478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.944.2", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "ccupations of most of the local branches of the National Farmers' Union. Farmers in West Cumberland are conducting a major survey on the subject. This is one of the matters which causes the greatest anxiety to the producers. If we are to do anything to give security to the producer and to bring benefits to the consumer, then, inevitably, there must be an organised market and there must be control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.944.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-12", "file": "debates1962-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "83d9946efc914478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor in Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "preceding_text": "nancial and political retrenchment on this issue. It is a national situation which cannot be overriden. The industry employs a remarkable proportion of people in Scotland. I was surprised to hear from the hon. Member for Fife, East (Sir J. Gilmour) that in Scotland, one person in six gets a direct living from the land. I do not think the figure is anything like that in England, or so concentrated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-12", "file": "debates1962-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "83d9946efc914478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Duncan", "preceding_text": "I was engaged on the Slaughterhouses Bill with the hon. Gentleman. I know what a mess the thing was in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-12", "file": "debates1962-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "83d9946efc914478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.990.3", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Duncan", "preceding_text": "I was trying to get from hon. Members opposite what is the Labour Party's policy, as the Government have not got one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.990.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-12", "file": "debates1962-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "83d9946efc914478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Browne", "preceding_text": "I was surprised that such a knowledgeable person in agriculture as the hon. Member for Norfolk, South-West (Mr. Hilton) should come here not knowing his facts and not knowing the exact sum out of this extra Supplementary Estimate which has, in fact, gone to the farming industry. I was also surprised to hear him say that his party was entirely in favour of subsidies for farmers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-12", "file": "debates1962-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "83d9946efc914478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Suggest some.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "ecome subjects of political concern. a profound truth. The level of the guarantees and the method of implementing them; the quantity of production to which guaranteed prices should apply; the encouragement of efficiency and other matters\"— and now a profound remark— are all subjects upon which differing views may be held. As the preamble to a document which ends up with no constructive statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-12", "file": "debates1962-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "83d9946efc914478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "It has a lot to do with the Estimates. The whole point of quoting these remarks is that it is fairly clear that by and large—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1034.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-12", "file": "debates1962-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "83d9946efc914478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1038.6", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "—in the pattern of sources of supply this year have been a dominant feature in marketing——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1038.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-12", "file": "debates1962-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "83d9946efc914478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "Certainly in 1953, but this is 1961.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-12", "file": "debates1962-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "83d9946efc914478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1050.0", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX (FIREWORKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cream crackers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Are crackers fireworks or toys? Are they covered by this Order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-12", "file": "debates1962-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "83d9946efc914478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1065.3", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX (FIREWORKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or to schoolchildren.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "preceding_text": "There is one simple answer to the hon. Member. I know of no firm that manufactures pipe cleaners for a whole year and sells them all prior to 5th November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1065.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-12", "file": "debates1962-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "83d9946efc914478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1069.3", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX (FIREWORKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "This trade is not entitled to it, and here, unfortunately, I am being supported by the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro). Once we start giving advance notice to the firework makers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-12", "file": "debates1962-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "83d9946efc914478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1069.3", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX (FIREWORKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "This trade is not entitled to it, and here, unfortunately, I am being supported by the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro). Once we start giving advance notice to the firework makers—[ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Kidderminster again mutters from a sedentary position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-12a.1069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-13", "file": "debates1962-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b0c19ef63c69e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-13a.1112.4", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. and learned Friend realise that the date of the next General Election is now getting very close—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-13a.1112.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-13", "file": "debates1962-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b0c19ef63c69e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-13a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the opportunity of being almost invited to participate in this debate by the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Mr. Gurden), whose dinner hour, I now observe, takes a considerable time, in view of his lengthy absences from our deliberations. I do not begrudge him a hearty appetite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-13a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-13", "file": "debates1962-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b0c19ef63c69e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-13a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Donald Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Donald Johnson", "preceding_text": "ecently over smallpox entries, and secondly, because of the problem created throughout the country by these cases. I hope that I will not appear to detain the Committee if I try to impress the point by giving particulars of one or two cases, which have been supplied to me by the medical officer of health in Carlisle, which I think should be on the record of this Committee while we are debating it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-13a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-13", "file": "debates1962-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b0c19ef63c69e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-13a.1250.0", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "I will be as brief as possible in giving the particulars of these cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-13a.1250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-13", "file": "debates1962-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b0c19ef63c69e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-13a.1250.2", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But a Chinese?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "Surely, if Hong Kong is in the Commonwealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-13a.1250.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-13", "file": "debates1962-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b0c19ef63c69e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-13a.1251.4", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": "I very much appreciate the remarks of my hon. and learned Friend and I see the difficulty about the drafting of the Amendment. Despite the opposition from the hon. Member for Birmingham, Small Heath (Mr. Denis Howell), I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-13a.1251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1293.4", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Is not that figure of £151 million approximately £11 million more than the estimated loss, and can my right hon. Friend tell the House whether we shall be given a statement shortly as to the profit-earning prospects of British Railways in the next few years, if at all, having regard to the huge investment of new moneys in the railway system as part of the modernisation plan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1293.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1295.5", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "That is why we are getting rid of the traffic jams.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1295.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1309.0", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has put a number of supplementary questions, and I cannot promise to answer them all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1316.2", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "VACCINATION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Donald Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not yet?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Donald Johnson", "preceding_text": "sed in the International Certificate of Vaccination and I can proudly display one of these certificates as my own possession. The certificate provides for smallpox alone as a compulsory vaccination as distinct from the other diseases with which we here are familiar. The other diseases on the certificate are yellow fever and cholera with which, fortunately, we are not yet concerned in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "VACCINATION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "try to do more to publicise protection. The General Medical Services Committee recently decided to postpone discussion of immunisation procedures against all diseases until the present scare had died down, because many people feel that an attempt is being made—and I hope that the hon. Gentleman can dissociate himself from it—to gain some dubious party political capital out of present difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1324.0", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "PRIVATE MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "er of Aviation, whom we have with us today, when he introduced the Restrictive Trade Practices Act six years ago. In moving the Second Reading of the Bill, the right hon. Gentleman then said that it would become a powerful reinforcement to the system of free and flexible competitive enterprise which we on this side seek to foster and sustain.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 6th March, 1956; Vol. 549, c. 1943.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1323.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "PRIVATE MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "against the public interest, but the power to do so is there. That was what the Government White Paper said. There is also this view: It has been agreed between all schools of thought and political parties since 1945 that neither monopolies nor restrictive practices can be judged as good or bad as such; but that the advantages and disadvantages must be weighed on certain criteria in each instance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "PRIVATE MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that a little later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1347.0", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "PRIVATE MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "understandable, though generally vague, feeling of public unease in the matter fully justified the Government in considering urgently but carefully the issues involved. As the House will know, I asked the chairmen of the two companies to come to see me separately on two occasions, and I received a full explanation of their views. Both companies also published a good deal of additional information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "PRIVATE MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "ments because I believe that any hon. Member having a constituency problem or opinion—be it raised by an individual, an organisation or a business firm—should make those views known in the House. Every constituency interest should know that it can be represented here. The major burden of the case made by various hon. Members has quite rightly been directed to the proposed I.C.I.-Courtaulds murder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "PRIVATE MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It still is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "cartel agreements that may well occur. I would commend to my hon. Friends, in particular, a book, now in the Library, written by my hon. Friend the Member for Bilston (Mr. R. Edwards). It is an absolute mine of information about monopolies throughout the world, but especially here. The right hon. Member for Reigate reminded us that not so long ago Courtaulds itself could be regarded as a monopoly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "PRIVATE MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "eferences to the Monopolies Commission and the number of times we have heard complaints in the House that the Government have refused to implement the conclusions of the Monopolies Commission, I think that we are justified in saying that the prospectus was a fraudulent one. I am quite certain that Mr. Speaker himself would never have subscribed to it had he seen it before the elections took place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "PRIVATE MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hendrie Oakshott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hendrie Oakshott", "preceding_text": "h which, I thought, the right hon. Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay) agreed, that in considering the actual terms of a merger such as the one now proposed—I want to confine myself to that—provided that the terms do not infringe the revenue or company laws, those terms are really a matter for the board of directors and shareholders of the two companies and not for the Government and Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1419.3", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "PRIVATE MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "or Acrylonitrile—the raw material for Courtelle, which is made in my constituency—double the price at which Courtaulds can now buy it both from America and Europe. If this is true, then I.C.I., if the merger goes through, will have a monopoly of raw materials and will be able to charge just what it likes and British customers will have to pay higher prices for the goods which they themselves make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1419.3", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "PRIVATE MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "rent and future prospects—the first big blast by the company to I.C.I.'s take-over bid. Let my hon. Friend bear in mind the following: The men claim that the firm is in a 'very healthy position', and if there is all this money about 'it is about time our basic wages were increased'. I do not blame my constituents for putting their plate out if they think that there is a lot of \"lolly\" going round—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1419.3", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "PRIVATE MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The insurance companies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " what I believe to be extravagant claims for future profits is bad for us all. The Government ought not to leave it to the shareholders to decide what is best in the national interest. It is unfair to shareholders to put that burden on them. That decision ought to be made by the Government. It is wrong to put it on the widows and little people in the country—the country doctor, the country lawyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1440.1", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "PRIVATE MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "-I.C.I. merger should take. No one has said precisely what this inquiry should inquire into. Nobody has said who would be qualified to undertake it. The Opposition said that they were not in a dilemma. Of course they are not in a dilemma, because they are running away from all the hard decisions which have to be taken. It is very easy, when faced with a difficult choice, to turn one's back on it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1445.2", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "PRIVATE MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "e body of users felt that the merged organisation—or, indeed, either of the firms should a merger not take place—was sheltering behind a protective tariff and not selling at the lowest prices that might be obtained, such consumers could apply for any import duties in the man-made fibres sphere to be reduced. In those circumstances, the Board of Trade would immediately consider such an application—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1445.2", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "PRIVATE MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "ht be obtained, such consumers could apply for any import duties in the man-made fibres sphere to be reduced. In those circumstances, the Board of Trade would immediately consider such an application—[ Laughter. ]—but it would give the firms or the industry affected the right to reply. If hon. Members laugh, they must be very little concerned about the good of British industry or of the consumers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-14", "file": "debates1962-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d091e5ae1ff4d670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1448.0", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "PRIVATE MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That is the first test—not whether it is private or public, not whether there is accountability or non-accountability. I do not remember long, independent, objective public inquiries before the Opposition nationalised coal or steel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-14a.1448.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-15", "file": "debates1962-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c093f8f2cf458392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-15a.1492.0", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": " in 1957? Did not Australia protest against the proposal that the French nuclear tests should be transferred from the Sahara to the Pacific? Has not the Prime Minister of New Zealand now protested against the Christmas Island nuclear test proposal on the ground that there is a cluster of islands round Christmas Island—almost like the Milky Way—on the edge of which is Samoa, with a thousand people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-15a.1491.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-15", "file": "debates1962-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c093f8f2cf458392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-15a.1492.2", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must keep his supplementary question within confines which do not suggest that it is a speech. I think that he was perilously near, at one point, to Question No. Q14 to the Prime Minister, which we must not anticipate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-15a.1492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-15", "file": "debates1962-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c093f8f2cf458392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-15a.1550.3", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "ses great problems, both for the Government and shipowners. It is up to shipowners to try to convince the shippers and the foreign Governments that their freights are reasonable, but it is not easy for them to do this. I come to one example mentioned by the hon. Member for Sunderland, North. This is the biggest single case of unilateral Government interference with conferences. This is by America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-15a.1550.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-15", "file": "debates1962-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c093f8f2cf458392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-15a.1552.2", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "This is the burden of our case. We want a new Minister who will get something done. The right hon. Gentleman has been saying things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-15a.1552.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-15", "file": "debates1962-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c093f8f2cf458392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-15a.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Critics.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "n interim Report. He wants to make one Report which will cover the whole subject, and I am quite certain that it will be most valuable. I believe that the partnership between the Government, the Chamber of Shipping and the Shipbuilding Conference has to be closer in the future than it has been in the past. In the last year, and I say this quite categorically to my critic, the hon. Member opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-15a.1554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-15", "file": "debates1962-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c093f8f2cf458392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-15a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "st harmonious and the most effective partnership possible. A partnership will not succeed unless both sides are free and frank, and that we intend to be. I am very grateful to my hon. and gallant Friend the Parliamentary Secretary who, since his appointment, has worked very hard going round the docks and shipyards. He has done much to promote the confidence those people now feel in the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-15a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-15", "file": "debates1962-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c093f8f2cf458392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-15a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "preceding_text": "were that the Q.3 order was cancelled. I am another Member of Parliament who supported this project all the way through. My own area put a great deal of effort into the tender. Two great firms amalgamated to submit a tender. They put in one of the most imaginative tenders which has ever been submitted for a ship. At the last they were ditched by the Government—not by Cunard, but by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-15a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-15", "file": "debates1962-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c093f8f2cf458392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-15a.1632.2", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said I had met the Committee and had said certain things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-15a.1632.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-16", "file": "debates1962-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "fadd5b210240a6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-16a.1667.8", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Proudfoot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Proudfoot", "preceding_text": " by running against the clock. He has to have a competitor. The same applies to competition in business—you must have competitors to get the best out of a business. Worse than the private monopolies are the State monopolies. No one can start up in opposition to a State monopoly. When one thinks of the State monopolies and the facilities which they have for lobbying in this House, it is incredible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-16a.1667.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-16", "file": "debates1962-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "fadd5b210240a6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-16a.1675.0", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proudfoot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proudfoot", "preceding_text": "protected for too long and they have been protected too well. They are hampering us. We should kick the props from under such businesses and allow them to face real competition. In a word, I am a \"low tariff Tory\". As a taxpayer, I have no desire to prop up any more decayed industries no matter how traditional. We should let such industries organise themselves. Politicians are very clever fellows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-16a.1675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-19", "file": "debates1962-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b9487e6048c5528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-19a.52.3", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "With respect, may I try it on the Minister of Housing and Local Government? He is opening this debate and is supposed to know all the answers. I put to the right hon. Gentleman that he is proposing, for what he calls inner London, with a population figure of about 2 million, that the boroughs in the area will be the education authorities; will have education authority control.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-19a.52.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-19", "file": "debates1962-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0b9487e6048c5528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-19a.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does the hon. Gentleman suggest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "prove of that and I do not advocate it myself. I think that the architects reached a point where they needed political knowledge which was not available to them. The point I am making is that nobody who knows the problem suggests that this service should go entirely to the Council for Greater London, but the arrangements whereby it is broken down to the smallness of boroughs is an unworkable one.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-19a.65.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-20", "file": "debates1962-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "08693cf3d5a39499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-20a.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "e Leader of the House in case he is not wholly disposed to accept statements from his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations. Not so long ago, the Leader of the House made a broadcast on the subject of local government and he said: I always remember what Lord Woolton said of local government: 'It must be local, and it must be government.\" We are trying to make it both.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-20a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-20", "file": "debates1962-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "08693cf3d5a39499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-20a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "may be based on the traditional counties. I have received a considerable number of letters saying that these proposals will, for example, greatly change the County Cricket Championship. There has been a County of London by Statute for seventy years. Clearly it is a county for legal purposes, but it is made absolutely clear in the laws of cricket that it is not a county for the purposes of cricket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-20a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-20", "file": "debates1962-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "08693cf3d5a39499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-20a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"London?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "individual cases, is the right approach. This debate is on a Motion \"to take note\". The right hon. Member for Belper, at the end of his speech, launched into a number of comments about the political motives that might lie behind it. If this argument applies to London it must equally apply to Middlesex which is a Conservative-controlled council and to other Conservative-controlled councils as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-20a.331.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-21", "file": "debates1962-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e5a1c4d88d7e4d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I know the hon. Member's anxieties about some aspects of this, which he never ceases to exploit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.388.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-21", "file": "debates1962-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e5a1c4d88d7e4d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.410.2", "colnum": "410", "heading": "PATRICK POTTLE AND OTHERS (SENTENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "I am not attempting to make a speech, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-21", "file": "debates1962-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e5a1c4d88d7e4d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.412.5", "colnum": "412", "heading": "PATRICK POTTLE AND OTHERS (SENTENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "It is very unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.412.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-21", "file": "debates1962-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e5a1c4d88d7e4d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.412.9", "colnum": "412", "heading": "PATRICK POTTLE AND OTHERS (SENTENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "I have made every effort to raise the matter during the normal course of Parliamentary procedure. I applied during December for an Adjournment debate, but was unsuccessful. Last week, I applied for an Adjournment debate this week or next week, when I understood that the trial of the members of the Committee of 100 would be over, but, again, I was unfortunate and did not gain an Adjournment debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.412.9"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-21", "file": "debates1962-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e5a1c4d88d7e4d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.422.2", "colnum": "422", "heading": "CONSTITUTION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The Review Conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-21", "file": "debates1962-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e5a1c4d88d7e4d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "CONSTITUTION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": " Speaker. This is an extraordinary occasion from the point of view which my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) has mentioned. I think that in a matter which, as the Attorney-General has indicated by his intervention, is of great constitutional importance, it might be that, with your permission and with his permission, we might be allowed to put the constitutional issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-21", "file": "debates1962-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e5a1c4d88d7e4d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.426.7", "colnum": "426", "heading": "CONSTITUTION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I think that the House knows that usually I am not reluctant to give way, but I did inform myself of the situation in regard to this rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.426.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-21", "file": "debates1962-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e5a1c4d88d7e4d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.444.2", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "er for Bath (Sir J. Pitman) and my hon. Friend the Member for Southampton, Itchen (Dr. King). The Principality of Wales has a special interest in the Amendment, for there is no part of the United Kingdom which supplies a greater proportion of teachers than the Principality. The English would be a lot of barbarians were it not that the Welsh have provided so many school teachers in years gone past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.444.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-21", "file": "debates1962-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e5a1c4d88d7e4d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREEN BELT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And their friends.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "f regionalising planning rather than leaving it at the level of the borough or small local authority areas. I do not go as far as those who allege bribery and matters of that kind. Many of our local authority and planning officials are of a high standard and do a good job of work. But the pressures that they are up against, forgetting for the moment monetary pressures or pressure from councillors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-21", "file": "debates1962-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e5a1c4d88d7e4d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.533.3", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREEN BELT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "preceding_text": "ot match up with each other. They are of entirely different design and do not fit in with the design of the village. These council houses have very nice gardens and the people work hard in them. They have dug them and planted them. Only the other day, however, a cursory note came from the rural district council to these unfortunate individuals saying that half of their gardens would be taken away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-21", "file": "debates1962-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e5a1c4d88d7e4d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (Recommitted) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I see that there are hon. Members from Scotland here.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-21", "file": "debates1962-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e5a1c4d88d7e4d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.569.6", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (Recommitted) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "e night, we do not relish it, and that it would be the worst of all bargains if we did stay here to 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning to reach the Scottish Clauses and then the Minister suddenly realised what was happening and decided to go on no further. It would mean that the Scots would have stayed here since half-past three, as we have, taking an interest in the discussions on the English matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.569.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-21", "file": "debates1962-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e5a1c4d88d7e4d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.571.0", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (Recommitted) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hannan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hannan", "preceding_text": ". White). I hope that my intervention will not be looked upon as adding further to the debate. It is a sincere attempt in a couple of minutes to add my support to the proposition. I hope that when my hon. Friend makes her final proposition the Minister will accept that the Scottish Clauses should not be discussed tonight. They have far-reaching implications for the people and children of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-21", "file": "debates1962-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e5a1c4d88d7e4d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (Recommitted) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " the time being be designated by or under the regulations … Every item of information that would enlighten anyone as to whether he is covered by this provision is in the hands of the Minister and it is all to be done by regulations. Little wonder that we are to get fewer than thirty. I was discussing this point with one of my hon. Friends who has some information in relation to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-21a.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-22", "file": "debates1962-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "e43b5ba924e4001a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-22a.610.4", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Digby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Digby", "preceding_text": "Now that the election is over and it looks as though there will be a more stable political future for Malta—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-22a.610.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-22", "file": "debates1962-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "e43b5ba924e4001a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-22a.720.5", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "For the first time, the right hon. Gentleman has used the word \"quota\" in a connection which makes it possible to understand his meaning. Are there to be X,000 jobs for, say, unskilled labourers in the building trade, with people coming in under either category B or category C—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-22a.720.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-23", "file": "debates1962-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bad5679d7860c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-23a.807.7", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAIR TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Edwards", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Edwards", "preceding_text": "y, children buy quite a lot of these stamps. The practice of these stamp agents is to advertise extensively, and in all cases, I notice, the inducement is free stamps. There is nothing free about it at all. It seems a bit of a scandal that a young girl who is interested enough to write to a Member of Parliament should be disillusioned so early in her life about the intergrity of the British Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-23a.807.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-23", "file": "debates1962-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bad5679d7860c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-23a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAIR TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Yes, I explained that it went further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-23a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-23", "file": "debates1962-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bad5679d7860c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-23a.844.3", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAIR TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "ler firm is forced into this very competitive advertising, when it does advertise. The hon. Member for Bilston made considerable play about carpets. I think we all agree with him about the distasteful advertisements about flood-damaged goods, and so on. But there must be a certain variant in the quality of goods available. The new carpet on the floor of the House is clearly of the highest quality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-23a.844.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-23", "file": "debates1962-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4f3bad5679d7860c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-23a.844.3", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAIR TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "ve advertising, when it does advertise. The hon. Member for Bilston made considerable play about carpets. I think we all agree with him about the distasteful advertisements about flood-damaged goods, and so on. But there must be a certain variant in the quality of goods available. The new carpet on the floor of the House is clearly of the highest quality. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Well, we hope it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-23a.844.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-26", "file": "debates1962-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "0294d3840e510340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.925.8", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With a Tory Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that the facilities now available are rather poorer than they were ten years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.925.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-26", "file": "debates1962-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "0294d3840e510340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Very odd.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " question of staffing, may I ask her why the other day I could not have an answer about the number of these people in this group of professions supplementary to medicine who are employed by all the regional hospital boards? Why cannot we be told how many courses have had to be cancelled? Why cannot we have a general survey of the whole position, if my hon. Friend is able to give these odd answers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.937.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-26", "file": "debates1962-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "0294d3840e510340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.937.3", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "To inquire nationally would mean asking every hospital management committee what numbers they had on their staffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.937.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-26", "file": "debates1962-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "0294d3840e510340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AFRICA BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "I find it quite impossible to follow the first part of the right hon. Gentleman's argument. What advantage it is to the British consumer to continue to subsidise this import of sugar is most difficult to see. I can see that it is to the advantage of the Swaziland producers, but as he said, they remain in the Commonwealth so they could remain in the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-26", "file": "debates1962-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "0294d3840e510340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.969.2", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AFRICA BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "Clearly, by its omissions and its references, the Bill does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.969.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-26", "file": "debates1962-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "0294d3840e510340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.992.2", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AFRICA BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "We should support action in the United Nations to establish a new régime for South-West Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.992.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-26", "file": "debates1962-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "0294d3840e510340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.1041.4", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AFRICA BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "urely, I am not doing an injustice to the hon. Member when I suggest that his speech reminded me of the speech of Antony. Here is condemnation of a principle and praise and understanding of a Government who apply that principle. If I have done the hon. Member an injustice I apologise, but that is the impression his remarks made on me and, I am sure, on other hon. Members on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-26", "file": "debates1962-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "0294d3840e510340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AFRICA BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "I acknowledge that under heavy questioning, and after his speech had ended, the Lord Privy Seal made that point. It should have been much clearer in his speech, and in the Bill. The Government have done none of these things. They stand condemned, not for actually having changed the de facto situation, but for giving de jure recognition of what should not have been acknowledged in law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-26", "file": "debates1962-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "0294d3840e510340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.1088.0", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "Does this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-26a.1088.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1112.6", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Keep on the Prime Minister.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "While congratulating my hon. Friend on the immense vigour and enthusiasm which he has brought to bear upon this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1112.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1144.2", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (VOTE ON ACCOUNT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "May I first have a reply from the Leader of the House about an early debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1199.4", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And with disease.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": " by saying that I have noticed—this cannot be challenged or denied; I have noticed it in my own constituency and will give a relevant quotation in a moment—that there have been a number of speeches in various parts of the country indicating that a large number of the Commonwealth immigrants are criminals, or come here with no intention of working, or come here for vicious and undesirable purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1200.3", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "That is published by the Union Movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Pannell", "preceding_text": " more that although I agree that in general there is no evidence that immigrants are more prone to disorder or to break the law than the average citizen, it is a fact that immigrants as a whole are much more prone than others to some of the more distasteful crimes. It cannot be emphasised too much that half the prostitution and living on immoral earnings that occurs in London is due to immigrants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Pannell", "preceding_text": "curs in London is due to immigrants. [ Interruption .] There were 68 cases out of 132 in the Metropolitan Police District of London. The figures are in HANSARD. The hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Mr. Chapman) can see them without intervening with irrelevant remarks. It is on record that 68 out of 132 convictions in the Metropolitan Police District of London in 1960 were due to immigrants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " so after the speech of the hon. Member for Lancaster. But it is true of some hon. Members opposite that, now that the Commonwealth is ceasing to have a colour bar and now that it is formed almost entirely, and soon entirely, of self-governing countries, now that it has become a civilised institution, it begins to lose its fascination for hon. Members opposite and they go whoring after other gods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the good of all this?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "I gave notice that I would refer. My hon. and learned Frend made tremendous play about the contribution which the Southern Irish had made and I understand that my hon. Friend the Member for Darlington (Mr. Bourne-Arton) feels similarly. I think that with very honourable exceptions, the men who came did so as hired mercenaries. They did not come here imbued with the spirit in which we are fighting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "w the Government could justify as recently as yesterday refusing even to try to collect the information and statistics on which a true judgment about immigration and the need for control must be based. If the information collected by a serious survey of the whole problem revealed that immigration control was necessary, we should regard it as essential to consult the other Commonwealth Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "atest harm to our country's reputation in the Commonwealth and the greatest harm to their own reputation, such as it is, for objectivity in making up their minds on legislation. We would consult other Commonwealth Governments to see how this could be achieved with the minimum damage to their interests and to their confidence in our loyalty and good will. This is how we shall act when we win power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "terests and to their confidence in our loyalty and good will. This is how we shall act when we win power. [ Interruption .] It is very easy for hon. Members opposite to make promises. They do it all the time. They promised last year that they would keep down the rise in Government expenditure to 2½ per cent. this year, but it is already up to 4½ per cent. We are not so irresponsible,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "s a better Bill now in some respects than it was when first introduced I would not seek to dispute, but it is quite wrong to stigmatise it, as did the hon. Gentleman the Member for Islington, East and my hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster (Mr. Berkeley) thought fit to do—as ill-considered and ill-digested. In fact, I make no apology for it. It was introduced after long and anxious consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "e that has been the result. It is the usual tactics of an Opposition to seek to claim all the credit for the amendments made. I prefer to say that all hon. Members of the Committee doing their best—including those who accept the principle of the Bill—have tried to make the Measure work as satisfactorily as possible. In my belief, the case for the Bill today is even stronger than on Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1276.3", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I think that my right hon. Friend used the words, \"borders of the United Kingdom.\" I do not think that even a lawyer could argue as to where the borders of the United Kingdom are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1276.3", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I think that my right hon. Friend used the words, \"borders of the United Kingdom.\" I do not think that even a lawyer could argue as to where the borders of the United Kingdom are. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] That is the answer to the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (HISTORIC BUILDINGS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "her houses, though in that case the local authorities have to refer to the Minister. So in two cases local authorities are going to increase their rate-borne expenditure; but that rate-borne expenditure comes into the aggregate calculation in respect of equalisation grant, or rate deficiency grant as it is probably better known in England, and Scotland comes into it because there are alternatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1301.7", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL HOUSES, SCOTLAND (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "spital staff houses in Scotland all of which are owned by the Secretary of State. The majority of these were taken over in 1948 and their distribution throughout the country was governed by the policy of the former hospital authorities. As might be expected, the rents of the houses showed great variety. In some cases a free house or a very cheap house was even regarded as part of the remuneration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1301.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-27", "file": "debates1962-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b481de45cf1ccf1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1301.7", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL HOUSES, SCOTLAND (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "hat policy, in 1950, under a Labour Government, the first steps were taken to rationalise rents and they were brought into line with the rents of comparable local houses. This, of course, produced an increase in some cases organised by the party opposite, which, when it was in power—I agree with hon. Members opposite in this respect—acted rather more responsibly than it seems to be doing just now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-27a.1301.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-28", "file": "debates1962-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b7ae1b9294bc8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1322.5", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farey-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"READING.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farey-Jones", "preceding_text": "Will not a large labour force be involved in this project? In view of the scarcity of local labour already urgently required for road projects and other work, is it wise to use such a force? Is my hon. Friend aware that the Gas Council itself has been warned by its own consultants, and here I am quoting, that: \"the risks involved …\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1322.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-28", "file": "debates1962-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b7ae1b9294bc8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1337.0", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman proposes to save on either garrisons or bases—on which he differentiates—in the Mediterranean, and spend his savings in Aden and Singapore, does he now intend to build up Singapore even more strongly than before in order to carry out the policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-28", "file": "debates1962-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b7ae1b9294bc8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1342.0", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "NORTHERN RHODESIA CONSTITUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "age in a given seat, under the existing arrangements, for the candidate with the minority of the total vote to be elected? Does the Colonial Secretary really believe that it is possible to persuade the African population to accept the benefits of democracy when it is presented to them in such a form—a form which requires some mathematical expertise fully to understand? Let me say, in spite of that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-28", "file": "debates1962-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b7ae1b9294bc8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1342.0", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "NORTHERN RHODESIA CONSTITUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "he benefits of democracy when it is presented to them in such a form—a form which requires some mathematical expertise fully to understand? Let me say, in spite of that [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—that my right hon. and hon. Friends and myself hope that the African leaders will accept these proposals and will co-operate in carrying them out in the forthcoming elections. I ask the Colonial Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-28", "file": "debates1962-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b7ae1b9294bc8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1342.2", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "NORTHERN RHODESIA CONSTITUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I wish to put a final question to the Colonial Secretary. I understand—and this is of great importance and interest to hon. Members on both sides of the House—that the Federal Prime Minister has arrived, uninvited, in London, and that his visit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1342.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-28", "file": "debates1962-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b7ae1b9294bc8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1342.2", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "NORTHERN RHODESIA CONSTITUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " to hon. Members on both sides of the House—that the Federal Prime Minister has arrived, uninvited, in London, and that his visit—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] Wait for it. I would like to ask the Colonial Secretary whether he will assure the House that Her Majesty's Government will not be deflected from the course which has just been announced by the treasonable threats of the Federal Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1342.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-28", "file": "debates1962-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b7ae1b9294bc8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1343.4", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "NORTHERN RHODESIA CONSTITUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "May I, finally, say this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-28", "file": "debates1962-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b7ae1b9294bc8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "NORTHERN RHODESIA CONSTITUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the statement which he has just made indicates that the Government are still sitting on the fence and appear undecided whether to back a non-racial future for the Federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-28", "file": "debates1962-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b7ae1b9294bc8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1380.3", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mind than Child.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "ion of Accidents in its yearly campaigns. The Society does good work, but I think it could be very much better. I have not been very impressed by the campaigns it has waged. Its slogans are not wisely chosen. The exhortation to \"Be a Better Driver\" does not impress itself on anybody. Everybody believes that he is a good driver, and such a campaign is pointless. Last year's slogan was \"Keep Alive\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-28", "file": "debates1962-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b7ae1b9294bc8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1395.1", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": " I think, however that it would be much better and more in accord with British justice, if we put a percentage figure in the Bill. Then we should all know where we were. I hope that this percentage figure will not be too high. In the Bill introduced two years ago by the hon. Member for Crosby the figure was ·5 per cent.; which is rather high. I forget how many double whiskies it amounts to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-28", "file": "debates1962-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b7ae1b9294bc8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1433.3", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "I merely emphasise that a contribution to road safety will come from those measures of road development which are in hand but which I should like to see going forward even more quickly than they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-28", "file": "debates1962-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b7ae1b9294bc8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1433.3", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ought that was as good as any. We shall have to look into this in Committee. I will not take up more time on it now, except just to make the comment that I think there is a great temptation on the part of those who take a great interest in motoring law and motoring matters generally to feel that they must get ever more convictions. That may be in some way a defect in the administration of justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-28", "file": "debates1962-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b7ae1b9294bc8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1433.3", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ever more convictions. That may be in some way a defect in the administration of justice. [ Interruption .] I may have exaggerated a little, but I certainly know that in the debates on the 1956 Bill, particularly those in another place where Lord Goddard played a part, there was much reference to the number of people who slipped through the courts because of the unwillingness of juries to convict.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-28", "file": "debates1962-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b7ae1b9294bc8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1452.1", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "preceding_text": "However, the Bill only just starts to touch the fringe of the problem. The one big question which has been posed in this debate is whether the Bill will cut down the number of casualties on our roads. If it cuts the number by only one it will have been justified. I am one of those who believe that it is at least a genuine attempt to try to reduce the number. I do not belong to any temperance lobby", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-28", "file": "debates1962-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b7ae1b9294bc8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1475.3", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "ACTS OF PARLIAMENT NUMBERING AND CITATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "rve tradition, not breach it. However, as one not so firmly addicted to the past as hon. Members opposite, I welcome the Bill. The new method will be more intelligible, and anything which makes legislation more intelligible is thoroughly desirable. I hope that the Bill will have a speedy passage to the Statute Book. I do not know whether it will be included among those to receive the new citation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-02-28", "file": "debates1962-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b7ae1b9294bc8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1486.5", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (LETTUCES AND ENDIVES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "n of cheap food at any price will not only harm horticulture from a long-term point of view but will, in the end, injure the consumers' interests. As hon. Members know only too well, when we have discussed these tariffs before in relation to tomatoes, I have always adhered to this point of view, and therefore I hope that this country will not adopt such a policy as has been suggested this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-02-28a.1486.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-01", "file": "debates1962-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "964347ebe6bf030f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-01a.1534.8", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. I have nothing to add to what I just said; that the position is that we are to do this test and it will be done very shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-01a.1534.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-01", "file": "debates1962-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "964347ebe6bf030f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-01a.1537.5", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "INCIDENTS, TRAFALGAR SQUARE (POLICE COMMISSIONER'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "e police officers concerned acted properly and indeed, in very difficult circumstances, with commendable restraint. But towards the end of this long operation there appear to have been a few cases, during the clearance of the Square and afterwards, in which some officers fell short of this standard. In particular, it appears that four or, possibly, five individuals were put in the fountain basins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-01a.1537.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-01", "file": "debates1962-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "964347ebe6bf030f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-01a.1537.5", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "INCIDENTS, TRAFALGAR SQUARE (POLICE COMMISSIONER'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "eed, in very difficult circumstances, with commendable restraint. But towards the end of this long operation there appear to have been a few cases, during the clearance of the Square and afterwards, in which some officers fell short of this standard. In particular, it appears that four or, possibly, five individuals were put in the fountain basins. [ Laughter .] This was, of course, most improper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-01a.1537.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-01", "file": "debates1962-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "964347ebe6bf030f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-01a.1537.5", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "INCIDENTS, TRAFALGAR SQUARE (POLICE COMMISSIONER'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "tely, the complainants were unable to identify any officers concerned and most searching inquiries have failed to do so. A police sergeant has been admonished for allowing a hose to be turned on in the yard at Bow Street when some demonstrators were there, although it was not directed at them. A woman police sergeant has also been admonished for a remark to which objection could properly be taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-01a.1537.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-01", "file": "debates1962-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "964347ebe6bf030f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-01a.1549.4", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The extension of two hours for these debates on the Estimates has become almost standard practice for many years past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-01a.1549.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-05", "file": "debates1962-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a9bd92c10be595d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-05a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "or providing facilities. I want to say a word about the military aspects of the United States test at Christmas Island and why we felt, and feel, that, failing an agreement—which we certainly hope will come about—these tests must go forward. First, the assessment of Russian nuclear weapon development is not a very easy task. Anything that happens in a democracy can be read about in the newspapers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-05a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-05", "file": "debates1962-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a9bd92c10be595d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-05a.53.3", "colnum": "53", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I have just said that despite the difficulties with our changeover, we have kept seven brigade groups. They are slightly under strength, I agree. I have never made any secret of that to SACEUR. The hon. Gentleman knows how many there are in the forces today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-05a.53.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-05", "file": "debates1962-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a9bd92c10be595d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-05a.53.9", "colnum": "53", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "g N.A.T.O. the kind of strength and forces it needs. I do not restrict this to weapons. We gained a great deal in the past twelve months from Anglo-German and Anglo-French staff talks. This year's programme will include American units visiting the Hebrides and there may be other visits. As the German visit to Castlemartin went off so well last year—although it was not much helped by the Opposition", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-05a.53.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-05", "file": "debates1962-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a9bd92c10be595d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-05a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "I really do not know the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-05a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-05", "file": "debates1962-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a9bd92c10be595d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-05a.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": " the threat of replying to anything from the East with massive retaliation has become more and more unrealistic. There is a desire for a greater conventional readiness on the European Continent, but I would add this important qualification—a greater conventional readiness but not to a point of allowing the Russians to believe that we might want to unleash a conventional attack on the Soviet Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-05a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-05", "file": "debates1962-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a9bd92c10be595d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-05a.89.3", "colnum": "89", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "across all over the world and effecting conquests —that is what it means in Cuba if it is allowed to go to its logical conclusion—at small cost to themselves other than their terrific radio propaganda. In making my remarks on this subject, I have put forward, I hope, one or two constructive propositions. Although I regret to say to the Minister that I shall have to vote against him tomorrow night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-05a.89.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.192.2", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Although the right hon. Gentleman tried, not unsuccessfully, to wrap up in a vast mass of verbiage the fact that he has not answered my Question, is it not obvious by now that the domestic ratepayer is in for a very hefty smack in the eye in 1963, whatever the right hon. Gentleman may say? The fact that the ratepayer is in for a smack in the eye—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.192.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.202.2", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "ion Committee, wherein he says: … I recognise your personal qualifications to sit on any Committee dealing with the subject of a Sea Fishing Industry, the fact that you\"— and the hon. Member for Banff (Sir W. Duthie) too— have not been eligible on this Committee is not because I have been thwarted by the Whips; it is because you are unfortunately no longer Members of the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "Is not the reply I have received to the Question entirely at variance with the constitution and traditions of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "nts and conventional weapons and all the other things which periodically arise in the debate. The women, the children and the other priority classes are entitled to know more about these evacuation schemes. To where are they to be evacuated? What is to happen to them when they get back? How will they get there, how will they get back, and to what will they come back? In Scotland, we have a problem", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " anti-missile technology, in which case the Prime Minister's statement about the Christmas Island tests must be reconsidered, or the Prime Minister is right—as most people believe him to be—in which case the claim that in 1962 our V-bombers provide a viable, credible deterrent will not stand up. We are told that in due course we shall have Blue Steed and Skybolt. We have seen these weapons before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite untrue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "n, do the Government really believe that they are adding anything to the Western deterrent? I say this quite frankly to the Minister of Defence. Like my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, I have spent some time recently in Washington. There is not one person in authority there who thinks that our nuclear deterrent adds one iota to the strength and credibility of the Western deterrent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.221.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.229.3", "colnum": "229", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman is saying that this has been said to me by Mr. McNamara, my opposite number, I say that it is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.229.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.229.4", "colnum": "229", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly not withdraw, because I know what the American defence people have said to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.229.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.229.6", "colnum": "229", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The second reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.229.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "gs have changed. That is precisely what is now being advocated. The British independent deterrent, they say, is no longer of any use. I draw the conclusion that my colleagues on the Front Bench, at any rate, have now become, so far as the British independent nuclear deterrent is concerned, unilateralists. Of course that is so; let us make no mistake about it. That is progress; that is advancement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Daily Express .\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " disturbance anywhere. That would not do for a great war, of course—not if Russia were the active aggressor—but it would do for the purpose of keeping order as in the case of British Guiana, Honduras and so on, or to render succour to the people who were suffering. That could be very useful. I think there is a better solution, and I throw it at the House: take the troops out of Germany altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Smyth", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Smyth", "preceding_text": "we have heard so much. It is designed to deal with incidents, to contain them and to force a pause and give both sides time to think. I believe that for that purpose General Norstad's forces, as they are at the moment, are just about sufficient, even without their tactical nuclear weapons. I have never been very keen about tactical nuclear weapons because, frankly, I think that they are dangerous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Captain John Litchfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain John Litchfield", "preceding_text": "s in an armed clash in Europe, and that armed clash does not follow the line that I think our planning expects it to take, then we may find ourselves in a situation in which the only kind of war that we can fight successfully in Europe would be a nuclear war, which is the one kind of war we hope never to fight. That is why I am bound to express apprehension about this aspect of our defence policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER \"Hong Kong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "doctrine. For military and political reasons, hon. Members on this side of the House believe that we should build up our commitments in Europe to the level that we have accepted. We believe, further, that it can be done with all-Regular forces, given certain conditions. The conditions are that the Government should bring in some of the large garrisons which are sited in quite inappropriate places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "given certain conditions. The conditions are that the Government should bring in some of the large garrisons which are sited in quite inappropriate places—[HON. MEMBER \"Hong Kong.\"] Yes—some can come from Hong Kong. We have too many there. Without question, we have too many for the only job they can do today, and too few for the only job they may be asked to do tomorrow. Many of these commitments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "ch the Minister is making. It is something that we have urged upon him for a long time, but which, until this year, he has resisted. But we have to go very much further towards a joint Service than it is now suggested. We have to provide real mobility. Here, I say to the Minister that he is not doing himself justice when on the question of mobility he keeps talking about Kuwait and British Guiana.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "hat we have urged upon him for a long time, but which, until this year, he has resisted. But we have to go very much further towards a joint Service than it is now suggested. We have to provide real mobility. Here, I say to the Minister that he is not doing himself justice when on the question of mobility he keeps talking about Kuwait and British Guiana. [ Interruption .] I will tell the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "wo to three minutes—the second-strike capacity—represents today exactly what the White Paper says—a burden of attack which a possible aggressor could not accept as being tolerable to him. I do not ask right hon. Gentlemen to accept this from me. I should like them to hear what General Power, the Commander of the Strategic Air Command of the United States, says about it, and what he said in public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "t he is a very high-ranking officer in command of perhaps the most important arm of the American Forces. This is what he said: If I might interrupt, I would also like to add that we at S.A.C. are real glad of these close ties between the Royal Air Force and S.A.C. A fine organisation, with great traditions, making a considerable contribution to the overall strategic effort\". That is the deterrent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We never have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "Let us be clear about what our current responsibilities are. They are to provide seven brigade groups. We are doing that. There is a manpower tag applied to this of 55,000, which I have said quite frankly that we are not meeting at the moment by 3,000 to 4,000 men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.336.2", "colnum": "336", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I was anxious to make two points. One is what I still think is a slight divergence of view between the two right hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.336.2", "colnum": "336", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I was anxious to make two points. One is what I still think is a slight divergence of view between the two right hon. Members. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] The second is the difficulty of making sudden withdrawals. What we say quite plainly in the White Paper is that we are making limited withdrawals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-06", "file": "debates1962-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "24f833488ad8a8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.352.5", "colnum": "352", "heading": "POLICE FEDERATIONS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "e nature of hundreds rather than thousands of pounds, was he correct? One cannot pay many salaries out of less than £1,000. Therefore, it seems to me that the hon. and learned Gentleman was not quite right and that the sum is larger than he has led us to believe and, therefore, worthy of inquiry. There are one or two other questions that I could have asked, but I will leave them as we are anxious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-06a.352.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.394.2", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "\"Very dangerous\", did the hon. and learned Gentleman say? I simply do not accept what he says, that we are in any breach of any obligations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.394.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "ent of mine, and will he arrange to meet me personally to discuss the circumstances of this case? Secondly, is he aware that the hon. Gentleman the Member for Newton (Mr. Lee) gave me no notice that he was raising a question relating to a constituent of mine? Is he aware that the hon. Gentleman has been a Member of this House since 1945? Am I to accuse him of innocence merely or of carpet bagging?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.396.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.402.3", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What a rotten word.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "I do not know about the police. That is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary. The hon. and learned Gentleman knows that we still have radio equipment which is not transistorised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, EURATOM AND COAL AND STEE COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "The whole House will welcome the right hon. Gentleman's progress report, if I might call it such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, EURATOM AND COAL AND STEE COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman did not fully answer the question about the Fouchet Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "ention my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) said, in a slightly aggrieved tone of voice, that he had not been appointed to Standing Committee E. From the returns of Standing Committees for the last two years I observe that my hon. Friend has not served on any Standing Committee for the last two years, whereas many other hon. Members have carried the heat and burden of the day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.429.4", "colnum": "429", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may be allowed to intervene in my own speech for a moment. On the Housing (Scotland) Bill, which is much smaller in size but of great importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.429.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.430.0", "colnum": "430", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tory Head Office.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "etation on what had happened from that of the hon. Member. I will not pursue this point in particular, because the hon. Member is not in his place and I have not given him notice. I referred to such comments as these in the Edinburgh Evening News, from its political correspondent. I will read only the headlines: Committee Becoming Socialist Debating Society. Hours Being Wasted on the Housing Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.429.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.430.5", "colnum": "430", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "es since the war, one from each side of the House, of moving for these powers before a Bill reached its Committee stage, and after it has had its Second Reading, but it is more common form that progress should be made in Committee, and that we should see whether such powers are or are not necessary. Both sides have in the past indulged in what one might call delaying tactics of a strenuous nature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.430.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.434.4", "colnum": "434", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Does your statement, Mr. Speaker, mean that hon. Members who are English Members and who are interested only in the transport section of this Motion, which is the major part of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.434.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.444.4", "colnum": "444", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "If we are arguing about that, we shall have to put it to \"Trial by Jury\". The third character, however, which is the most remarkable of all, is the character in \"Iolanthe\" called Private Willis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.444.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.444.4", "colnum": "444", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "If we are arguing about that, we shall have to put it to \"Trial by Jury\". The third character, however, which is the most remarkable of all, is the character in \"Iolanthe\" called Private Willis. [ Laughter. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.444.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "I will now travel eastwards and quote from an independent newspaper, the Edinburgh Evening News.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.448.5", "colnum": "448", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James McInnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James McInnes", "preceding_text": "the Housing (Scotland) Bill. We had eight sittings on the Betting and Gaming Bill before we disposed of Clause 1. Indeed, altogether we had twenty-five sittings extending over a period of four months, and no Guillotine was introduced. The whole heart of the Housing (Scotland) Bill—I think that the Leader of the House confessed to this in his speech this afternoon—is contained in its early Clauses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.448.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "oceedings of the Scottish Committee. This upset hon. Members opposite. They were very offended by the comments which were made by some of my hon. Friends and myself. It is curious, because the manner of some hon. Members opposite ranges from the discourteous to the openly offensive in Committee, but if the slightest criticism is made of them they turn into sensitive lilies and utter loud protests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": " speak for Scotland, but still he will not do it. He will not stand his ground. He keeps giving way, and we get less and less from him for Scotland. I feel, therefore, that it is up to the Opposition to be vigilant on behalf of Scotland. We must never forget for one moment that we really are the Government of Scotland. We have more Members of this House than the party opposite. We have more votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "we discover that that is so. The Leader of the House is a much more political animal in this respect than is the Secretary of State or the Under-Secretary of State. He discovered many years ago this fact about the votes of Scotland, when he fled from the Western Isles. He did not contest the Western Isles a second time. Oh, no. One experience was one too many for him. I have been talking too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": " the Question before the House is one which affects both the Transport Bill and the Housing (Scotland) Bill, so the whole debate must be regarded as one. I understood Mr. Speaker to state that it might be for the convenience of the House if Scottish speeches were made in the earlier stage. I understood that that was agreed. The Secretary of State rose to reply. Scotland has had a very full debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.467.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.471.2", "colnum": "471", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "No, that is not what the hon. Member for Glasgow, Central said. The fact is that 13 sittings of the Committee have gone by and we have not yet got the first important Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.474.3", "colnum": "474", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "ation boggles at the prospect of such a Bill today. It is a horrifying thought. In the 1947–48 Session the Agriculture Bill—which to us, to say the least of it, was not free from arguable points of principle, and was full of detail—with 88 Clauses and 10 Schedules, took 15 sittings. Hon. Members opposite who were not there then may say that we were not doing our job. We most certainly were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.474.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "respect to him, is a rather immature junior Minister. But this is true. Somebody has said that he was\" a chip off the old block.\" We remember his father with respect. His father had exactly the same position as he now has, but his father had a long experience not only of Parliament but of local government work as well. We found with his father that we could make him lose his temper just as easily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.483.3", "colnum": "483", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " today by his attitude. I can well remember when I was on the other side of the House in February, 1947, and when I delivered what I thought was not a bad speech. I do not think it was quite as good as that of the right hon. Gentleman, because he then rose in his place and said: I hope that we shall hear lots more from the hon. Gentleman.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 24th February, 1947; Vol. 433, c. 1743.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "n make to Scottish housing, but we must not talk about them. He tells us that we have to finish it in nine sittings of two-and-a-half hours each. Once this guillotine Motion goes through, of course, the tongues of hon. Members opposite will be loosened. The rights of the Opposition to proclaim against the Bill which does not meet the needs of Scotland at all and is opposed by everyone in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "us that we have to finish it in nine sittings of two-and-a-half hours each. Once this guillotine Motion goes through, of course, the tongues of hon. Members opposite will be loosened. The rights of the Opposition to proclaim against the Bill which does not meet the needs of Scotland at all and is opposed by everyone in Scotland—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Local authorities in Scotland are opposed to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.492.3", "colnum": "492", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "tee. I am not making a criticism. I am stating a fact. This issue has been debated, far too shortly, in Standing Committee. Therefore, the chances are ten to one against it being selected on Report. I am one of the majority of 95 per cent. which, by the rules of order of the House of Commons and the guillotine Motion combined, are refused an opportunity to debate and divide against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.492.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.530.2", "colnum": "530", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but time is too short.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.530.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.531.0", "colnum": "531", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman to allow me to intervene in his speech. However, his intervention has not helped him much. He was willing to sit up all night, but he could not attend a normal meeting of the Committee. Most of us on this side of the House know why the Government want the Housing (Scotland) Bill through quickly. It is, first of all, because they want to do harm to local authorities in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.530.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.533.3", "colnum": "533", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a frequent interrupter. At least, he might allow me to start. When I looked up what Burns had done during his life, I was reinforced in my decision that it was right not to have given him a stamp.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.533.3", "colnum": "533", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "me and, I am sure, all English Members is this. Having listened to the Scots speaking in this debate, I am sure that it is the wish of every English Member that they should have the privilege of serving on the Scottish Committee. It must be a most wonderful experience. I am only sorry that so far I have never been allowed in that Committee. This has been, on the whole, a very good-tempered debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-07", "file": "debates1962-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3d5febc107acaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.533.3", "colnum": "533", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "as been, on the whole, a very good-tempered debate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, it has. Apart from one or two Scots, the others have been all right. This Motion deals with two Measures, the Housing (Scotland) Bill and the Transport Bill. The Government decided that it would be for the convenience of the House if my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition opened and deployed the general case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-07a.533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-08", "file": "debates1962-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a20067cc5617256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.576.3", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is very understanding, but he would agree that it should be the final text which should be published by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-08", "file": "debates1962-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a20067cc5617256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.576.3", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is very understanding, but he would agree that it should be the final text which should be published by the Government—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—and it might well be misleading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-08", "file": "debates1962-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a20067cc5617256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.580.4", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister, in view of that Answer, suggest some other way of dealing with a problem which is one of the greatest social evils in this country at the moment? Is he aware that hundreds of people are homeless and that I have with me a list of twenty-four—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.580.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-08", "file": "debates1962-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a20067cc5617256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.584.4", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that Her Majesty's Government have given the impression that we in Britain have to get into the Common Market at any price?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.584.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-08", "file": "debates1962-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a20067cc5617256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "I am merely telling the Committee that it does mean that, because there is a differential between men and women still. I would rather not go into the question of equal pay. However, this is in accordance with present standards. I mentioned it merely because I did not want the women to think that they would get the same as the men. They will get a jolly good whack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-08", "file": "debates1962-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a20067cc5617256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.624.4", "colnum": "624", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "in Hong Kong, where psychology plays an important part, tanks would have the same sort of psychological effect as mounted police have in London. But for that sort of work we do not need the latest type of tank, or the full training necessary for an armoured unit. If a tank has to roll up the street for this purpose, I am quite certain that sailors, who are pretty adaptable people, could handle it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.624.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-08", "file": "debates1962-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a20067cc5617256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.674.2", "colnum": "674", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "e end of the argument, because of course it is not. A great many expenditures are inflationary. No doubt the welfare services are inflationary because they are purely for consumption and, only to a limited extent, contribute to our productive efficiency. But, when one is dealing with inflationary expenditure on this scale, is it not fantastic that the state of the Committee should be as it is now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.674.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-08", "file": "debates1962-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a20067cc5617256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.708.4", "colnum": "708", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "That is absolutely untrue. I do not know why my hon. and learned Friend wants to parade his ignorance in this way", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.708.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-08", "file": "debates1962-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a20067cc5617256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Morris", "preceding_text": "arcel of the Strategic Reserve. Perhaps we can be told how many of these, particularly battalions of infantry, are in this country and what their strength is. In the early part of the year when there was a little local difficulty in British Guiana two companies of the Duke of Edinburgh's were sent out to deal with the trouble. They were part of the force earmarked for B.A.O.R., as I understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-08", "file": "debates1962-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a20067cc5617256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.759.1", "colnum": "759", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "preceding_text": "in conformity with our policy, any other warhead available anywhere else which would do the job and come up to specification and be ready in time, we should, naturally, consider it. Although criticisms have been levelled at us, some of which I have tried to answer, I believe that the Committee would like me to end on a note of wishing the Army well in all its responsibilities during the next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-08a.759.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-12", "file": "debates1962-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "01f5066762464ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-12a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They will be sitting inside them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "preceding_text": "Is this based on the assumption that the crews of the bombers will be standing by their aircraft?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-12a.909.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-12", "file": "debates1962-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "01f5066762464ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-12a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "ably be very slow and it might not be immune to counter-measures. This is not just my view. In support of it I can cite the view expressed by the American Defence Minister, Mr. McNamara, in which he said: At the present time it appears to us\"— that is, to the United States— that no amount of money can make possible an absolute defence of this country against the intercontinental ballistic missile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-12a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-12", "file": "debates1962-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "01f5066762464ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-12a.927.3", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I do not agree. The hon. Member is right in saying that space will be extremely expensive. It will be astronomically expensive. Before we can decide what is possible, we must study the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-12a.927.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1095.4", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister whether, if he is contemplating any further legislation, he will bear in mind that many of my hon. Friends and myself believe that the paramount need is the preservation of the Federation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1095.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1123.5", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "If, fortunately, we were to have complete and general dis- armament, would not it bring mass unemployment to the engineering industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1123.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I would ask my hon. Friend not to speak in those alarming terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "d by the Patronage Secretary, and that would have ended the matter, but the Motion we are now considering is that we should report Progress and ask leave to sit again. There will be further opportunities for a debate on the Vote on Account, or at least there can be, and I think it not unlikely, though I am not going to commit the Opposition to anything at this moment. We shall consider the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ld report Progress and ask leave to sit again. There will be further opportunities for a debate on the Vote on Account, or at least there can be, and I think it not unlikely, though I am not going to commit the Opposition to anything at this moment. We shall consider the matter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] It is for the Opposition to decide how this time should be used. Hon. Gentlemen must accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1202.2", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "Yes, but it reduces it because the pensioner is in employment and earning, and, therefore, is not retired. I do not see any point in arguing round this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "tax payers. But has she examined the contribution to pensions made by ordinary individuals during the past ten Tory years? The Government do not raise and support pensions. They have never once raised pensions without making a profit out of it in the first year. The Minister seemed to deny this today. I do not know why. Perhaps it was because he knew that I would have the relevant quotation ready.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1242.3", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd - Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What else could the hon. Gentleman do with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd - Carpenter", "preceding_text": "—yes—in attacking my hon. Friend the Joint Parliamentary Secretary for her use of the index of retail prices, and he said, pointing that finger, as he always does, across the Dispatch Box at my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1244.2", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "They upheld the German proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ich matters most of all to the pensioner—has been less than the general change, and has been 2·5 per cent. Is it then the proposition that a change of 3·7 per cent. in the index and the passage of eleven and a half months exposes any Government that has not taken action to increase the pensions to the charge contained in this Motion, of lack of action which this House should deplore?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "7;7 per cent. increase in the index and the passage of eleven and a half months, I am bound to remind them of their own record in this matter. In 1947, by a curious coincidence, the index rose by 3·7 per cent., exactly the same amount, and there was no action to increase the pensions. In 1948, it rose by 4·6 per cent., and there was no action. In 1949, it rose by 3·6 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten bob\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I am making comparisons with those who seek to condemn us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1248.2", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ten bob.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I am making comparisons with those who seek to condemn us. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten bob\".] If bon. Gentlemen do not want to hear the facts of the improvements which have been made, the people outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1248.5", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Mr. Callaghan rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1248.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what we want.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members opposite do not wish to hear the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "e want.\"]—of the comparison between their action and ours, by every test that can be applied, whether it be the share of the national income, the share of the net disposable income or the share of public expenditure, by each of these the present provision made by the Government is better as a percentage of the total than in the years of the Government of hon. Members opposite. Those are the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten bob.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "of the total than in the years of the Government of hon. Members opposite. Those are the facts. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is no use hon. Members opposite attempting to prevent these facts being known, because there are means by which they can be made known, and made known they will be. We welcome a debate on National Insurance benefits because as a Government we have a record of which we are proud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1250.2", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "They know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1250.4", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten bob.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "To adopt it is a procedure which can only arouse in people outside this House a cynicism about Parliament and democratic politicians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-13", "file": "debates1962-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2e69e39fff5864ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1250.4", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten bob.\"] The only right course before us is to deal with the Motion by amending it drastically so that it is consistent with the truth and with the facts of the situation, and so that, instead of criticising a Government who have done more for the pensioner than any Government in history, it should represent the facts of the position. In those circumstances, our duty is plain, to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-13a.1250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-14", "file": "debates1962-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffc4597f8716e849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-14a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "are glad that the financial privileges hitherto enjoyed under the Letters Patent are no longer enjoyed by this Department, and that the powers are now confined to the appointment of the Commissioners and the other matters to which he referred. I now turn to the Fleet. First, I wish to thank the Civil Lord and the Admiralty for the full list of visits which they arranged for hon. Members last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-14a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-14", "file": "debates1962-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffc4597f8716e849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-14a.1425.3", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": " the big Air Force, yet she cannot pay the Services the proper rate of pay\". How much is involved? Where will the money come from? It will come from the men's families, as it did in 1931. A married man is already handing over all he can to his wife and children, so the wife and children will suffer. Less milk for the children. Less welfare foods. Less school meals because they cannot pay for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-14a.1425.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-14", "file": "debates1962-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffc4597f8716e849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-14a.1425.3", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He can become a Member of Parliament.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": " forces without having all the Xs added up the right way and all the noughts the wrong way. I wanted him particularly to deal with the case of men who are \"chucked\" out at the age of 40. Conservative Members say that this does not happen. What employment in civilian life is open to a chief petty officer of the seamen's branch who has been a torpedo instructor, as I was, when he leaves the Service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-14a.1425.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-14", "file": "debates1962-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffc4597f8716e849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-14a.1462.1", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Commander J. S. Kerans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A threepenny bit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander J. S. Kerans", "preceding_text": "I, too, have great memories of Rosyth from the time when I first went to sea and right through the war and subsequently. Rosyth does a great deal for the Fleet. One of the happiest is when a halfpenny lands on the forecastle. It is the tradition for Scotsmen to throw the smallest coin they have from a passing train.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-14a.1462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-14", "file": "debates1962-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffc4597f8716e849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-14a.1462.1", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Commander J. S. Kerans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And fewer ships.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander J. S. Kerans", "preceding_text": " in the Library and I looked up the Navy Estimate debate of 2nd March, 1881. I found to my surprise that a Kerans, the Member for Lincoln, took part in the debate then. The debate was attended by fourteen Members at midnight. They were discussing Navy Estimates of 71,000 men for the Fleet and a cost of £14¼ million, a slight contrast with today's 100,000 men and a cost of £422 million plus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-14a.1462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-14", "file": "debates1962-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffc4597f8716e849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-14a.1470.5", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "of us who wish to oppose this Vote cannot be heard. There is no shortage of time. There are forty-seven minutes left. I ask you to consider whether, in the light of the development of our constitutional procedure, it is consonant with the dignity and traditions of this Committee that nearly £500 million of expenditure should be given to the Government without having the right to say why it should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-14a.1470.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-14", "file": "debates1962-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffc4597f8716e849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-14a.1472.9", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": ", since this has been a smooth debate, that there will not be a vote against the Estimates tonight when our proceedings close in about forty minutes. I notice that my hon. Friend the Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) in arguing a point of order with the Chair a little while ago, said that to vote against the Estimates was, of course, to challenge the whole operation of the Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-14a.1472.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-15", "file": "debates1962-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "39fdcd34f6a7e0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1508.6", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Orpington.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that some of us on this side of the House told our electors at the last General Election that we were very strongly opposed to both public and private monopolies, and that we are getting a little concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1508.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-15", "file": "debates1962-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "39fdcd34f6a7e0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1517.1", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "That is fortunate for the country, but not due to my right hon. Friend's inaction. Is he aware that his inaction is giving the impression that he is putting private gain in front of the public interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1517.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-15", "file": "debates1962-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "39fdcd34f6a7e0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1517.5", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is not in order to go on asking the same question because one does not get an answer. It is out of order. The early part of this is a different matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1517.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-15", "file": "debates1962-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "39fdcd34f6a7e0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1538.7", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hooray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "I have not time immediately in mind for that debate. As the hon. Gentleman knows, we are coming into the last days now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1538.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-15", "file": "debates1962-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "39fdcd34f6a7e0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1540.4", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not secret.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Foot", "preceding_text": "As, last night, a most important statement appears to have been made by a member of the Government on the future of the steel industry, including the future of Richard Thomas and Baldwins, at a secret meeting of the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1540.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-15", "file": "debates1962-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "39fdcd34f6a7e0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1550.1", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that there are two reasons. First, the Home Secretary is, I believe, extremely able to perform this task, and he is willing to undertake it. As he has given up the Leadership of the House and other functions, I believe that he can carry it within his stride.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-15", "file": "debates1962-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "39fdcd34f6a7e0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1550.2", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Robinson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Robinson", "preceding_text": "While welcoming the Prime Minister's statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-15", "file": "debates1962-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "39fdcd34f6a7e0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1550.2", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Robinson", "preceding_text": "While welcoming the Prime Minister's statement—[ Laughter .]—as an indication of unity and of purpose in this important field, may I ask him to deal with two points for clarification? First, what is the position of the Protectorates? Do they still look to the Colonial Office for their protection? Secondly, will the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-15", "file": "debates1962-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "39fdcd34f6a7e0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1552.4", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "se, as I have said, under our historic traditions the functions of any Secretary of State can be carried out by any other. Therefore, the arrangement is purely administrative and does not need formal legislation or Order. The Home Secretary will himself answer Questions directed to these territories, and in his absence the Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department will answer for him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1552.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-15", "file": "debates1962-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "39fdcd34f6a7e0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that this matter affects Scotland, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-15", "file": "debates1962-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "39fdcd34f6a7e0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1663.5", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": " it would be spent on wine, women and song. The increase was a meagre 3d. a day, but only then for ratings over the age of 21. I ask the Committee to imagine what my married able seamen mess-mates on Is. 8d. per day, and with no marriage allowance, were able to do about more wine, women and song, with the further princely sum of 3d. a day. It was Id. a day extra for each item—wine, women and song.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-15a.1663.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-16", "file": "debates1962-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c5ddce8e2a5c5f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-16a.1720.1", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "TOLL BRIDGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I may refer again to my right hon. Friend, the bridge is part of the trunk road system. That it goes over a bit of water is incidental. I can get into a car in London and travel right up to Edinburgh with no question of a toll, but once I get to that little bit of water in the middle of Scotland I have got to pay a toll. The M.1 was opened with a great fanfare—and began to break up in a fortnight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-16a.1720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-19", "file": "debates1962-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5fc3c41d236a95aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "I understand that there are—I hope not to be laughed at for this—about 7,000 new jobs coming along in North Lanarkshire. I quite appreciate the concern felt by the hon. Lady and by her hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.21.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-19", "file": "debates1962-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5fc3c41d236a95aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I have stated the position for which we are negotiating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-19", "file": "debates1962-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5fc3c41d236a95aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.24.4", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CUBA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "Which said nothing at all. Will the hon. Gentleman say, first, by what right the N.A.T.O. Council discusses the affairs of a country which lies outside the area of the North Atlantic Treaty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.24.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-19", "file": "debates1962-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5fc3c41d236a95aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.26.7", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES (CARGO PREFERENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I think it is right to say that we did not, in fact, make a contribution in 1961 to the total—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.26.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-19", "file": "debates1962-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5fc3c41d236a95aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The loan that the Labour Government took.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ent. As a result of this spending spree—for I can call it nothing else; this importation of £800 million extra in two years—the Government were put in the humiliating position last summer of having to go to the moneylenders. They got their loan from the International Monetary Fund—the largest borrowing, let it be said, made by this country internationally since the American loan of December, 1945.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-19", "file": "debates1962-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5fc3c41d236a95aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " more. No doubt, there will be embarrassments about doing so. The balance of payments would be in jeopardy if the Government were to stimulate growth. Which, however, do the Government want most—do they want stagnation here and a firm balance of payments, or do they want growth and to handle the difficulties that would arise on balance of payments problems as they occur? I would choose the second.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-19", "file": "debates1962-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5fc3c41d236a95aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " has been constantly and continually made here is that they decontrolled too soon—too soon and too much. I stand by that criticism. When a Labour Government are returned to power we shall have a whole range of policies and will alter the whole range of this particular problem. Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen need not worry about that. But this is typical of the Government's approach to this problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-19", "file": "debates1962-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5fc3c41d236a95aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.95.3", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "rtability into practical exports, for which we need an attitude of mind, we say, as has been said many times today, that not everyone is doing what he can; and I will add that the Government are certainly not doing what they can. Indeed, I bitterly regret having heard the President of the Board of Trade say, in effect, \"We do not think that the Board of Trade can do any more to encourage exports.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.95.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-19", "file": "debates1962-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5fc3c41d236a95aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.144.3", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a poor answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "That may be one of the reasons why the boom in Germany is now falling off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-19", "file": "debates1962-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5fc3c41d236a95aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "ea, North (Mr. Jay), there is certainly no economic future for this country if either the Liberal Party or the Labour Party get control of it. My right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been sitting by me, and, by the comments that he has been whispering, which might have been overheard by some hon. Members, I can say that he is itching to take part in the debate himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-19", "file": "debates1962-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5fc3c41d236a95aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "d avoid speaking of any tax matters. Therefore, all I will say is that I have noted what was said on fiscal questions by my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, South (Mr. W. Clark), the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan), the hon. Member for Bolton, West (Mr. Holt), and other hon. Members. The whole purpose of the Government is to achieve sound and dynamic economic development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.147.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-19", "file": "debates1962-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5fc3c41d236a95aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander J. S. Kerans", "preceding_text": "Commander J. S. Kerans (The Hartlepools) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-19", "file": "debates1962-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5fc3c41d236a95aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "ritain that would amount to 400 million deutschmarks, or £36 million a year for two years. I was deputed to carry on the negotiations thereafter, and I twice visited Bonn. On my second visit the Federal German Government offered 500 million Deutschmarks, or £45 million a year in foreign exchange, made up of military purchases and certain other items. I expressed appreciation, but I asked for more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-19a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.183.0", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "bought this Hall and 121 acres of land for £15,000 and that in fact the Hail and 80 acres were subsequently sold by the Ministry for nearly £22,000, so that if we take the cash gain plus the land gain a capital gain in all of about £10,000 has occurred in the middle of this pay pause, as a result of the activities of the Ministry, to the hon. Member for Brierley Hill? Is it not further scandalous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.183.2", "colnum": "183", "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": "It is not for me to express opinions about anyone's motives here. I cannot do that. What I did was my duty as I conceived it to save this house from destruction. I have told the House that as far as I understand—and this is not really my business—the price was the district valuer's valuation. If incidentally there was a profit involved that has nothing to do with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.183.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.205.6", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Artful dodger.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If there is any question of public policy, perhaps the hon. Gentleman will put that question down to the Chancellor of the Exchequer or the Minister of Power, but, if the hon. Gentleman can put his mind back to the days when he was a member of a party, he will realise that this was a form of meeting which is not unusual in the House of Commons and is, indeed, part of our Parliamentary life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.205.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "swer any question after words which I resented, but I do not think it is necessary to take that view with him. As I said in my first reply, the Minister attended a meeting. We all know that many of these meetings take place on both sides of the House, and if the hon. Gentleman would recall it he has no doubt attended such meetings addressed by right hon. Gentlemen opposite when they were in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.206.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.206.4", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am in great difficulty, Mr. Speaker. The Prime Minister in his first reply said to the House of Commons that the Minister had not made a speech on this subject. He subsequently confirmed to this House that he had made a speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.207.5", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of the fact that my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale has been requested to withdraw what was termed a lie, why is it that the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro), who told a lie a few weeks ago, was not also required to withdraw?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.207.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.210.2", "colnum": "210", "heading": "JURIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Judith Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Judith Hart", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to jurors and juries. I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "JURIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "preceding_text": "sked is whether we improve the administration of the law in this country, of which we are so proud. I admit at once that, although I am asking the House not to give the hon. Lady leave to bring in the Bill, there are a number of matters which may be open to criticism in the jury service system in this country. However, a Private Member's Bill is not the proper means of putting these matters right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.217.1", "colnum": "217", "heading": "JURIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": " Shawcross. The Government went very fully into the matter at the time and decided to make no change. Certainly, the few years that have elapsed since do not make it advisable, on a Private Members' Bill of this kind, to suggest that a sweeping change in the law should be made. If the hon. Lady is lucky in the Ballot and tables a Motion, I promise her two things. I shall give her every assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.308.2", "colnum": "308", "heading": "LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "This again is the argument which comes up time after time—I believe it is a wrong argument—that when a man is attacked by a lion he has no right to defend himself. This is completely wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.320.3", "colnum": "320", "heading": "LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I have no intention of being brilliant and I have no intention of being long. I have no connection of any kind with Letchworth, with the York company, with Mrs. Rose, or with any of them. I know nothing about the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.320.3", "colnum": "320", "heading": "LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "es Cadbury and Fry—who were not altogether unconnected with this occasion. But what has all that got to do with it? It has got nothing whatever to do with the matter before the House. With respect to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Chertsey, he almost said that we ought not to have a Second Reading debate on this sort of thing and that it could be dealt with properly by a Committee", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.320.3", "colnum": "320", "heading": "LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "occasion. But what has all that got to do with it? It has got nothing whatever to do with the matter before the House. With respect to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Chertsey, he almost said that we ought not to have a Second Reading debate on this sort of thing and that it could be dealt with properly by a Committee [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am within the recollection of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.320.3", "colnum": "320", "heading": "LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "n the recollection of the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I heard his words and he very nearly said that. He certainly gave me that impression—that we were not to strangle this piece of idealism on the Floor of the House, which was what we should be doing if we refused to pass the Bill, and that the proper way to consider it was to send it upstairs. I think that I am quoting his words fairly exactly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry. But the right hon. and learned Gentleman must not tell me that I must; not do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.324.5", "colnum": "324", "heading": "LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " have to say to the contrary, it may be the last chance of defending what is left of human virtue and human hope. For all I have got to say to the contrary, also—althongh I think it is a mistake, if one can possibly avoid it, to use the opportunity of debate in the House to cast aspersions upon persons outside it—the Hotel York Company may be the most deleterious company and its managing director—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.324.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-20", "file": "debates1962-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "533cef1cbb089b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hirst", "preceding_text": "e York Hotel people acquired control. I believe that that is correct. If it is, a great deal of the argument I have heard this evening falls to the ground. It is built upon a prejudice, rightly or wrongly, and I agree with my hon. Friend that it does not matter in the least who these people are. I am not in the least interested in whether they are good or bad people. It does not interest me a bit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-20a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-21", "file": "debates1962-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "20223d602d39181b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-21a.369.5", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "I was addressing myself not wholly to generals but to administrative staff as such. I know only too well of the right hon. Gentleman's pertinacity in trying to get rid of the tail. We are doing all we can, and it seems to me that where the heads fall the branches wither. Incidentally, if through a slip of the tongue I said \"400 a week\" earlier, I meant that we are building 400 a month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-21a.369.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-21", "file": "debates1962-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "20223d602d39181b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-21a.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scholefield Allen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scholefield Allen", "preceding_text": " throughout the debate. I know the arguments; I knew of them before. I know that there might be objections to the practice presently carried on, but from my experience I consider that the balance is in favour of the present practice. It has endured for 100 years. It is useless for my hon. Friend the Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) to pretend that he did not know about this practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-21a.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-21", "file": "debates1962-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "20223d602d39181b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-21a.446.2", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fifth Schedule.—(ENACTMENTS REPEALED.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " was furnished to the effect that they contained only 30 per cent. fish. In the result, the justices refused to convict and the case went to the Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division, presided over by the Lord Chief Justice who sat with Mr. Justice Ashworth and one other High Court judge. Fascinating arguments ensued. Previously, it had been decided that mock cream need not contain cream.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-21a.446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-21", "file": "debates1962-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "20223d602d39181b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-21a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DUMPING (AMMONIUM SULPHATE)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "s put forward by the West German Government, although they are, of course, always entitled to say what they think. When I walked into the Steel Pavilion, the first thing which I saw was the Krupps exhibit, an enormous hull of a ship. I went to Leipzig with the idea of trying to get some shipbuilding orders for this country. It is tremendously important that our trade should be as free as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-21a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-21", "file": "debates1962-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "20223d602d39181b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-21a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DUMPING (AMMONIUM SULPHATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dumping.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": " not unduly high. Then I am asked: why is it I.C.I. can sell at such low prices—for example, to the Republic of Ireland? The answer is, of course, the one I have already given, that the company is in competition abroad and prices are extremely keen, and competition is extremely keen, and those prices have to be matched. It does not follow necessarily that the company is selling at a profit abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-21a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-21", "file": "debates1962-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "20223d602d39181b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-21a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DUMPING (AMMONIUM SULPHATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "Well, the farmers in Northern Ireland do get a share of the fertiliser subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-21a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-22", "file": "debates1962-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "09adf810d6f2aeff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is it not bad business for us to borrow hot money at 6 per cent. and repay a loan bearing only 2 per cent.? This seems to be crazy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.544.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-22", "file": "debates1962-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "09adf810d6f2aeff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.559.4", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "varied versions of the statement of the German Chancellor there is one constant statement, that if we enter the Rome Treaty either the Commonwealth or the Rome Treaty would have to undergo substantial structural changes? Will he once more make it clear to the leaders of the Six that the British Government will discontinue negotiations if it means a weakening of our relations with the Commonwealth?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-22", "file": "debates1962-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "09adf810d6f2aeff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.562.2", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "In view of the growing opposition in many parts of the country to our entry into the Common Market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-22", "file": "debates1962-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "09adf810d6f2aeff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.567.5", "colnum": "567", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": " count of the Orpington by-election. He said then that he would consult the Home Secretary to see whether a statement could be made. Can I take it that the absence of the Home Secretary means that a statement is not to be made today? If so, can one be made next week? In the interim, since so many hon. Members have been to me to say that they did not know what happened at the Orpington by-election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.567.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-22", "file": "debates1962-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "09adf810d6f2aeff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.572.4", "colnum": "572", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "Hitherto, the right hon. Gentleman has given us the business for the following week and then for the Monday following that. Today, he has announced the business for the Tuesday following next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.572.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-22", "file": "debates1962-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "09adf810d6f2aeff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.574.5", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Per year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "preceding_text": "in to look at this. In my criticisms I do not criticise the industry as such. Indeed, I pay tribute to those who have helped to build it up, irrespective of the job Which they do. Their record is very good indeed. The British industry is second only in size to that of the United States. The annual value of its exports of aircraft, aeroengines and parts from 1955 to 1961 was well over £150 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.574.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-22", "file": "debates1962-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "09adf810d6f2aeff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "Continent, the Government do nothing. It has already been said that the Americans are getting to grips with this problem. They have their agencies and we understand that the French have come to terms with the Americans and it is thought that the Caravelle may be manufactured in the United States and that instead of having Rolls Royce Avon engines it will have an American engine incorporated in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-22", "file": "debates1962-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "09adf810d6f2aeff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.650.1", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "The majority were. Some hon. Members opposite me now very rarely have Questions on a Monday. It is not a very popular day. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman is deeply grateful to the Opposition for giving him parliamentary work to do, and for keeping him going at a time when he is telling us that he may put 20,000 other people out of their jobs. That is the introduction to my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-22", "file": "debates1962-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "09adf810d6f2aeff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.650.3", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "es. Only a quarter of that will be absorbed by the needs of civil aviation. Therefore, the Minister has the opportunity to see to it that Abbotsinch is used not only for operational purposes, but for manufacturing purposes, also. This would do no harm to Prestwick, whose cause I have often advanced in the House. We are told that we ought to commend the Government's performance in overseas markets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-22a.650.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-23", "file": "debates1962-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "f569e02d29f0e0fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-23a.781.6", "colnum": "781", "heading": "LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "I, too, congratulate my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Nottingham, Central (Lieut.-Colonel Cordeaux) on presenting this Bill. Indeed, I congratulate him on being here at all. It is most courageous of him, because I understand that unfortunately he recently bad a fall. It is most courageous of him to come and present the Bill today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-23a.781.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-26", "file": "debates1962-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "a3e6bd0e7f89e418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-26a.833.7", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHRISTMAS ISLAND (NUCLEAR TESTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "Would the Government now be prepared to issue a White Paper showing the effects on plankton and marine animal and vegetable life? Is the hon. Gentleman aware that it is well known that after tests fish have been found with two, three and more heads in the ocean currents off the coast of Japan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-26a.833.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (FARE INCREASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "ernment's having to approve the proposals. The Commission's charging powers are determined by the statutory procedures of the Transport Acts, 1947 and 1953, and the Commission has a statutory duty to break even. As for the pay pause, we have to remember that, pause or no pause, railway workers have had an increase in wages recently. Nobody in the House or in the country grudges them that increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1058.5", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (RULINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ht. My hon. Friend the Member for Nelson and Colne made a remarkable speech, eloquent, cogent and obviously very sincere. He is a great Parliamentarian, and so are some of his hon. Friends who sit beside him, but sometimes there is much to be said for putting a case and then leaving it where it is. I hope that this matter will not go to a Division. If it does, I should like to abstain from voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1058.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NURSING, MEDICAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Surtax payers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ey Council, I drew their attention, as in duty bound, to the incomes policy set out by the Government. The nurses and all the other sections in the National Health Service are not being called upon to take part in a policy which does not apply to the nation at large. They are only being asked to accept the same common sense of the incomes policy as the whole of the nation is being asked to accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1125.3", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NURSING, MEDICAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "We want increased productivity; surely, we can see that a really efficient, well-paid and happy Health Service would help to increase productivity. But part of the weakness of the Government is that there is absolutely no co-ordination between one Department and another. We deal with the Health Service in isolation. We deal with transport in isolation. We deal with the Prime Minister in isolation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NURSING, MEDICAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "BD; per cent. There is also universal agreement that this is not enough and that we should strive with all our efforts to increase the gross national product beyond this rate. But it must also be agreed that until this is achieved, nothing beyond a limited increase in wages and salaries and dividends is beneficial to the nation as a whole. This argument seems to me to be fairly generally accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1139.3", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NURSING, MEDICAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "sts by interfering with the freedom of the medical profession to decide whom to treat. The right hon. Gentleman has decided that the treatment is being wasted on some people and that he will issue guidance, or advice, or instructions—it comes to the same thing—to tighten up the medical test and to make it narrower and stricter. Anybody who does not get through that net will not have the treatment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NURSING, MEDICAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "I am not an authority on the total number of nurses, but I quote exactly what the paper states: Calls for hospital strike were made at meeting of union leaders of Britain's 200,000 nurses and midwives today. To develop my theme, I think it is nonsense to say that the medical profession would ever threaten to strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NURSING, MEDICAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "rses of the Royal Infirmary in Blackburn have been so goaded into an expression of opinion by the Government's policy that they have burst into verse. I have here a long poem signed by 44 nurses from one of the key hospitals in Blackburn. It touches on this very point, and is, I think, symbolic of an entirely new mood in the nursing profession. I know that there is not time to read the whole poem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NURSING, MEDICAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did you hear him?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "e National Health Service as she has delivered tonight. I shall not dispute the details, but what she said was a one-sided account. It is a pity that she went to her dinner and did not wait to hear what my night hon. Friend had to say about certain aspects of the Health Service. If she had, perhaps she would not have put us in the position of listening to such a dismal story of a pathetic Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NURSING, MEDICAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Marsh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not for long\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Marsh", "preceding_text": "k in an industry which is essential to the community and do a job for which all of us are extremely grateful is no excuse at all for using this against them to dodge what is their night to have a decent living. There is too much of this business that they choose to go into their jobs. Of course they do. The hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras, South chose to come into this House, as we all do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NURSING, MEDICAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Marsh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Prime Minister has gone to Stockton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Marsh", "preceding_text": "nd made similar contributions. Over and over again, they made the point that the Government should look at the situation. As I mentioned in an intervention, the general secretary of one of the trade unions within the National Health Service sent a telegram to the Prime Minister. He got a reply, dated 26th March, not from the Prime Minister, but from somebody whose signature I cannot even decipher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NURSING, MEDICAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "That is so. The Prime Minister's successor has been very good at keeping them quiet.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1182.0", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NURSING, MEDICAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "e or married women up to 27 years of age. The commencing remuneration depends upon age and experience, but at 16 years of age the minimum salary would be £385 a year, rising to £650 a year at the age of 27, with a non-contributory pension scheme, sports and social facilities, and a generous marriage gratuity. There is another advertisement for a secretary at £16 a week—W.C.I, contact Museum 8090.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NURSING, MEDICAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "e hospital service must be to ensure that every patient requiring hospital treatment can obtain it without delay. Have we at any time since 1945 had a situation where that was true? Is it true today? Of course not. I remember a pathetic man coming to me on the day of the General Election in 1959 and telling him that he would vote for me. He said he was sorry that he had not been to see me earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1210.0", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NURSING, MEDICAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Secretary of State\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. May I take it that the speech of the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1210.9", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NURSING, MEDICAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "of us voted against it. Later we were given an assurance that it was a misunderstanding. We get to know the procedure of the House rather rarely. Unless the closure is moved, it is surely obvious that the Minister should not rise to reply before the observations have been made. If the good fortune of the Minister in catching your eye, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, on the first time that he rose to his feet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1210.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-27", "file": "debates1962-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "5966f6321579b2b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1266.2", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NURSING, MEDICAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "For not paying it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reader Harris", "preceding_text": "I naturally support those parts of the speech of the hon. Member for Southampton, Itchen (Dr. King) in which he paid tribute to the nurses and expressed the hope that they would get more money. He will not expect me to support those parts of his speech in which he attacked the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-27a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-28", "file": "debates1962-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "a7b9ec901355685b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1346.4", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I do not think it would be sensible to get rid of something that would give a degree of protection in the event of another war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1346.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-28", "file": "debates1962-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "a7b9ec901355685b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1365.0", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "preceding_text": "man, and it is the phrase that I would use. He was kind and generous; he was always both kind and generous to me from the first day that I met him as a very new Member. I am sure that his great heart must have been cheered in his last days by the splendid victory that the party to which he gave so much secured. I think that we are poorer as a House and poorer as individual Members for his passing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-28", "file": "debates1962-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "a7b9ec901355685b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two and a half per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "or and one minor, from my right hon. Friend's proposals. The less important point is that I do not now propose that we should include consideration of the principle of remuneration for Members of the House of Lords. The previous statement was made before my right hon. Friend the Chancellor's statement in July last year, but I would not wish to argue a special pre-pause commitment on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-28", "file": "debates1962-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "a7b9ec901355685b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not want it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "he Joint Select Committee to construe its terms of reference—is not so covered. I refer to the possibility of Ministers in another place being entitled to address this House. The House will be aware that this suggestion was recently canvassed in The Times of 14th March. There are precedents in other legislatures for similar arrangements. Section 52 of the South Africa Act, 1909, provided for this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-03-28", "file": "debates1962-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "a7b9ec901355685b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1370.0", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "as a kind man. He was a friendly man. I think that all of us had an affection for him. He was also a very staunch parliamentarian. He loved this House and he was devoted to it. Perhaps that was expressed most clearly by his efforts to improve the remuneration and conditions under which hon. Members work here. We pay this tribute to his memory and express our sympathy with his widow and his family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1369.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-28", "file": "debates1962-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "a7b9ec901355685b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "r than some would appear to think. My second objection to altering the existing law is this. If any peer on succession with ability or political ambition is, so to speak, to be encouraged to confine his political activities to this House rather than to go to another place, we shall be left with a second Chamber composed largely of life peers, plus a few hereditary peers of not very marked ability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-28", "file": "debates1962-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "a7b9ec901355685b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1409.1", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "that although in many matters I find myself far out on the Right wing of the Conservative Party, this is an issue on which I am well to the left of the centre of my party and much closer to the thoughts of many Members of the Opposition, as I made perfectly clear on 13th April, 1961, when winding up my speech with these words: I represent the young and progressive element m the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-28", "file": "debates1962-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "a7b9ec901355685b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Orpington.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " were misinterpreted. I apologise unreservedly to the hon. Member for Pontefract. When I said that he came here the easy way, I did not mean that coal mining was the easy way. I meant that he happens to be fortunate enough, in his first run for Parliament, to have offered himself in a constituency where there is an impregnable Labour majority. There are, of course, Tory seats in the same position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-28", "file": "debates1962-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "a7b9ec901355685b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "e these powers in a way in which any of us would disapprove, but we cannot always be sure that the same rigid standards of today will be maintained in the future. We should very swiftly get back to the situation that we had in the eighteenth century, with huge powers of distribution of favours and offers and patronage assembled in the hands of the two—or maybe we have even three—political leaders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-28", "file": "debates1962-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "a7b9ec901355685b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "of the noble Lord the Member for Dorset, South (Viscount Hinchingbrooke). His family played a considerable part in it. I think that it was said of one of his ancestors that from puzzling all his life over tavern bills he was called to be Chancellor of the Exchequer and he participated in the corruption of those days which was regarded as perfectly normal and proper. They were all in the same game.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-28", "file": "debates1962-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "a7b9ec901355685b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1463.0", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "Engineering Union. This led to a work-to-rule campaign which, I am glad to say, has come to an end. Here, also, I have had talks with the executives of the union about the new wage claims. All this has been a very unhappy business. I must in all honesty say to the House that in my view—I have never equivocated or wavered in this—the pay pause was right if the inflationary spiral was to be stopped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-28a.1463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-29", "file": "debates1962-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "feb98390025bbd20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-29a.1564.2", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "MERSEYSIDE DOCKS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the trade union movement in Liverpool believes that non-unionists should not be employed in the docks, and that if that position can be cleared up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-29a.1564.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-29", "file": "debates1962-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "feb98390025bbd20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-29a.1571.5", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Last.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the last words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-29a.1571.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-29", "file": "debates1962-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "feb98390025bbd20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-29a.1582.0", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS (CONDUCT OF THE COUNT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So did you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman watched the count at the Orpington by-election with interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-29a.1582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-30", "file": "debates1962-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "18c8406c64a25f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-30a.1713.1", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "Members neatly dressed, wearing red ties and lustily singing the \"Red Flag\". Northern Ireland is considered as an electoral investment to hon. Gentlemen opposite, and I prophesy that if the Northern Ireland Labour Party does not relatively improve its position at the next election the British Labour Party will lose interest in the affairs of Northern Ireland. I come now to the terms of the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-30a.1713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-30", "file": "debates1962-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "18c8406c64a25f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-30a.1731.1", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "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": "which we all feel that the restraint and sense of proportion with which the people of Northern Ireland have faced and overcome the threat of terrorism over the past five years and more have been rewarded. The Northern Ireland Government took firm measures to restrict the activities of the terrorists and I think that everybody in the House would like to pay tribute to the Royal Ulster Constabulary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-30a.1731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-03-30", "file": "debates1962-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "18c8406c64a25f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-30a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": " auction as to which local authority treated its minority better or worse, that is really an out-of-date controversy. Time has moved on since those days. I now come to the speech of the hon. Member for Bermondsey. The hon. Gentleman at least shows some glimmer of being in touch with events. However, there was not very much in his speech. There was not anything awfully constructive in what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-03-30a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-02", "file": "debates1962-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "85376c1ec9b42c30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-02a.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not with France.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "nies, which falls upon Government expenditure and the balance of payments, has increased from about £35 million a year in 1957–58 to about £80 million in 1961–62. During the last four years our general overseas aid has risen from £80 million to £180 million, which, as a proportion of our national income, I claim bears comparison with any other country in the world, without exception.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-02a.32.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-02", "file": "debates1962-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "85376c1ec9b42c30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-02a.137.2", "colnum": "137", "heading": "WEST INDIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He says, \"Of course it was\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Fraser", "preceding_text": "Of course it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-02a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-02", "file": "debates1962-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "85376c1ec9b42c30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-02a.180.3", "colnum": "180", "heading": "EDUCATION (MINOR WORKS PROGRAMMES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "It cannot be any secret from my hon. Friend that local authorities do sometimes fall into the trap of putting forward programmes that are larger than they expect to get. That is a phenomenon familiar not only to the minor but to the major works programme, too. The Minister must judge What the available resources will allow him to authorise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-02a.180.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-03", "file": "debates1962-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ea0a878b60f2e3a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNICAL CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First of all, the right hon. Gentleman, in his usual manner, puts words into my mouth and then tries to make a false deduction from what I have said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.210.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-03", "file": "debates1962-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ea0a878b60f2e3a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.299.0", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percivall Pott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hands.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percivall Pott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is talking about a scrubby area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-03", "file": "debates1962-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ea0a878b60f2e3a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Harvey", "preceding_text": "Lewisham, South suggested that there had not been many accidents. How many is \"many\"? The hon. Member might have agreed that sixty-four was more than enough. In paragraph 11 of the Petition against the Bill, the Wanstead and Woodford Borough Council—and I am sure that the whole House will be delighted to see my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill) in his place this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-03", "file": "debates1962-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ea0a878b60f2e3a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "edures which are outlined in the \"Handbook on the Transport Users' Consultative Committee\" it is clear that the competition we are engaged in and which is organised by Dr. Beeching is such that, to use a racing analogy, the horse has been doped, the jockey has been nobbled, Dr. Beeching has \"squared\" the starter and the judge, but that, apart from these considerations, it is a perfectly fair race.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-03", "file": "debates1962-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ea0a878b60f2e3a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.348.2", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Weaver goes on", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Weaver goes on", "preceding_text": " transportation system. The President recognised the gravity of the problem in his 9th March message to Congress. On housing and community development he stated: 'Nothing is more dramatically apparent than the inadequacy of transportation in our larger urban areas. The problem … manifestly cannot be solved by highways alone'. There is another point—and I will not keep the House much longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.348.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-03", "file": "debates1962-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ea0a878b60f2e3a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "In dealing with canals, I believe in listening to the advice of those who use them daily, and these small boys tell me that even in summer this waterway does not dry up entirely. Although I am the first to admit that the waterway is in bad order, I believe that it would be foolish to close it to statutory navigation now. The new Inland Waterway Authority, or whatever it is ultimately to be called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-03", "file": "debates1962-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ea0a878b60f2e3a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "ateful to the hon. Member. I see the hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr. Jack Jones) in his place. No doubt he will tell us something later about angling. The canal is only about 1¼ miles long. The state of the flora is deplorable in that trees hang over the canal and it is clogged up with weeds. The various young gentlemen whom 1 met over the weekend assure me that the fishing is good at times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-03", "file": "debates1962-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ea0a878b60f2e3a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman has entirely failed to miss the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.365.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-03", "file": "debates1962-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ea0a878b60f2e3a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.365.7", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I do not care what you say or do. I want you to listen to this comment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.365.7"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-03", "file": "debates1962-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ea0a878b60f2e3a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.381.2", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that my hon. Friend could have raised the general issues, apart from the Dudley aspect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-03a.381.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-04", "file": "debates1962-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af4702e4f32b3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": " that this is a matter of great urgency in view of the news announced in this morning's paper that 2,500 men are to be out of work in Scotland with two closures? Does not he realise that it is absolutely essential, if we are to have greater employment for these people in Scotland in future, that sites should become available, and that it is up to the Scottish Office to get a move on in the matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.428.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-04", "file": "debates1962-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af4702e4f32b3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "But the overall figure was very poor, and if it is less than 2½ per cent. do the Government then intend to tie the wages to the low productivity which is the result of the Government's policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.430.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-04", "file": "debates1962-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af4702e4f32b3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman ensure that no attention whatever is paid to the disgraceful pleas made by his hon. Friend behind him? Is he aware that if we had jobs in Scotland there would not be any doubt about it and that a great welcome would be given to these immigrants in our country, where we are one of the most friendly peoples in the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.430.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-04", "file": "debates1962-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af4702e4f32b3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.431.5", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "he same problem as faced him on the new Kilmarnock Road faces him on the old Kilmarnock Road which runs parallel to it and a little distance from it because of the increase of the number of feuars. They are being allowed to approach too near the centre of the road? Once again, is he aware that he will have to pay compensation to these feuars comparable to that already paid on the present new road—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.431.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-04", "file": "debates1962-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af4702e4f32b3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that all these matters of self-financing of electricity boards in Scotland are properly the subject of inquiry by the Mackenzie Committee at the present time?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-04", "file": "debates1962-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af4702e4f32b3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.438.8", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooman-White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooman-White", "preceding_text": "It is true that the Mackenzie Committee is inquiring into the finances of electricity in Scotland. I entirely accept everything that my hon. Friend has said about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.438.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-04", "file": "debates1962-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af4702e4f32b3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.454.7", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "e no improvement in the facilities over months or years to come, that much could be done without any improvement in the frequency but in the way of ensuring that trains have the correct number of cars on them and that the continual points failures to which we are subjected do not result in all these delays? Is he aware that it took me fifty minutes to get from Orpington to London Bridge yesterday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.454.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-04", "file": "debates1962-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af4702e4f32b3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that there is very much to be done, apart from any improvement in the frequency of the services, to lessen the annoyance and irritation to passengers? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.455.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-04", "file": "debates1962-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af4702e4f32b3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.505.0", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is wrong with that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "s to set out matters to which a local authority should have regard in deciding whether a house is unfit. That is our view of what the Clause is intended to do. On the other hand, the hon. Member for the Gorbals seemed just now to be tempted by the idea that a house might be condemned, more or less automatically, if it lacked one of these specified amenities. She used the words, \"We should insist\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.504.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-04", "file": "debates1962-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af4702e4f32b3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member says that he has heard all this, but it obviously has not sunk in. That is why I am saying it again. Hon. Members opposite are always saying that the Government do not trust the local authorities. Here it seems to me that it is they who are not trusting the local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-04", "file": "debates1962-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af4702e4f32b3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brewis", "preceding_text": "What is important in this matter is to get the amenities into these houses and install sanitary fittings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-04", "file": "debates1962-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af4702e4f32b3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.553.2", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": "If I were to answer that question, I should be completely out of order, in discussing rents in England. I am discussing the situation in Scotland. We are trying to give the Secretary of State power to remedy this situation in which we find ourselves in Scotland. I have spoken at considerable length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.553.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-04", "file": "debates1962-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af4702e4f32b3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": "I am reading from the lady's letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-04", "file": "debates1962-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af4702e4f32b3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.559.4", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeenshire, West (Mr. Hendry) who moved the Second Reading of this new Clause. The effect of the new Clause would be to empower the Secretary of State by order to fix the rents of controlled houses, despite the terms of the tenancies or of the Rent Acts, by reference to the gross annual value. This proposed new Clause seems to be outside the Long Title of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.559.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-04", "file": "debates1962-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af4702e4f32b3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.559.4", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": " Mearns (Sir C. Thornton-Kemsley) was able to satisfy himself that this new Clause would not do that, I am afraid that neither I nor my right hon. Friend has been able to satisfy himself. In our view this new Clause would cut right across that undertaking. That is another reason for not accepting it. I am sure that my hon. Friend would appreciate that it would be wrong for us not to keep our word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.559.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-04", "file": "debates1962-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af4702e4f32b3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.585.0", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir James Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir James Duncan", "preceding_text": "hey are old contracts. The Government are not going to break their contracts. So far, so good. However, houses approved about the time of the introduction of the Bill are not sacrosanct. The Government are giving ten years' notice that there will be no change in the subsidies in the Bill, whether they be £42 or any other rate. There will be no change in the subsidy rates in the Bill for ten years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-04a.585.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-05", "file": "debates1962-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cdb06eddbf06a8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-05a.633.3", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND PRIME MINISTER (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smithers", "preceding_text": "Have not Her Majesty's Government an exceptionally good record in upholding the Charter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-05a.633.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-05", "file": "debates1962-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cdb06eddbf06a8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-05a.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SURPLUS SKIM MILK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that his Answer is very disturbing indeed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-05a.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-05", "file": "debates1962-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cdb06eddbf06a8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-05a.677.4", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Bill was designed to cut subsidies, whereas, in fact, its object is to redistribute them and in the process over the years actually to increase the total. In fact, it will mean more and not less subsidies going to Scotland. That is the first and most important point to grasp about the Bill, and it is one which will certainly be accepted in Scotland even if the Opposition are incapable of doing do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-05a.677.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-05", "file": "debates1962-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cdb06eddbf06a8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-05a.677.4", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "l. In fact, it will mean more and not less subsidies going to Scotland. That is the first and most important point to grasp about the Bill, and it is one which will certainly be accepted in Scotland even if the Opposition are incapable of doing do. [ Interruption .] So far I have spoken about the reallocation of subsidies in relation to need. There is also power under the Bill to reduce subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-05a.677.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-05", "file": "debates1962-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cdb06eddbf06a8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-05a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": "Mr. Hendry rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-05a.686.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-05", "file": "debates1962-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cdb06eddbf06a8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-05a.698.3", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "—and that if a demand of this kind exists, let that demand be fostered. The fact that it does exist was confirmed by that excellent newspaper, the Edinburgh Evening News —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-05a.698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-05", "file": "debates1962-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cdb06eddbf06a8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-05a.703.4", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Member for Galloway (Mr. Brewis) represents, and to many other parts. It is true that there are parts of Scotland where the subsidies will be reduced, but what the Bill is designed to do, and will do most effectively, in a very ingenious way, is to give effect to what I have always thought was the good old Socialist principle of fair shares for all and to each according to his needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-05a.703.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-05", "file": "debates1962-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cdb06eddbf06a8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-05a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "UNIVERSITY GRANTS AND SALARIES OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In two years' time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "e salaries question. Looking at it as objectively as I could, it seemed that a number of people in our universities have had a raw deal on the question of salaries. There seems to be a pre-pay pause content in their claims. For various reasons this has not been fully honoured. There is the 3 per cent. increase, but, there again, I detect a sign of hope that the question will be reviewed next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-05a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-06", "file": "debates1962-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "bff03fd1a04b0eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-06a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Miss Edith Pitt)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Miss Edith Pitt)", "preceding_text": "ary organisations as agents under the new Section 31 (1) proposed by Clause 1, authorities should not make charges for meals which would cause recipients to have recourse to National Assistance for help or for additional help in meeting the charges. One hopes that the charge would be within the means of the recipient while, at the same time, of course, preserving the independence of the recipient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-06a.844.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-06", "file": "debates1962-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "bff03fd1a04b0eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-06a.918.10", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXTENSION OF LEASES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-06a.918.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-09", "file": "debates1962-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "fbd6ed11d2e7e914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-09a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIMPLIFICATION OF THE TAX SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I have, therefore, asked the Board of Inland Revenue to discuss the draft scheme on the usual controversial basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-09a.972.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-09", "file": "debates1962-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "fbd6ed11d2e7e914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-09a.990.4", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIRECT TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The new tax on confectionery, icecream and soft drinks is expected to yield £30 million this year and £50 million in a full year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-09a.990.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-09", "file": "debates1962-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "fbd6ed11d2e7e914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-09a.1014.7", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIRECT TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": ", he can avoid the tax altogether. Seriously, this will not make any substanial difference to the real grievance. The real grievance is not simply that people make short-term capital gains but that, year by year, those who own securities, in the main, so long as they are reasonably well invested, even without any special knowledge, can count on something like a 10 per cent. appreciation per annum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-09a.1014.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-09", "file": "debates1962-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "fbd6ed11d2e7e914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-09a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIRECT TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Taxing sweets.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": " it is because I think that it is the beginning of the answer that I believe that this Budget will, over the years, prove to be a first-class one. In fact, it is probably one of the most far-seeing, far-reaching and inventive Budgets that we have seen in a long time, and hon. Members opposite will be very surprised tomorrow when they read the comments of the financial editors of the general Press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-09a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-09", "file": "debates1962-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "fbd6ed11d2e7e914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-09a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIRECT TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "Chancellor's of any party or any Government who seem to grow younger after they have been at the Treasury for very long. It seems to me that my right hon. and learned Friend does just that. I cannot help feeling that this Budget should be judged in its context as the second of possibly three. Last year was, perhaps, the first one of the series. This is the second and next year's will be the third.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-09a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-09", "file": "debates1962-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "fbd6ed11d2e7e914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-09a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIRECT TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": " am not in any way suggesting, Sir William, that you are an agent in assisting me to return to the seat from which I rose such a very short time ago. This Budget does not represent a plan because the Government do not know how to make plans. Nor has it a policy because the Government cannot find one—at least they have not revealed one so far. I hope that I have said enough to shake the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-09a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-09", "file": "debates1962-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "fbd6ed11d2e7e914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-09a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIRECT TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "e said enough to shake the Government—[ Laughter. ] Yes, I notice that the Economic Secretary to the Treasury is shaking. Even if he has not been impressed I hope that he will tell the Chancellor what I have said. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman really wants an export policy there are plenty of places to which goods could be exported, and he will solve for Scotland and the rest of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-09a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-10", "file": "debates1962-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ae7919089319202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that there is a considerable body of opinion in the country which disagrees with both him and the Leader of the Opposition on this question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-10", "file": "debates1962-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ae7919089319202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " some measure of redistribution of income, which would be valuable, but it must introduce a sense of social justice which would also enable us to relieve some of the lower-paid taxpayers. From examining the figures there is no doubt that the Chancellor and the Conservative Party, as the Government, have been shovelling the tax burden from the shoulders of the wealthy on to those of the lower paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-10", "file": "debates1962-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ae7919089319202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. I will not read it now. The Chancellor should not assume that I am arguing unfairly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-10", "file": "debates1962-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ae7919089319202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "we should work out the priorities for raising new capital. There should be selective depreciation allowances. If we can be selective about taxing or not taxing bounties for Service men, we can be selective about depreciation allowances. There is nothing in the Income Tax philosophy to prevent that. We should allocate Government contracts and create new Government companies where they are required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-10", "file": "debates1962-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ae7919089319202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " whole and of the social consequences of the placing of new industry. The provinces, Wales and Scotland have a steady and vigorous life Which is being drained away at the present time while London and the south-east of England are becoming an overcrowded wen. The distribution of industry must be brought back to the centre of our economic picture. We should, of course, encourage mobility of labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-10", "file": "debates1962-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ae7919089319202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e consequences following such a policy. I make these comments from this side of the Committee in support of the Chancellor because the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) said quite unequivocally, \"I believe that there should be a fiscal incentive for exporters.\" When he reads tomorrow what I have said about it, in which, I believe, I have the concurrence of my Treasury colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-10", "file": "debates1962-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ae7919089319202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ir savings on the Stock Exchange, rightly and properly, to earn a substantial profit over the years from their investments. I am a very bad investor on the Stock Exchange. I am a very bad client of my stockbroker because I very rarely sell. I almost invariably buy. Therefore, I do not operate as frequently as my broker would like, and I am not a very profitable client. But I am a perfect investor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-10", "file": "debates1962-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ae7919089319202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "o cash in on a substantial profit on stocks and shares or in land or in commodities. I said to my right hon. and learned Friend that if he sought to catch this kind of speculator the legislation should be restricted to three things—stocks and shares, commodities and land—and that it should not be retrospective. It should allow an offset of losses against gains and should be essentially short-term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-10", "file": "debates1962-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ae7919089319202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1230.6", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"A mink coat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "cause for ridding our Purchase Tax system of violent discrimination and compressing the rates, notably in the interest of our national export trade. In my judgment, it is manifest nonsense to claim that there is any article today which is a luxury. All manufactured goods contribute to two things. They contribute, first, to the employment of our people, and secondly, to the export of British goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1230.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-10", "file": "debates1962-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ae7919089319202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1232.3", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "buys. It is on the more expensive brands of chocolates and on the huge consumption of candy and other sweetmeats. The consumption of confectionery and sweets per thousand head of the population has trebled since pre-war and the consumption of soft drinks of all kinds of a non-alcoholic description has been multiplied by two and a half times per thousand head of population as compared with pre-war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-10", "file": "debates1962-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ae7919089319202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1234.8", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am lucky to find just one here. The Leader of the Liberal Party, the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond), seemed rather contemptuous of my right hon. and learned Friend and said that it was an electoral measure to try to attract a further Tory support in dormitory constituencies where there are a large number of owner occupiers. That is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1234.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-10", "file": "debates1962-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ae7919089319202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1236.0", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "inting out to the obvious embarrassment of successive Tory Chancellors … I have been called \"a poor man's Bob Boothby\" but never \"a rich man's Michael Foot\", and I am sorry that the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. M. Foot) is not present. Of course the Labour Party should support the abolition of Income Tax, Schedule A, and of course my right hon. and learned Friend is doing the right thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1236.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-10", "file": "debates1962-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ae7919089319202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1267.2", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "r congratulations on his maiden speech, particularly because his predecessor here was so much esteemed by us, and we are very pleased to see that his former division is now so adequately represented. When I listened to the speech of the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan), and also that of the leader of the Liberal Party, the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-10a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-11", "file": "debates1962-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b67177d11eafa4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1296.0", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "rouped together just there, are twenty-two bus stops within a few hundred yards of each other, collecting crowds and thereby creating a danger to the public; that many of the bus stops are in the dangerously narrow neck between the Cenotaph, Grindlay's Bank and Scotland Yard, and that there is ample space for the Minister to find a comprehensive bus stop which would not be a danger to the public —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-11", "file": "debates1962-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b67177d11eafa4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1339.5", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No Guillotine?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right in saying that it will not be won here, but we are quite prepared to defend the task in the House for as many days and nights as hon. Members opposite like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1339.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-11", "file": "debates1962-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b67177d11eafa4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1339.5", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right in saying that it will not be won here, but we are quite prepared to defend the task in the House for as many days and nights as hon. Members opposite like. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No Guillotine?\"] There was no Guillotine the other night. I want to say just a word about profits and dividends in relation to the Government's incomes policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1339.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-11", "file": "debates1962-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b67177d11eafa4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "peech, but his misfortune is that he has to defend the record of this Government. Nothing that he has said this afternoon alters the two conclusions which have emerged from this debate: first, that the Government have no policy for expanding production in Britain this year; and, secondly, that what they really care about is pushing more and more of the tax burden on to those least able to bear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-11", "file": "debates1962-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b67177d11eafa4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stagnation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "the total market value of ordinary shares quoted on the Stock Exchange rose during 1961, which was not a very good year from that point of view, by about £1,700 million. At the end of 1961 the total market value of ordinary shares had risen since the end of 1958, in only three years, by £8,000 million or about 70 per cent. Therefore, I do not think that we should leave that out of the calculation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-11", "file": "debates1962-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b67177d11eafa4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1352.0", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "This year.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman make it clear, before he leaves this point about inducements, whether he is talking about the psychological effect of the Chancellor's announcement or the economic effect? Because if he is talking about the economic effect—and his whole argument seems based on that—the right hon. Gentleman's comments are nonsense, since the concession on Surtax does not come into effect till next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1351.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-11", "file": "debates1962-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b67177d11eafa4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"What about one-year Parliaments?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "s of growth restricted to such a short time before elections. I said some years ago that from the point of view of the expansion of the economy one of the few things we have to be thankful for is that the Septennial Act was repealed in 1911, and that we do not still have seven years Parliaments. If we did the periods of growth of the British economy would be even more infrequent than they are now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-11", "file": "debates1962-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b67177d11eafa4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Saturated\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "onestly told people I did not think they could avoid. The only difference is that they blamed us for it when we were landed in the same inflationary trouble during our time in office. After having sat almost entirely throughout the three days of this debate I have become almost like a piece of blotting paper, completely absorbed with the arguments, and particularly the economic arguments advanced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-11", "file": "debates1962-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b67177d11eafa4c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1450.1", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman used these words: The danger of planning is that it forgets that all planning is for people. In their enthusiasm the planners are apt to think people exist for the plan \"— I would say \"hear, hear\" to those eminently wise and sound words. He goes on with the proposition, which I find it difficult to follow: The great protection against this attitude is to have planning by Liberals \".—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-11a.1450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1502.7", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Hurd", "preceding_text": "Would my hon. Friend not agree that Parliament should not be asked to authorise the collection of this additional levy of £500,000 a year from pig producers and bacon curers unless they are satisfied, from experience and the prospects of further research and development, that they are likely to get value for the money that will be exacted from them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1502.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1511.9", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman. I must have misread the date. I was saying that the position of retirement pensioners, the widowed, and the sick is something that we must keep very much in our minds in debates on taxation. By contrast, the Chancellor's speech on Monday left us all flat and uninspired, including, I think, Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1511.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1526.3", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "April—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1526.3", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who resigned?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "April—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Which year?\"] The crisis lasted twelve months and they resigned at the end of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1526.3", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who resigned?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "April—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Which year?\"] The crisis lasted twelve months and they resigned at the end of it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who resigned?\"] April—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1526.3", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1958.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "April—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Which year?\"] The crisis lasted twelve months and they resigned at the end of it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who resigned?\"] April—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Who resigned?\"] Is anyone denying that the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Aviation did resign?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "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": "alt with the Customs and Excise surcharge regulator. He complained that my right hon. and learned Friend had allowed the surcharge to lapse and had now consolidated part of it. He thought that this was an abuse and would bring discredit on the regulator. It was, quite genuinely, precisely because my right hon. and learned Friend did not want to abuse the regulator that he proceeded as he has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1529.3", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "thought that it was a little disingenuous of the hon. Member not to mention also the fact that I had replied to him in a letter, long before his broadcast, that that scheme, the only one he has submitted to me, was quite obviously contrary to our international obligations. Does the hon. Member want us to break our international obligations? I am still hoping that perhaps he will have another shot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1529.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I was not going to weary the Committee with these figures, but the fact is that in the last ten years the retirement pension for a single person in real terms has gone up by 37 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "y pulled the levers, and sat down again. A few minutes passed, and then, the ugly roar of the deadly express began, and the excitement and violence of the play proceeded. The train rushed by, directed to the disused chalk pit, where it was dashed to pieces. I remember that when Surtax was introduced in 1909 it was introduced at 2d. in the £. I remember that when Estate Duty was introduced in 1894—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "to do that, a party which has not had an opportunity of exercising power so far? Will the Liberals be able to go to the country shortly with the claim that they alone will succeed in doing something which neither of the two traditional parties recently in power have been able to do? I would not be a bit surprised if the Liberals laid claim to do that. They may not look very competent in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1562.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1592.0", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We can", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": ". They are all doing well. We may be able to point to some companies which are doing badly, but we have to look at these matters in a general way. The Government have to find out where there are ways and means of getting over this difficulty. Unless great pressure is brought to bear on industrialists, there will be no beneficial factor in it. How some hon. Members opposite can stand on their feet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1592.3", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "Are there any ways and means whereby the Government might be helpful? Could a case be presented on actual information supplied by the Government? Do they agree that the returns made by industrialists today are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1592.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1592.3", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "Are there any ways and means whereby the Government might be helpful? Could a case be presented on actual information supplied by the Government? Do they agree that the returns made by industrialists today are—[ Laughter .] It is all right laughing, but if the people knew exactly what was happening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1592.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1609.1", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "ad some suggestions from my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South-East. I advise hon. Members opposite to have a look at them. There is a great deal of sense in them. They had some more from my right hon. Friend now the Member for Middlesbrough, East (Mr. Bottomley) and they were very good suggestions. He used to be Secretary for Overseas Trade and he has some experience of this kind of thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I understood that there was some uncertainty about the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-12", "file": "debates1962-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c407fdebcb61fca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1627.0", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I think that the words are accurately reported in HANSARD. It is not a question of our not being able to do anything, but that the Government could not do anything. The reference I was making, when I interrupted the Financial Secretary, was to the effect that the Government have forfeited their moral authority in this field by their past actions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-12a.1627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-16", "file": "debates1962-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "18f8bf184fee42b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-16a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman said that there was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend would not try to disclaim responsibility for this state of affairs. He does not think there is anything wrong with the state of affairs covered in the Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-16a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-16", "file": "debates1962-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "18f8bf184fee42b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-16a.120.3", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": " In a \"pub\" in Glasgow—at least, in certain parts—there is nothing to do but stand at the bar and get down the drink as fast as one can. In a country \"pub\", on the other hand, the situation is completely different. In a great many parts of Scotland, as in England, the \"pub\" is the local social centre of the parish, serving as a kind of counterpart to the church. The church is the centre on Sunday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-16a.120.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-16", "file": "debates1962-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "18f8bf184fee42b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-16a.126.5", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": " (Sir D. Robertson) is right. Relatively, the same people own all these premises in Scotland. Every \"pub\" that becomes available in any town or country district is bought up by the brewers. Who buys up the hotels? The Scottish brewers. There may be two reasons for this limited change in relation to the \"pubs\" being kept open and hotels being regularised in relation to bona fide travellers. Either—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-16a.126.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-16", "file": "debates1962-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "18f8bf184fee42b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-16a.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, 144 pints.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": " the driver is forbidden to carry it, but those travelling in the bus can. Suppose the bus holds 24 persons, as many buses do. If it is travelling, say, to Ayr, or Troon, or some other place, it may have on board around 24 people each carrying 6 pints of beer. This is supposed to stop the boozing buses. Obviously this provision is nonsense, because there will be 148 pints of beer on board the bus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-16a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.224.5", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hannan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hannan", "preceding_text": "Does the Parliamentary Secretary never get bored with reading out these complacent Answers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.224.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.224.6", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that it calls for exceptional action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.224.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.229.3", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman really alive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.229.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Wilson", "preceding_text": "vices available. It was put in charge of the railways, a small portion of the bus services and a minority of the road services, and an integrated service could not be produced out of that. Still less could the Railways Board provide for the needs of agriculture, industry and the public under the present set-up. If one wants to have full control, the only alternative is to set up a Communist State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.251.4", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " little time as possible in producing a modern, efficient, and streamlined railway system. Having said that, I would be disposed to accept that when such a system is in being it may well be necessary for us—and it may be awkward for some of us on this side of the Committee—to consider measures which are desirable in the national interest to bring traffic off the roads and on to the railway system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.251.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Holland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "as polemics, but we on this side of the committee unrepentantly declare to the people of Britain that if they want a railway system, they must make some contribution towards it. No country in the world, with some rare exceptions, is running railways and making profits. In France and Italy, they are facing very grave losses on their railway systems. It is well known that this is political dynamite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.263.5", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "ming him that I intended to raise it in this Committee. I have written to Dr. Beeching and I have written to the manager at Paddington. I have written to the consultative committee on the question. It is that one side of the station at Stapleton Road, Bristol, has been closed to the public. It had been open ever since the railway started. A tavern was built outside to meet the needs of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.349.7", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that under existing law Dr. Beeching has power to close down anything without coming to the Minister for prior approval.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.349.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.350.6", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "bout the £140 million capital development programme. But they do love nationalised industry as a customer. Where would private enterprise be without that £140 million? They are getting most of it. Hon. Members opposite are profiting out of that, and the Minister knows it. No doubt when he proceeds to another job he may well take an interest in some company that will profit out of this development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.350.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.353.5", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose fault was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "It is very difficult to find out in workshop costings, but that is exactly what has happened. It is not easy. There was an overall loss of £150 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.353.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.355.3", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": " the three companies in the Holding Company dealt with in Clause 29. I was asked if they could do this work. The answer is \"Yes\". Any company can interchange manufactures within the nationalised transport section. If a particular vehicle was required the boards under Clause 29, could go to the three companies and they could manufacture for them. I think that I have now answered most of the points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.355.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "o be no reason why we should have all this rigmarole. I cannot understand why the Minister insists on fighting over this. I do not want to waste the time of the House by ranging over the wider aspects of the Amendment, but from the narrow legal interpretation of the Bill I ask again whether the Minister has not the powers he requires under subsection (4) to do all the things that he told us about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.371.2", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "elves very much, but they have not addressed their minds or their speeches to what their Amendment seeks to do. The hon. and learned Members for Kettering and Stoke Newington and Hackney, North (Mr. Weitzman) omitted to tell the House, though they ought to have done, that the objects already given to the Holding Company by subsection (6) are not just to hold the securities but also to manage them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.371.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Trivial.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "o in managing the securities. I do not stop there. I go on to point out to the House that lines 3 to 5 on page 27 contain these words: and generally to carry on any business usually carried on by a holding company… Nothing could be wider than that. We do not finish even there. We go on to say: and to do all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of those objects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.371.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "ect of the Holding Company to co-ordinate the activities of its subsidiaries with the services provided by the statutory Boards— and … to supervise and assist the performance by those companies of their respective functions. The Amendment also contains these words: for the purpose of providing … passenger transport, goods transport and other services adequate for public needs…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "The answer to the hon. Member's question is \"No\". As for the other point, the hon. Member should have thought of it earlier and put down an appropriate Amendment. He has shown a belated interest in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "No. I was not speaking about remote parts of Scotland. I said \"remote areas of the country\", not necessarily Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "aking about remote parts of Scotland. I said \"remote areas of the country\", not necessarily Scotland—[ Interruption .]—because there is already in Scotland this special arrangement for David MacBrayne Ltd. That does not mean, however, that because we have accepted that situation for that part of the country, we are prepared to accept it throughout the rest of the length and breadth of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.376.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO MARKETING SCHEME (AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Listen.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "preceding_text": "There is one thing which puzzles me very much. Why is it that at a time when we understand wild dogs are being used to guard the very scarce supplies of potatoes the Government should bring in a measure designed to restrict the growing of potatoes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO MARKETING SCHEME (AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "ith last. The present acreage was said to be 593,000 acres, leaving 150,000 acres of available quota which had not been used by growers. We knew in August last year that there was likely to be a potato crisis. Let us examine the figures given by the Potato Marketing Board. Its Press release of 31st January, 1962, shows that the available stocks, 1½-in. riddle, in tons at 31st December were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.412.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO MARKETING SCHEME (AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "what the Minister is doing about this situation. Has he had representations from the trade? What action is he taking? What is the position about imports? I have had a telegram from the United States handed to me which reads: Reports have reached America that a critical potato shortage exists in Great Britain. After inquiry I find American potatoes at this time are not permitted entry into England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO MARKETING SCHEME (AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "ee that the consumers as a body of people get properly looked after. This is where we cannot have the best of both worlds. If we say, as we have said so far, that the Board should not have powers over imports, we must not blame the Board if we find that the imports have not come in, or that too many have come in. That is a matter for the Government, and the Government are reserving rights over it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO MARKETING SCHEME (AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "est of both worlds. If we say, as we have said so far, that the Board should not have powers over imports, we must not blame the Board if we find that the imports have not come in, or that too many have come in. That is a matter for the Government, and the Government are reserving rights over it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] We are all agreed on that. Are the Government blameworthy at this moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO MARKETING SCHEME (AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "nt's policy, this particular burden has fallen upon the very sections of the community that are least able to bear it. The indictment of the Government tonight follows on the Minister's own admission that last year was a record year for potato yield, and that it has taken the organising genius of the Tory Party to create a shortage, and a burden of about £30 million on those least able to bear it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO MARKETING SCHEME (AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "doubtedly, directly responsible for the cut in the acreage allocation last year. He was indeed responsible since, on his own admission tonight, he was warned by Mr. Rennie. He then failed to take the necessary steps for the importation of potatoes. Thus, the Minister is responsible to this House for the true state of the muddle today. The other person involved, of course, is the real Selwyn Lloyd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO MARKETING SCHEME (AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "ate. If the seed is small, he may find himself planting slightly more. There must be some margin for flexibility in this arrangement. But it would be far better to have a clear idea of what is happening from the point of view of the Board. There should also be some arrangement whereby these acreage allocations can be transferable if they are not taken up, as in the case of the Hop Marketing Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO MARKETING SCHEME (AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bullard", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bullard", "preceding_text": "er for finding supplies somewhere, and I shall not be at all surprised, now that potatoes have got to the price they have, if supplies arrive from places where they were not expected to come from at all. I do not mean altogether abroad. It will be surprising where they can be dug up here. Already very big quantities are being landed in my own constituency town of King's Lynn and at Great Yarmouth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO MARKETING SCHEME (AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is good sense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I wholeheartedly agree with what the hon. Member for Edinburgh, West (Mr. Stodart) has just said on the subject of the increase from £10 to £25 as the excess acreage contribution. In fact, I was so much in agreement with him that I thought he was making the sort of speech he made when he was the Liberal Party's agricultural adviser.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-17", "file": "debates1962-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5a14884982dc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO MARKETING SCHEME (AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Duncan", "preceding_text": "ton (Mr. Peart) seemed to draw a distinction between the Board and the producer, as if they were in some way at loggerheads. The Board is the producers' Board. There is a meeting every year. Directors have to be elected. The Board is the tool of the producers. There should be no conflict between the one and the other, because the Board is com- posed of the elected representatives of the producers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-17a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-18", "file": "debates1962-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "e92220fba5010a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Does not the recent speech of the Leader of the House, stating that Britain's entry into the Common Market would be the main issue at a General Election, provide a clear indication that the Government have decided to enter the Common Market on any terms?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-18", "file": "debates1962-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "e92220fba5010a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENEVA DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "rom what the right hon. Gentleman has said that the negotiations are still open, that the door is not finally barred and locked? If that is so, and since Christmas Island is a British territory, could not the right hon. Gentleman indicate that the facilities on Christmas Island would not be readily afforded for atmospheric tests which are those which do not require verification, by common consent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-18", "file": "debates1962-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "e92220fba5010a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.497.5", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this operation, which involved the forcible movement of 123 families from their homes and the destruction of their homes, with most of the contents, before their eyes, and the burning of their food stocks, was described by the New York Times correspondent on the spot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.497.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-18", "file": "debates1962-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "e92220fba5010a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.497.5", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "lved the forcible movement of 123 families from their homes and the destruction of their homes, with most of the contents, before their eyes, and the burning of their food stocks, was described by the New York Times correspondent on the spot—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] I am asking a question. Is the Minister aware that the New York Times correspondent on the spot described this operation as being—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.497.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-18", "file": "debates1962-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "e92220fba5010a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.508.5", "colnum": "508", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "Having tried five or six times to get this Motion debated, I beg to give notice that I shall raise this matter on the Adjournment at the earliest possible opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.508.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-18", "file": "debates1962-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "e92220fba5010a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.510.5", "colnum": "510", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "preceding_text": "he open market, but must be sold within the Commission's organisation. The Amendment will alter the existing system to some extent. First, the restrictions on the output of whatever these firms produce—the quota system—will go. It will be replaced by a flexible Ministerial direction. If, for example, the right hon. Member for Vauxhall (Mr. Strauss) returned triumphant at the next General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.510.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-18", "file": "debates1962-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "e92220fba5010a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.518.3", "colnum": "518", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wrong again.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. The hon. Member for Lowestoft (Mr. Prior)—I knew that it was something to do with fish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.518.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-18", "file": "debates1962-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "e92220fba5010a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "quirements of the boards, which is a total of 6,000. That represents, potentially, a trebling of the capacity of these firms, and, therefore, to me, a direct extension of nationalisation, to which I am vehemently opposed, not only in this context but in other contexts. I have always been very greatly opposed to nationalised undertakings engaging directly in the manufacture of productive equipment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-18", "file": "debates1962-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "e92220fba5010a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ment or extend their productive capacity. These are matters of principle. I want now to address a word to my hon. Friend she Member for Lowestoft. I quite realise that he has here a strong constituency interest. It would be remiss, in a constituency sense, if he did not plead that interest here, but I could not accept that interest as overriding a matter of principle in my Conservative philosophy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-18", "file": "debates1962-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "e92220fba5010a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.520.3", "colnum": "520", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I agree, but I must not push my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport too far or too fast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-18", "file": "debates1962-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "e92220fba5010a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": " to. We believe in an entirely different philosophy. We believe that the consumer should decide the way by which he wishes to send his goods—whether by road, rail or sea. The consumer must assess which one is to his advantage and I prefer to allow the customer to be free to make his own assessment and choose which method he prefers. I do not wish to be a dictator like some hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-18", "file": "debates1962-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "e92220fba5010a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "te to him is the raising of temperature, because by nature I seem to be well fitted to do that anyway. Now I come to the final word that I should like to say about the future of the railways. When I first became Minister of Transport I hoped—it was a vain hope—that, as has often been said by the hon. Member for Bermondsey (Mr. Mellish), we should stop using the railways as a political shuttlecock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.589.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-04-18", "file": "debates1962-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "e92220fba5010a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.595.4", "colnum": "595", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Running away.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Dame Irene Ward indicated dissent .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.595.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-18", "file": "debates1962-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "e92220fba5010a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": " We are both rather glad to come to the end of this very long road. The hon. Member is lucky in some respects. I suppose that now he may have a well deserved rest for a little while. But as soon as the House reassembles after the Easter Recess my right hon. Friend and I must turn our attention to the Road Traffic Bill and that again is a Measure which is likely to lead us along a rather long road—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-18", "file": "debates1962-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "e92220fba5010a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "y possible abuse by the railways of the commercial freedom that we are conferring upon them by this Bill. It is all very well for the hon. Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, West, the right hon. Member for Vauxhall and other hon. Members opposite to say that all the troubles of the railways today, all this accumulated deficit, losses and so on are the direct consequences of Conservative Party policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-18a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-04-19", "file": "debates1962-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "48824a8a86e28a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-19a.681.6", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT KENNEDY (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister consider putting before President Kennedy the point of view that, as a result of the Polaris base, the west of Scotland has now become one of the most dangerous places in the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-04-19a.681.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-01", "file": "debates1962-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "c16120bc01ad3fa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-01a.815.4", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the Russian tests?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. Gentleman says that an assurance has been given that fall-out will be kept to a minimum, can he say what \"minimum\" means? Does he yet know how much it means in terms of human damage—new cases of bone cancer and leukaemia and of genetic damage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-01a.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-01", "file": "debates1962-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "c16120bc01ad3fa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-01a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " but I am trying to see how machinery could be established. When the welfare fund had been established by the coal owners they considered what each colliery undertaking needed in the establishment of pithead baths. There would be different arrangements at the fishing ports. The miners had their local meetings and decided whether they wanted baths at the various collieries. If my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-01a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-02", "file": "debates1962-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3fc4d0cdcf978554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.993.3", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister said quite clearly—I said it myself in the same debate; indeed, I said it in the first debate on the matter in the House on 17th May of last year—that the Treaty of Rome is an economic treaty. I pointed out also that it has political implications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.993.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-02", "file": "debates1962-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3fc4d0cdcf978554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1020.10", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister feel that the members of the Commonwealth have no right to object to our trying to increase our trade with the Common Market—and I am neither for nor against it—unless they themselves are prepared to help in increasing their trade with this country? Could I have an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1020.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-02", "file": "debates1962-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3fc4d0cdcf978554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "r hon. Friend the Member for Salford, East, who tells me that in his constituency 50 per cent. of the houses are without baths. What I am saying is that these houses without baths are very often without baths due to the fault of the occupiers of the houses. I would say that any occupant of a house who can afford a television set should be able easily to afford a bath and a modern hot water system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-02", "file": "debates1962-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3fc4d0cdcf978554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "rd, East should he wish to take it up. Not only would his constituents avoid having to have the inferior second-hand bath which I was proposing to provide but they would, in fact, become the delighted owners of a brand-new bath with which I have been presented for this particular purpose by a bath manufacturer. That offer stands. Perhaps I have been dwelling for too long upon the subject of baths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-02", "file": "debates1962-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3fc4d0cdcf978554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1112.3", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "r for Aston of young people struggling to buy a house of their own because they could not get accommodation in any other way. How do they feel when they are struggling to buy their own homes and they see someone down the road living in a subsidised house and able to enjoy a motor car and other amenities which they themselves cannot afford? We must realise that this is a source of great discontent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-02", "file": "debates1962-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3fc4d0cdcf978554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1118.2", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the previous Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ng of all is to tell them that I can do nothing. The one who has tied my hands behind my back is sitting facing me—the Minister of Housing and Local Government—and he must accept responsibility for the fact that there is no scope for local authorities to go ahead as they should. The right hon. Gentleman may say to me that the building industry cannot do this, and ask, \"Where will it get the men?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1118.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-02", "file": "debates1962-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3fc4d0cdcf978554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": " with what he said about the location of houses for older people. As to the future, I made plain my view—and there is no complacency in my approach to this housing problem—that despite what has been done in the last ten years there are, as every hon. Member knows, hundreds of thousands of people who are abominably housed. This is a social disease which we have to cure, and which we intend to cure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-02", "file": "debates1962-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3fc4d0cdcf978554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "dreds of thousands of people who are abominably housed. This is a social disease which we have to cure, and which we intend to cure. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When.\"] Perhaps hon. Members will allow me to develop my speech. The hon. Member for Oldham, East raised the question similarly, but I want to make it perfectly clear that the Government intend to see that every family has its home, and a decent home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-02", "file": "debates1962-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3fc4d0cdcf978554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "co-ordination between the different elements in the industry; fuller technical research; more effective dissemination of information; and more standardisation of components and fittings; as well as improved methods of training and a review of apprenticeships. These matters are being urgently pursued, and my right hon. Friend the Minister of Works will have something to say to the House about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-02", "file": "debates1962-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3fc4d0cdcf978554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "e of improvement—and there must be this improvement—is very large. I know that some hon. Members, including the hon. Member for Salford, East, have suggested compulsion, but that is more difficult than it sounds. It entails a house-to-house survey by the local authority, it affects tenants as well as landlords, and there is the question of some of them not wishing to give up their room, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-02", "file": "debates1962-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3fc4d0cdcf978554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1153.5", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR BEET (RESEARCH AND EDUCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "preceding_text": "s country. Sugar beet growing extends to about 400,000 acres, and approximately 36,000 farmers are engaged in growing it. Sugar beet is a dual-purpose crop, providing a cash return and also feed for livestock. If I may weary the House for a short time, each acre of sugar beet produces 30 cwt. of sugar, 12 tons of leaves and crowns, 15 cwt. of plain sugar beet pulp and 10¾ cwt. of mollasses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-02a.1153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1208.3", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not saying that. I repeat that what it does is to identify that an explosion has taken place which may not be from natural causes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Which Opposition?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "With respect, the business I have announced for six days includes no fewer than four and a half days for debates and Motions and only one and a half days for ordinary legislation, and included in the four and a half days are two days on which the Opposition have the choice of discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1213.4", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Has not the right hon. Gentleman seen the very grave warning issued by Sir Bernard Lovell about the possible consequences of the American high-level tests and the dangers which may carry in their wake not merely fall-out, but permanent interference with the magnetic field of the earth?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1213.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1214.4", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that, if there is no debate on nuclear tests, a large section of public opinion will believe that Parliamentary government and democracy have become a fraud and a farce? Is he aware that there is very great interest in this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1214.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "ortly afterwards he spoke as if he were the victorious commander-in-chief. The battle of the last fifteen months has been won, he declared, in accents indistinguishable from those of Lord Montgomery. If that is so, what is much of this Bill about? Why Clause I, for example, with its provision for more manipulative surgery? That certainly brings me to the Bill, on which I wish to make some comment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": " was a disingenuous reply. Referring to me, he said: He complained that my right hon. and learned Friend had allowed the surcharge to lapse and had now consolidated part of it. He thought that this was an abuse and would bring discredit on the regulator. It was, quite genuinely, precisely because my right hon. and learned Friend did not want to abuse the regulator that he proceeded as he has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1242.3", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "are now getting ready to do it again. How can this Government recall the British people to a stern sense of duty when they have dissipated the natural desire for service and self-sacrifice in so many different ways? Ten years of Toryism have damaged our prestige abroad and weakened our resolve at home. They now know that they are under notice to quit. They sit there, looking dejected and helpless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1242.3", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "How can this Government recall the British people to a stern sense of duty when they have dissipated the natural desire for service and self-sacrifice in so many different ways? Ten years of Toryism have damaged our prestige abroad and weakened our resolve at home. They now know that they are under notice to quit. They sit there, looking dejected and helpless—[ Laughter .]—like a lot of Micawbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "I do not believe in the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East. He cannot understand even yet the difference between c.i.f. and f.o.b. If we set a general target it has very little meaning, and if we set specific targets they are very often wrong and misleading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "I do not believe in the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East. He cannot understand even yet the difference between c.i.f. and f.o.b. If we set a general target it has very little meaning, and if we set specific targets they are very often wrong and misleading. [ Interruption .] If the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East is listening, I will point out to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1274.3", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Webster", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor hon. Members opposite.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Webster", "preceding_text": "ome and I welcome any tendency to that effect. I welcome the Finance Bill as the second part of a three-stage operation for the complete reform of our tariff, fiscal and if necessary currency systems. I welcome it also as an immense contribution to the creating of a more competitive and more balanced economy. I see that hon. Members opposite are not here in great numbers to register their protest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"The Chief Secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "preceding_text": "lined interpreter. There were some rather complex questions about the way they planned their economy in that country, and some even more complex answers, and the interpreter was not terribly enthusiastic in doing his job. I tackled him with this afterwards and he replied rather dolefully, \"There is no music in the plan\". I thought about this when listening to the Economic Secretary this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "First, I do not agree that Sir Stafford Cripps had any exclusive right to speak morally on economic issues. I think that the character of my right hon. and learned Friend the present Chancellor does not require any defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1296.1", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the hon. Gentleman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "preceding_text": "s. And I agree about the Afro-Asian nations, though I wonder how the hon. Gentleman reconciles these views with his advocacy of the Commonwealth Immigrants Act. One agrees with him also because, unlike other hon. Members who have spoken from that side of the House, who having made their speeches without exception have now left the Chamber, he talked about nothing but production and export markets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " Louth (Sir C. Osborne) and by the right hon. Member for Flint, West (Mr. Birch) and subjecting the right hon. Gentleman to a devastating analysis which he must have been glad not to have heard. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will have sufficient humility to read it, but I very much doubt it. My hon. Friend the Member for Grimsby has not made a major speech on the Finance Bill for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "their case. They say, \"Unless this is regarded as being tax-free we cannot make a living.\" I feel very sorry for the jobbers in the gilt-edged market. I suggest that the Government put gilt-edged back where it should be and give a reasonable rate of interest to do so. The next test to apply to the Finance Bill is whether it helps industry to be more efficient, more enterprising and to export more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is very good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "orry for the jobbers in the gilt-edged market. I suggest that the Government put gilt-edged back where it should be and give a reasonable rate of interest to do so. The next test to apply to the Finance Bill is whether it helps industry to be more efficient, more enterprising and to export more. [ Interruption .] The right hon. Member for Flint, West is a past master at the art of being offensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "We should like to assist firms who employ apprentices by giving reliefs in respect of the expenditure which they incur in this connection. We shall move a number of Amendments on these lines as well as to increase the relief to the P.A.Y.E. taxpayers. I have listened to almost the whole of this debate, having been present for nearly every speech. I cannot say that it has been an exciting occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"None.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "It would be interesting indeed to know whether the Liberal Party had any contribution to make to our economic situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-03", "file": "debates1962-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "636952bbbfc12ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " There is one conclusion which I think is to be drawn from that. It is that hon. Members, having had the advantage this year of a White Paper explaining what is intended by the speculative gains tax, and in regard to the Case VII taxation, and having seen the other Clauses in the Bill, are satisfied with what it proposes and are satisfied that its proposals are in the best interests of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-03a.1347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-04", "file": "debates1962-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ec343c7b9e5c44be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-04a.1458.1", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL, SHADWELL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": " I understand and appreciate the concern, the loyalty and the pride of the local people in their hospital and that in some cases that part of the plan which foreshadows closure will be received with reluctance. Some closures will, however, be inevitable if we are to have an up-to-date hospital service which represents current needs and gives the right opportunities for use of modern medical skill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-04a.1458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-07", "file": "debates1962-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a20b77f5147666b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-07a.6.7", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "penalise the consumers of the North-West in this way because they happen to live in an area where the pits are older and less economic than elsewhere, particularly in view of the fact that the North-West consumers import at least two-thirds of their needs from the newer pits elsewhere and are still being charged an extra 6s. on imports? Is this not contrary to the whole purpose of nationalisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-07a.6.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-07", "file": "debates1962-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a20b77f5147666b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-07a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH VISITORS AND SOCIAL WORKERS TRAINING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I apologise for intervening in the discussion at this stage when I did not serve on the Committee. It seems to be the growing custom that, if one does not serve during the Committee stage of a Bill upstairs, one takes no further interest in the Measure. Unfortunately for me, I do not take that view of my duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-07a.123.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-08", "file": "debates1962-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "5ce931a63669f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-08a.204.2", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Is it not the general policy of the Government that subsidised houses should not be occupied by people who can afford to buy houses of their own?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-08a.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-08", "file": "debates1962-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "5ce931a63669f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-08a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "being swept by a wind of change. What happened? Instead of the bold, urgent and immediate action requested by the Commission, we have had eighteen months of vacillation and dithering. For Northern Rhodesia, we had, first, a proposal by the former Colonial Secretary just over a year ago which might just have permitted the Africans, who outnumber Europeans in Northern Rhodesia by more than 300 to 1—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-08a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-08", "file": "debates1962-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "5ce931a63669f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-08a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "go, we would regard it as quite transforming the situation in South Africa, ending apartheid and moving South African policy in quite the opposite direction to that in which it is going today. We would therefore regard it with enormous pleasure and we should hope that if that could happen it might be possible to create a situation in which South Africa could be welcomed back into the Commonwealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-08a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-08", "file": "debates1962-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "5ce931a63669f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-08a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "er of a race war, which, by a failure to bring the necessary minimum of agreement on a solution might bring long-drawn-out racial violence in Central Africa. I am not suggesting that the white population there could not defend them- selves for quite a long time; but what possible future would they have? What possible results could there be except years of blood and shame, both for them and for us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-08a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-08", "file": "debates1962-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "5ce931a63669f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-08a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not only with the British Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "y speech will deal with questions asked by the hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey). His first point, on which I agreed with him, was that all the faults were not with the British Government. I am very much obliged to him for this one testimonial, about the only one he gave us in the course of a very long speech. I entirely agree with him that the faults do not lie with the British Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-08a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-09", "file": "debates1962-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac3703f3c70a9745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.419.4", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman was one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "Despite the intervention of the hon. Member for Harwich (Mr. Ridsdale), who obviously desires to be a P.P.S.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.419.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-09", "file": "debates1962-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac3703f3c70a9745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "That is quite a different question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-09", "file": "debates1962-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac3703f3c70a9745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PIPE-LINES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Soskice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Soskice", "preceding_text": "an do no more than wait to see whether somebody approaches him and then impose conditions for allowing that person to build a pipeline and acquire the necessary facilities for so doing. If, or when, approached, he may impose conditions. The applicant may or may not accept those conditions. If he accepts them, the pipeline will be built. If it is not worth his while, the pipeline will not be built.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-09", "file": "debates1962-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac3703f3c70a9745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PIPE-LINES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Soskice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Soskice", "preceding_text": "go there will be provided so that the area may be set upon its way towards industrial growth and provide employment, depends entirely upon whether it is financially worth while for some applicant to put a pipeline service to that area. I am quite sure that hon. Members opposite will say that this should be so. I am equally sure that my right hon. and hon. Friends will say that it is utterly wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-09", "file": "debates1962-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac3703f3c70a9745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PIPE-LINES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Soskice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Soskice", "preceding_text": "ipeline running for about 60 miles and operated on a conservative basis of what is called a 75 per cent. of hours capacity over the year would be paid off in 2·8 years by the difference between the cost of pipeline transport through that pipe and existing railway transportation costs. An enterprise of that sort is not a speculation. If the capital cost can be written off as quickly as that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-09", "file": "debates1962-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac3703f3c70a9745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PIPE-LINES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "the hon. Member to the note on the page which has no number, from which, I think, he will find most of the answer. With regard to pipelines on railway property, in the passage from which I was quoting the Parliamentary Secretary was pointing out that the property already exists. Surely, it would be much less expensive to lay pipelines on property we already have than on property which we have not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-09", "file": "debates1962-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac3703f3c70a9745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PIPE-LINES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And prolonged.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "preceding_text": "inly my situation tonight. I should not be replying to this debate but for the illness of my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary, and I am sure that the House will join me in wishing him complete and speedy recovery—sufficiently speedy, one trusts, to enable him to enjoy taking part in the discussions in Committee, which, to judge by the debate, are likely to be both interesting and enjoyable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-09", "file": "debates1962-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac3703f3c70a9745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.566.3", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PIPE-LINES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "of the Amendment and the first to make use of the phrase from it. We are not proposing any \"monopoly\" powers. No doubt that word was used to attract the odium which the word normally carries, but to use it in relation to this Bill is quitie inappropriate. The Bill does not give monopoly powers to anyone. It is open to anyone to apply for authority to construct a cross-country pipeline at any time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.566.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-09", "file": "debates1962-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac3703f3c70a9745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.566.3", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PIPE-LINES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ct them. If they are not economic I do not believe that the construction of a pipeline which is not required is the best way of encouraging the proper distribution of industry. I quite understand that hon. Members opposite do not like anything which disagrees with their theories about this matter, but it is a ridiculous proposition that public enterprise should spend large sums of money initially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.566.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-09", "file": "debates1962-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac3703f3c70a9745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.579.6", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PIPE-LINES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "preceding_text": "teable subjects. Now that they are to be made rateable subjects one would have thought that the income of local authorities would have increased as a result of the Bill. If that were so, I should not have thought that thereby there would have been any increase arising in the rate deficiency grant or the Exchequer equalisation grant. I should have thought that it might have had the opposite effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.579.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-09", "file": "debates1962-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac3703f3c70a9745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.581.3", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PIPE-LINES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": " had the effect of reducing the rate deficiency grant or the Exchequer equalisation grant, but the provisions of the Money Resolution suggest that it would have the opposite effect. Can the Minister explain how on earth it can have the opposite effect in England and Wales? Since pipelines are rateable subjects in Scotland at present, there is no provision in the Bill to make pipelines in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.581.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-09", "file": "debates1962-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac3703f3c70a9745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.581.5", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PIPE-LINES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I think that I had better bring my remarks to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-09a.581.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-10", "file": "debates1962-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7b0aea3a321f8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-10a.635.4", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOCTORS (RECRUITMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This is a decision that was announced, and I think that it was right. It is not possible to keep absolutely to the letter of any system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-10a.635.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-10", "file": "debates1962-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7b0aea3a321f8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-10a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend agree that it would be a very grave error to have a debate on the Common Market negotiations in the middle of those negotiations, and that to do so would be a substantial hindrence to our negotiators in Brussels? Is my right hon. Friend aware that most hon. Members in the House are prepared to await the final outcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-10a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-10", "file": "debates1962-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7b0aea3a321f8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-10a.775.3", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "ps should be the \"bosses\" of the House. We have been referred to as independents and are frequently mentioned by the B.B.C. and other organs of radio and television as independent Labour Members. I object to that because I am as much a Labour Member as any of my right hon. Friends on the Front Bench. I represent my constituency and if necessary I will fight for the Labour Party in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-10a.775.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-11", "file": "debates1962-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d3e513c0f70f7c12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-11a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "RURAL TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Maitland", "preceding_text": "king, is exactly what is wanted, but it is not what is wanted in the public interest. What is wanted in the public interest is an examination of this problem in conjunction with the authorities which understand their own areas—the people who live in Lincolnshire and who know the problem. I think that I have a right to know, too, because I am the only Member of Parliament who lives in Lincolnshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-11a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-14", "file": "debates1962-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "74c223a6c6a883d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.945.2", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. J. Enoch Powell)", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"What about the dockers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. J. Enoch Powell)", "preceding_text": "in the interests of the nation at large, but, coming nearer home, in the interests of the professions. It is a condition of success of this policy that the Government themselves, where they have control or influence over incomes, should be seen to behave as all should behave, and the truth of this proposition becomes not weaker but stronger if that standard of conduct is not everywhere adhered to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.945.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-14", "file": "debates1962-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "74c223a6c6a883d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1010.2", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loveys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loveys", "preceding_text": "I definitely hope that the nurses will receive an increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1010.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-14", "file": "debates1962-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "74c223a6c6a883d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Sir Edward Boyle)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the nurses?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Sir Edward Boyle)", "preceding_text": "happens and I certainly would make no apology at all for reacting strongly on some important issues. I must, however, take up the hon. Member on one point. I do not believe there is any reason at all for us on this side of the Committee to apologise for the fact that, as compared with ten or fifteen years ago, far more people in this country than before own such things as cars and television sets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-14", "file": "debates1962-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "74c223a6c6a883d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I have a great deal to say about the nurses. I am coming to that subject. There is, however, one other general point I should like to make. A great deal has been said about fairness in today's debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-14", "file": "debates1962-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "74c223a6c6a883d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"What about the White Paper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "erwise have achieved, is not fairness at all. No one doubts, least of all hon. Gentlemen opposite, that there are aspects of our national life in regard to which the Government must represent not the interests of any particular group within our society, but rather the public interest—the interest of the community as a whole. I believe that this is especially true where incomes policy is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-14", "file": "debates1962-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "74c223a6c6a883d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1050.2", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I say that the hon. Gentleman's Government cannot deal with the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1050.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-14", "file": "debates1962-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "74c223a6c6a883d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1050.5", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Shut up. This is the basic reason why the Government are quite unable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1050.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-14", "file": "debates1962-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "74c223a6c6a883d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "y, which remains essential both for Britain's competitive performance in world markets and to rising living standards for the British people. I repeat: the whole standard of life and the whole policy of our society will depend upon the principles behind the Government's incomes policy being more and more widely understood. I now come to the nurses' and midwives—the principle subject of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-14", "file": "debates1962-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "74c223a6c6a883d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": " isolation from the general incomes policy of the Government. If the Government are to pursue a serious incomes policy they cannot ignore that policy in dealing with the pay of the public servants who are in sectors of the economy that the Government control or influence. That point was brought out well in the extremely good and helpful speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Mr. Deedes).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-14", "file": "debates1962-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "74c223a6c6a883d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "ould be maintained in the longer term. It would not be fair to individuals. I admit that this has been said before, and I am glad that a right hon. Gentleman opposite appears to be pleased to hear it again. It would not be sound economics nor conducive to the sort of society which all of us here would wish to see. No one can say that the pay of nurses as a whole ought for all time to remain fixed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-14", "file": "debates1962-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "74c223a6c6a883d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nobbling the referee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the hon. Member means by \"interfere\". It is essential to the Government's whole policy that the management side, when matters go to arbitration, should have every opportunity of stating what they conceive to be in the public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-14", "file": "debates1962-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "74c223a6c6a883d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member is referring now to the question of arbitration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-14", "file": "debates1962-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "74c223a6c6a883d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member is referring now to the question of arbitration—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—if, as I thought, he is talking about agreement, the Government have made their views quite clear about the 2½ per cent. at the present time. Therefore, any question of any increase over and above 2½ per cent. could not be implemented at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-14a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-15", "file": "debates1962-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8b56182fbfd6fd7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1191.0", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "ny country this particular type of resin, he pays a flat ad valorem duty, and this ad valorem duty is less than the amount of hydrocarbon oil duty levied in this country. It follows from this that—I am glad to interrupt what I am saying to join in the welcome to the hon. Member for Coventry, East, (Mr. Crossman) on his return from his very serious illness. We hope that he has made a full recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-15", "file": "debates1962-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8b56182fbfd6fd7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or the Stock Exchange.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "lking about the principle of the thing and not the revenue that is derived. I refer to the 33 per cent. duty on pool betting and there is, of course, the lesser duty on greyhound racing and other arrangements which allow many other forms of gambling to escape entirely. 7.15 p.m. I do not know—since I have not gone into this matter—what are the possibilities of taxing say, chemin de fer, or bridge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-15", "file": "debates1962-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8b56182fbfd6fd7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1223.3", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "So far as my knowledge goes and in so far as it is possible in a world which is not perfect, all forms of gambling which can be reached are taxed at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-15", "file": "debates1962-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8b56182fbfd6fd7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1223.6", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "There are people who take that view, but there are reasons why certain forms of gambling are not charged at the same rate as pool betting. I accept those reasons. I thought that what the hon. Member wished to do was to get rid of paragraph ( d ).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1223.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-15", "file": "debates1962-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8b56182fbfd6fd7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Lewis", "preceding_text": "orse race track? This is not done because, in the main, it is known that horse racing is the sport of kings and of the rich. There is a very big horse racing lobby in the House of Commons and in the other place. It is composed of hon. Members on both sides. There are many titled people who own racehorses. I agree that one hon. Member on this side owns a horse. I do not know whether it is any good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-15", "file": "debates1962-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8b56182fbfd6fd7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And indirect taxation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "debate. I have not got the document which the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) has before him. I will look it up and, if my figures prove to be incorrect, I will mention it in the Committee. The hon. Member was not correct, however, in saying that there was virtually no difference between 1950–51 and 1951–52 because direct taxation went up under the party opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-15", "file": "debates1962-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8b56182fbfd6fd7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1244.4", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is now no purse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "are claiming not only increases in wages to cover the erosion of their present values as a result of the rising cost of living but who also want a revaluation of incomes with reference to other incomes. What will happen to the economy when year after year Governments impose ever-increasing taxation on our incomes? This is the Government who came into office in 1951 to \"mend the hole in the purse\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1244.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-15", "file": "debates1962-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8b56182fbfd6fd7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Could.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "preceding_text": "anning instrument which should be available to any Government of good faith. My second point is that my hon. Friend believes, as I do, that we have gone too far in indirect taxation as opposed to direct taxation. The way to put that right, therefore, is for the Government to have the power to reduce Purchase Tax, for example, and this is a piece of machinery by which the Government could reduce it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1246.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-15", "file": "debates1962-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8b56182fbfd6fd7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1276.0", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "Mr. Brockway) reported immediately after the Budget that apparently, in one case, the price had been mysteriously raised the night before the Budget and then reduced again the day after it. That would not strike most of us as being a genuine reduction in the price of sugar. Can the Financial Secretary tell us whether the reduction has been made of which the Chancellor boasted in his Budget speech?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-15a.1275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "LONDON HACKNEY CARRIAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speir", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speir", "preceding_text": "hould, in London today, be 1,500 fewer licensed taxis than there were thirty years ago. The result is that with an increased demand—with more tourists flocking into London and with more business people here—it is always a struggle to get a taxi. If the Bill were to become law the situation would become even more intolerable. The House should be clear about this: the Bill is aimed at the small man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I advise him closely in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1426.7", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "No, I do not agree. Let me give a homely example which the hon. Gentleman could not fail to recognise and understand. Carpets are as much part of domestic furnishing as a sideboard, a bed, a bedstead or bedding that goes on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1426.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1426.7", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "carpet manufacturing centre of Great Britain, after Kidderminster, is Kilmarnock. The hon. Member for Kilmarnock will not take the view of many of his hon. Friends that a carpet is a luxury. He would take the view, as I take it, that a carpet is an essential piece of domestic furniture and is equally important in the home as a bed or the bedding that goes with it, or linoleum or any other article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1426.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1428.0", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More comforting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "erwise, it will be 55 per cent. The proper time to deal with all these matters is in the discussion on the Question, \"That the Clause stand part of the Bill,\" but I am not afraid of the political implications, and as I am going to West Derbyshire to inaugurate the proceedings next Monday, I thought I had better make reference to the simplification of the Purchase Tax and what can be done about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1431.5", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ods of any kind today, as there is an abundance of all kinds of manufactured goods and as we live in a society which is fully employed and highly affluent after eleven years of Tory rule, I do not regard it as damaging to the economy or iniquitous, politically or otherwise, to put a reasonable level of Purchase Tax at 10 per cent. on these goods for the forthcoming year. I go no further than that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1431.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1442.1", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "pton (Mr. Paget), is that they are really quite wrong in suggesting that this particular tax is a regressive tax. It is not so. I say that because I think that the hon. Gentlemen who have contended that it is regressive have overlooked the fact that the poorer families spend about the same and sometimes an even smaller proportion of their total outlay on clothes and furniture as do the better off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1443.5", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The fact is that the increase in retail prices attributable to this increase in Purchase Tax from 5½ per cent. to 10 per cent. works out at only a matter of pence in the £.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1443.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "n of prices, I should like to deal with the point made at some length by the hon. Member for Wycombe (Mr. John Hall), who referred to the fact, as he understood it, that certain retail prices were being raised by an unnecesary amount. I say quite bluntly that my right hon. and learned Friend and I deplore excessive increases in retail prices which are not attributable to increases in Purchase Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1445.0", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my right hon. and learned Friend will take note of what my hon. Friends have said, but he would not expect me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "bove all, it would not inflict any harm whatever upon the nation's exporting industries.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd July, 1961; Vol. 643, c. 1146.] I wish to direct attention for a few moments to this proposition for the taxation of sweets, confectionery and soft drinks in the context of the nation's great exporting industries. We all agreed about this last year. The entire Labour Party voted with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1464.3", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Imposition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Because next year, when further reform of Purchase Tax might be carried out, any further changes would be less severe than if my right hon. and learned Friend had set it at a lower rate. I now refer, in a critical sense, to the behaviour of various traders in the handling of the imposition of tax on soft drinks, sweets and confectionery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1470.1", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Rugby (Mr. Wise), who has just made a sedentary interruption, says that children do not pay tax. Let me illustrate how they do. The average child receives from his parents a given amount of pocket money. I have a boy who receives 2s. 6d. a week pocket money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1470.1", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "rage child receives from his parents a given amount of pocket money. I have a boy who receives 2s. 6d. a week pocket money. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I think that is the right amount. He is entitled to it—as much entitled to it as he is to the food and clothing which we supply for him. But although the Chancellor has put a 15 per cent. tax on sweets, my boy has not had an increase in his pocket money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1470.3", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the co-operative societies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "ts—was 2½d., which was a 25 per cent. increase on the original price. This is happening in the case of Polo mints and Corona soft drinks and all types of sweets, chocolates, ice cream and soft drinks, which are all being increased by more than 15 per cent. in price. This is not unusual for private enterprise, which has constantly taken advantage of every circumstance to increase the profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1470.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1471.2", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Let the Chancellor speak.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles A. Howell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1471.3", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "ld saying, \"If I want another 1½ from my father he will want an increase in wages\". We shall then come up against the pay pause. I ask hon. Members to bear in mind the effect this will have on railway workers. Before I came to the House I represented thousands of railwaymen who were getting less, and are still getting less, than many hon. Members opposite draw each week in expense accounts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1489.1", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. M. L. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By the cows.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. M. L. Prior", "preceding_text": "nt is fairly straightforward in that it is designed to exclude ice cream made with milk from the imposition of the 15 per cent. Purchase Tax. The reason why my hon. Friends and I have put down the Amendment is to draw attention to the importance of the manufacture of dairy ice cream to the fanning industry and to the milk producers in particular. Milk is a product produced mainly by small farmers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1492.0", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Yates", "preceding_text": "n Report, whether he will accept it, that will be satisfactory to me. In general, the majority of my farming friends think that farming was prosperous only under Mr. Tom Williams, as he was then, when he was Minister of Agriculture. This is an extraordinary myth of the past. There was, of course, then plenty of money to hand out to the farming community without any regard to the national interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-16", "file": "debates1962-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "98f1c30b50d8b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1496.2", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Frightened of the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "This is very important. I do not want to be misrepresented in my constituency. I did not say that we were not concerned about it. I have a very marginal constituency with a majority of only 10,000, and I have to be careful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-16a.1496.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-17", "file": "debates1962-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "75ab058404fdfdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1505.0", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " employment than six years ago? Does that not show that the position has got worse? While we welcome everything that the hon. Gentleman can do, is he aware that we hope for very much more to be done under the Local Employment Act than has so far been done? Will not the Government themselves establish industry in areas of high unemployment? Will not the Government themselves set up factories there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1505.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-17", "file": "debates1962-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "75ab058404fdfdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1539.5", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "The agenda already proposed by the Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of the House for next Thursday's debate is fairly wide, but even so, it leaves out, for instance, the question of the tests and the specific question of the Athens meeting of N.A.T.O.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1539.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-17", "file": "debates1962-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "75ab058404fdfdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1540.0", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tests?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The matters to which the right hon. Gentleman referred were covered by the Leader of the Opposition in the first announcement which he made on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-17", "file": "debates1962-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "75ab058404fdfdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "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": "h (Mr. Willey). He must hope that the time will never come when he is given the task of carrying out all the obligations and undertakings which he has, by implication, accepted in his speech. It would be very difficult for the casual observer to recognise the education system of this country from the hon. Gentleman's speech. We have had a picture presented to us of dilapidated, insanitary schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-17", "file": "debates1962-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "75ab058404fdfdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1567.1", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": " improve it. The Committee is not often favoured with his views on education, or on what he would like to do about it, but we welcome his interest. On the last occasion when he had some responsibility for and ventured into this sphere he was not so keen on improving education. Speaking about educational expenditure in his notorious Budget speech of 1951, this is what the right hon. gentleman said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-17", "file": "debates1962-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "75ab058404fdfdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1570.1", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "It is one made within the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1570.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-17", "file": "debates1962-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "75ab058404fdfdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1637.0", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ties. I refer to duties which are not directly concerned with the teaching of children, such as the school meals service and the like. That would be a help but it would help only if those teachers, having been released from duties which they now find irksome, returned to the classroom to make use of their energies thus saved and took extra classes later on in the day, perhaps outside school hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1636.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-17", "file": "debates1962-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "75ab058404fdfdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1645.3", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. White", "preceding_text": "upon the human material that we have and upon using the intelligence and brains of our people. We have not very many possessions left in the world. We are no longer a great imperial Power. We must live by our wits. Lord Boothby made a very striking comparison when he said that we are being betrayed in this matter as an earlier Conservative Government betrayed us in matters of defence in the 1930s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-17", "file": "debates1962-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "75ab058404fdfdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "er the first few years. A large number of them disappear. We must consider this gap and what can be done in the next five to six years. I would like to explain a little more about the two suggestions we are putting to our partners in the education service. The first is for auxiliaries. There are two distinct kinds of auxiliaries in our minds. The first are the girls who have their eye on marriage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-17", "file": "debates1962-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "75ab058404fdfdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "hers, relieving them of some of the work which would otherwise prevent them from teaching. If we do not get these girls what could we get in exchange? There is, actually, no means of filling this gap with fully qualified teachers. I believe that one or two of these auxiliaries could do a very good job under a qualified teacher—relieving the teacher of some of the things which these girls could do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-17", "file": "debates1962-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "75ab058404fdfdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "rs. I believe that one or two of these auxiliaries could do a very good job under a qualified teacher—relieving the teacher of some of the things which these girls could do. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"] In the first year, with children aged 5 to 6, there are any amount of very small jobs; children wanting their shoes done up, or wanting to be taken out of the room, having raised their hands, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-17a.1655.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-18", "file": "debates1962-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "442c8ee6f56678f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-18a.1749.1", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (AIRPORTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "In view of the observations that we have had, and the length of the debate, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-18a.1749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-21", "file": "debates1962-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6f875e305c02523e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What happens there?'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Our position is that we have asked for the less developed countries of the Commonwealth to have the opportunity of association if they so wish. This does not apply to the developed countries of Canada, Australia and New Zealand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-21", "file": "debates1962-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6f875e305c02523e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. H. C. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. H. C. Leather", "preceding_text": "ink that one ought to challenge the use of the word progressive\", which always comes from the other side of the Committee. \"Progressive\" is an adjective which has been cornered by certain interests in this country to mean almost anything they want it to mean, and it sounds good. Hon. Members opposite talk about progressive taxation. Let us all be quite clear that what they mean is higher taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-21", "file": "debates1962-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6f875e305c02523e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.41.2", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "I entirely accept that, but, with respect to the hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison), it is not nonsense at all. If the hon. and learned Gentleman will allow me to finish this brief part of my remarks, I will tell him that I fully accept that the party opposite mean whom we tax. Progressive taxation is higher taxation on the people who do not vote for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.41.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-21", "file": "debates1962-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6f875e305c02523e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "scale should have had his tax increased from 5s. 6d. to 7s. 9d. —an increase of only 2s. 3d. in the £. It is logical now to consider the man who is earning £5,000 a year. As a result of the Chancellor's recent action, he receives a straightforward gift of £490 whereas, had his rate of tax been raised in proportion to the lower-paid workers, he would actually be paying well over an additional £552.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-21", "file": "debates1962-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6f875e305c02523e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "I hope that they are moving towards a flat rate of Income Tax. I think that there should be a flat rate for all taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-21", "file": "debates1962-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6f875e305c02523e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "it to the poorest in our society. I have already talked about health expenditure. Exactly the same is true about expenditure on education. In 1951–52, we were spending a total of little more than £400 million a year on education. In 1960–61, the figure was £945 million and it has risen steadily since then. This expenditure is of special importance to a number of lower-paid taxpayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-21", "file": "debates1962-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6f875e305c02523e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.120.5", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "I heard his speech twelve months ago. We are delighted that the Chancellor has felt able to do it this year, but what was there about the economic situation— and I will not mention Surtax— and about the condition of the Finance Bill last year that prevented these concessions being made then and how different are they today that they enable these concessions to be made? Am I rubbing it in too much?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.120.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-21", "file": "debates1962-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6f875e305c02523e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.168.3", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHARGE ON GAINS FROM ACQUISITION AND DISPOSAL: LAPSE OF TIME RELIEF", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I do not want to follow the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Crowder)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.168.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-21", "file": "debates1962-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6f875e305c02523e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHARGE ON GAINS FROM ACQUISITION AND DISPOSAL: LAPSE OF TIME RELIEF", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "I had two interventions in the course of trying to put my short question, Sir Robert, and the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) made his intervention solely to try to put me off my stride by what he knew was not a point of order at all— and nor is it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-21", "file": "debates1962-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6f875e305c02523e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.176.2", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHARGE ON GAINS FROM ACQUISITION AND DISPOSAL: LAPSE OF TIME RELIEF", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "rion. The Government are widely mistaken in not having a capital gains tax such as is generally accepted in many civilised countries with institutions comparable to our own. The second criterion is that of public opinion. This is where the use of the phrase \"racket\" comes in. It is obvious that the public as a whole regard the capital gains tax with a malevolent eye, because they escape taxation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-21a.176.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-22", "file": "debates1962-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "df87df944a9f47e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-22a.207.5", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there are many ratepayers and taxpayers in Leicester and Leicestershire who object to providing this fortnight's paid spree for the legal profession?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-22a.207.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-22", "file": "debates1962-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "df87df944a9f47e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-22a.220.4", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "f course we deplore these tests, and of course we want to bring them to an end. The only question is the balance of duty, and it is a hard duty to decide whether in the interests of defence and the situation in which we found ourselves a few weeks ago we must agree with our American friends to continue the tests or whether we should not do so. We have debated this matter, and we have discussed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-22a.220.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-22", "file": "debates1962-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "df87df944a9f47e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-22a.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [21st May]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was before that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " view that the direct taxpayer is not paying his full share. That is not my view. My view is that the distribution of the burden within the total amount of Income Tax paid is wrong, that the people at the bottom of the scale pay too much and people at the top pay too little. That has been so ever since 1955–56, when the big reliefs started to have effect in payment of Surtax and Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-22a.238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-22", "file": "debates1962-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "df87df944a9f47e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-22a.360.0", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [21st May]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "extend to unlimited land appurtenant to them. Indeed, it extends only to a limited cartilage of one acre. I am not at all sure that it would extend to one acre of farmland. It is for land to be enjoyed with the house, land in the nature of a garden. It is certain that an ordinary farm of about 90 acres would not come within the exemption in favour of a dwelling-house. I think that is beyond doubt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-22a.360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-22", "file": "debates1962-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "df87df944a9f47e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-22a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [21st May]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I was hoping to get round that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-22a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-22", "file": "debates1962-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "df87df944a9f47e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-22a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [21st May]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I do not think that they are very far out. To get hold of a public company would not cost much less than the figure I gave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-22a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-23", "file": "debates1962-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5e45158f9e4c0e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-23a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "I know my hon. Friend's burning interest in this matter, but I do not think that I can give him the undertaking he seeks. The Bank of England considers that this picket contributes towards its security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-23a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-23", "file": "debates1962-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5e45158f9e4c0e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-23a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "bate with open minds and I am bound to say that so far I have not been convinced by the arguments I have heard. I always get up with great trepidation to speak on an Amendment which has been moved by the hon. Member for Portsmouth, Langstone (Mr. Stevens), because I always think that he has been put up to something and that it has been drafted for him and has been tied up nicely with the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-23a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-23", "file": "debates1962-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5e45158f9e4c0e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-23a.521.6", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ninth Schedule.—(MISCELLANEOUS RULES APPLICABLE TO CASE VII OF SCHEDULE D.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "n this peculiar way. I am sure that we shall be given some reason or another for it. The Treasury are wonderfully good at discovering reasons for inadequate statements, of which at first sight this appears to be one. I am sure that we shall be told something or other about it. I have been trying to guess what it will be. They have fertile brains and, I believe, a computer in the Treasury nowadays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-23a.521.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-23", "file": "debates1962-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5e45158f9e4c0e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-23a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 16.—(BOUNTIES PAYABLE ON VOLUNTARY EXTENSION OF ARMY SERVICE.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite wrong. My hon. Friend the Member for Aberavon has special responsibilities for the War Office, and it is in that connection that he has raised this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-23a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-23", "file": "debates1962-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5e45158f9e4c0e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-23a.575.2", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 17.—(MODIFICATION OF RIGHT TO SET CAPITAL ALLOWANCES AGAINST GENERAL INCOME.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ss-references to earlier enactments and earlier Income Tax Acts and all kinds of other Acts. Something is required of the nature of a precise statement equivalent to the White Paper on Clauses 9 to 15. Surely it is not too much to ask the Treasury to do this. Was the apparent refusal to do it—or the neglect to do it—on this occasion intended to make it more difficult for Members of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-23a.575.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-23", "file": "debates1962-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5e45158f9e4c0e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-23a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 18.—(DOUBLE TAXATION RELIEF UNDER FINANCE ACT, 1961 (EFFECT ON DIVIDENDS).)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are the hon. Gentleman's hon. Friends?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "services in the House and I shall be proud of it because it will enable the Committee to do its job with some degree of coherence and intelligence which will facilitate the work of Parliament.. We are proud of this institution. We say that it is a model to the world and we bring adults and school children round it every day of the week. But we sit here bewildered by the complexities of the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-23a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-23", "file": "debates1962-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5e45158f9e4c0e6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-23a.611.3", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 23.—(PROPERTY SITUATE OUT OF GREAT BRITAIN.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend must be aware, as, I should think, every hon. Member is, that with any number of people who get an illness from which they suspect they may not recover, one of the first things they do, after calling in the doctor, is to call in the solicitor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-23a.611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.661.6", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "How does the Chief Secretary to the Treasury reconcile that Answer with the Chancellor's repeated statements that his wages policy has been a success? The two things surely are contradictory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.661.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.668.6", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " I do not wish in any way to interfere with what the other House receives, but may I ask if the Prime Minister is aware that the other House does not have the day-to-day expenses which a Member of Parliament has in maintaining necessary expenditure incurred in carrying out his duties to his constituents? Is it not unfair that Members of Parliament who have to maintain two homes and other expenses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.668.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.668.6", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "inister is aware that the other House does not have the day-to-day expenses which a Member of Parliament has in maintaining necessary expenditure incurred in carrying out his duties to his constituents? Is it not unfair that Members of Parliament who have to maintain two homes and other expenses—[ Interruption .] Is it not unfair, when Members of Parliament must maintain their hotel expenses here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.668.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.668.6", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "have the day-to-day expenses which a Member of Parliament has in maintaining necessary expenditure incurred in carrying out his duties to his constituents? Is it not unfair that Members of Parliament who have to maintain two homes and other expenses—[ Interruption .] Is it not unfair, when Members of Parliament must maintain their hotel expenses here—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Is it not unfair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.668.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.669.0", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "bers to keep quiet, I must wait until I can get my Question in. May I ask the Prime Minister whether it is not unfair that noble Lords should receive three guineas a day for attending their House when they have none of the day-to-day expenses incurred by hon. Members of this House? Would it not, at least, be fair that those hon. Members who do, in fact, turn up here every day and not occasionally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.668.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.679.2", "colnum": "679", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I take it, Mr. Speaker, that we have finished with the questions about business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.679.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "e strength of my language, but perfectly sincerely and in all humility, that this way of dealing with the matter is the result of a conspiracy between the two Front Benches to prevent a vote being taken at any time in connection with a specific issue, such as has been raised. It is wholly wrong and out of accordance with our practice and with general principles. I shall not waste time by dividing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "enches to prevent a vote being taken at any time in connection with a specific issue, such as has been raised. It is wholly wrong and out of accordance with our practice and with general principles. I shall not waste time by dividing—[ Laughter .] Well, I will if I am challenged to do so. I will withdraw my offer not to divide the Committee on this, since there has been a challenge to my decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.685.6", "colnum": "685", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot (Ebbw Vale)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot (Ebbw Vale)", "preceding_text": "esponsible and who have the right to know what Members think and whether, for instance, they agree with H-bomb tests. There has been no vote in the House on the restart- ing of the tests with British approval, partly because of agreement between the two Front Benches. Now we have a second instance. Apparently, we are to proceed without any vote on the despatch of troops to a military dictatorship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.685.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.688.5", "colnum": "688", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: There is a debate today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "preceding_text": "corrected, but at present I am a supporter of sending aircraft to Thailand. However, I feel that there are aspects of this matter which deserve debate in the House of Commons. The report in The Times this morning of how the trouble in Laos arose, from which this whole question of Thailand, in turn, has stemmed, seems to demand further discussion and possibly further statements from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.688.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.693.5", "colnum": "693", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Mr. Davies rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.693.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "preceding_text": "Mr. William Warbey (Ashfield). Will not the right hon. Gentleman agree with this undeniable fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not the C.I.A.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "to find a political solution to the problem of Laos to help to create a neutral Government, to support Prince Souvanna Phoutma in so doing, and bring all the pressure possible upon General Phoumi and Prince Boun Oun to take part in that tripartite Government. That is the policy of the American Administration, and I am quite certain that the Administration is doing its utmost to pursue that policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.707.6", "colnum": "707", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ave told the House exactly what happened. At the meeting of the S.E.A.T.O. Council this statement was made by the Thai representative. The representative asked for support in those circumstances. As a result, the Prime Minister shortly afterwards informed the House that if that request were received Her Majesty's Government would be prepared to take certain action. That request was later received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.707.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.736.5", "colnum": "736", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Obviously, we must get on. The Government have behaved regrettably to the House in this whole matter. It has been said for many weeks that this debate would be on foreign policy and defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.736.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.737.3", "colnum": "737", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "We have been interrupted enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.737.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.773.5", "colnum": "773", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "That is credible, but an independent British deterrent is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.773.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "preceding_text": "frica—Nigeria, Algeria, South Africa, Mali, Morocco, Somali and Kenya. I do not wish to dwell upon it, but there is also the Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee, with a Chinese and a Russian representative upon it, sitting in Cairo. There is another organisation known as the African Association in Cairo, which pays particular attention to so-called liberation movements in Central Africa and the South.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.775.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.790.3", "colnum": "790", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Mr. Michael Foot (Ebbw Vale) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.790.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " getting away with it here because in each country they tell the right thing—but they are completely confusing foreign policy because no one quite knows where they are. If we are committing nuclear weapons to Europe, to N.A.T.O., I will totally oppose it. I think that it would be entirely wrong. I was fascinated to hear the spokesman of the Liberal Party, speaking with the approval of his leader —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "thing—but they are completely confusing foreign policy because no one quite knows where they are. If we are committing nuclear weapons to Europe, to N.A.T.O., I will totally oppose it. I think that it would be entirely wrong. I was fascinated to hear the spokesman of the Liberal Party, speaking with the approval of his leader —[ Interruption .]—say tonight that we should have a N.A.T.O. deterrent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cooking?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "PORT. The Minister of Defence who treats this House so cavalierly and whose veracity we doubt—and not we alone, for this is the attitude in Europe and America too—now knows, if he did not know earlier, that a tape-recording of his Press conference is in existence. I repeat the request that was made earlier; will the Leader of the House see that that tape-recording is transcribed with no \"cooking\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. J. B. Godber)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. J. B. Godber)", "preceding_text": "t, however, with a reference to the right hon. Gentleman's remarks and those made earlier about my right hon. Friend the Minister of Defence. I regret that the right hon. Gentleman has felt it necessary to speak in this way about my right hon. Friend. I have little doubt whatever that my right hon. Friend could quite easily speak for himself, and there is no need for me to stand up in his defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.803.4", "colnum": "803", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "y dealt with that point, and I do not propose to go over it again. The right hon. Member for Belper then asked further questions about what my right hon. Friend said this afternoon in regard to the arrangements for these weapons, whether they had been, to use his word, committed \"or earmarked or in any way provided. They have been put in a position—one can use what words one likes—where they will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.803.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-24", "file": "debates1962-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "466ae4290f9adc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.805.2", "colnum": "805", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "land and Laos. In discussing the origins of the recent fighting in Laos, certain hon. Members referred to a build-up by Government forces at Nam Tha. I do not deny that this could have taken place. The factor that we should not overlook, however, is that the Communist forces attacked the garrison at Nam Tha and that they occupied the town and pursued the garrison to the South. Those are the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-24a.805.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-25", "file": "debates1962-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "44fba0b5212110ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-25a.847.2", "colnum": "847", "heading": "SERVICE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Harry Pursey", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Ashford (Mr. Deedes) on his luck in the ballot and for choosing this important subject of Service pensions for his Motion. I have no hesitation either in congratulating him on his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-25a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-25", "file": "debates1962-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "44fba0b5212110ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-25a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "SERVICE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "o to National Assistance. He then receives 2s. 2d. to bring his long-service pension of £2 11s. 4d. up to £2 13s. 6d. He will also receive £1 16s. 6d. for his wife and perhaps £1 for his child, according to age, making £5 10s. a week. These are the figures with which hon. Members opposite should deal. They are concerned about officers and senior officers' widows having to seek National Assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-25a.853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-25", "file": "debates1962-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "44fba0b5212110ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-25a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "SERVICE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"'", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "I would not have expected it from the Financial Secretary. He should see a doctor to have his ears tested. He could not have been listening. I do not want to go back and \"recap\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-25a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-25", "file": "debates1962-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "44fba0b5212110ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-25a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "SERVICE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "l. It will not be good enough merely to say that. I will tell the hon. Member for Macclesfield and all concerned how to put this right and how to bring pressure to bear on the Government. It cannot be done on a Friday afternoon. It has been tried often. It cannot be done by means of a Private Member's Bill, if that were permissible. If 200 Members of the Tory Party made up their minds on a Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-25a.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-25", "file": "debates1962-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "44fba0b5212110ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-25a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "SERVICE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I am not speaking to my own colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-25a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-25", "file": "debates1962-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "44fba0b5212110ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-25a.928.2", "colnum": "928", "heading": "SERVICE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "ions are particularly favourable and are non-contributory. Compared with the Services, the Civil Servant, who has enjoyed a widow's pension scheme only since 1949, must contribute towards it whereas the Service man pays nothing. One must remember that just as there seems an injustice either side of 4th November, 1958, just as strong feelings are felt in the Civil Service about the situation there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-25a.928.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-05-28", "file": "debates1962-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "667f77dc678eeae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-28a.983.3", "colnum": "983", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEBATE (MINISTER OF DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is lying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-28a.983.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-28", "file": "debates1962-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "667f77dc678eeae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-28a.985.4", "colnum": "985", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEBATE (MINISTER OF DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Press was told.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "The answer to the second part of that supplementary question, as the right hon. Member for Huyton knows, having been a senior Minister himself, is that all Ministers have to go through a Press conference procedure when they arrive at an airport anyway, and one then says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-28a.985.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-28", "file": "debates1962-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "667f77dc678eeae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-28a.985.4", "colnum": "985", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEBATE (MINISTER OF DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "ions. There was no limitation on the number of Questions which were asked and I think that hon. Members will do me the courtesy of agreeing that I answered every Question as fully as I could. It was only after I had done all that that I gave the background briefing to the correspondents in which I said nothing which I had not already said to the House. As the right hon. Gentleman's first question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-28a.985.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-28", "file": "debates1962-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "667f77dc678eeae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-28a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "LONDON AIRPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "preceding_text": "dependent authority, however, is that the whole airport management should be self-contained and autonomous and that this is not possible under Ministry control\". The counter-argument to that is that the Ministry should be adapted to this purpose and that there is nothing basically inappropriate about a Ministry controlling airports. We are rather conservative in a great many ways in this country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-28a.1021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-28", "file": "debates1962-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "667f77dc678eeae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-28a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "LONDON AIRPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Goodhart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Difficult\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Goodhart", "preceding_text": "want to follow those hon. Members who have put forward constituency interests. I have some constituents who work at Heathrow, mostly in an aircrew capacity, and they are very cross at the Ministry's decision to increase the cost of renewing their air licences. I think that they have got some justification for that feeling of anger. However, this afternoon I wish to speak as a consumer of airports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-28a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-28", "file": "debates1962-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "667f77dc678eeae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-28a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "LONDON AIRPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "ter value than London Airport. I admit that there is sometimes chaos, but that is almost a natural occurrence in an airport at certain times. It has been decreasing over the last eighteen months, for reasons which are not altogether pertinent to the debate. This morning, I flew from Glasgow, Renfrew Airport, to London Airport. My colleagues and I were airborne at 10.30 a.m. and at 11.30 prompt we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-28a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-28", "file": "debates1962-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "667f77dc678eeae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-28a.1044.3", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "LONDON AIRPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"IS he an Englishman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "the pockets of a private individual who is exploiting a public investment. This is one way of getting more money. Then, there is the catering side. This is also hired out to a private company, I think on the usual basis of 2½ per cent. on the first £5,000 and a bigger percentage on the next. I do not know what he makes; I had not the time to find out, but it should not be too hard to do SO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-28a.1044.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-28", "file": "debates1962-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "667f77dc678eeae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-28a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "LONDON AIRPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Big brother.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "ocation of Votes voted by Parliament and in the approval which in most cases had to be given to capital expenditure over a certain level. So far so good, but this meant that in effect the Treasury regarded itself as no longer responsible for what a Department did or for its methods of procedure. I believe that the relationship of the Treasury to the Departments should be that of the elder brother.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-28a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-29", "file": "debates1962-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "5ae96c78dabf314f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-29a.1179.10", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "New Clause.—(INCREASE OF PERSONAL RELIEFS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e personal allowance is that it will cost him a certain amount because he gives away not only Income Tax but also Surtax. I should like him to investigate the possibility of having a cut-off for the personal allowances. I do not see why not. We have had no fuss in the past over the earned income relief. It was common form up to a few years ago always to have a cut-off at a certain level of income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-29a.1179.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-29", "file": "debates1962-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "5ae96c78dabf314f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-29a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "New Clause.—(RELIEF IN RESPECT OF APPRENTICES AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "rofits, expenditure should possess a direct connection with the process of earning those profits. I do not suggest for a moment that we should here and now do away with Section 140, but I do not believe it can be sensible to single out this fairly limited deduction in Section 140 for a bonus addition. 8.30 p.m. I should now like to comment on what I believe is the real intention behind the Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-29a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-29", "file": "debates1962-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "5ae96c78dabf314f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-29a.1300.2", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "New Clause.—(EXTENSION OF RELIEF UNDER S. 9 OF FINANCE ACT, 1956.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": " Committee tonight which I welcome, and I want to say how much I regret that I did not hear similar statements last year, the year before and the year before that, when we were pressing from this side of the Committee the very things that are being pressed from the Government side tonight. A year ago, at this very stage, I made a speech much longer than the one I intend to make tonight advocating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-29a.1300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-29", "file": "debates1962-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "5ae96c78dabf314f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-29a.1313.2", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "New Clause.—(EXTENSION OF RELIEF UNDER S. 9 OF FINANCE ACT, 1956.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "ember for Halifax (Mr. Maurice Macmillan) made that aspect only too clear in an extremely good speech. It is the importance of saving to the economy as a whole. If we can influence people to save more and more, we can start to tax them less and less for the purposes we hear about so often. Tonight my right hon. Friend lectured the Committee about what happened in 1916. The Government must wake up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-29a.1313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-30", "file": "debates1962-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "cb045d1e31e3d6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-30a.1348.1", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "This is the difficulty if I get drawn too far on this question. The right hon. Gentleman is talking about something which has not yet happened. This is something which will happen in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-30a.1348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-30", "file": "debates1962-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "cb045d1e31e3d6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-30a.1397.2", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "private trader, there is no difference. The contention made from the benches opposite that the profit of the co-operative business is distributed to co-operative shareholders is a little misleading. The fact is that the bulk of the profits are diverted, as we all know, from the trading sector of the co-operative societies and are applied to other purposes. I shall not go into those other purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-30a.1397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-30", "file": "debates1962-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "cb045d1e31e3d6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-30a.1399.0", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "preceding_text": "then to consider those aspects which are relevant only in the case of co-operative societies, and finally to refer to certain basic considerations which the Committee should consider and which are relevant to both types of society. Nobody would pretend that all the points which have been made in the debate were new. It follows that some of my remarks in reply inevitably will cover familiar ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-30a.1399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-30", "file": "debates1962-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "cb045d1e31e3d6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-30a.1445.0", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "consideration, but we have not been able to come to a conclusion.\" I cannot see how any hon. Member can support the Chief Secretary in his arguments. All that is being asked is consideration for men or women who have given literally almost all that they could give to their country except life itself and who are 100 per cent. disabled, either by industrial injury or as a result of military service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-30a.1445.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-30", "file": "debates1962-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "cb045d1e31e3d6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-30a.1532.2", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Where are they? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "or Southend, West (Mr. Channon) sat down having made a persuasive speech which has been followed by others almost as convincing. I must confess that I had a moment of anguished doubt about the validity of this new Clause when I was told by my hon. Friend for the other Southend constituency, the hon. Member for Southend, East (Mr. McAdden), that it embodied the official policy of the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-30a.1532.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-30", "file": "debates1962-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "cb045d1e31e3d6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-30a.1546.3", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I find myself often in agreement at this time of night with the Chancellor, and this is no exception. I feel that I should support his Motion on several grounds. We have got through about half of the new Clauses left to us. It is late. I think that I should, on the whole, like to prevent civil war from breaking out among the Government's supporters. This seems to be a very desirable objective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-30a.1546.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-31", "file": "debates1962-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "53b67c04d60cc6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-31a.1587.5", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "THAILAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman's statement about Thailand is exaggerated. The point is that we have taken certain steps which had the general approval of the House— [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Well, of a large part of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-31a.1587.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-31", "file": "debates1962-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "53b67c04d60cc6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-31a.1597.0", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I understand the point made by the hon. Member, but it is inevitable, particularly at a time like this, at this time of the year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-31a.1597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-31", "file": "debates1962-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "53b67c04d60cc6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-31a.1600.2", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "With respect to the hon. Member, I think that he will agree, on looking back to the last occasion— this is very rare for him— that he was caught napping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-31a.1600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-31", "file": "debates1962-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "53b67c04d60cc6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-31a.1606.1", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "This is not the abandonment of Commonwealth preferences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-31a.1606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-31", "file": "debates1962-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "53b67c04d60cc6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-31a.1606.1", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I was there on a visit to Ottawa, and they have been fully discussed with other Commonwealth countries. I am not in a position to state what is the detailed attitude of each country towards these proposals. We have always put the proposals to them at each stage, and we have received their comments on them. We have made changes where we thought it was right so to do, and that is our responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-31a.1606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-31", "file": "debates1962-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "53b67c04d60cc6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-31a.1611.6", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. Lindsay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I know that it is difficult, Mr. Speaker, but all the questions from this side of the House have been from persistent anti-Common Market questioners who do not represent this country at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-31a.1611.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-31", "file": "debates1962-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "53b67c04d60cc6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-31a.1705.1", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "There is some truth in what the hon. Gentleman says —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-31a.1705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-05-31", "file": "debates1962-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "53b67c04d60cc6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-31a.1728.0", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "sked. I am pointing out that in certain parts of the economy it is more easy to increase productivity than in others and that it would be wrong for only the workers in those parts to get the benefits of that increased productivity simply because they happen to work in them. I was also asked what the Government's incomes policy has achieved so far. It is difficult to answer that question precisely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-05-31a.1728.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-01", "file": "debates1962-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "84501a8bb99ce32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-01a.1758.0", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(POWER OF LOCAL AUTHORITY TO CONTRIBUTE TO PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I thank hon. Members on both sides for their kindly references to me—at least, I think that they were meant to be kindly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-01a.1758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-01", "file": "debates1962-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "84501a8bb99ce32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-01a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(POWER OF LOCAL AUTHORITY TO CONTRIBUTE TO PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that at this stage of the Bill, which still has to go to another place, Sir William, and I would not, if I were in your position, accept a manuscript Amendment at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-01a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-01", "file": "debates1962-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "84501a8bb99ce32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-01a.1790.0", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(POWER OF LOCAL AUTHORITY TO CONTRIBUTE TO PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He's not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "This rather prosaic Amendment marks the climax of a very dramatic passage in the Standing Committee, when the whole nation was thrilled at the idea of seeing the hon. Member for Bristol, West (Mr. Robert Cooke) in his bath", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-01a.1790.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-06-04", "file": "debates1962-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "7fcfec50d17d624d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-04a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LAOS AND THAILAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I am not at all certain that one would receive an objective account of these events from certain members of the Security Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-04a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-05", "file": "debates1962-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "9c17738c0c772b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-05a.204.2", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT DE GAULLE (VISIT OF PRIME MINISTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Wait till tomorrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister recognise the need for the House of Commons to debate frankly and freely the issues we face?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-05a.204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-05", "file": "debates1962-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "9c17738c0c772b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-05a.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Then, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, may I, without mentioning the case at all, ask the Leader of the House to see to it that when Ministers give replies, they are truthful replies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-05a.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-05", "file": "debates1962-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "9c17738c0c772b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-05a.260.6", "colnum": "260", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "The tendency before the war was for people to leave South Wales. but now the tendency is for them to come back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-05a.260.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-05", "file": "debates1962-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "9c17738c0c772b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-05a.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Eden (Bournemouth, West)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Eden (Bournemouth, West)", "preceding_text": "ny might be penalised in this respect as a result of the high rate of taxation which parents will be required to pay on top of the fees for the education of their children. I hope that we shall move away from the present system and, perhaps, follow the advice of Professor Alan Peacock of Edinburgh University, who said that the true object of a Welfare State is to teach people how to do without it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-05a.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-05", "file": "debates1962-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "9c17738c0c772b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-05a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It helps.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "They may to the hon. Gentleman, but they do not to me. They are very different. Money does not make blue blood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-05a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-05", "file": "debates1962-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "9c17738c0c772b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-05a.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "allowance to which my right hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton referred. We have had a reduction of ls. 9d. in the standard rate of Income Tax since 1951. Also, we have had the Surtax reliefs, to which, strangely enough, no one has referred during today's debates. I hope that I shall not start the debate going again if I make a wholly uncontroversial allusion to them now in this context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-05a.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-06", "file": "debates1962-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "288576c84b1d7602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-06a.469.0", "colnum": "469", "heading": "COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "s some confidence to go ahead with their re-equipment? If it was necessary in 1959, an election year, to spend millions of £s of public money on the reorganisation of the industry, when the chief imports were running at 418 million square yards, including yarn equivalent, what about the position now when imports are running at 495 million square yards, including yarn equivalent? Does he not agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-06a.469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-06", "file": "debates1962-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "288576c84b1d7602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-06a.479.2", "colnum": "479", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT, 1949 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis (Rutland and Stamford)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis (Rutland and Stamford)", "preceding_text": "ts value since 1918. Hon. Members should remember that wages and salaries have gone up about four times their pre-war levels; political associations and trade unions have all greatly increased their political funds. If £150 was right in 1918, twice that amount would be reasonable now. I fought my first election in 1945. I was then in the R.A.F. based at the Air Ministry. After I lost that election", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-06a.479.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-06", "file": "debates1962-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "288576c84b1d7602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-06a.479.2", "colnum": "479", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT, 1949 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis (Rutland and Stamford)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis (Rutland and Stamford)", "preceding_text": "lection in 1945. I was then in the R.A.F. based at the Air Ministry. After I lost that election [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"]—but not my deposit—I returned to the Air Ministry to seek out the department for the re-engagement of those who had retired or who had been demobbed. I found that no such department existed. In fact, I discovered that nobody ever came back after they were demobbed. I was unique.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-06a.479.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-06-06", "file": "debates1962-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "288576c84b1d7602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-06a.500.3", "colnum": "500", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Mr. Hughes rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-06a.500.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-06", "file": "debates1962-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "288576c84b1d7602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-06a.504.3", "colnum": "504", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "opments but not commenting on the texts, because they have not been given to us formally and have not been agreed by the members of the Community. The matters with which the Fouchet and Cattani Commission have been concerned are matters of foreign policy, defence and culture. The texts which have been prepared —and obviously I cannot give the House details of them, because they are con- fidential—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-06a.504.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-06", "file": "debates1962-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "288576c84b1d7602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-06a.554.4", "colnum": "554", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "preceding_text": "The negotiations now going on are a matter of bargaining, and detailed bargaining, and, like other hon. Members, I congratulate the Lord Privy Seal on the reputation which he has earned in this process. But in this debate, which is probably the most important debate this country has had for at least a generation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-06a.554.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-06", "file": "debates1962-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "288576c84b1d7602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-06a.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Holt", "preceding_text": "I have been listening carefully to all the hon. Gentleman's arguments. Would he say why it is, if these are his views, which I am sure they are, that they are not shared by the German and French Socialists, who are just as keen on the things which he has mentioned as he is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-06a.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-06", "file": "debates1962-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "288576c84b1d7602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-06a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Soskice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Soskice", "preceding_text": "I do not suppose the House will desire to spend a very long time on this Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-06a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-07", "file": "debates1962-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "35675fa381958b29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-07a.657.6", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "In the event of the Prime Minister deciding to publish a White Paper, will he have particular regard to the effect of these tests on the food supplies of the world, not only particularly on fish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-07a.657.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-07", "file": "debates1962-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "35675fa381958b29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-07a.676.3", "colnum": "676", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "limited—the inevitable loss of markets in the Commonwealth and certainly in East-West trade as well. I still take 'the view, too, that while some of our more progressive business men are ready and keen to take advantage of longer runs in a larger market, there are still many employers who are looking to the Common Market primarily as a means of strengthening their hands in a show-down with labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-07a.676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-07", "file": "debates1962-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "35675fa381958b29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-07a.676.3", "colnum": "676", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ot? We are, of course, grateful for his elucidation of these mysteries of the E.E.C. agricultural agreements and the distinction—he called it sophisticated— between target prices, import prices, guide prices, threshold prices, sluicegate prices, reference prices, intervention prices and the rest—I am not claiming to be exhaustive. His intervention on this was very helpful, but the plain truth is —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-07a.676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-07", "file": "debates1962-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "35675fa381958b29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-07a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "art in shaping the economic policies and political views of this powerful group of nations. Far from weakening the Commonwealth, Britain's membership of the Community would bring to the Commonwealth as a whole a new and important element of influence and strength. If the difficult negotiations which my right hon. Friend the Lord Privy Seal is conducting with such skill, patience and determination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-07a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-07", "file": "debates1962-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "35675fa381958b29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-07a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir James Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir James Duncan", "preceding_text": "ion of time before we have to go into the political union. That is something we have to watch extremely carefully. What are we to be landed into? If it is a federal structure, I am afraid I could not accept it, because the various States with a certain amount of home rule would be combining in a sort of United States of Europe. Incidentally, I think the Scottish people might well demand home rule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-07a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-07", "file": "debates1962-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "35675fa381958b29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-07a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "rmany, Italy and France and the Socialist Party in this country. Italy, Germany and France are already in the Common Market, and it is just because they are afraid, their countries being already in, of being submerged and overwhelmed and made impotent to carry out their Socialist policies, that they are anxious that we should go in to strengthen them in their fight against their own reactionaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-07a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-08", "file": "debates1962-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e129a33f6d951fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-08a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "B.A.O.R. (HILDEN CAMP, COURTS MARTIAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": " did not want to delay the House by giving it again today. Why I should confirm what is in HANSARD and reported in the newspapers I simply do not know. I will see whether I think it is necessary to have an inquiry and I am not prepared at this stage to cast any slur, such as the hon. Member, either intentionally or unintententionally, is casting on the commanding officer. That I will not tolerate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-08a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-08", "file": "debates1962-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e129a33f6d951fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-08a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "FISHING VESSELS (FOREIGN CONSTRUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "e position of British yards will be prejudiced by competition from yards abroad which can be shown to be in receipt of a material element of subsidy. I want the House to realise that this is an assurance which we can give quite deliberately and categorically, and I think it should meet the fears expressed by my hon. Friends who have dealt with this matter so cogently. I have a final point to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-08a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-08", "file": "debates1962-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e129a33f6d951fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-08a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "HUNTERSTON NUCLEAR POWER STATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I had not thought of that, Mr. Speaker. May I have leave to speak a second time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-08a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-26", "file": "debates1962-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5999cf642996ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.933.6", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that while people welcome the fact that he supports the majority of the recommendations of the Bridges Committee, these recommendations cannot be carried out unless he gives sufficient funds for them? Is he further aware that he himself must take the main responsibility for the theft", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.933.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-26", "file": "debates1962-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5999cf642996ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.943.6", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "I am informed that once it has been quenched at the works coke absorbs substantial amounts of water only when it is stored in small quantities, and particularly when it is exposed to rain or snow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.943.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-26", "file": "debates1962-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5999cf642996ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.956.2", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH INDEPENDENT DETERRENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "Is not the present position that the British independent nuclear deterrent is fully integrated with the American defence forces?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-26", "file": "debates1962-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5999cf642996ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "BRITISH TROOPS, B.A.O.R. (INCIDENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with the first part of what the right hon. Gentleman says. We are always trying to see what we can do to make the leisure hours of the soldier serving abroad fuller and more interesting. If any hon. Member has any ideas, I shall be very ready to look at them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-26", "file": "debates1962-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5999cf642996ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.1014.3", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not be offensive.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter", "preceding_text": "I met people of that area last night and we set up an industrial committee. The conditions there are worse than they were in the 1930s, and it is time that something was done about them. There are areas in which conditions are not as bad as they were in the 1930s, but they are very much worse in parts of Scotland. Does my hon. Friend expect the crowd of nitwits opposite to do very much about them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.1014.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-26", "file": "debates1962-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5999cf642996ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Boyden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"North Devon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Boyden", "preceding_text": " there is no prospective development there at all. The Barnard Castle Rural District Council is concerned with the same problem and has discussed with all sorts of people what could be done. They showed the Parliamentary Secretary a site at Evenwood but nothing has happened. The Barnard Urban District Council is in the same position and as the area about which the hon. Member for Barnstaple spoke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-06-26", "file": "debates1962-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5999cf642996ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.1020.2", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They may be in the two Standing Committees.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyden", "preceding_text": "We do not see any of his colleagues in the Chamber at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-26", "file": "debates1962-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5999cf642996ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "preceding_text": "l Employment Act, 1960, four main areas were in need of new industrial development: South Wales, Merseyside, the North-East Coast and Scotland. In the short space of two years, two out of the four are now virtually free of development district status. That is the measure of the great progress which has been made. It is also significant that in this debate today, no Welsh Members have been present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-26", "file": "debates1962-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5999cf642996ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.1028.2", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "Yes, but there are many more jobs in prospect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.1028.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-26", "file": "debates1962-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5999cf642996ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.1028.2", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "Yes, but there are many more jobs in prospect—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and they will become realities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.1028.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-26", "file": "debates1962-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5999cf642996ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.1028.2", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "Special Areas Acts before the war, the Distribution of Industry Act, 1945, was passed into law by the Conservative Caretaker Government, then we had that highly effective and useful but small piece of legislation the Distribution of Industry (Industrial Finance) Act, 1958, and, finally, the Local Employment Act, 1960. Taken together these Acts, particularly the last one, have been a great success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-26a.1028.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-27", "file": "debates1962-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "29fd0d83d27bccd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1128.4", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodnutt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodnutt", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend think that as the hours of sunshine in various towns on the Isle of Wight seaboard are always more than in any other part of the country every year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1128.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-27", "file": "debates1962-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "29fd0d83d27bccd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1129.2", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I wish we could be more accurate about these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-27", "file": "debates1962-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "29fd0d83d27bccd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "tal truth that a loss of this magnitude is intolerable. Those who claim that Government expenditure is too high may well consider that this loss is part of that Government expenditure. How are we tackling this unpalatable state of affairs? During the lifetime of this Parliament we have done two things. First, we have had the new organisational structure which is embodied in the new Transport Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-06-27", "file": "debates1962-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "29fd0d83d27bccd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1172.2", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I knew that the hon. Gentleman knew it, but I had never heard him say it in any of his speeches, or in any of his interruptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-27", "file": "debates1962-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "29fd0d83d27bccd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "long one-third of the total route mileage, so they counted as three men. The Lord Mayor's party counted as three men, the workmen travelling on free passes counted for another three men, making a total of six men, leaving one-and-a-half other men travelling the whole route. One of those was an observer, who had been put in the train by the Transport Commission to see what the Lord Mayor was doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-27", "file": "debates1962-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "29fd0d83d27bccd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "of six men, leaving one-and-a-half other men travelling the whole route. One of those was an observer, who had been put in the train by the Transport Commission to see what the Lord Mayor was doing. [ Interruption. ] These facts are all concerned with questions that I have to decide. It meant that there was half a normal fare-paying passenger in the train over the whole journey of 107 route miles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-27", "file": "debates1962-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "29fd0d83d27bccd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Half a motor car\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": " it was. The point is that if that man weighed 140 lb., half that man would weigh 70 lb., and if we want a comparison, that is equivalent to a five-ton crane lifting a bottle of beer. These are the kinds of factors which affect the cases which are in the pipeline, and which I have to decide upon. In the case that I have just mentioned it would pay us to give the man a motor car and close the line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1174.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-27", "file": "debates1962-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "29fd0d83d27bccd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1178.8", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": " the studies themselves have been finalised. Fourthly, the Commission will present its plans to the Government, and, fifthly, the Government will then make their views known. I want to make one last point. Hon. Members opposite have always said that they believe that the railways should be a social service and should not be governed by economic necessity or criteria. That has been said frequently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1178.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-27", "file": "debates1962-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "29fd0d83d27bccd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1180.3", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "lub where they played crown green bowls—a very much superior method of bowling to that practised in the South, where the game is much cruder. My father would not move from that little club for all the tea in China. We may think that attitude is irrational, but the fact is that we cannot get such men to move. They may have joined a local club—probably the Conservative club if they are good workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-27", "file": "debates1962-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "29fd0d83d27bccd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1215.3", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "ny commercial freedom, which the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare talked about. The sooner the Government make a complete change in their policy in this matter—and I think that, quite frankly, it is hopeless to expect it—and the sooner another General Election comes and the people can give their own decision, the better. I think that we shall get a repetition of Middlesbrough, West and Orpington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1215.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-06-27", "file": "debates1962-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "29fd0d83d27bccd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1227.3", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "So what?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "I was looking serious because going through my mind was the fact, which I have told the hon. Member about on more than one occasion, that the County of Brecon has the largest number of motor vehicles per head of population of any part of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-27", "file": "debates1962-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "29fd0d83d27bccd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1271.1", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "preceding_text": "as to get us out of trouble. What is he actually doing? He is to give us some surveys. I agree that 'they should have been done a long time ago, and I pay tribute to him for introducing them. When we read the report and see what he is going to do we shall when we become the Government of the day, as we surely will next time, need just that sort of information on which to base our transport policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1271.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-06-27", "file": "debates1962-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "29fd0d83d27bccd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1292.0", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": " recent days regarding this new organisation that we are trying to bring forward. I ask hon. Members opposite, quite seriously, do they believe that this new management, this new spirit which we are stimulating by our changes, is really, again to quote the words from the Amendment, Government action which has adversely affected the service that public transport is able to render to the nation\"?— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1290.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-27", "file": "debates1962-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "29fd0d83d27bccd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1303.1", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. G. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. G. Willis", "preceding_text": "es fairly substantial losses. I know—and I am sure that most hon. Members will have had similar experience—of men who would make first-class councillors, who would like to do the job, who would like to be councillors, but cannot undertake the work, because it means very severe loss. It is difficult to get municipal candidates, and I know that people in the party opposite are in the same condition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-27a.1303.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-06-28", "file": "debates1962-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "43b4a6d901868aa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-28a.1351.7", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL (ACCIDENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "Before I answer Questions, with your permission, Mr. Speaker, may I say that I hope the House will allow me to state with what regret we will have seen the news on the tape of the accident to my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill). I feel sure that all of us will join in sending him an appropriate message.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-28a.1351.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-28", "file": "debates1962-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "43b4a6d901868aa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-28a.1404.1", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is like I.T.V.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "They are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-28a.1404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-28", "file": "debates1962-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "43b4a6d901868aa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-28a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "s of age who know perfectly well that in the next year or two they will be redundant. They have served the industry well and are good technicians. Many of them know that there is very little chance of their securing alternative work. I have already spoken about the employer and the horrible possibility of his facing bankruptcy, as a good many employers will. Let me speak about the Lancashire girl.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-28a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-28", "file": "debates1962-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "43b4a6d901868aa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-28a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SILO SUBSIDIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. G. Willis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. G. Willis", "preceding_text": "The criticisms by the hon. Member for Torrington (Mr. P. Browne) of my hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell (Mr. Lawson) were not very well founded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-28a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-06-28", "file": "debates1962-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "43b4a6d901868aa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-28a.1504.2", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SILO SUBSIDIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the hon. Member for Enfield, East (Mr. Mackie)?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. G. Willis", "preceding_text": "The criticisms by the hon. Member for Torrington (Mr. P. Browne) of my hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell (Mr. Lawson) were not very well founded. [ Laughter .] I will wait while the hon. Member finishes his mirthful demonstration. My hon. Friend was doing what is our job to do, asking why we were paying money to people who could afford to do without it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-28a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-06-28", "file": "debates1962-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "43b4a6d901868aa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-28a.1524.1", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MACHINERY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "preceding_text": "ence but that it cost him some money. He said \"it cost me a great deal of money.\" From then onward he reiterated the sort of arguments that were advanced by reactionary employers against the whole of the Factory Acts since the time of Lord Shaftesbury. He is following in the historic footsteps of those who would consider the question of cost before the life and limb of the workers in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-06-28a.1524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-02", "file": "debates1962-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "43e384212df2ddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.4.1", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "Apart from the verbiage, cannot the right hon. Gentleman make it clear to everybody that it is the Government's policy to encourage ship-owners to have ships built abroad?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.4.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-02", "file": "debates1962-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "43e384212df2ddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was always agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " other Commonwealth Ministers, and we are now looking forward to the visit of Mr. Desai, from India. I have on previous occasions paid tribute to the immense amount of help which they have given us by providing information and also their views. We are immensely grateful to them for that. On the point of the temperate foodstuffs, it is now agreed that there must be a transitional period up to 1970.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-02", "file": "debates1962-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "43e384212df2ddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "preceding_text": "Although I support what my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) has said, I do not think he is right about the pigeon being the source. I think it must have been an elephant. One thing that is known about elephants is that, as opposed to most human beings, their gestation period is six months, and I assume that this must be where the six months came from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-02", "file": "debates1962-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "43e384212df2ddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "preceding_text": "r did not get the idea from Federal Germany. He did not get it from any pigeon in Trafalgar Square or in Whitehall. He did not get it from an elephant and he did not get it from a rhinoceros. There is evidence from chambers of commerce and the Stock Exchange that the majority of speculators will escape if they retain the holding for just over six months. There is evidence also about land holdings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-02", "file": "debates1962-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "43e384212df2ddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "nance Act, 1938 (which relates to payments between associated companies). The Amendment corrects a technical flaw in subsection (7) of Clause 9, which provides for the charging of profits tax on short-term gains. Under paragraph ( a ) of the subsection which it is sought to amend the gains and losses to be taken into account in computing the profits of a trade or business for Profits Tax purposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-02", "file": "debates1962-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "43e384212df2ddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "The Mikado? I am speaking of my ancestors, not those of Sun Yat-Sen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-02", "file": "debates1962-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "43e384212df2ddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. It is my intention after moving the Amendment to ask you if you would accept a manuscript Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-02", "file": "debates1962-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "43e384212df2ddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "d reasons, however, what has happened now cannot be considered an irregularity. First, I can guess, but I do not know—nobody has said—what verbal Amendment should be accepted to make sense of the Amendment. I do not know whether it is an insertion between \"first-mentioned\" and \"or\", although I suspect that it is, and I suspect that it is the word \"shares\". Nobody has said anything about it so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.202.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-07-02", "file": "debates1962-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "43e384212df2ddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.240.2", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : There are.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman tell us why it is that if this matter is of such importance that it must be brought up now, at twenty-five minutes to two o'clock in the morning, there are no hon. Members from Northern Ireland present to put the case for their part of the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-02a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-03", "file": "debates1962-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "8d439aa15f8291d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-03a.258.3", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "a large number of young people have been prosecuted for pilfering, that these young people are not inherently criminals or thieves but that the temptation is put before them and they pick these things up almost unknowingly? Is he aware that a lady wrote to the Press last week complaining that she had picked up something inadvertently and returned it when she discovered it after leaving the stores?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-03a.258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-03", "file": "debates1962-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "8d439aa15f8291d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-03a.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course. The discussions which we have had have been carried on with the greatest good will. People have said what they had to say, but I have enjoyed very much the discussions which I had. If my hon. Friend is referring to a statement made by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-03a.273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-03", "file": "debates1962-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "8d439aa15f8291d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-03a.289.3", "colnum": "289", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE (INCREASED RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "r aware of the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Sowerby (Mr. Houghton)? My hon. Friend was pointing out that we would do our utmost to facilitate the passage of these Regulations through the House— if the Minister likes, next week— if he will get on with the printing of the books so that the date of the payment can be brought forward. Will the right hon. Gentleman look into this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-03a.289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-03", "file": "debates1962-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "8d439aa15f8291d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-03a.326.2", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "There is still some dubiety in my mind", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-03a.326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-03", "file": "debates1962-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "8d439aa15f8291d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-03a.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Clause 15.—(SUPPLEMENTARY.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I find it a little difficult to visualise that one member of a family will seek to make a speculative gain out of another member of the family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-03a.471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-03", "file": "debates1962-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "8d439aa15f8291d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-03a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Clause 15.—(SUPPLEMENTARY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "l endanger the whole fabric of our constitutional lives. What is required is a simple piece of information. On the basis of what the Attorney-General said, I take it that it is open to a solicitor to refuse to go beyond the provision of information. If he does so, as I understand the right hon. and learned Gentleman, he cannot be required to produce anything beyond the information that is set out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-03a.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-04", "file": "debates1962-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d6705ff5b0136d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-04a.518.5", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "That is a very difficult question to answer. I think that it is desirable for regional offices of the F.B.I. to send their complaints to the headquarters of the Federation, which can then make complaints or suggestions on a national scale rather than on a regional scale—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-04a.518.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-04", "file": "debates1962-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d6705ff5b0136d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-04a.533.3", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I really must object to the right hon. Gentleman's saying that I am forcing traffic on to the roads. Traffic is going on to the roads because the people of this country wish to go on to the roads. I am not forcing it on to the roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-04a.533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-04", "file": "debates1962-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d6705ff5b0136d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-04a.533.4", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-04a.533.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-04", "file": "debates1962-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d6705ff5b0136d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-04a.590.6", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOMES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "fundamental and a different approach was the main challenge to the Government on the home front. I could not agree with my right hon. Friend more. It was also the main challenge to our right to the confidence of the country, and he said, We shall not fail. The Leader of the House puts it in a much more picturesque way because he is a politician. I do not really put the Chancellor in that category.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-04a.590.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-04", "file": "debates1962-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d6705ff5b0136d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-04a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOMES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " Indonesia, so they will produce motor cars instead of floating restaurants, and will the Financial Secretary then say that they can come in as free imports to put people out of work in Coventry? The plain fact about what has happened in Lancashire and the trouble in Lancashire is that the Prime Minister, in one of those extraordinary asides that he makes in a state of ecstatic political diplopia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-04a.613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-04", "file": "debates1962-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d6705ff5b0136d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-04a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOMES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "In having to follow such a well-known orator as the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale), I wish I were one of those limpets he described at the end of his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-04a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-04", "file": "debates1962-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d6705ff5b0136d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-04a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOMES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Gunter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Gunter", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friend the Member for Grimsby (Mr. Crosland) said. To me, there is something a little curious about an hon. Member on the Tory benches coming forward with the observations which the hon. Lady has made today. She has complained of injustice and inequality as between different sections of the community, but she would not be a member of the Tory Party unless she accepted inequality in society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-04a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-04", "file": "debates1962-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d6705ff5b0136d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-04a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOMES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Gunter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A namby-pamby document.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Gunter", "preceding_text": "oice of the Treasury ought to be heard at certain levels of wage and salary negotiations. I would not dispute it, but to do it in the hamhanded way in which it has been done in the last six months or so is damaging. I would say to the hon. Lady—I cannot quite recall the offensive remark she passed about the Chancellor's White Paper—that that White Paper is about the daftest thing I have ever read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-04a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-05", "file": "debates1962-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5e33cbb0b824b67e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.668.2", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I do not know of any Commonwealth Government who are satisfied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.668.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-05", "file": "debates1962-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5e33cbb0b824b67e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.669.6", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "As you know, Mr. Speaker, I am not given to flattering Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.669.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-05", "file": "debates1962-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5e33cbb0b824b67e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.683.5", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cliffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cliffe", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the block of flats which he now knows as Hamilton Buildings was recently bought by an investment company which then proceeded within a matter of two weeks of the purchase to give notice to quit to 17 decontrolled tenants and that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.683.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-05", "file": "debates1962-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5e33cbb0b824b67e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.683.5", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cliffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cliffe", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the block of flats which he now knows as Hamilton Buildings was recently bought by an investment company which then proceeded within a matter of two weeks of the purchase to give notice to quit to 17 decontrolled tenants and that —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—it had seven vacant flats which would provide reasonable accommodation, and that when its agent was approached—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.683.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-05", "file": "debates1962-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5e33cbb0b824b67e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF LABOUR (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, shut up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "e to the Prime Minister for wishing to pursue the matter. I must ask the Prime Minister if he is not aware that a very large number of people in this country were deeply shocked by the fact that when the Minister of Labour had realised that his remarks had greatly offended large numbers of people, not only in this country but also in the Commonwealth, he did not take the step of resigning at once?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-05", "file": "debates1962-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5e33cbb0b824b67e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF LABOUR (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "not aware that a very large number of people in this country were deeply shocked by the fact that when the Minister of Labour had realised that his remarks had greatly offended large numbers of people, not only in this country but also in the Commonwealth, he did not take the step of resigning at once? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, shut up.\"] It so happens that in the short time I have been in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-05", "file": "debates1962-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5e33cbb0b824b67e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF LABOUR (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "hort time I have been in this House—[An HON. MEMBER \"Too long.\"] Is it not a fact that one of the things one has to learn is the highest possible regard this House puts upon the good behaviour and integrity of Members of this House, and particularly of Ministers, and that when Ministers fail they should resign and get out? It does not stop there. I am deeply disappointed. May I ask the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-05", "file": "debates1962-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5e33cbb0b824b67e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.689.4", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF LABOUR (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. May I say that I at least do not come here seeking the kind of applause which was accorded to a right hon. Friend on Monday? At least I come to praise the Commonwealth and not to bury it. May I complete my supplementary question? The rest of it is short.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.689.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-05", "file": "debates1962-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5e33cbb0b824b67e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH ARMY OF THE RHINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too many\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "e year and the N.A.A.F.I. made a loss of £ 3,500 on the deal. This comes from the \"divi\" which goes to the men, the rebates, so we have to be careful. But if changing circumstances in B.A.O.R. are leading to a new requirement for this sort of thing we must consider what can be done. There are 40 cinemas in B.A.O.R. and the programmes are changed four times a week. There are two performances a day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-05", "file": "debates1962-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5e33cbb0b824b67e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BERLIN (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"It is there now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": " authority there. I believe that at some stage, as part of a package deal, certainly not conceded without something very much from the other side which I have attempted to indicate, we shall have to move in that direction. I note with some considerable anxiety the preparations for building a similar wall on the border between the City of West Berlin and East Germany itself; that is, an outer wall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-05a.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-09", "file": "debates1962-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "7dfccfefcbdff014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.946.3", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodhouse", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodhouse", "preceding_text": "supplementary question very much in mind. As the House knows, Short Bros. has presented a project for consideration for the requirement for a tactical freighter. That will be carefully considered along with other submissions. I have also had my attention drawn to the press conference given by the Chairman of Shorts a short time ago. I have not seen an exact transcript of the whole of what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.946.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-09", "file": "debates1962-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "7dfccfefcbdff014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "PIPE-LINES BILL [Lords] (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross) prompts me about voting. If we took the trouble to vote on all the Amendments, the whole of the 15 hours would be taken up by having votes. We would then have no discussion at all. This is the most ludicrous Motion I have ever known to be put before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-09", "file": "debates1962-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "7dfccfefcbdff014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "PIPE-LINES BILL [Lords] (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "No, I did not volunteer, because the selection of Conservative Members to serve on Standing Committees is not based on volunteering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-09", "file": "debates1962-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "7dfccfefcbdff014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.989.6", "colnum": "989", "heading": "PIPE-LINES BILL [Lords] (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House drew attention to the large number of Amendments on the Notice Paper in the Standing Committee. The hon. Member for Hamilton referred to 140 Amendments now outstanding, of which approximately half have been put down by the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.989.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-09", "file": "debates1962-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "7dfccfefcbdff014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.989.6", "colnum": "989", "heading": "PIPE-LINES BILL [Lords] (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House drew attention to the large number of Amendments on the Notice Paper in the Standing Committee. The hon. Member for Hamilton referred to 140 Amendments now outstanding, of which approximately half have been put down by the Opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Approaching one half.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.989.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-09", "file": "debates1962-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "7dfccfefcbdff014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "PIPE-LINES BILL [Lords] (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Barlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Gas Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Barlow", "preceding_text": "and listen to it. Having heard a great many similar debates previously, I must confess that I have not heard any new arguments put forward today. I sat on most of the Committees that dealt with the various nationalisation Measures between 1945 and 1950. Those Bills sought to create fundamental changes in the country's life, but most of them were dealt with by their Committees in a reasonable time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-07-09", "file": "debates1962-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "7dfccfefcbdff014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "PIPE-LINES BILL [Lords] (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Certainly not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.1030.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-09", "file": "debates1962-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "7dfccfefcbdff014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "PIPE-LINES BILL [Lords] (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "Again, the hon. Gentleman is utterly and completely wrong. The only time when Amendments on nationalisation were capable of being placed on the Notice Paper was during discussion of Clause 1. I assure the hon. Gentleman that we finished with Clause 1 a long time ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-09", "file": "debates1962-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "7dfccfefcbdff014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.1045.5", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "KENT RIVER BOARD (HARBOUR OF RYE) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Percival", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "drainage into the river. Of course it cannot be used to the full, but that statement is not correct. I ask hon. Members in reading the last part of the statement about the number of acres said to benefit from the scheme to compare that with the views I have put before the House and to form their own opinions. It may be said that we ought to support the river board because it is a good river board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-09a.1045.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-10", "file": "debates1962-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a858fd07c3497f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-10a.1121.6", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONG KONG", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "Without going into technicalities with the hon. Lady—I read her article in the New Statesman and Nation and found it most interesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-10a.1121.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-10", "file": "debates1962-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a858fd07c3497f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-10a.1130.4", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL TERRITORIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ich was placed in the Library in 1957. In regard to a pledge, there are special conditions whereby I cannot give such a pledge. I can, however, give a pledge that these fetters and so forth are never used as punishment, but they have to be used in certain areas in order to prevent escape during block transfers, to prevent prisoners injuring themselves and for other types of purely preventive uses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-10a.1130.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-07-10", "file": "debates1962-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a858fd07c3497f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-10a.1138.5", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Why should north Lincolnshire be regarded as a \"fringe area\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-10a.1138.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-10", "file": "debates1962-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a858fd07c3497f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-10a.1292.3", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COYPUS AND MINK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "of State for Scotland about Scottish education—nothing was going to be left undone, the Government were going to press on, and so on. Can the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland tell us exactly how Scotland is concerned in this? Is this something about which we have not been duly warned, something about which we have been unconcerned, while all the time we have been faced with this great danger?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-10a.1292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-10", "file": "debates1962-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a858fd07c3497f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-10a.1297.3", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COYPUS AND MINK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether the Government are introducing the Order against the coypu because the balance of nature has been overweighted in so far as the water rat is in abundance. It may be that the Government should bring in weasels and stoats to kill the coypu and the water rat, and the mink as well, for that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-10a.1297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-11", "file": "debates1962-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eb91b701d031b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-11a.1321.0", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "It would be the greatest possible mistake to tie ourselves down at this stage to some rigid scheme for the distribution of vouchers when it is not so far necessary. We shall learn a lot as we go along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-11a.1321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-11", "file": "debates1962-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eb91b701d031b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-11a.1331.0", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "There is, of course, an obvious connection between the opportunities for young people and the general employment prospects in any one area. I accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-11a.1331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-11", "file": "debates1962-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eb91b701d031b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-11a.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "I welcome what has been done, but is it not a scandal that a British citizen and subject should be chained down by his employer in this way and, when he escapes, has to escape with an 8 ft. chain attached to his ankle, as well as a large metal ring. If that had been in a Communist country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-11a.1339.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-07-12", "file": "debates1962-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a7a7c7c44c9e948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-12a.1517.1", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smithers", "preceding_text": "Is not the idea put forward by the President much more likely to come to fruition after the negotiations have been successfully completed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-12a.1517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-12", "file": "debates1962-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a7a7c7c44c9e948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-12a.1521.6", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "In view of the enormous amount of time that seems to be spent on Scottish business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-12a.1521.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-07-12", "file": "debates1962-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a7a7c7c44c9e948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-12a.1526.2", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Baxter", "preceding_text": "Scotland are getting a bit tired of the groans and moans of Englishmen when matters pertaining to the wellbeing of Scotland are likely to be discussed? Will he kindly inform some of his hon. Friends—and I will inform some of mine—that Scotland is a nation in its own right and that if they do not want to hear our voices in Parliament the best thing they can do is to give us a Parliament of our own?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-12a.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-12", "file": "debates1962-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a7a7c7c44c9e948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-12a.1580.1", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I am all for getting rid of fuddy-duddies wherever they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-12a.1580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-12", "file": "debates1962-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a7a7c7c44c9e948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-12a.1586.1", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "d it very well\". The Parliamentary Secretary told us what great emphasis the Government place on science, and I am sorry—since the hon. Member drew attention to this fact, perhaps I may refer to it as well—that this has not been borne out by the attendance in this debate. There are on the Government benches at the moment 2·71 per cent. of the maximum possible number which could be attending", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-12a.1586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-13", "file": "debates1962-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "0638648d8123e38d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-13a.1683.3", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE (INCREASED RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The definition of what is need is an interesting abstract, philosophical question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-13a.1683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-13", "file": "debates1962-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "0638648d8123e38d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-13a.1701.1", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE (INCREASED RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "affected. Let us take the additional assistance. If we relate it to the April, 1961, figures, we find that since then, the cost of living has increased by 6 per cent.—and by that much the National Assistance scales have been eroded—and that this additional help to these people will mean compensating both the married couple and the single person for the loss through the lower value of those scales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-13a.1701.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-07-13", "file": "debates1962-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "0638648d8123e38d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-13a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE (INCREASED RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : It is done.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "That was quite inaccurate. We do not send people to the W.V.S. first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-13a.1737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-13", "file": "debates1962-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "0638648d8123e38d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-13a.1771.0", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE (INCREASED RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Head?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "A number of them will be receiving disablement benefit. I am sure that my right hon. Friend has taken to heart, or, at any rate, to head, the right hon. Gentleman's remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-13a.1771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-16", "file": "debates1962-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "5be887513adfbf1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-16a.9.2", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayman", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Lady to inform her next chief that the cost of living has risen by 9·5 per cent. since the amounts were last altered and to request him to bring the allowance up to date and, as far as widows are concerned, to abolish them altogether?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-16a.9.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-16", "file": "debates1962-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "5be887513adfbf1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-16a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "I am very relieved to hear that reply. I hope that the hon. Gentleman has taken note of the mounting opposition in Yorkshire from mine-workers, local authorities, various—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-16a.17.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-07-16", "file": "debates1962-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "5be887513adfbf1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-16a.18.5", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Under the Tories.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will not deny that compared with the total deficit of the Coal Board of £93 million, £128 million has been lost in the Scottish Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-16a.18.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-16", "file": "debates1962-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "5be887513adfbf1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-16a.96.8", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISHERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leburn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leburn", "preceding_text": "That may well be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-16a.96.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-16", "file": "debates1962-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "5be887513adfbf1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-16a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISHERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Wall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Wall", "preceding_text": "al figure is £13, an increase of £3; the original proposal for distant-water vessels was £19·8, or a round figure of £20, and the final proposal is £15, a reduction of £5 per day. Therefore, I do not think that it can be maintained that the distant-water section has not been prepared to sacrifice a certain amount to help 'the middle-water vessels in the difficulties which they have to face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-16a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-16", "file": "debates1962-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "5be887513adfbf1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-16a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISHERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leburn", "preceding_text": "ion, which also keeps an eye on the research and development work of the White Fish Authority and Herring Industry Board, and there is also close interdepartmental contact with the Torry Research Station of D.S.I.R. I would conclude by referring to the adventurous spirit of my hon. Friend the Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Sir D. Robertson). His speech tonight, like his speeches in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-16a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-17", "file": "debates1962-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "3af0898916dba2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.217.8", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UGANDA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "t matter, a plebiscite, can the Secretary of State say why it is wrong to fix a maximum term, when it is apparently quite in order to tell the future independent Uganda Government that it cannot hold a referendum for two years after independence; in other words, to set a minimum term? If the Government are prepared to put that into the declaration, why cannot they put it in as regards the maximum?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.217.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-17", "file": "debates1962-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "3af0898916dba2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONG KONG", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "On other occasions, the hon. Gentleman is very anxious to appear as the champion of the trading interests of the Commonwealth and Colonies. On this occasion, he takes a different line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-17", "file": "debates1962-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "3af0898916dba2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HIGH COMMISSION TERRITORIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "May I take this opportunity first to congratulate my right hon. Friend on having kept his head while all about him were losing theirs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.228.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-07-17", "file": "debates1962-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "3af0898916dba2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "There must have been a by-election.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "The Tory Party should know that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-17", "file": "debates1962-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "3af0898916dba2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was discussed in Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "er in the Chamber except the Minister. It really would not matter, because it would be passed on a Division anyway, that being the nature of things on Report. A matter like this, which was generally condemned six years ago and was condemned in clear terms upon principle six days before it was put down, ought not to be introduced as a new Clause on the Report stage of a Bill brought from the Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-17", "file": "debates1962-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "3af0898916dba2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So far.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "f we all come in with rigid minds from the word \"go\"? There is no point in it. My hon. Friend the Member for the Isle of Thanet (Mr. Rees-Davies) has inscribed over his doorway the legend: I never mind listening to reason when I have made up my mind, because then it can do me no harm. In this connection, my hon. Friend and I are the most reasonable couple in the House. We have survived everything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-17", "file": "debates1962-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "3af0898916dba2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.291.0", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Bill has been there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": " with interest to what was said by my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Exchange (Mr. W. Griffiths). He is an expert on this matter. It may be that the Clause needs tightening up in certain directions. Perhaps, in order to make progress, the Minister, without promising anything, could say that he will have another look at it and that, if necessary, something will be inserted in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-17", "file": "debates1962-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "3af0898916dba2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.299.0", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "t there are great abuses among a minority of employers and drivers. We are now to alter the law and say that it will be a defence for an employer that he used all due diligence to secure compliance with the law. The shrewd employer will say that he told his men to keep records. Once this is written into an Act of Parliament that defence will be accepted by the courts in the vast majority of cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-17", "file": "debates1962-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "3af0898916dba2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, but the horse could.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "nd David were to sit on it and drive the horse, he would not need a driving licence, and he could be as blind as a bat. The horse, presumably, would have to read the number plate, as one hon. Member very correctly points out, and David Crane could gallop madly round the streets of Blackburn with the milk bottles jingling behind him, and the Minister of Transport would not be able to say him \"Nay\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-17", "file": "debates1962-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "3af0898916dba2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "equences of whatever happens are not really important and that if a man does something, crosses a red light or something similar, it does not matter whether he hits someone—whether he kills, wounds or does not wound someone— because the offence is the same. It is purely a question of degree. If I had a revolver—and sometimes in this House a revolver at the Dispatch Box would be a useful implement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-17", "file": "debates1962-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "3af0898916dba2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "hing, crosses a red light or something similar, it does not matter whether he hits someone—whether he kills, wounds or does not wound someone— because the offence is the same. It is purely a question of degree. If I had a revolver—and sometimes in this House a revolver at the Dispatch Box would be a useful implement—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and if I pointed it towards the door leading to the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-17", "file": "debates1962-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "3af0898916dba2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.345.5", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "ate a good image by showing their concern for the individual and for the ordinary man in a case of this sort as against the big, commercial interests, the road transport interests and transport union interests. I am sure that any Government which considered the individual interests in cases of this sort and which recognised the real priorities would quickly gain the great confidence of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.345.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-17", "file": "debates1962-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "3af0898916dba2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "virtual destruction of the value of the property without the owner having any redress at all. There are people in my constituency whose houses are untenable. They do not want to live there any longer. The right hon. Gentleman said that he was prepared to examine the houses referred to by the hon. Member for Crosby. But he has a long-standing invitation to spend a night with one of my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-17", "file": "debates1962-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "3af0898916dba2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is a speed limit\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "Being Minister of Transport, I would not have said that we have made a considerable amount of progress, but a certain amount of progress:", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-17a.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-18", "file": "debates1962-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8da9c8f888b14ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.405.3", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I have indicated that it is possible for the United Kingdom Government to form their own opinion about this, and for the negotiations affecting the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.405.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-07-18", "file": "debates1962-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8da9c8f888b14ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.423.3", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "If we put down a Question for Wednesday next, will the right hon. Gentleman ask Mr. Speaker's permission to answer it at the end of Questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-18", "file": "debates1962-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8da9c8f888b14ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.423.4", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will realise that I cannot give an undertaking like that at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.423.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-18", "file": "debates1962-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8da9c8f888b14ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "e at risk in any single accident is rising rapidly. Tightening airworthiness regulations will not remove one risk peculiar to charter flying—the risk that pilots may be strange to the routes on which they are flying. I raised this issue a week ago last Monday in a Question in which I asked the Minister if he would do some research on the relative safety of jet aircraft and piston-engined aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-18", "file": "debates1962-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8da9c8f888b14ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "ave been when a person who was about to ground his machine died from thrombosis. What has been happening in the last few months raises a great many points from which we cannot pass lightly. It is difficult to find any common reason for them; there seems to be no common factor. One point which emerges, however, is that while there have been no accidents to Boeings which are being flown by B.O.A.C.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-18", "file": "debates1962-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8da9c8f888b14ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunter", "preceding_text": "ing of employees as shown by the letters which I receive is that this is a backdoor attempt at de-nationalisiation so that Cunard-Eagle can get control of B.O.A.C. in the years ahead. That is the opinion of a number of B.O.A.C. employees. This has been denied, but the feeling still exists. I hope that when he replies to the debate, the Parliamentary Secretary will be able to deny what I am saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-18", "file": "debates1962-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8da9c8f888b14ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": " the arrangements for Independent Television, by the Rent Act and by the unrestricted speculative boom in the property market. Commercial interests are now influencing the Minister of Aviation in a powerful and prejudicial way affecting the whole aircraft industry. I see no future prospect of the Air Corporations and the aircraft industry competing effectively until we have a change of Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-18", "file": "debates1962-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8da9c8f888b14ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Ferranti", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Ferranti", "preceding_text": "tick to what I have said. It is clear that we are willing to do our best over this problem and my right hon. Friend should be allowed the opportunity to do so. I wish that I could say more. Many other hon. Members have spoken in the debate and I hope that I may have an opportunity now to pass to the subject of air safety, which concerns the hon. Member for Glasgow, Govan (Mr. Rankin) particularly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-18", "file": "debates1962-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8da9c8f888b14ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Ferranti", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Ferranti", "preceding_text": "e made great advances in the wool trade. Today, the Lord Chancellor sits upon the Woolsack. There were Mr. Townsend's famous turnip, which is always quoted to schoolchildren, Watt's steam engine, Faraday's electromagnetic induction and, in more recent times, Professor Williams' cathode ray tube memory. This is typical of why hon. Members opposite are not getting their points across to the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-18", "file": "debates1962-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8da9c8f888b14ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Ferranti", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Ferranti", "preceding_text": ", in more recent times, Professor Williams' cathode ray tube memory. This is typical of why hon. Members opposite are not getting their points across to the country. [ Laughter. ] I know that in my constituency and in my business people are looking to Parliament to use technology to bring these benefits to us all. What do hon. Members opposite do? They fool about playing a stupid game of politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-18", "file": "debates1962-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8da9c8f888b14ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "These sound dull subjects, but they are of vital importance to us. We must catch some of the excitement of the technical advances which are being made. We must realise what is in store for us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-18", "file": "debates1962-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8da9c8f888b14ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UGANDA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON, MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": " of confirmation that I was right in what I thought my hon. Friend meant—I must put to her this point of policy. The object of our policy—and it must be the object of my hon. Friend, too—is to allow everyone to calm down and to allow passions to cool in this dispute. If now we write in a date, that would be almost an open invitation to both sides to stir up feeling in anticipation of a referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-18", "file": "debates1962-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8da9c8f888b14ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.578.0", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UGANDA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not try?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "The only thing we have got agreed with the central Government is the two-year minimum period. We do not have the maximum five-year period agreed. As far as I know, there is no possibility of achieving agreement on the five-year maximum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-18", "file": "debates1962-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8da9c8f888b14ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOLTON WATER ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McCann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McCann", "preceding_text": "I intervene briefly to put the point of view of the Corporation of Rochdale. We do not mind the Order going through or even going to a Joint Committee of both Houses. We only hope that it is not sent to the Joint Committee for the wrong reasons. We feel that one of the reasons why a Petition was presented against the Measure was to prevent the Irwell Valley Water Board from losing its identity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-18a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that much of this grey cloth, of which hon. Members from Lancashire complained, is produced by the work of Commonwealth citizens?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.635.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "MISS CARMEN BRYAN (DEPORTATION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "surances were given that deportation orders would not be made in the case of Commonwealth immigrants for relatively trivial offences and the powers sought were for only serious offences? Does he realise that this girl was conditionally discharged, she has been in Holloway ever since and has had no access to any legal advice for over a month and no communication with the Jamaican High Commissioner?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.636.2", "colnum": "636", "heading": "MISS CARMEN BRYAN (DEPORTATION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I should like to assure the House that I intend to take very seriously my duties when I receive recommendations for the deportation of Commonwealth immigrants. As to this case, no Home Secretary could treat shoplifting as a trivial offence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.636.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.636.2", "colnum": "636", "heading": "MISS CARMEN BRYAN (DEPORTATION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I should like to assure the House that I intend to take very seriously my duties when I receive recommendations for the deportation of Commonwealth immigrants. As to this case, no Home Secretary could treat shoplifting as a trivial offence— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]— considering how prevalent it is at present in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.636.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "MISS CARMEN BRYAN (DEPORTATION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "or that was that this was one of the first cases, if not the very first case, of a recommendation for deportation under the now Act. It bad to receive specially careful consideration an that account. Miss Bryan has been out of work for a number of months. She is anxious to go as soon as possible. I think it would be a great act of injustice if I ware to stand in the way of her returning to Jamaica", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.637.3", "colnum": "637", "heading": "MISS CARMEN BRYAN (DEPORTATION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I am not prepared to look at this case again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.638.6", "colnum": "638", "heading": "MISS CARMEN BRYAN (DEPORTATION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept that shoplifting is a trivial offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.638.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.638.6", "colnum": "638", "heading": "MISS CARMEN BRYAN (DEPORTATION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept that shoplifting is a trivial offence. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"] Once a Home Secretary were to do that it would encourage and not discourage it. I am very sorry indeed that this young Jamaican woman has been detained in prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.638.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.638.9", "colnum": "638", "heading": "MISS CARMEN BRYAN (DEPORTATION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "The magistrates also recommended her for deportation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.638.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "MISS CARMEN BRYAN (DEPORTATION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "No, I do not. I have gone into this very carefully indeed, and I have given the House the assurance that in every such case I shall personally investigate the circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.647.2", "colnum": "647", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Leader of the House whether there will be a free vote next Thursday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.647.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "f Glasgow's families have a bath in the house. Therefore, just under half have no bath in the house. Over one-third of them share a W.C. In the Gorbals, only one family in five has a W.C. in the house and only 3 per cent. a bath. This is today, 1962, not 1862, and this is allowed to go on. The late lamented Minister of Housing and Local Government, who has departed from the Government Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Noble)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And of the Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Noble)", "preceding_text": "have the good fortune to be able to build. In good times and in bad, my right hon. Friend has worked with one single purpose in mind: the good of Scotland. He has often had a rough time in the course of our debates and that is not an unusual feature of Scottish discussions. I think, however, that hon. Members opposite would agree that he has throughout retained the respect and affection of us all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "ot command the success we need. I have shown, I hope, earlier in my speech the great part that Scottish industrialists and business men have in fact played in developing their side of our national life in the last two years. I assure them of the Government's knowledge and appreciation of what they have done, and would encourage them to do even more in the immediate future. Time is not on our side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "st say that it was left to the Conservative Government since 1951 to introduce measures definitely to convince Scotland that such light industries, as envisaged in the 1960 Act, might well prove its salvation. Of course, there were obstacles. Hon. Members opposite are not innocent of providing them. Certain speeches made by certain trade union leaders in Scotland have not been essentially helpful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And many more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "preceding_text": "ate excellently conducted by both sides. Despite the fact that so many hon. Members limited their speeches to a few minutes' duration, it was not possible for all hon. Members to catch your eye, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeenshire, West (Mr. Hendry) was anxious to make his contribution to the debate, as was the hon. Member for Glasgow, Craigton (Mr. Millan).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that he probably did not wish to give details in public, but if he cares to let me know about them privately, I shall be glad to look into the matter straight away. I have always been interested in the problems and opportunities of Scotland, and it would perhaps be right for me to mention to the House that I am planning to pay an official visit to Scotland lasting just over two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.755.3", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I was very interested, not only in the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, but in the article he wrote for the Evening Citizen on Friday, 13th July. May I congratulate the right hon. Gentlemen on his ability to write, as well as to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.755.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL FARMER SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Parliamentary Secretary on bis appointment. I am sorry that I missed has maiden speech at the Dispatch Box on the Adjournment the other night, but this is really his baptism in a debate which, though not a major debate, is an important one affecting the small farmer. I wish him luck in his new position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL FARMER SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "o try to do so and I have masses of data and information, but if I were to try to give it now I should be ruled out of order. It would be most unwise of me to arouse your ire, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, and so, despite the sad condition in which the Government are at the moment, and the fact that the captain of the ship has gone berserk, I congratulate the remnants of the Government on having introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-19", "file": "debates1962-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "963fe98da40994d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.798.3", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL FARMER SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifford Kenyon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifford Kenyon", "preceding_text": "rmers who take over a number of farms and amalgamate them into larger ones. That is the only way out. Without labouring the point any (further, I would say that this Scheme needs looking at again. It needs very careful re-examination. We need something far more fundamental, something which will be far more permanent—for this is only temporary. We need something which is permanent which we can put—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-19a.798.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "In view of the financial objective which my right hon. Friend has just explained, would he confirm that the assurances he gave me a few months ago, to the effect that the new investment of the National Coal Board at the rate of between £90 million and £100 million per annum would be found as to three-quarters from its own resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "t of the review, I described in my statement how action will be taken following the review by the Commission and the Council of Ministers. This will be in all the developing aspects of the common agricultural policy, including price policy. The right hon. Gentleman referred to the price review in this country as being a determinant. It is not correct to say that there is any automaticity about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS CARMEN BRYAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "il. I have spoken to the magistrate. I thought that the House would wish me to do that. He had certainly considered his decision carefully—the more carefully because this was the first case under the new Act which had come before him. She seemed not to have settled down successfully over here, and he judged that it would be better for her in all the circumstances if she were to be back in Jamaica.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS CARMEN BRYAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "That is so. Under the Act, the Home Secretary has that right. The second point I should mention is that the Act ensures to every Commonwealth citizen who is recommended for deportation a right of appeal against the recommendation. In this case, therefore, Miss Bryan had a right of appeal within 14 days which she could have exercised but did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS CARMEN BRYAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I am quite satisfied that that is not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS CARMEN BRYAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "very case the circumstances may differ. How many of these people are in prison? The right hon. Gentleman said that he would consider each case carefully. In how many of these cases is he receiving letters or, as he calls them, petitions from these people? Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind in each case that any such letter or petition written from prison is presumably written under duress?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH-EAST COAST (REDUNDANCY AND UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Williams", "preceding_text": "st. I am grateful to be able to pay tribute to them for the fact that the debate has not developed along those lines. If we moan about our problems in the North-East, as the Scots are wont to do about their problems, interminably, then we make those problems the greater. Carrying the cross of Jarrow for ever before us may well belabour the North-East with the reputation of Jarrow of the 'thirties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH-EAST COAST (REDUNDANCY AND UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have been here all the time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "A great many hon. Members opposite were not in for the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1099.3", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH-EAST COAST (REDUNDANCY AND UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": " of coal. I think that a day will come, if the subject is tackled properly by a future Labour Government, when we shall cease to think of coal primarily as a fuel. I am sure that it has tremendous possibilities in new materials like plastics. The only policy of this Government is to look at each pit and to say, \"What does the balance sheet say?\" That is their only policy. With regard to transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH-EAST COAST (REDUNDANCY AND UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The bon. Member gets more fatuous every time she speaks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1101.3", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH-EAST COAST (REDUNDANCY AND UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North is trying to tell me that the £240 million, or more, goes into the pockets of the consumers it really is Alice in Wonderland. The agricultural subsidy goes into the farmers' pockets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1106.0", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH-EAST COAST (REDUNDANCY AND UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady knows nothing about the North-East. The fell sweeps up to Teesdale from the Tyne.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH-EAST COAST (REDUNDANCY AND UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor anywhere.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, West (Mr. Popplewell) said that the Government at long last had come round to the idea that \"planning\" was no longer a dirty word and that something must be done in that respect. Is not this an admission of Government failure both in the North-East and nationally? They have been saying for 11 years that Conservative freedom works. It does not work in the North-East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH-EAST COAST (REDUNDANCY AND UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Pressed Steel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "n back to the Tyne and the job will be completed before schedule. There is talk about demarcation disputes in the industry. I wrote to the manager of the local employment exchange in my constituency and asked for the figures of demarcation disputes in shipbuilding and ship repairing. We have not toad one in the last six years. The labour record is comparable to that of any industry in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH-EAST COAST (REDUNDANCY AND UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "in conscripting young lads and sending them here, there and everywhere; but to direct capital would be sacrilege and far more dangerous. It is far more revolutionary to direct capital than to direct the lives of human beings. Hon. Members opposite have never hesitated when it has suited their purpose to conscript manpower. They have never hesitated to send it When they liked and where they liked.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH-EAST COAST (REDUNDANCY AND UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why is not the Labour Party still in power?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Hexham (Mr. Speir) talked of what had happened under the Local Employment Act. He said that in 1929 the Socialists said that if they got to power they would do X, Y, Z. But we did not come to power. We never had a majority Labour Government until 1945. I know that hon. Members opposite are so indifferent to facts that they have always said that we had majority Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH-EAST COAST (REDUNDANCY AND UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Milne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Milne", "preceding_text": "e pity is that the policies of the Government did not allow it to come to fruition. Tribute ought to be paid to the Minister of Labour for the way in which he has sat on the Front Bench throughout this debate. I only wish that he had been flanked during that time by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the President of the Board of Trade, although what I have to say later may seem a little strange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1159.5", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH-EAST COAST (REDUNDANCY AND UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milne", "preceding_text": "r for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North (Mr. R. W. Elliott), who is no longer in his place—I do not blame him for that in a debate of this length—mentioned the direction of labour. He raised his hands in holy horror at the thought of it. Every time that a factory is built, however, we direct labour. Every time that an industrialist decides to set down a plant, there is some degree of direction of labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1159.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-23", "file": "debates1962-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4ec2883b1e5972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH-EAST COAST (REDUNDANCY AND UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. John Hare)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. John Hare)", "preceding_text": "I think that I am the twenty-seventh speaker in this debate. I am glad to say that I think I have heard everybody who has spoken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-23a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-24", "file": "debates1962-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6ab6c169f22ca73c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-24a.1254.5", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not know what this treasured word was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-24a.1254.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-24", "file": "debates1962-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6ab6c169f22ca73c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-24a.1430.3", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (EXCHEQUER ADVANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And no Liberals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "s with me in threatening the Government that a large body of us would vote against them. I am glad to see present my hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil, another miscreant who threatened to vote with us unless we had this Statutory Instrument procedure. To present it very late to the House when the House is thinly attended, when I see on the benches opposite only four hon. Members of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-24a.1430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-25", "file": "debates1962-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e03069db117dc62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1460.6", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that inshore fishermen are very concerned about damage to their nets caused by foreign vessels operating just inside or just outside territorial waiters —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1460.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-25", "file": "debates1962-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e03069db117dc62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1476.6", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Mr. Speaker, you terminated Questions today at 3.29 and 40 seconds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1476.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-25", "file": "debates1962-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e03069db117dc62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1476.6", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The clock had struck.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Mr. Speaker, you terminated Questions today at 3.29 and 40 seconds—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—20 seconds ahead of schedule, thereby depriving me of the opportunity of asking Question No. 35.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1476.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-25", "file": "debates1962-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e03069db117dc62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1617.0", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Third Schedule.—(Minor and Consequential Amendments.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "I support my hon. Friend the Member for Buckinghamshire, South (Mr. Ronald Bell). If one is going abroad and on one's way to London Airport one is unfortunate enough to be caught speeding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-25", "file": "debates1962-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e03069db117dc62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1648.2", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (NORTHERN IRELAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "id out. The boundaries are such that in local elections and in national elections the will of the Irish people is grossly distorted. Numerous cases can be cited. Derry City has a two-thirds Nationalist population, but owing to the way in which the register is organised, which we are partly discussing, the Unionists are in control. The same applies in Omagh in Tyrone and in Eniskellen in Fermanagh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1648.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-25", "file": "debates1962-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e03069db117dc62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1651.0", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (NORTHERN IRELAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "discussions. Some of us want these Regulations repealed tonight because we want the people of Ireland to know that we are dissatisfied with what is happening there. We must let them know that we are not content—certainly not content with a situation in which in a Parliament 20 out of the 39 Unionist Members in Northern Ireland are invariably elected unopposed. Why should they care about registers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-25", "file": "debates1962-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e03069db117dc62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1658.1", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (NORTHERN IRELAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the hon. Member's intervention. He is asking me to explain the difference in Northern Ireland and here. The difference is that Northern Ireland has unemployment permanently at the rate of 8 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-25", "file": "debates1962-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e03069db117dc62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (NORTHERN IRELAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Worcester (Mr. Walker) was trying to enlighten me about what happened to the Labour Party candidates in the recent elections in Ulster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-25", "file": "debates1962-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e03069db117dc62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (NORTHERN IRELAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Patricia McLaughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Lady has not heard a word of the debate\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Patricia McLaughlin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-25", "file": "debates1962-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e03069db117dc62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1671.1", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (NORTHERN IRELAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman has studied with great care Part III of the First Schedule of the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland), 1962—I have. It does not cut out anyone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-25a.1671.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1708.7", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "It seems the Minister has not given me the information I asked for. May I ask him this; if we do not go into the Common Market, as seems to be getting likely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1708.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1719.2", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "The Bill has been passed by the House of Representatives but still has to be considered by the Senate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1719.2", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "The Bill has been passed by the House of Representatives but still has to be considered by the Senate. [ Interruption. ] Therefore, any detailed discussion of the matter would be inappropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1723.3", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is exactly the co-ordination that is now going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1723.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1731.8", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "In view of recent events and the expressions of public opinion, will the right hon. Gentleman reconsider his decision not to provide opportunities for my Bill against racial discrimination? Has his attention been drawn to a leaflet, now being widely distributed in London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1731.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1735.4", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about dividends?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "hs, and is only now back to where it was this time last year—only now, indeed, back to where it was two years ago; there has been a decline in investment and a sharp fall in industrial building projects; there has been a sharp rise in excess capacity; prices are up by 5½per cent., and wage rates, despite the pay pause, are up by 3 per cent., so that, for many living standards have declined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1735.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1735.4", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What help did you give?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ause the Minister of Housing—or the one who was in that office for most of the time and has now been promoted to Home Secretary—did not want any more slums to be cleared. In speech after speech at that Dispatch Box the right hon. Gentleman defended the decisions of the Government and his own decisions as Minister. And what sort of help did he give to the local authorities in overcoming obstacles?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1735.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1743.5", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Baloney.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "not be able to go to the universities though they are willing, anxious and able to go. Then there is the famous cat in the bag, whose existence was disclosed by the Leader of the House. I have wondered, during the last few days, whether it was the tiger which was let loose on that famous Thursday, or is it a rather sleepy, gentle, harmless pussy cat, something for the consumers, the Molony Report?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1743.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1751.3", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You got rid of him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y. Suppose we take the right hon. Gentleman at his word and the Opposition had an election on Europe. What would happen then—still on the fence? The right hon. Gentleman's attitude throughout has been prudent but not very inspiring. Then there is the question of defence, to which the right hon. Gentleman referred. My right hon. Friend the Member for Woking (Mr. Watkinson) has done a very fine job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1751.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1751.3", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e beaten off last year's attack, and although we have continued our aid to the full, and our other overseas expenditure, although we have played our part in the arrangement for giving financial help to Canada at a critical moment, we have been able to pay off a large part of our emergency borrowing. The social services have expanded during this period rapidly and continuously. Expenditure on them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1751.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1751.3", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "have not merely been raised to meet rising prices, but today have 50 per cent. more purchasing power than they had eleven years ago. The elderly need care as well as cash, and our programmes have provided for a growing number of suitable homes and services in the home, as well as looking to their special needs in hospital treatment. That is the true story of the eleven years of the Administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1751.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1751.3", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rowth. If costs rise exports will fall and the weight of imports will correspondingly increase and lead to a balance of payments crisis, so that the rise in prices will inflict great injury on those whose incomes are in fixed terms or cannot be readily advanced to meet the rising prices. How to reconcile an incomes policy in a free society means digging right down into the roots of our philosophy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1751.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1751.3", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ar, when the Labour Government of the day inherited this highly-controlled system which had been brought about by the siege economy inevitable to an island in war, they found themselves baffled by the same problem. Many of us remember how they resorted, as we have, to appeal and exhortation and many of us remember the immense energy and enthusiasm which Sir Stafford Cripps devoted to this purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1751.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are not with you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "utions. I should inform the House that in recent weeks there have been purely informal contacts on this policy between the Government and representatives of trade unions and of employers. This morning I saw representatives of both sides and gave them an outline of the Government's proposals. Of course, there will be further full discussions with all concerned both in the public and private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "lp to mobilise additional resources if the need arises. But I must be frank and say that, speaking for myself, I do not believe that the ultimate solution can be found only in these measures. A solution can be found only by international co-operation and imagination, and, I must say this, by whatever means the nations of the world decide to seek a solution, they will not find Britain holding back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "uss an economic debate without some reference to this matter. We have made some progress in the last year but not, in my view, enough. Apart from this immediate policy— these long-term benefits—there are some special proposals which I am afraid I must detail to the House. First, as regards the consumer and, second, the general status of the employee whether in the factory, the office or the shop.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is mistaken. He ought to make himself acquainted with the record of the time. However, I am not concerned with the hon. Gentleman I make this suggestion to ambitious back benchers opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1771.4", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will hang you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I suggest that there is no particular need for a General Election. I think that if we give the Government enough rope and let them demonstrate the futility of the continuance of the pay pause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1771.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1773.3", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "t I say, no doubt he will correct me. Now we are to add to \"Neddy\" a Commission to do precisely what was included in that Council's terms of reference. Where did this idea come from? It is by no meals original. It was suggested many years ago. It was considered by the Labour Government. It was considered, as the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer knows, as the result of a memorandum which I submitted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1773.3", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "dered by the Labour Government. It was considered, as the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer knows, as the result of a memorandum which I submitted. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It so happens that the right hon. and learned Gentleman understands. I do not expect other hon. Members opposite to bother very much about matters of this sort, but that is how it happened. What was the purpose behind the suggestion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1773.3", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including girls.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "an incomes policy through a Commission on incomes, or in any other fashion, unless we start with an understanding of the basic principles of equality. I do not suggest that overnight or in a few years we can iron out all the inequalities, but as long as glaring and gross inequalities exist in a society in which, according to the Ministry of Labour, 7 million people still have less than £10 a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1778.8", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "This is a new point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1778.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The unions do not like it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "th public and private, and the trade unions and others who seek wage increases, their motives, their claims and counterclaims, to the bar of public opinion. Such a piece of machinery has been sadly needed in this country for a long time and I hope that no section of the community, employers or trade unionists, will dare to flout public opinion and refuse to co-operate in the use of this machinery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1818.4", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Our standard of living has gone up as much during the past eleven years as during the previous forty years. I think it right to put the following figures on record. Agricultural production during the period of the Conservative Government has risen by 23 per cent. Britain's exports have risen by 26 per cent. during the same period. The average annual rate of house building has risen by 80 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1818.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1820.1", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "how good I am\". He never finished a peroration without the phrase, \"God be with us to the end\". What was his last act? It was to sign on the dotted line a deportation order against the spirit of which he pledged himself before this House. At least it can be said of the present Home Secretary, who, by the way, I discovered from the book to which I have referred owns the copyright of \"Silent Night\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "now. The problem that he will be faced with is this. If the Chancellor adheres to the existing policies, he knows perfectly well that we are in for a continuing depression in industry. He must depart from them, and if he departs from them he will be accused immediately of doing it for electoral reasons. What is worse is not whether we shall think this, but whether overseas bankers will think this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ired and defeated Government. Why should the Government feel that they are entitled to the confidence of the country when they can only reproduce, fifteen years afterwards, ideas that they adumbrated as long ago as 1947? I do not know whether hon. Members opposite have any confidence in the Government. I have no doubt that the Prime Minister will get their votes, but does he have their confidence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "in office for eleven years. If one thing is clear, it is that the opinion of the Legislature as it will be expressed tonight in the Division Lobbies is out of line with the opinion of the country. I do not know how long the Prime Minister will remain in office. It may be thought by hon. Members opposite that if they support him tonight, they can spirit him away quietly during the Christmas Recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " I would say one further thing to the Prime Minister, and it is this: we need a Prime Minister—and we need a Government—who will command moral authority in his party and in his country. He has no moral authority in his party, he has no respect in the country. The Government as a whole are believed to be tired, to have been with us too long, and to have failed. I say one final thing, in conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1853.3", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "aster than wages. This is true just marginally, but it comes after ten years when wages have been rising a good deal faster than prices, in contrast to the days of the Labour Government when they went the other way. He talked about investment in industry and a lack of confidence, but investment in industry in real terms is 80 per cent. above ten years ago and in manufacturing industry 60 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1853.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1854.3", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "my. This was based upon an increase in exports, an increase in public expenditure, a restocking movement and the growth of consumption over the year of about 4 per cent. The present position is that exports are rising, and rising well, that public expenditure is also rising, and rising vigorously. In regard to consumption, the rise which we have anticipated has fallen a bit behind what we thought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1854.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1854.3", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "mand. We have to weigh these factors, and my own judgment is that it is still by no means certain that our estimates will be falsified. It may well be the case that the growth of consumption in the second half of this year and the arrival of the re-stocking movement will produce the vigorous expansion in the economy for which we are looking. If that does not happen, we shall do something about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1854.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1854.3", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ently and profoundly different The creation of a new economy across the Channel on the scale of the United States but with our levels of wages is something entirety new. Whether we go in or stay out, things will never be the same as they were before the creation of the Market. If we succeed in reaching an agreement which will enable us to enter the Market, as I emphatically hope we shall succeed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1854.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-26", "file": "debates1962-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "431c28ce29893d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1859.1", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "t be effective in theory—it works in Communist States—it would be intolerable in the free society which we are trying to preserve while achieving growth and avoiding inflation. There is only one alternative. If we do not have the discipline of deflation and unemployment, and if we do not have the discipline of Government dictation, the only alternative is the self-discipline of a mature democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-26a.1859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-30", "file": "debates1962-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "82fc8ab69de784c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Even though those tragic cases may be due in part to the laissez faire policy of the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-30", "file": "debates1962-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "82fc8ab69de784c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY(BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "If the Six have agreed to conclude special arrangements with the Common wealth after 1970, as I understand that they have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-30", "file": "debates1962-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "82fc8ab69de784c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.110.3", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BIRMINGHAM MENTAL HOSPITAL COMMITTEE (FORMER CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Seymour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Seymour", "preceding_text": "or the good of the hospital. He has resigned, but I hope that in the future some other position will be found for him where his unlimited energy may be used to the benefit of the community. I was also pleased to read in the newspapers last Friday that the Minister was contributing a sum of £3,000 towards Mr. Rhydderch's expenses, but I am of opinion that the Minister had this in mind all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.110.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-30", "file": "debates1962-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "82fc8ab69de784c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BIRMINGHAM MENTAL HOSPITAL COMMITTEE (FORMER CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Seymour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Seymour", "preceding_text": "I have already offered my services as chairman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-30", "file": "debates1962-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "82fc8ab69de784c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BIRMINGHAM MENTAL HOSPITAL COMMITTEE (FORMER CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cleaver", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cleaver", "preceding_text": "ia payment, and I hope that means that all other cases will be considered on their merits. Finally, with regard to the position of Dr. Mathers, I think it would be very unfair if he was compelled to retire, or even if he was removed, unless the removal meant promotion. We cannot alter the fact that the inquiry came out in his favour, and very strongly in his favour, except for the minority report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-30", "file": "debates1962-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "82fc8ab69de784c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Education (Sir Edward Boyle)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Education (Sir Edward Boyle)", "preceding_text": "in my first debate as Minister of Education. If the House will permit me to say so, it is not without certain emotion that I rise to speak at this moment. I follow someone in Sir David Eccles who, I think, was recognised on all sides in the teaching profession, in the educational world and in this House as a man of broad and constructive ideas on the sort of society we wish to see in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-30", "file": "debates1962-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "82fc8ab69de784c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMELESS FAMILIES, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "I do not know if the hon. and gallant Gentleman is threatening to leave the House, but if so he will leave with nothing but an expression of great appreciation from this side. To return to my point, in no other subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-30", "file": "debates1962-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "82fc8ab69de784c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.217.4", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMELESS FAMILIES, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": " the one before him. The last one looked as if he might have all sorts of new ideas but he then vanished from us. We hope that the new Minister will look at the situation in London—with the realisation that this kind of thing cannot go on any longer. We do not want a speech at the end of the debate telling us how many houses have been built by the Conservative Party as opposed to the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.217.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-30", "file": "debates1962-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "82fc8ab69de784c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMELESS FAMILIES, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Interest rates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " Cable Street that we would be pausing at, how could any Government or anybody wish to pause? It is a fact that as so many of the houses pulled down as slums contain more than one family so the L.C.C. has to build more than one house to demolish one house. But at the moment there is no restraint by the Government on the L.C.C. None at all Let nobody think there is. What are the normal restraints?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-30", "file": "debates1962-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "82fc8ab69de784c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMELESS FAMILIES, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "Three comments on that. I am sure that there is no sort of demoralisation of staff because of this. The whole object of reorganisation —and even our most severe critics must accept that this is our purpose—is to make the services to the Londoner able to be more efficient.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-30a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-31", "file": "debates1962-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "f2c9ea79279a0df0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-31a.412.2", "colnum": "412", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether the right hon. Gentleman could find some time before the House goes up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-31a.412.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-07-31", "file": "debates1962-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "f2c9ea79279a0df0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-31a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "COMMITTEE ON BROADCASTING (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Captain L. P. S. Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain L. P. S. Orr", "preceding_text": "d intelligent speech we have just heard from the hon. Member for Bosworth (Mr. Wyatt). It is surprising for an hon. Member on this side of the House to find himself almost totally in agreement with the hon. Member for Bosworth. I have often listened to him, but I have rarely heard him put before us such a stately procession of ideas and solid, decent thinking. Like him, I must declare an interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-07-31a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-01", "file": "debates1962-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "b30a6e3856dd31cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Yates", "preceding_text": "ituation in West Berlin. Perhaps my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House will suggest to the Minister of State that it would not be inopportune if the Government made a further statement concerning our policy in the event of friction between United States ground or air forces and the forces of the East German Government. I wanted to go to a wedding and I see that I have been talking too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-01", "file": "debates1962-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "b30a6e3856dd31cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.601.2", "colnum": "601", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "er feeling among our people and is giving rise to the disorders which we had last evening—disorders which, after the last war, we thought we ware finished with. It is now thirty-one years since I first had the privilege of opposing the rich aristocrat who is now allowed to challenge the democracy which the people I belong to have paid so dearly for in life, limb and sacrifices throughout the ages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.601.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-01", "file": "debates1962-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "b30a6e3856dd31cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "es accorded to Privy Councillors I should be completely out of order. I could say a great deal about that. When I reflect on the length of speeches made by hon. Mem-bars who are not Privy Councillors, but who wish they were—and make every effort to become Privy Councillors—I feel that I might suggest to my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock that the less said about Privy Councillors the better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-01", "file": "debates1962-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "b30a6e3856dd31cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. R. Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. R. Wise", "preceding_text": " we must have a great deal more assurance from the Government than we have at the moment. I am unashamedly going to refer to possible events that may occur in regard to the negotiations for our possible signature of the Treaty of Rome. We have been told that the House may be recalled some time in the middle of September for three days in order to be told what is happening. That is not good enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-01", "file": "debates1962-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "b30a6e3856dd31cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.627.7", "colnum": "627", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does 'substantial' mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "om the Opposition Front Bench. The answer is, \"Yes, of course.\" Nobody could deny the immense importance of this issue. We would certainly give the very fullest weight to representations made, as they frequently are in these circumstances, from the Opposition Front Bench and also to any substantial number of Members of Parliament from either side of the House who wish to make such representations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.627.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-01", "file": "debates1962-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "b30a6e3856dd31cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "preceding_text": "y has said quite frankly and openly why the Government are in favour of going into the Common Market and why they are determined that negotiations shall succeed, and, by implication, what they are prepared to sacrifice so that they shall succeed. He has said—and I paraphrase his words—that Europe is moving towards an economic and political union. He has said that Europe is the new centre of power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.688.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-08-01", "file": "debates1962-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "b30a6e3856dd31cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.693.0", "colnum": "693", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are in favour of it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member for Ashfield (Mr. Warbey) will agree that on the Continent at least the Socialists are democratic. I have not heard that they have been complaining about this hell on earth created by the Common Market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-01", "file": "debates1962-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "b30a6e3856dd31cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.695.8", "colnum": "695", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": " time, without interrupting me, they will be able to help me to answer a letter that I received this morning, in which the writer said, I am disgusted with the Conservative Party going into the Common Market. Next time I shall vote Liberal. This explains, in one sentence, the obscurities that exist in the public mind about Liberal Party policy. Who is responsible for this concealment of the facts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.695.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-01", "file": "debates1962-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "b30a6e3856dd31cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Freedom of worship.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "e. Now, if this is the situation— and I will not repeat all the arguments —what would be the position in regard to Prayers and Statutory Instruments? What would be the position of enabling legisilation? Would Parliament be free to amend that legislation? Would the Sovereign be free to accept a Prayer carded by Parliament? Indeed, would we be free to pray at all? These are very important questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.698.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-01", "file": "debates1962-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "b30a6e3856dd31cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.720.5", "colnum": "720", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "er-Secretary was clearly moving towards the end of his final peroration and it was perhaps common courtesy to allow him to finish, but courtesy is carried too far if it is carried to the point where the Members of the House of Commons, at a time when the Constitution and sovereignty of this country are about to be betrayed by Her Majesty's Government, without any mandate and without any authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.720.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-01", "file": "debates1962-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "b30a6e3856dd31cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.721.3", "colnum": "721", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " ballotted-for Motion about the Common Market. On that occasion we had a very good debate, though I agree that it was limited to three hours. At the end of that three-hour debate, which was a fairly full one, you refused to allow a vote to be taken on the ground that the matter had not been sufficiently discussed. It has been discussed time and time and time again since then, and on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-01", "file": "debates1962-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "b30a6e3856dd31cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.722.5", "colnum": "722", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I think that you are aware, Mr. Speaker—as all of us are aware—that the procedure that you are inviting me to adopt cannot easily or conveniently be adopted at this time in the Session. There is no time for it— and you perfectly well know that there is no time for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-01a.722.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-02", "file": "debates1962-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1f34bc792f997e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "DR. SOBLEN", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "re until the end of August. This man is 62 and acknowledged by everyone to be suffering from leukaemia and, therefore, carrying a sentence of death on him as well as the imposed sentence of imprisonment for life. Is it unreasonable to ask that he should not spend the last year or two of his life—for this is probably all he has left —in a prison, but rather in a country that is willing to take him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-02", "file": "debates1962-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1f34bc792f997e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "DR. SOBLEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Accepting that the decision in the High Court and the Court of Appeal must be recognised, and that the right hon. Gentleman has to recognise it and to act in accordance with it, would he explain why that requires him to make this man go back to a country which he does not wish to go back to?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.806.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-08-02", "file": "debates1962-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1f34bc792f997e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.807.0", "colnum": "807", "heading": "DR. SOBLEN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "de, to send Dr. Soblen back to the United States. Surely the right hon. Gentleman's function is limited to seeing that the man does not remain here. Where he goes to from here is no responsibility of the Home Secretary. To put him on a plane bound for America against his will is really to assume jurisdiction which the right hon. Gentleman has not got and Which will be regarded as a shameful thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-02", "file": "debates1962-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1f34bc792f997e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "ears have revitalised the industrial Me of Wales. I believe that the prospects are good. All the same, we have to recognise that the fortunes of Wales and of Welsh industry cannot be separated from the fortunes of the British economy as a whole. I am confident that Welsh industry is well placed to take advantage of the vigorous expansion of British industry for which we are all looking so eagerly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-02", "file": "debates1962-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1f34bc792f997e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Round the bend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "s of the British economy as a whole. I am confident that Welsh industry is well placed to take advantage of the vigorous expansion of British industry for which we are all looking so eagerly—[ Laughter. ]—wait for it—and about which my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer spoke in the debate last Thursday. May I give a word of advice to industrialists? With expansion round the corner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-02", "file": "debates1962-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1f34bc792f997e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": "e, we must be encouraged to read in paragraph 45 of the Report that last year there were 120 cases of industrial growth as compared with 24 closures—a net gain of about 100. Some of the matters causing anxiety, with which my hon. Friend is familiar, have already been referred to. There are particular difficulties in Pembrokeshire, Llanelly and parts of North-West Wales—and, indeed, in the Rhondda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-02", "file": "debates1962-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1f34bc792f997e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": "120 cases of industrial growth as compared with 24 closures—a net gain of about 100. Some of the matters causing anxiety, with which my hon. Friend is familiar, have already been referred to. There are particular difficulties in Pembrokeshire, Llanelly and parts of North-West Wales—and, indeed, in the Rhondda— [ Interruption. ] In this debate we are dealing predominantly with the industrial Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-02", "file": "debates1962-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1f34bc792f997e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.838.0", "colnum": "838", "heading": "WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "couraging to people who have expressed anxiety on this score to know that out of 303 pupils who left school last Easter only six were unemployed in the middle of last month. Evidently the economy of that part of Glamorgan has a remarkable power to absorb young people. Likewise, in the Cardiff area on 12th June this year, out of 1,852 unemployed, only 33 were described as boys and only 30 as girls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.838.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-02", "file": "debates1962-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1f34bc792f997e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. G. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. G. Morgan", "preceding_text": "debate took place without any reference to that great industry, and also to the tourist industry as well. These are both industries of exceptional importance to Wales, and of paramount importance to my own constituency. I do not propose to say anything with regard to the heavy industries of the south. I can leave that to the much more competent attention of my colleagues on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-02", "file": "debates1962-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1f34bc792f997e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We want an expanding economy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "of the problem. I must confess at once that it is very much easier for the Government to mobilise industrial forces where they are most needed when industry is on the move— that is, in times of expansion. That is a platitude to anybody who has studied the subject. It is easy to say \"Let the Government be tough,\" but when industry is not moving there is nothing to be tough about— in a free society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-08-02", "file": "debates1962-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1f34bc792f997e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Mid-Wales?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "d the Minister of Transport yesterday made a statement that he would see to it that surveys were made in one or two rural areas to try to ascertain exactly the need and how best to tackle it. No decision has been made by the Government about which areas are to be surveyed. Only a few are to be done, I undertake, however, to press my right hon. Friend to see that one of the areas shall be in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-08-02a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-10-30", "file": "debates1962-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "447d29373d12bc2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-30a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It answered itself, because he undertook to take away the missiles, which was the one thing we asked him to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-30a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-10-31", "file": "debates1962-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "2fb618f4b17fe393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-31a.176.0", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He would have been executed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter", "preceding_text": "in Cuba than that which the right hon. Gentleman has sought to put before the House. Is he aware that there is an election taking place in America, and that a great deal of public pressure over the last two months has been directed on President Kennedy to invade Cuba and put Cuba in its place? Had the right hon. Gentleman been a member of Castro's Government instead of a member of this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-31a.176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-10-31", "file": "debates1962-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "2fb618f4b17fe393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-31a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " the Americans and the Russians on this issue is merely that to the Americans Cuba was worth a world-wide third war on a nuclear basis if they could not get their way without it—or are we not to believe that?—whereas to the Russians Cuba was not worth it. Any attempt to infer from that that the Russians would always take that view in other circumstances is the most dangerous illusion in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-31a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-10-31", "file": "debates1962-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "2fb618f4b17fe393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-31a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to pursue that point at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-31a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-10-31", "file": "debates1962-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "2fb618f4b17fe393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-31a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are not saying that\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "one's partner does and one may be thrown into all sorts of difficulties. I personally never minded two hoots whether over Suez we consulted or not. because we had our knowledge of the Middle East, which in my view was far greater than that of America and other countries, and we were entitled to take the action we took. The American nation today says, \"We now realise how right you were about Suez.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-31a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-10-31", "file": "debates1962-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "2fb618f4b17fe393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-31a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "ns does produce anomalies and some strange voting patterns, but the fact is that if we compare the United Nations today with what it was in the post-war period we see that it is vastly more influential for peace and is a vastly more successful and vital organisation. I think I am the only Member of the House who was unlucky enough to act as a delegate to the United Nations in that post-war period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-31a.276.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-10-31", "file": "debates1962-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "2fb618f4b17fe393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-31a.292.2", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order. Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Mr. Silverman rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-31a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-10-31", "file": "debates1962-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "2fb618f4b17fe393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-31a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "ANGLO-JAPANESE COMMERCIAL AND NAVIGATION TREATY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I have only a few moments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-31a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-10-31", "file": "debates1962-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "2fb618f4b17fe393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-31a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "ANGLO-JAPANESE COMMERCIAL AND NAVIGATION TREATY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "Since Japan has not signed the Declaration she is not in breach of it in continuing her tax remissions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-10-31a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-01", "file": "debates1962-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "56a99b3f889a0a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-01a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": ". I should be ready to have such discussions. I made the point about this banner, of which a photograph appeared, which I have seen, in the Belfast Telegraph, that the lodge had been in existence for more than fifty years. The Leader of the Opposition will know that there is a wide variety of organisations, such as the House of Commons Motor Association, the House of Commons Golf Association, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-01a.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-01", "file": "debates1962-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "56a99b3f889a0a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-01a.320.3", "colnum": "320", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The answers to the hon. Member's questions are these. First, the Secretary of State for Scotland will be answering questions on Wednesday, Secondly, as the hon. Gentleman knows very well, very few Questions have been tabled for the Lord Advocate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-01a.320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-01", "file": "debates1962-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "56a99b3f889a0a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-01a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The Lord Advocate and the Solicitor-General for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-01a.322.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-01", "file": "debates1962-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "56a99b3f889a0a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-01a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the price of land?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "0s and 1970s. But ahead of that I hope, by one means or another, to step up the rate of building for Londoners. I am pursuing with intensity a number of prospects of more land. I am urging local authorities to use the land they have as fast as they can, by industrialised building systems where appropriate, and I will ensure that more land will be made available. I am also following up other ideas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-01a.331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-01", "file": "debates1962-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "56a99b3f889a0a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-01a.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "ied in telling the people who were listening to me on Monday that the Queen's Speech was a lot of platitudinous bilge. The Queen's Speech last year stated: My Ministers will continue to direct their policies towards maintaining the stability of sterling. They will seek to strengthen the balance of payments by the measures already announced, including especially the vigorous promotion of exports.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-01a.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-01", "file": "debates1962-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "56a99b3f889a0a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-01a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "addition. There are certain side-advantages. Much has been said in this House in the last five hours about the desirability of taking young couples away from their in-laws and the dissatisfaction which is created by their living together. Many doctors with whom I have discussed this would agree that to take old people away for four or five weeks break might create a much more healthy relationship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-01a.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-01", "file": "debates1962-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "56a99b3f889a0a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-01a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": " Member of the Government, and that is why it is imperative that any Minister of Pensions and National Insurance should be dedicated to radical social reforms. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will convey this to him. He should be moved by love of his task, otherwise he will be a failure. Another thing I suggest is that he should always have his resignation written out, ready to slap on the table—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-01a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-01", "file": "debates1962-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "56a99b3f889a0a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-01a.451.5", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "oodford (Sir W. Churchill), no doubt, would have put it, and not after the Government had been in power for eleven years. I was struck by that observation, but I thought that it showed a surprising lack of perspicacity, because it is, of course, the strength of the Government that after a very considerable period in office they have (his tremendous fund of new ideas and new, imaginative proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-01a.451.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-02", "file": "debates1962-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "37085271453d7fd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-02a.485.3", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "e was virtually doing the same work, which was the work of a clerk. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition is right in saying that, in the case of the Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, he was ranked as personal assistant, but I am informed that the type of job did not really vary very much. These are the tasks which he carried out. The issues raised and the questions posed are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-02a.485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-02", "file": "debates1962-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "37085271453d7fd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-02a.495.3", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "preceding_text": "o have it all the time. Vassall may have been perfectly all right when he came in, but surely there should be some method through the security service by which it could have been found out that this man was not desirable after Moscow, because quite plainly he had become different after Moscow. Surely it should have been possible to know by positive vetting that he was a different man after Moscow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-02a.495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.580.5", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "ich I gave the hon. Member previously—I think it was in February last year—was based on estimates of redundancies in manufacturing industries from instances reported to my own local offices. The answer was, therefore, far from comprehensive because it did not take into account jobs lost in other industries or new jobs provided. The answer which I hope to be able to give him in February next year —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.580.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.599.6", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that many millions of people throughout the world are grateful for the courage of Sir Hugh Foot in deciding that he can no longer be the representative supporting the policies of Her Majesty's Government in Rhodesia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.599.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.604.8", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is the hon. Gentleman jealous?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "onest blundering for courteous indolence?\" We can be quite sure that the Cabinet rejects, who have so swiftly jumped from Whitehall to Threadneedle Street, have carried the message back, because I must say that the range of directorships they have picked up covers a very wide field —heavy engineering, armaments, insurance, investment, banking, chemicals, man-made fibres and electrical engineering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.604.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " would immediately release about £60 million of purchasing power. I would also increase Income Tax reliefs, if necessary by a second Budget, and I would certainly exempt from taxation all those people at the bottom of the income scale, earning less than £8 5s. a week, or less than £5 5s. a week if single. I am not saying that all these things should be done, I am offering a number of alternatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.614.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.620.2", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Do you accept that?", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "The Amendment makes three main points. First, it refers to \"stagnation\", a word which is so popular on the benches opposite and which, of course, I do not accept. Secondly, it refers to … heavy and growing unemployment especially in Scotland, the North of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.620.3", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " are normally announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons. That is precisely what I intend to do this afternoon. The hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East referred a good deal to his criticism of the Government. He spent over half-an-hour of his agreeable speech attacking us, and less than ten minutes putting forward positive suggestions. I propose to reverse that ratio and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.620.3", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Explain it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " though it is true that recent export figures show the need for constant vigilance. At home there was in the second half of last year a setback to the level of production. At the turn of the year, that altered again and the level is now moving upwards at the rate which I had given and which is statistically accurate, though the hon. Gentleman did not seem to understand the statistical performance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.620.3", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are the figures?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ack to the level of production. At the turn of the year, that altered again and the level is now moving upwards at the rate which I had given and which is statistically accurate, though the hon. Gentleman did not seem to understand the statistical performance. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Explain it.\"] The simple fact is that production has been rising since the trough at the end of the year at an annual rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.632.3", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "tough policy of I.D.C.s that we have pursued for some years. It is nonsense to suggest that our policy has been other than tough. I had plenty of experience when I was at the Board of Trade, and I know that there comes a time when, if any industrialist is told, \"You con-not expand where you want to expand; you must go to Scotland \",he replies, \"Rather than go to Scotland I will not expand at all \"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.632.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.634.3", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I have already given way too much. I have a certain amount more to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.640.0", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "times led to wonder whether the need to get the absolute maximum out of the available labour force is fully realised by all concerned. We must have more vigorous policies to sweep away restrictions. Above all, we must have a mind and outlook which welcomes change and novelty. As I said earlier in reply to an interjection, I do not regard what I have said today as in the nature of an autumn Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "rnment ever consider the effect that the present situation must inevitably have upon industrial relations? The hon. Member for Rutland and Stamford (Mr. K. Lewis) read us a lecture tonight about what the trade unions ought to do. What do the Government think that human beings will do when they know that jobs are becoming scarcer, and that there are now three vacancies for every applicant for work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "ment too hard he will cut the ground straight from under their feet. Of Course this does have a tremendous effect. It is no use reading us lectures about what trade union officials ought to do in the circumstances. We must remember that we are dealing with human beings, with all their rationalities and irrationalities. I would never work myself out of a job— if I knew that there were three others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "ht from under their feet. Of Course this does have a tremendous effect. It is no use reading us lectures about what trade union officials ought to do in the circumstances. We must remember that we are dealing with human beings, with all their rationalities and irrationalities. I would never work myself out of a job— if I knew that there were three others—[ Laughter. ]— maybe it is useless talking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is only one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "h human beings, with all their rationalities and irrationalities. I would never work myself out of a job— if I knew that there were three others—[ Laughter. ]— maybe it is useless talking—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— but constituents outside this House understand this. None of us would work himself out of a job knowing that there were two or three others ready to compete with him as replacements", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give the names.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "s? Why did not the Chancellor tell us the names today? There are only four of them. Why did he merely say that the names would be found in the Vote Office7 Either because they did not stand up to being given in the House because they were not of a high enough level, or because he knew, as I have said, that every one of them has served—and many served until recently—as an employer's representative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ink are tremendously,important, but time will not permit. I believe that the Government have failed to understand the problem and to put forward constructive proposals which have any chance of being effective in dealing with it. Above all—a point which I should have liked to develop—they have failed to understand that social policy and social priorities are inextric—are totally bound up with this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " me this is not an extension of a university union debate. If I cannot find one word I will find another, and it will do. As I say, social policy is totally bound up with economic policies and economic consequences. The unfairness of the taxation system and of the social priorities is affected, too. The Government have an obligation to recognise three things. The first is that time is not with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-05", "file": "debates1962-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4f5de732d16ef96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "s not a kiss of death, but virtually a passport to the Front Bench. This is the end of the debate on the Queen's Speech. We have had a series of good, even if inevitably, perhaps, rather isolated debates. What there has been little comment about is something that has been recognised universally in Press comment throughout the country. That is that the Quean's Speech represents a massive programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-05a.728.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-06", "file": "debates1962-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "91f4d8ad5fb6dbf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-06a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "ecord your moral responsibility\", and we did that—shows that they were not influenced any more than any other enterprise, private or public, by political considerations. In many cases, civil airlines are paying concerns and have had good results. Borneo Airways, Cathay Pacific, Fiji Airways and Gulf Aviation all showed a profit last year, and the loss incurred by Aden Airways was relatively small.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-06a.815.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-07", "file": "debates1962-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "8ef8b5c317734c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.955.6", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "Has my hon. Friend's attention been drawn to a report in the Sunday Telegraph of 7th October which suggested that the principal cause of the trouble was metal fatigue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.955.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-07", "file": "debates1962-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "8ef8b5c317734c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.958.4", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "entary question? I have looked into this matter carefully, and it does not give a fair picture of the situation to say that: the fire took six hours to get under control. I am informed that it broke out at 2·30 and that it was under control by 3·30. The watch kept by the Army fire brigade is not from a watchtower looking out for fires all round. Its personnel sit manning a telephone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.958.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-07", "file": "debates1962-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "8ef8b5c317734c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.965.6", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister agree that this is a selfish wangle, which is unfair to other Service men who are honourably carrying out their obligations, and a nuisance to the electors upon whom they are about to descend? Will he not consider a reversion to the 1945 practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.965.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-07", "file": "debates1962-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "8ef8b5c317734c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.967.4", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not an abuse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "I do not know, when the right hon. Gentleman refers to a General Election, whether or not he is frightened of a vast number of Tory soldiers coming forward to fight Socialist seats. I think that is hypothetical. That is not what we are facing at the moment. I have given an undertaking that if the abuse develops further, we shall have to look at it again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.967.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-07", "file": "debates1962-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "8ef8b5c317734c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.972.8", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John MacLeod", "preceding_text": "This is a ludicrous situation which must come to an end. British fishermen are becoming more and more despondent about it, when they see foreign vessels coming into their areas. It is quite ludicrous", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.972.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-07", "file": "debates1962-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "8ef8b5c317734c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "State realise that his reply that it was Parliamentary time which prevents this very necessary reform for being implemented is entirely wrong, because within the last two years I introduced a Private Member's Bill on this subject, and I was frustrated by every possible means by the Government? Will the right hon. Gentleman review that situation, and now that there is a new Lord Advocate in office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-07", "file": "debates1962-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "8ef8b5c317734c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.982.3", "colnum": "982", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "be qualified majority voting in the Community and not unanimous voting. The agreement will be valid for a number of years and renewable. The means which can be used are set out in the arrangements, tariff policy, export policy, quota policy, the development of financial relations, and private investment, as well as technical assistance. The trade agreement therefore covers the whole of that field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.982.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-07", "file": "debates1962-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "8ef8b5c317734c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "all adhere. The E.F.TA. countries are fully aware of the problems which this presents as far as timing is concerned. I am confident that they will do their utmost, as we have done, in order to arrange the timing and carry through their negotiations as speedily as possible. The right hon. Gentleman, at Brighton, engaged in almost an orgy of speculation about arrangements for the E.F.T.A. countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-07", "file": "debates1962-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "8ef8b5c317734c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "as we have done, in order to arrange the timing and carry through their negotiations as speedily as possible. The right hon. Gentleman, at Brighton, engaged in almost an orgy of speculation about arrangements for the E.F.T.A. countries. [ Interruption. ]I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman could describe the amount of detail which I have been giving the House this afternoon as speculation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-07", "file": "debates1962-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "8ef8b5c317734c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.999.0", "colnum": "999", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What do you think?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "cation that he thinks that anybody who does not admit that it will lead to federation is being dishonest. I cannot for one moment accept that from him. There are some who think that federation is inevitable. That is their judgment. There are others who think that federation may be desirable in order to achieve a democratic control of the organisation of the Council of Ministers and the Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-07", "file": "debates1962-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "8ef8b5c317734c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "self over a cliff? It is to stay on top. I do not pretend that this is an adequate answer, though it is a desirable one. People need more. Political and economic consequences are being paraded to suggest that we have no option. I have been told that if we do not go in we become neutralists and that we leave N.A.T.O. What utter nonsense this is. This has certainly been said repeatedly in the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-07", "file": "debates1962-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "8ef8b5c317734c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is trying to strengthen my hand—and I am always anxious to welcome that—when he talked about renegotiating the Treaty of Rome, may I ask him what evidence he has that members of the Community are prepared to renegotiate the Treaty of Rome? In fact, the negotiations would never have started in that case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-07a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-08", "file": "debates1962-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "163761530954823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1137.6", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "I have no information about that matter. Usually, if the governor were satisfied that the prisoner required the book for the purpose of his own appeal or any legal matters in which he personally was involved, leave would certainly be granted. I think that we have to leave discretion to the governor in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1137.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-08", "file": "debates1962-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "163761530954823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take it off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House consider the Motion on the Order Paper in my name which refers to my Question which the Prime Minister has just answered? Will he also bear in mind the undesirability of leaving that sort of Motion on the Order Paper any longer than is necessary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-08", "file": "debates1962-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "163761530954823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1171.0", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for reading those words, because I think that the House will agree that they confirm that my recollection is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-08", "file": "debates1962-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "163761530954823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " national agricultural review. But we could be playing with words here and we could be totally misleading ourselves. It is not the fact that we have an agricultural review that gives stability to British agriculture, but what follows inevitably from the review. I want to ask the Minister of Agriculture to make abundantly plain what the Community agricultural review entails and what action follows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-08", "file": "debates1962-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "163761530954823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Christopher Soames)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Christopher Soames)", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman. The people who have been indulging in the double-talk are those who do not in their hearts wish this country to enter in any circumstances and who use the negotiations—highly complicated negotiations—as a means and a weapon to try to see that this matter is not brought to a successful conclusion. This is certainly the position as seen by the general public as a whole today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-08", "file": "debates1962-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "163761530954823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It may be the final agreement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "I used the word \"provisional\" in the way that my right hon. Friend has used it for all the agreements he has arrived at in Brussels hitherto. It is agreed provisionally in that sense, to be looked at in the context of the negotiations as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-08", "file": "debates1962-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "163761530954823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1194.1", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am asking the Minister whether the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-08", "file": "debates1962-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "163761530954823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1195.0", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "s proposition and all that could be agreed at that meeting was that Ministers would resume their discussion of it at a later date. Therefore, this important item of our transitional period, its arrangements and its duration, remains to be settled together with many other points affecting the common agricultural policy and arrangements for the different commodities. We have a lot to agree upon yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-08", "file": "debates1962-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "163761530954823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We all do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "e, which is the same method. In my view, whoever has the responsibility of conducting these vitally important negotiations deserves our good will and our good wishes. According to the terms of the Amendment, we ask the Government to negotiate. I wish the right hon. Gentleman well. He is our negotiator. I wish him success. I hope that he is able to bring the negotiations to a successful conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-08", "file": "debates1962-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "163761530954823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1270.1", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "urther. We read the accounts of what happened at Llandudno—Ministers of the Crown stationed on the \"prom\", glad-handing bewildered delegates to manoeuvre them into supporting entry into the Common Market. What a role for them. There was the last minute flood of Central Office propaganda. There were the buttons which were issued marked \"Yes\". \"Yes\" to what? Perhaps the Lord Privy Seal will tell us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-08", "file": "debates1962-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "163761530954823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1270.1", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "w years. We have heard before from the right hon. Gentleman about change. We were heartened five years ago to hear his speech about the \"wind of change\" in Africa. What have the Government done about the \"wind of change\" in Africa?—Arms to South Africa, the Southern Rhodesian Constitution, Northern Rhodesia, Katanga, and Pilate washing his hands over Portuguese atrocities in Angola and Mozambique.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-08", "file": "debates1962-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "163761530954823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1285.1", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "f the negotiations or heard a full discussion about them. We have come to the conclusion of the debate with the speech of the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson). Those who heard his speech on foreign affairs in the debate on the Address last week may, perhaps, have noticed a considerable contrast between that and his speech tonight, but then, of course, last week was before the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-08", "file": "debates1962-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "163761530954823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "s afternoon. At one stage he said, \"Let us abandon this idea of being a supplicant\", and I think that the right hon. Gentleman said the same thing. Perhaps there is a linguistic misunderstanding here. Both the right hon. Gentlemen, having been to Brussels and heard a great deal of talk about suppliant and suppleant, may not realise that suppliant is not a supplicant, but is a deputy who is acting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-08", "file": "debates1962-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "163761530954823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Free entry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "possibility, in the judgment of the E.F.T.A. countries, to renegotiate the Treaty of Rome. In paragraphs 11, 12 and 13 of the Paris statement I said that we accepted the Treaty of Rome and wished to negotiate only protocols. It is, therefore, somewhat unusual that at this stage it should be said that we are not making this plain. Similarly, in Paris—paragraphs 17, 18 and 19 of the Paris statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-08", "file": "debates1962-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "163761530954823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1294.2", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-08", "file": "debates1962-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "163761530954823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1294.4", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Nigeria?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "t we asked for association for all the Commonwealth. I would point out that we deliberately did so, although we already had been told that certain countries, such as India, did not wish to have it. We did it to keep it open right across the front so that all could see the details of the new Convention. When it became dear that India did not wish it we did not go on arguing for it across the board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-08a.1294.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-09", "file": "debates1962-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0e3760c7c14752d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-09a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " she is over 70, goes up from £4 4s. 1d. to £5 1s. 11d. I now come to the question of the overseas pensioners. Before I embark upon this difficult question, I should like to say how glad I am to see on the Government Front Bench my hon. Friend the Joint Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, who played a leading part in pressing for steps of this kind before he joined the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-09a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-09", "file": "debates1962-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0e3760c7c14752d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-09a.1347.3", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "h sides of the House, on the other side rather less convincingly than on this perhaps, are committed to the proposition that inflation is public enemy No. 1 and is the worst of our economic ills. I understand that one-sixth of the voters of this country are affected by this and similar Measures. That may be wrong. I take it from a letter to the Daily Telegraph from—I cannot remember his first name", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-09a.1347.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-09", "file": "debates1962-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0e3760c7c14752d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-09a.1400.2", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "y. This is the first time I have been intimately concerned with a Pensions (Increase) Bill but I had only begun to consider the complexities of this matter when I came upon the name of Mr. Glenvil Hall. Coming from the same part of the country, I knew him very well personally and I regret very much that he is no longer with us. He was as highly respected in the Come Valley as he was in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-09a.1400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-12", "file": "debates1962-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a790e78ee60bd77c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-12a.6.4", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "There is no alternative until we become—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-12a.6.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-12", "file": "debates1962-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a790e78ee60bd77c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-12a.15.3", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENEVA CONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smithers", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. It is not for me to comment on a matter which is the responsibility of the Minister of Defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-12a.15.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-12", "file": "debates1962-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a790e78ee60bd77c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-12a.16.0", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENEVA CONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "Is it not an extraordinary doctrine that Ministerial Departments are not collectively responsible? Can the hon. Gentleman say whether the Minister of Defence is going to answer this Written Question verbally or in writing?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-12a.16.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-12", "file": "debates1962-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a790e78ee60bd77c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-12a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEIGHTS AND MEASURES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "long with the methods of distributing goods—and that they are likely to change even more in the future, the Bill breaks new ground by extending consumer protection to a wide range of goods in everyday use, for example, cosmetics, soap and detergents, polishes, petrol, oil and anti-freeze, fertilisers and seeds and paint. I shudder every time I look at the Schedules and see how complex they appear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-12a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-12", "file": "debates1962-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a790e78ee60bd77c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-12a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEIGHTS AND MEASURES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": " While I would not claim that the size of a double Scotch has now been fixed to the satisfaction of all hon. Members, at least in future they will know how much they are getting and can order accordingly. For those who do not already know it, the measure in Scotland is bigger than the measure in the North-East Coast, which, in turn, is bigger than the measure normally used in London and the South.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-12a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-12", "file": "debates1962-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a790e78ee60bd77c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-12a.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEIGHTS AND MEASURES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "and proper size. I see from the Bill that the sale of beer does not solve the tiresome problem which many beer drinkers find. I can speak from other people's experience only not being a keen beer drinker, but I gather that there is great disturbance because it is legally necessary to fill a pint tankard right to the brim, so that the contents overflow on to the bar, in order to give legal measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-12a.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-12", "file": "debates1962-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a790e78ee60bd77c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-12a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS (BURTON-LEICESTER LINE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will get there at the same time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "ll served. All they have to do is to take a train to Derby, from Derby to Leicester and from Leicester to London. That, however, costs more money. If one is affluent and travels first class it will cost 6s. 2d. more on the return journey. I got these figures from Burton Station this morning. If one is not so affluent or if one is more democratic and travels second class, the cost is 5s. 6d. extra.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-12a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-13", "file": "debates1962-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1947c5ed5942bebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.168.3", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "Minister that he was looking at a report from a Working Committee which held out some hope to local authorities. Will the Minister consider getting rid of this anomalous law so that we will not have a position, as we have now, Where one rule apparently is applies to local councillors and a totally different rule is being applied to Ministers who leave the Front Bench and take up City appointments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-13", "file": "debates1962-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1947c5ed5942bebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "But the rent of accommodation must reflect its size and the rent of comparable accommodation in the neighbourhood and, to a certain extent, the means of the tenant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.178.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-13", "file": "debates1962-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1947c5ed5942bebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.179.8", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "This is not out of order——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.179.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-13", "file": "debates1962-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1947c5ed5942bebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.179.9", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am entitled to make a submission to Mr. Speaker and I shall do so, and hon. Gentlemen opposite will not put me off. What I want to put to you, Mr. Speaker, is that arising out of the improvement grants there will be increases in rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.179.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-13", "file": "debates1962-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1947c5ed5942bebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPACE COMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "Will not the Prime Minister look at the matter again? Is not he aware of the general dissatisfaction with the split responsibilities of Ministers towards the people in the areas where there is very little new work going?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-13", "file": "debates1962-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1947c5ed5942bebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "Is not this a quite inadequate explanation of an untimely and irresponsible decision'? Does not the Prime Minister agree that this test can make very little, if any, difference to the deterrent power of the West—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.198.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-13", "file": "debates1962-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1947c5ed5942bebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Are we to understand that the Government have decided that after this test in no circumstances will they resume testing of any kind?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-13", "file": "debates1962-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1947c5ed5942bebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tomorrow?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ospects of an early international agreement to ban nuclear tests. The House knows that my course is governed by precedents. This is like an occasion we had in, I think, February, and my decision must depend upon the timetable. If I rightly heard the Prime Minister's words just now they were that it was designed that this test should take place within the next few weeks. On the face of those words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-13", "file": "debates1962-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1947c5ed5942bebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ill ascertain the accuracy of what I am saying. If I heard the Prime Minister's words aright, they were \"within the next few weeks\". If that means at a distance from today of not less than eight days, for instance, then, for obvious reasons, I could not find this application to be within the Standing Order. I therefore want clarification from the Government, if they will be kind enough, as to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-13", "file": "debates1962-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1947c5ed5942bebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Foot", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. Is not the matter now before the House an attempt by you, Mr. Speaker, to elucidate from the Government the exact position about the possibility of the explosion of this bomb?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-13", "file": "debates1962-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1947c5ed5942bebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "s period was chosen because it permits two general elections, one in a year's time and the second five years later, by which time it is thought that people will have had a fair experience of the Federation and will be in a position to judge. My hon. Friend the Member for Banbury asked whether we are satisfied with our security arrangements and our intelligence. I agree that that is very important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-13", "file": "debates1962-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1947c5ed5942bebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "ards) and finally, in some detail, by the hon. Member for Dundee, East, and that is this flogging occurrence in Aden. I shall say at once that my right hon. Friend and I knew nothing about this incident until we read about it in this morning's papers. A telegram was immediately sent to the Governor asking for information. So far, we have received only what I can describe as a short, interim reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-13", "file": "debates1962-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1947c5ed5942bebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "It came through on the tape last night, I understand, but I heard about it when I read about it in the morning papers. I am giving the hon. Member the facts. There is no need to be controversial about this. It seems—this is important—that the punishment was not flogging, but caning, which is a very different thing. I am assured that it was carried out under medical inspection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-13", "file": "debates1962-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1947c5ed5942bebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The third possibility is that the policy of hon. Members opposite could lead to heavy pressure for merger with the Yemen, which would not be acceptable to this Government and which, if hon. Members opposite have any regard for the interests of the people of Aden and of this country, which I know they have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-13a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.352.8", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "Why does not the Army treat the eldest son of a widow who has four young children, who is entirely dependent upon National Insurance allowances, who has to go out to work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.352.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.362.2", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": "d not agree that such an average delay, which is very much worse than anything we have heard of in England, is today a very serious matter and can hold up most important projects connected with industry and housing and schools and lots of other things, and will he take steps to increase the number of reporters, if that is the cause of the trouble, either by paying members of the Bar increased fees", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.362.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. M. Thomson", "preceding_text": "ful and, in certain cases, affect the supply of electricity to industry in Scotland and are likely to cause very serious damage? Instead of accepting his hon. Friend's plea to increase the fees of these advocates, who do this apparently as a spare time job, would the hon. Gentleman consider suggesting that they might have a penalty on their fees if they do not produce reports in a reasonable time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.362.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.367.2", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be aware that we have had recurring —'", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.367.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.370.7", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Is not the hon. Gentleman aware that there is far more to it than he has indicated—that far more falls to the general manager than he has detailed? In view of the importance of the matter and the concern which it has caused particularly in Scotland amongst those Scotsmen who are interested in jobs of this kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.370.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.373.9", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.373.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister no reference at all is made, not to the form of the tribunal because that is explicitly stated, but to who is to preside over it, or who are to be the members. Surely it is within the prerogative of the House of Commons, in a matter of this sort, which apparently concerns, or may concern, the honour of right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.386.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.390.4", "colnum": "390", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is 'they'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "ad (Mr. Galbraith)—rumours hinted in the Press and magnified by gossip—I felt that this was a different kind of attack from the normal attack on Ministers' efficiency and, in this particular case, was directed against the character of my hon. Friend. Indeed, looking back I now see what right hon. Gentlemen had in mind when they started this whispering campaign about these letters which had passed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.390.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He should not have referred to them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "had a Tribunal of Inquiry been appointed at the beginning there would have been no such rumours. I must refer to some of the things which the Prime Minister said in the course of his remarks this afternoon about these rumours and insinuations. He particularly attacked my right hon. Friend the Member for Be1per because of the references which my right hon. Friend made in the House to these letters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said that he had seen them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "arly attacked my right hon. Friend the Member for Be1per because of the references which my right hon. Friend made in the House to these letters. [An HON. MEMBER: \"He should not have referred to them.\"] I cannot agree with that. I think that my right hon. Friend was perfectly entitled to refer to something which had already appeared in a newspaper article which spoke of letters being in existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "with a problem. It is this. Is Mr. Hoskins to be asked what his sources of information were? Anyone who has read that article will agree that it is unlikely that he invented it. It is extremely detailed. Somebody must have talked to him. Somebody must have given him some information. If he is asked that question then, as a journalist, it is only too likely that he will refuse to reveal his source.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.407.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And character assassination.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "May I reply to the Leader of the Opposition? The word \"squalid\" was used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.421.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Berkeley", "preceding_text": "seen them and he went on to say that they indicated a degree of Ministerial responsibility which goes far beyond the ordinary business of a Minister. He then went on to say that the Lynskey Tribunal was set up to deal with a junior Minister for far less than is involved in this. Do not let us forget that the junior Minister concerned in the Lynskey Tribunal was in fact found guilty of impropriety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.422.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Howard", "preceding_text": "ewspaper, last Saturday, printed a long article by its political correspondent the theme of which was, \"Tory anger grows\". First, it dealt with the speech of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Defence on the Vassall case, which was termed \"frivolous\". I sat through the whole debate—not many of us did so—and I listened to every word that my right hon. Friend said. This was not a frivolous speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.431.4", "colnum": "431", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Crossman—Mr. Woodburn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.431.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.432.3", "colnum": "432", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I fully accept that. By a slip of the tongue, I called the hon. Member, but I invite him to allow me to correct myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.432.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It would mean going wide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": "of men to live their own lives. But they are not living their own lives when they are in Government service. This is the life of the nation, and we cannot afford to take any risk in these matters. There is no question that we have a right and, in my view, a duty to ensure that any persons susceptible to blackmail are not employed in any form of office where they can get hold of secret information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did a good job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Of course I accept that the right hon. and learned Member will follow the traditions of this Tribunal procedure, which I have been showing to be absolutely hopeless for carrying out an impartial investigation. I have no doubt that he will do as well as Lord Shawcross did against his own side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "That is not the view of some of the victims. It was not the view of Sir Alfred Butt, Conservative Member for, I think, Balham and Touting at the time. This is what Sir Alfred Butt said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dishonourable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " he would be doing something dishonourable and he would be implicating people very high up. If he refused to give the name, he would be had up for contempt of court, would he not? So what did he do? He thought that the best thing he could do to save his informant and to prevent himself from being had up for contempt of court was to invent another innocuous story about where he got the information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-14", "file": "debates1962-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "abebfe49e369b629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why ask for it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "the same terms of reference before the same Tribunal. It may be that the first two terms of reference are properly submitted to the Tribunal. If that is so, the security issue should have been separately examined, although I would sooner have seen the whole thing done in court in an open, decent way with charges made known and people properly defended. I do not like this tribunal system very much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-14a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-15", "file": "debates1962-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4ccc6d842d55351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-15a.566.4", "colnum": "566", "heading": "ADVANCE FACTORIES, SCOTLAND AND NORTH-EAST ENGLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it necessarily follows that branch lines will be closed down exactly where advance factories are going up", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-15a.566.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-16", "file": "debates1962-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "33bdf3849402a248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-16a.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "As I am a member of that Committee, Mr. Speaker, it would presumably be improper of me to pursue it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-16a.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-16", "file": "debates1962-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "33bdf3849402a248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-16a.756.2", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "ured a very small change, which was indeed a benefit, by moving the qualifying dates from 31st March in any given year to 1st April of that year. That was a tremendous victory for which we had to fight very hard. I have no doubt that the Chief Secretary thought it was imperilling the sanctity of Treasury Bills that the Measure should be mauled about by Parliament. But to get back to where we were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-16a.756.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-16", "file": "debates1962-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "33bdf3849402a248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-16a.781.5", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "felt it desirable to announce this in July, before we rose for the Summer Recess. The right hon. Gentleman probably did so because he knew that the House was not only attentive, but was perhaps a little impatient about this matter and wanted to hear something before we rose for the Summer Recess. Hon. Members on both sides of the House were greatly encouraged when they heard the Chief Inspector's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-16a.781.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.807.0", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "ng, but that if the industry decided that it was not sufficiently in its interest to keep this body going, further Government funds would not be forthcoming. It is, naturally, a source of regret that the industry did not see fit to keep the Horticultural Marketing Council going. On the other hand, there have been various proposals from the industry about how to replace the job done by the Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.807.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.812.5", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "her figures? Is the Minister also aware that Mr. Strauss, in his recent book on the Common Market, has based estimates on the I.L.O. food index which tend to show that the average increase in price per head per week for food in this country if we join the agricultural policy of the Common Market would be an increase from 4s. 6d. per head per week to 5s. 3d. per head per week, and can the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.812.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "hank the Minister for his kindly wishes? As the matter has been referred to, I am sure that hon. Members on both sides of the House would like to express deep sympathy with the wife of the noble Lord who was involved in this tragic accident while performing his Parliamentary duty, and also the wife of the gallant squadron leader, Squadron Leader Stott, who died in the course of his hazardous work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "preceding_text": "r the question of nuclear tests casts its shadow over both the East and West and both sides of the House of Commons. When one speaks about these matters and the steps to be taken about them, I think that one should not talk in terms of a bargain about the Common Market or some such matter, which the right hon. Member for Belper (Mr. G. Brown) referred to. These are graver issues for all concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.896.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.898.2", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "Not for the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneyeroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneyeroft", "preceding_text": "k the right hon. Gentleman initiated this debate and the Motion with some misunderstanding of the situation. On 13th November, the Labour Party issued a statement which said: The Government's announcement yesterday could hardly have come at a more unsuitable moment. Mr. Kennedy announced the ending of the American series a week ago. But Mr. Kennedy had not announced the end of the American series.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "hich is in no sense the start of a new series. I think that the attempt to portray that as somehow the decisive event, the one big thing amidst all these events which will make the difference as to whether we have a nuclear test ban or not, is rather difficult to sustain in debate. Indeed, I think that hon. Members on both sides of the House know quite well that the Russian decision on a test ban—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.903.5", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "The time could come with the inter-continental ballistic missiles which are growing in number in the Soviet Union and are pointing at Washington and New York, when the Russians might gamble on the possibility that a threat to us would not inevitably bring American retribution. The independent deterrent makes that gamble just not worth while.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.903.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.922.3", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "Independent if it is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "words, the completion of a test made earlier of that device, may lead the Soviet Union to use as an excuse for going on with its underground tests the fact that Britain is doing this test now. I am quite prepared to believe that the Russians will use that argument, but, in my view, it ill becomes the Opposition in this House to put the idea into their heads, which is precisely what they have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.935.2", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "In using the word \"enemies\", I was including anybody who wished to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.935.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.936.1", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his memory and for remembering that quotation. I recall that speech, and it is the result of every Government having got the priorities wrong since World War II and having spent too much on welfare before looking after defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.936.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Some still have.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "d the Member for Hertfordshire, South-West. I believe that the existence of the nuclear bomb is of very great value to mankind as long as mankind is prepared to do the stupid things it has been prepared to do this century. I believe there is a difference between \"awe\" and \"fear\". Some of us have lived through two periods of fear when we knew that our enemies had more conventional arms than we had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.938.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.941.4", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "this issue. I need not go into that. We are talking about a particular issue. I was dealing with the arguments raised by the Minister of Defence. The right hon. Gentleman seems to be losing his sense of proportion and political reality. He is treating this matter, this great matter which he said was a great national issue, as another \"little local difficulty\", just as he did with the Vassall case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.941.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "announcement of the decision, and they have had a very critical Press. The Times , in its leader of 13th November, said: If the Government had wracked their brains to choose a bad time for proclaiming a new nuclear test they could not have hit on a worse moment than now. That view has been echoed in nearly all the Press. This is the moment when President Kennedy has announced the end of his tests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. J. B. Godber)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. J. B. Godber)", "preceding_text": "s. I propose to consider the second part of the Motion and in the short time which remains to examine the damage which the announcement of the test has done, could do or will do to the prospects of a treaty. I was struck by the fact throughout the whole of this short debate that nobody on the other side of the House, so far as I have heard, has criticised the Soviets for the part they have played—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.956.2", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "ble the Western case is so as to enable the Soviet people to realise what it is their Government are doing to them in not agreeing to a Treaty. By moving the Motion of censure tonight and by trying to exaggerate out of of all reason the effect of this one British test, the Opposition have provided the Soviets with an easy excuse for further polemics. This has made my task at Geneva more difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-19", "file": "debates1962-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "20da55c18ab6c254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ATOMIC ENERGY ESTABLISHMENT, CAPENHURST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "l further reduction. It is to be greatly hoped that this level will not be passed by the present reduction. If there is danger of this it would be well worth our while to accept a certain financial loss to prevent it. We may perhaps follow the United States lead and provide cheap 235 for British reactors. That is the case. I do not expect it to be completely answered tonight. But at the same time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-19a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-20", "file": "debates1962-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb4975c615874b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.988.7", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "There are special reasons for the figures within the Treasury. It is because the type of officer we employ there is somewhat different from those in other Departments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.988.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-20", "file": "debates1962-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb4975c615874b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.996.3", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "I think my hon. Friend is aware that fishing reels imported from Japan have been free of restrictions for as long ago as 1957—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.996.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-20", "file": "debates1962-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb4975c615874b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1015.4", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS (TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "It is debatable, of course, but when the Government put down such a Motion we naturally hope that such debate as there is will arise after the Select Committee has done its work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1015.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-20", "file": "debates1962-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb4975c615874b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "ROYAL NAVY (ACCIDENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": " second point, I think that it will come out in the court of inquiry that one of the reasons for the delay was the superheated steam which was present, and the high pressure that was built up inside the boiler room, which made it difficult for the rescue party. I am sure that the House would like me to congratulate the hon. Member for Loughborough on his calmness and resolution, and on his escape.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-20", "file": "debates1962-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb4975c615874b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1033.8", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "f the year was 553,210, but in the week ended 3rd November, 1962, the number on the colliery books was 540,600. The hon. Member probably will not understand that during the course of the 44 weeks manpower has been running down all the time. In fact, the number of men working in the industry came down by 1,000 from the last week in October to the first week in November, over the course of one week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1033.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-20", "file": "debates1962-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb4975c615874b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You will be there soon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "55 million compared with a loss of £17·571 in the second half of 1961. It showed a profit, and here I pause to congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton), now Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power. It was so nice to hear from the Dispatch Box his maiden speech on coal, and even nicer to feel that a former colleague of mine is now sitting on the Treasury Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-20", "file": "debates1962-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb4975c615874b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ws on this important and basic industry. There was something about my hon. Friend's choice of words today which I liked. His enunciation is good, but his choice of words is even better when discussing a nationalised industry. He did not talk about a \"surplus\" earned by the Coal Board, but used the good homely Tory phrase, \"the profit of the Coal Board\". I, for myself, love profits. I love profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-20", "file": "debates1962-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb4975c615874b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "the Coal Board, but used the good homely Tory phrase, \"the profit of the Coal Board\". I, for myself, love profits. I love profits. [HON. MEMBERS: \"For yourself.\"] Yes. Profits are what make me tick and they make this nation tick. Somebody has to pay the losses of the State boards, but if we can make them pay there will be some residual benefit for the taxpayer in the elimination of trading losses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-20", "file": "debates1962-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb4975c615874b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1044.5", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is dodging the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "As you know, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I am never deflected in these matters. I am grateful to you, as always, for your protection on this important occasion. There is no doubt that tomorrow we will hear the voice of the hon. Member for Hamilton on subsidies for agriculture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1044.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-20", "file": "debates1962-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb4975c615874b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "r Dundee, East. Before you call me to order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, may I say that I am merely quoting from the Report of the Committee? Two Tory M.P.s gave evidence orally. They both took the trouble. My hon. Friend the Member for Inverness (Mr. N. McLean) gave oral evidence, and I gave my evidence at length, and orally. The burden of my evidence, which was too lengthy to be published in the Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-20", "file": "debates1962-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb4975c615874b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1050.0", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "o the consumer is not. In the west of England—and I see my hon. Friend the Member for Exeter (Mr. Dudley Williams) nodding assent—and in the south of England the consumers greatly object to having to pay the present high price of coal. Next year and the year after we shall be getting coal prices down. For the time being, we have got over our first hurdle. We are beginning to make the industry pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-20", "file": "debates1962-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb4975c615874b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1068.0", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Box", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Box", "preceding_text": "t to a coal mine. During the 3½ hours I spent underground I examined the various types of coal faces and saw something of the roof formations, particularly where roofs were inclined to cave in. I also crawled 50 yards up a 2 ft. 6 ins. coal seam, which was quite an experience in itself. I commend the opportunity, if it comes to hon. Members on either side of the Hause, to visit a coal mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-20a.1068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-21", "file": "debates1962-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdbeaf897d6ce8e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Argyll.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Where does the Minister live these days?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-21", "file": "debates1962-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdbeaf897d6ce8e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1215.5", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: A red herring?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give directions for cheap nourishing, succulent food to be made available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1215.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-21", "file": "debates1962-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdbeaf897d6ce8e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1217.0", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "INDIA AND CHINA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The cease-fire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for what the right hon. Gentleman has said in his first remark. I have every hope that the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations will be able to make this visit. If it is not possible, we shall have to consider some other arrangement. With regard to the third, as I understood it, it is still very obscure; the withdrawal was to take place as from 1st December—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1217.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-21", "file": "debates1962-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdbeaf897d6ce8e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS ACCOMMODATION (COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ned, and will authorise me to ask the Minister of Public Building and Works to implement them. It was no easy task for the Committee to complete its investigations and submit its Report before the end of the Session. I am sure that the House will wish me to congratulate the Chairman and the Member upon the work they have done and to thank them for the service which they have rendered to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-21", "file": "debates1962-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdbeaf897d6ce8e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS ACCOMMODATION (COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "This is surely a matter which the House should have an opportunity Of discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-21", "file": "debates1962-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdbeaf897d6ce8e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Browne", "preceding_text": "provement of Roads) Act, 1955? There are many lanes and roads, both unclassified and classified, in Devon and other parts of the country which will still require aid if they are to be kept up so that the milk lorries and other lorries, apart from the farmer himself, may pass up and down. While it is very easy in places like Wales and Scotland to decide upon the line between hill land and lowland —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-21", "file": "debates1962-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdbeaf897d6ce8e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1292.5", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "preceding_text": "n us\". When I looked amazed and said that I knew nothing about farming, he said, \"My dear boy\"—in his best Eton tones—\"You do not need to know anything; all you want is a bookkeeper\". Now I know that he was right. It was that which first started me thinking about this subject. I used to listen to my friend \"Featherbed\" Evans speaking on this subject from these benches, unhappily no longer with US.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1292.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-21", "file": "debates1962-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdbeaf897d6ce8e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1292.5", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "preceding_text": "griculture? It has to go into those areas which will produce, by virtue of their commodities, revenue which would benefit this country, or internationaly benefit sterling. But how in the world are we to sell dynamos, motor cars or capital goods to countries that need them if we cannot take their products—Polish or Danish eggs, Polish or Danish bacon, cucumbers or what we will from other countries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1292.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-21", "file": "debates1962-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdbeaf897d6ce8e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1304.0", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "I was driven to disclose that fact by the rather flippant attitude adopted by the hon. Gentleman to the whole debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-21", "file": "debates1962-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdbeaf897d6ce8e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1304.4", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "he way in which he explained each Clause in some detail, of great assistance. I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that, and I hope that it will be possible for whoever winds up the debate to deal with various other points which obviously could not be covered. In so far as the purpose of the Bill is generally to assist the industry to be efficient—and it relates to marginal farming areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1304.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-21", "file": "debates1962-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdbeaf897d6ce8e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1304.4", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "enerally designed to stimulate co-operation—I believe that it places the right emphasis on our present agricultural policy. During the debate on the Price Review that we normally have every year an opportunity is provided to take the pulse of the industry, and a long-term view of its prospects. Unfortunately, that debate did not take place last year, but this debate affords the same opportunities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1304.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-21", "file": "debates1962-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdbeaf897d6ce8e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1332.3", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James H. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James H. Hoy", "preceding_text": "s for some hon. Members. I shall return to that later. I should like to say how much we regret that on this occasion we do not have the hon. Member for Westmorland (Mr. Vane) with us. When he was Joint Parliamentary Secretary he was courtesy itself and very helpful indeed. I think that we should acknowledge the assistance which hon. Members on both sides received from him in his official capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1332.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-21", "file": "debates1962-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdbeaf897d6ce8e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Fraud?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": " and I spend many hours in this House inquiring about how Government money is spent and a lot of that time is taken up in considering the expenditure on the agricultural industry. This legislation follows a recommendation from the Public Accounts Committee. As the Minister said, the Committee had a lot of trouble in investigating a considerable amount of fraud which was going on over this subsidy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-21a.1334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-22", "file": "debates1962-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "40fde4482ba3604e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-22a.1387.2", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "If the Opposition cannot shake the intolerable complacency shown on the benches opposite about this matter, I can assure the Government that the people of this country will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-22a.1387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-22", "file": "debates1962-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "40fde4482ba3604e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-22a.1406.3", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Was he told?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Can we really leave the matter like this? This is a very unsatisfactory state of affairs and if the hon. Member for Market Harborough (Mr. Farr) were here perhaps he would be prepared to withdraw the allegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-22a.1406.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-22", "file": "debates1962-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "40fde4482ba3604e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-22a.1406.4", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He should be here.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Can we really leave the matter like this? This is a very unsatisfactory state of affairs and if the hon. Member for Market Harborough (Mr. Farr) were here perhaps he would be prepared to withdraw the allegation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Was he told?\"] I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-22a.1406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-22", "file": "debates1962-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "40fde4482ba3604e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-22a.1419.0", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MINISTERIAL MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "es in the world. We made our position absolutely plain, and that remains our position. But it also emerges that with the American trade legislation there is to be an opportunity of negotiating about these problems. The difficulties affect Europe and the United States together, and this only emphasises the need to deal with these matters by some world commodity arrangements if they can be produced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-22a.1419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-22", "file": "debates1962-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "40fde4482ba3604e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-22a.1464.2", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": " new jobs have been provided. We must try to find out how many of the new jobs as well as the old ones have folded up. I am told that about a quarter of the jobs created in the 1950s were in industries which were already declining over here and that a considerable percentage of those new jobs have folded up. This is a situation which can only have been brought about by a complete lack of planning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-22a.1464.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-22", "file": "debates1962-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "40fde4482ba3604e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-22a.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "ern Ireland I have been impressed by the possibilities of speeding up the housing programme? I think it will very much depend on whether the resources of the industry, including skilled labour resources, can be suitably made available to carry out the scheme, but I am quite sure it does offer a very important chance both of improving the economy and of improving the basis of Northern Ireland life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-22a.1536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-23", "file": "debates1962-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "c695fc2f2356641a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-23a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "ARMY AND AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "uation, according to what the Government claimed to have happened, in which they might have been involved in battle in Kuwait, and yet we decided to send them there without debating the matter. The same happened over Thailand. I think it is most reprehensible. We were told in the case of Kuwait that we had to send troops if the Ruler asked for them. It is a most extraordinary doctrine, I must say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-23a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-26", "file": "debates1962-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "53938847f163f4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.19.9", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "preceding_text": "I can understand the right hon. Gentleman's statement, but this is the third of such letters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.19.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-26", "file": "debates1962-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "53938847f163f4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.20.5", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "I rejoice with the hon. Gentleman that he represents an area of high wages. I disagree with him that many people will not suffer the indignity of National Assistance, for I disagree that it is an indignity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.20.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-26", "file": "debates1962-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "53938847f163f4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.34.5", "colnum": "34", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (QUOTATIONS FROM LETTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "knowing the Angola rule and knowing that the matter had been determined by the House within the last few months, and he deliberately quoted sections from those letters and is now unwilling even to rise, in accordance with the indication that you obviously addressed to him in your Ruling, and explain the circumstances. He hopes to avoid laying letters which might justify my hon. Friend's criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.34.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-26", "file": "debates1962-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "53938847f163f4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE AND PENSIONS (BENEFITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "An hon. Member \"Old Stuff\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": " by my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill), within a year. The retirement pensioner had to wait for over five years, until the retail prices index had risen by 28·8 per cent., until the value of the 26s. pension had fallen to 20s. 3d., before the party opposite thought fit to raise it; and that as a last convulsive gesture before the demise of the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-26", "file": "debates1962-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "53938847f163f4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.62.3", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE AND PENSIONS (BENEFITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "ondly, we have to have regard to the need to encourage private and group thrift and private providence, which form the basis of economic independence for the individual and of progressive investment to sustain growth. Thirdly, we have to have regard to the need to ensure that we do not unduly handicap industry in international competition by overloading it with social security burdens or taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.62.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-26", "file": "debates1962-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "53938847f163f4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE AND PENSIONS (BENEFITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "erefore, became hypocritical and mentioned the right hon. Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths) as saying nice things about pensioners and about his schemes. We have had to sit here and listen to the malicious things said by the hon. Member about the record of this Government during the last ten years, when we have been clearing up the mess left by the previous five years of Socialist government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-26", "file": "debates1962-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "53938847f163f4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE AND PENSIONS (BENEFITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-26", "file": "debates1962-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "53938847f163f4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE AND PENSIONS (BENEFITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did they come out of it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "o refer, in the terms used by the party opposite, to this fine National Insurance contribution as a swindle which man and employer make each week to provide the benefits offered. There is nothing that private insurance can offer—the unemployment cover, the sickness cover, children's allowances, Health Service benefits and final pension, that can hold a candle to the whole of this graduated scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-26", "file": "debates1962-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "53938847f163f4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE AND PENSIONS (BENEFITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "ted scheme is a fake, there is not a word to describe national superannuation, because the hon. Member for Coventry, East knows that it has twice the impact of grab from the wage earner's pocket. No self-employed man would have gone into the scheme. Why should a man with £1,000 a year have £80 a year deducted and then by the time he is 64¾, if he dies, he has lost the lost? It has all gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-26", "file": "debates1962-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "53938847f163f4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE AND PENSIONS (BENEFITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "ot paid in, by the end of ten years we would have lost £900 million. The whole costing of national superannuation was a flop from the word \"Go.\". The actual cost would be much more than the hon. Member suggested. The hon. Member attempted to show that we cannot have pensions without the workers being poorer while they are working for the benefit of older people. I want to be a little constructive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-26", "file": "debates1962-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "53938847f163f4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE AND PENSIONS (BENEFITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "efits of the pension. The Motion is widely drafted. It calls for an extension of all the benefits of the Welfare State. We are implored to help in so many directions. How shall we select them? Shall it be those over 75 who are suffering more than the younger ones? Shall it be those over 80? Shall it be the 10s. widows? Shall we remove the earnings rule? Shall we include all pensioners, all widows?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-26", "file": "debates1962-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "53938847f163f4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE AND PENSIONS (BENEFITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Wade", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Wade", "preceding_text": "little ragged, or, at any rate, for hon. Members to jump from one subject to another, because the Motion is so wide. I have on other occasions spoken about the very important subject of pensions. If I do not refer to the pensions or to the sick, it does not mean that I am not very much concerned with their welfare. If later I refer to widows, it does not mean that I am not interested in spinsters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-26", "file": "debates1962-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "53938847f163f4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE AND PENSIONS (BENEFITS)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Edith Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Edith Pitt", "preceding_text": "Assistance Board to play. From what he said, I thought that he wished to wipe it out altogether, but I now understand that he cannot do away with a means test. He will still have to have a means test for those who will need assistance from the Board. The National Assistance Board does a wonderful job. Since no one has yet done so, I feel that I should pay a tribute to what the Board's officers do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-26", "file": "debates1962-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "53938847f163f4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE AND PENSIONS (BENEFITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Lord Chancellor\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " bag of coal went up by ls. 3d. I know that, prodded by the Government, the electricity authority has raised the price of lighting and heating in respect of electricity, and I know that rents are going up. What does all this talk of percentages mean in these terms? A man who retires next year, and whose average wage at the moment is over £16, comes down immediately to 57s. 6d. That is the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-26", "file": "debates1962-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "53938847f163f4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE AND PENSIONS (BENEFITS)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have never had it so good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "d to seek to project a warm human view without at the same time bringing out either the cost or the effect of other good things which are proposed. If one yields to that sort of temptation it is infinitely dangerous to a Parliamentary democracy. That is why we must amend the Motion. We must put in its place words which express our confidence that the Government who over stormy and difficult years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-26a.156.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-27", "file": "debates1962-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "00b3018e1b643956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.189.8", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Kerans", "preceding_text": "Does not my hon. Friend agree that, with 9·6 per cent. unemployed in my area, I am facing a very difficult situation and that there is urgent need to co-ordinate Government Departments in order to bring industry there? Time is running out and I cannot buy time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.189.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-27", "file": "debates1962-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "00b3018e1b643956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.207.4", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that some people have great misgivings about the policy of the Government in rushing arms to India when they did not know very much of what the quarrel was about?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.207.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-27", "file": "debates1962-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "00b3018e1b643956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.236.7", "colnum": "236", "heading": "PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But what a majority.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I spent quite a long time at Woodside explaining this and exactly what we would do, and the Labour candidate was returned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.236.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-27", "file": "debates1962-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "00b3018e1b643956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.259.5", "colnum": "259", "heading": "PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Member must go away and do his homework. He must read the White Paper", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.259.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-27", "file": "debates1962-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "00b3018e1b643956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "advertising. The electricity industry spent well over £1 million in its accounts on advertising last year. Why publish the picture on a large scale of the Chairman of the Council? That is of no interest whatever to consumers. Why publish an entire newspaper page of detailed information concerning the conduct of the Electricity Council? The whole lot might have been put into a 9-inch double column—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-27", "file": "debates1962-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "00b3018e1b643956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "ill on to a raw material and producing a finished article created something like £250–£300 of increased wealth in one year. If one applies even that figure of many years ago—leaving out of account the increased productivity of today, which has in all probability more than doubled the value of the individual worker's output—the loss in wealth to Scotland runs at about £30,000 million a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-27", "file": "debates1962-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "00b3018e1b643956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "preceding_text": "e debate seems to have taken on an added significance because of both the high national level of unemployment and the serious position in certain regions. I might also say that the debate has been notable for the very forthright statement on behalf of the Labour Party by the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. T. Fraser), the principal Opposition spokesman in the debate, advocating more nationalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-27", "file": "debates1962-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "00b3018e1b643956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.328.3", "colnum": "328", "heading": "PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " that public investment should actually expand when private investment is declining and should contract in periods of boom. Of course the implication of the 1944 White Paper was that we should be dealing with economic fluctuations and that from time to time we should be dealing with the problem of mass unemployment which brought such misery in the interwar years. The problem is not the same today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.328.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-27", "file": "debates1962-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "00b3018e1b643956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "PUBLIC INVESTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " as compared with 30s. per head in the rest of Great Britain. Scotland is getting more than 50 per cent. of the programmes of advance factories announced during the last few months. I ask Scottish hon. Members to remember that Board of Trade factories in Scottish development districts now employ nearly 75,000 people. In fact, there is hardly any field where Scotland does not get preferential help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-27a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "asehold system is developing in Scotland. I realise, Sir Robert, that you may find this a little difficult to relate to the Amendment, but it may well be that present developments in Scotland require that we must afford protection to the tenant. I have no desire to embark on a long explanation of land and property tenure in Scotland. I suggest that it would be well worth the Committee studying it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.531.0", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "Where is the rest of the Liberal Party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.531.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "t is not conveyed to any other quarter. But we are pleased to see him, though the person we really want to see is the Leader of the House because he is responsible to us. Our difficulties have been these. Earlier in the debate we were discussing aliens. Let me pay credit to the Home Secretary. He was here throughout the debate, but when we are discussing Londoners we have not the Minister present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.544.3", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Southend, West.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "And I will say that my hon. Friend's speech is far better than mine. We should not be starting this debate at this time of night. I see that the hon. Member for one of the Brighton Divisions is present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.544.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.544.5", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ll come to London, but a considerable proportion do. This adds to the problem in London and to the power of those people who own furnished accommodation. And up go the rents which desperate people are prepared to pay to obtain that accommodation. It is disgraceful that we should be debating this matter at this time of night. I hope that the Chief Patronage Secretary, if he is still in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.544.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.548.4", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must not bring the Chair into this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.548.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "I gladly withdraw. Every hon. Member knows perfectly well that it has been traditional when a Motion to report Progress has been moved for various Members to speak for a certain length of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "s one of the few Members on the benches opposite who were then in their places. I am very glad that he is here tonight. I hope that we shall hear from him because I assume that he is now the senior member of the Government on the Treasury Bench. I hope we shall have some more responsible speech on behalf of the Government than we have yet had. In addressing my remarks to the Minister of Education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.549.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Laurence Pavitt", "preceding_text": "mas, the homeless, those suffering the distress of broken families, and all the others whose circumstances we have been considering today. We have a new Minister of Housing and Local Government. The previous two Ministers, at a very late stage in their careers, discovered the problem of slums and slum clearance. The new Minister has moved much more quickly and has already made some pronouncements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "ject affecting tens of thousands of people. If hon. Members opposite were living under these conditions they would not smirk and laugh as they are doing. Let them go and see these people and smirk and laugh and see what reception they would then get. They shut it out of their minds. They are not interested, except the many of them in the dividends they get out of the exploitation that is going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.557.3", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No, you haven't.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "I have sat here for a long time this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.557.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.559.2", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "My recollection of what the Parliamentary Secretary said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.559.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.563.4", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "living longer and so creating more households. So we have the situation—and it is worse in London because it happens to be an immigration area both for the rest of the country and for countries overseas—in which there is a substantial rise in the number of households in relation to the population, as well as a rising population. It is of some interest to note that it is only five or six years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.563.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "t the Parliamentary Secretary made about an element of humility that ought to come into our approach. Does he really think that the Opposition on this occasion ought to come like the burghers of Calais? Do we have to ask permission to draw his attention to this subject? There are plenty of occasions when one does feel very humble indeed on this subject. A sort of humility of despair comes over me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "o come like the burghers of Calais? Do we have to ask permission to draw his attention to this subject? There are plenty of occasions when one does feel very humble indeed on this subject. A sort of humility of despair comes over me—[ Interruption. ]—something which is not within the experience of the hon. Member for Exeter (Mr. Dudley Williams)—when we have failed to help one of our constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.592.3", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "r Samuel, that such furnished flatlets are the very type of accommodation that students and junior diplomats want. There are advertisements always in the quality papers asking for furnished accommodation of that kind. People want furnished accommodation for a year or two while they settle down. If the Government had a policy for this provision, it would release a great deal of other accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.592.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-28", "file": "debates1962-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5dd83fb8f7a756b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "preceding_text": "cretary's speech struck me and my horn Friends as one of utter complacency and a good deal of inaccuracy. His whole speech was based on the fact that although the position had been bad, it was getting better, that there was no reason to be worried about it and that if only we waited long enough it would solve itself. The lack of households compared with the number the Parliamentary Secretary said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-28a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-29", "file": "debates1962-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "6c83e6a2c421473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.652.6", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harper", "preceding_text": "Does the Parliamentary Secretary believe that this help goes far enough? Is he aware of the already intolerable burden that these local authorities have to carry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.652.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-29", "file": "debates1962-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "6c83e6a2c421473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.652.7", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "In reply to the hon Member's speech, I tell him that 6,000 houses have been approved under the special arrangements and of these—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.652.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-29", "file": "debates1962-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "6c83e6a2c421473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.655.7", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.655.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-29", "file": "debates1962-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "6c83e6a2c421473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY (WITNESSES' EXPENSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will reconsider that, he will find that it is not so easy. None of us can tell what the Tribunal may say. It may pass reflection on certain individuals—I am speaking purely hypothetically—of such a character that nobody would say that those individuals should have their expenses paid out of public funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-29", "file": "debates1962-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "6c83e6a2c421473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.664.3", "colnum": "664", "heading": "TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY (WITNESSES' EXPENSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "May I welcome the fact that the Home Secretary is clearly sensitive to the tact that the House on all sides is not really so happy about the announcement which he has made? The right hon. Gentleman has told us that he will think about it again. Will he be willing to discuss it with us on this side of the House before he makes a further decision?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.664.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-29", "file": "debates1962-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "6c83e6a2c421473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.664.4", "colnum": "664", "heading": "TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY (WITNESSES' EXPENSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I am perfectly willing to discuss it with the Leader of the Opposition and the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.664.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-29", "file": "debates1962-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "6c83e6a2c421473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "I cannot say with accuracy. It certainly will not be this side of Christmas. It depends entirely upon the Board and how the matter progresses. It may well not be for a month or two after Christmas. We will have to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-29", "file": "debates1962-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "6c83e6a2c421473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "ader of the Opposition speak on television about the Common Market, said, \"What a wonderful speech. I agree with every word.\" That seems to be the attitude of some of our Victorian friends opposite. The Victorians liked stopping trains. There were no bus services then, so they had to have the \"Parliamentary\"—the train that stopped at every station by Act of Parliament. I suppose in 25 years' time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-29", "file": "debates1962-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "6c83e6a2c421473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or March.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "r back as June—that there were to be the four parts of the plan. First, Dr. Beeching was to complete his studies. Then there would be publication of the studies with the maps and documents which have come from them. Then, as the Parliamentary Secretary said today, the new railway authority would submit its plans to the Government. The hon. Gentleman told us that this may be done in about February.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-11-29", "file": "debates1962-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "6c83e6a2c421473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is telling us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "lly increased volume of traffic by the provision of services of much higher quality, which will also\"— This will cheer the hearts of every-one— be cheaper. This is wonderful. Let us speed the day. Let us get out the plans. Let us see how we are to get the 90 million tons which should be on the railways. I understand that the original purpose in bringing Dr. Beeching in was to tell us how to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-11-29a.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-03", "file": "debates1962-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "2495bdc0e5953de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-03a.916.3", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "The earnings of many of the women are below £9 a week because they are on part-time work only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-03a.916.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-03", "file": "debates1962-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "2495bdc0e5953de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-03a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Yes —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-03a.925.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-03", "file": "debates1962-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "2495bdc0e5953de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-03a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On which side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " report is the agreement by the Malawi Ministers to undertake measures in the event of their parting from the Federation to put right some of the economic imbalance which will occur at the time of secession. I have received from Dr. Banda and the late lamented Mr. Chisiza a full plan not only for impositions of taxation which would make hon. Members of this House squirm if they had to impose them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-03a.1063.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-04", "file": "debates1962-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "6b4e48707975fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-04a.1138.4", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "In that case, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-04a.1138.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-04", "file": "debates1962-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "6b4e48707975fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-04a.1144.2", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "SERVICE DISABILITY PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "he Parliamentary Secretary. He comes with a brief, but, on the occasion of my Adjournment debate, with a gallantry which was not unsuspected but with a lack of discretion which was rather surprising, the hon. and gallant Gentleman battened down the hatches, clapped on all sail and navigated astern—it is possible to sail astern in those circumstances—into waters in which angels usually fear to swim", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-04a.1144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-04", "file": "debates1962-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "6b4e48707975fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-04a.1185.2", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF DEPOSITORS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " other hon. Member he happened to know and say, \"Now Tom, or Joe, what about you and I going into partnership and starting an industrial bank?\" There is nothing to stop his going to a brass founders and getting a brass plate with his name and those of his partners on it and sticking up the plate on a suitable block of offices with a very high sounding title for the bank and setting up in business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-04a.1185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-04", "file": "debates1962-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "6b4e48707975fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-04a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF DEPOSITORS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"49 per Cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "I stand corrected. However, irrespective of the Moneylenders Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-04a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-04", "file": "debates1962-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "6b4e48707975fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-04a.1199.1", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF DEPOSITORS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Browne", "preceding_text": "ct that the very fact that my hon. Friend the Member for Torquay (Mr. F. M. Bennett), by coincidence, drew a place in the Ballot for Private Members' Bills, and said that he would reintroduce my Bill with certain trimmings, was the reason why the Bill has come before the House at this time. I think it a reflection on the Government that this Bill was not introduced two-and-a-half or two years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-04a.1199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-04", "file": "debates1962-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "6b4e48707975fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-04a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "PURCHASE TAX (MOTOR CARS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "ve tax with some sort of social purpose, but a general indirect tax falling indiscriminately on all articles of ordinary consumption, closer to the more reactionary system of taxation which prevails on the Continent of Europe. If the Chancellor thinks, as he may, like the hon. Member for Kidderminster, that this is the right thing to do, he should say so frankly when he is introducing the changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-04a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-04", "file": "debates1962-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "6b4e48707975fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-04a.1237.3", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "PURCHASE TAX (MOTOR CARS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ry than constant hiccuping in the rates of Purchase Tax. I do not think my right hon. Friend is aware of the extent to which this has gone on during the period of the Conservative Administration. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\") But it was far worse under a Labour Government. Hon. Members opposite must wait for it. What is more, the rates were two or three times as high under a Labour Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-04a.1237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-04", "file": "debates1962-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "6b4e48707975fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-04a.1240.3", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "PURCHASE TAX (MOTOR CARS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ion was the export performance of the British vehicles industry. This represents 18¼ per cent. of the whole of visible exports from the United Kingdom. Any single industry which can contribute such a vast sum to Britain's well-being should not be the subject of onerous and discriminatory indirect taxation. That is the justification for this Order. I finish by reminding my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-04a.1240.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-05", "file": "debates1962-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "5764a0ddd8cb547b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-05a.1293.1", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "But this is not very positive —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-05a.1293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-05", "file": "debates1962-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "5764a0ddd8cb547b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-05a.1293.1", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "But this is not very positive —[ Interruption. ]—well, my hon. Friend's Answer did not seem to convey anything. Is my hon. Friend aware that Great Yarmouth is the most popular holiday resort on the East Coast?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-05a.1293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-05", "file": "debates1962-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "5764a0ddd8cb547b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-05a.1298.6", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to disagree with the hon. Member. The information I have is that it is not a particularly dangerous stretch of road. The accident rate since 1960, I am told, is one fatal accident, an aged pedestrian knocked down in October, two serious accidents and three slight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-05a.1298.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-05", "file": "debates1962-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "5764a0ddd8cb547b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-05a.1314.5", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "But is not the Minister aware that almost every time we undertake a long journey we still see this black smoke being emitted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-05a.1314.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-05", "file": "debates1962-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "5764a0ddd8cb547b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-05a.1317.6", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Yes, but has not the time arrived when my right hon. Friend should cease to shelter behind the so-called experts when everyone with common sense—and, after all, we are all experts on motoring—knows that yellow lights are more restful to the eyes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-05a.1317.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-05", "file": "debates1962-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "5764a0ddd8cb547b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-05a.1326.4", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "CENSORSHIP OF PLAYS (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "ons this House has not voiced firm opinions against complete licence in this matter, and for good reason. The hon. and learned Member failed to refer to the position generally as it obtains throughout the mass media of entertainment. In the case of television, we have the self-imposed censorship—and very severe it is—of the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Independent Television Authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-05a.1326.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-06", "file": "debates1962-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "e6312fef8858defa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-06a.1475.2", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I shall welcome a debate on this matter on the Adjournment. That will enable me to deploy my figures at greater length than is possible at Question Time. I hope that before we come to the debate on the Adjournment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-06a.1475.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-06", "file": "debates1962-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "e6312fef8858defa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-06a.1498.0", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES BASE SCULTHORPE (INCIDENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The facts were given to the House at the time by the then Secretary of State for Air. The American Serviceman referred to, locked himself in a shed for eight hours. The anxiety was not that he might explode at atomic bomb—there were none there—but that he might do something foolish with a pistol. I did not think it necessary to consult the President of the United States about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-06a.1498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-06", "file": "debates1962-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "e6312fef8858defa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-06a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Boyden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Boyden", "preceding_text": "hen the Public Accounts Committee probed this matter other items supplied on a fairly substantial basis might not have been investigated. Finally, is it possible to introduce an element of competition, presumably not in England, but by importing quantities of this commodity from abroad? I understand that Halothane is manufactured in Frankfurt. It may be that Fluothane is a subsidiary of Halothane.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-06a.1562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-07", "file": "debates1962-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7abc0539421a6c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-07a.1661.4", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": " time my hon. Friend was asking about the Bournville Trust, in Birmingham. That Trust does renew leases at market value. The Minister seized on this point. But what the Minister failed to realise was that it is the market value of the ground rent alone, not the market value of the rack rent. In other words, the basis upon which the lease is renewed is a ground rent lease and not a rack rent lease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-07a.1661.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-07", "file": "debates1962-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7abc0539421a6c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-07a.1665.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Box", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Box", "preceding_text": "he right to acquire his freehold at any time during the period of the 99-year lease with the exception of the last 10 years. This seems to me to be an unreasonable and one-sided provision, for whilst it would give the leaseholder the opportunity of acquiring his freehold at any time, it apparently denies the ground landlord the right to sell the freehold at any time during the period of the lease—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-07a.1665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-07", "file": "debates1962-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7abc0539421a6c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-07a.1676.1", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Alan Glyn", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Alan Glyn", "preceding_text": " there must also be a genuine recognition that there are very real difficulties attendant on legislating for the extraordinary great variety of leasehold interests. If we look back, I think that one of the great difficulties is that the leases that were granted are all maturing in and around now. This is because most landlords who had no other means of investment at the time granted 99-year leases", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-07a.1676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-07", "file": "debates1962-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7abc0539421a6c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-07a.1698.1", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What price?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "We all know of the lady in Pertarth, but I have had very few instances of landlords who, except when they want to redevelop, refuse to renew or to Sell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-07a.1698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-07", "file": "debates1962-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7abc0539421a6c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-07a.1698.1", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ion to redevelop against the claim of the occupant to stay on as a statutory tenant, it cannot be done just by the landlord, be he speculator or not, saying, \"I propose to develop\". The court would wish to be satisfied that it was a firm intention, coupled with all the preliminary preparations to redevelop, something like obtaining planning permission, drawing up plans, Or the letting of contracts", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-07a.1698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-07", "file": "debates1962-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7abc0539421a6c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-07a.1698.1", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "n vintage, so to speak. I now come to the most serious matter at dispute between me and those hon. Members on both sides of the House who feel strongly about this subject—the question of price. The price which is quoted by the landlord who is willing to renew or sell is often at a level which the occupant regards as excessive. Of course, it is true that some landlords are more generous than others", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-07a.1698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-07", "file": "debates1962-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7abc0539421a6c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-07a.1705.0", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " House. I regret that I cannot give satisfaction to the hon. Member for Small Heath and particularly to my hon. Friends who have spoken with such force. I can sum up the Government's attitude to the Bill in two final sentences. Those landlords who do not want to redevelop are almost always willing to sell or to renew the lease at what the Government believe to be justifiable and reasonable prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-07a.1705.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-12-07", "file": "debates1962-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7abc0539421a6c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-07a.1721.10", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "FORESTRY (SALE OF LAND) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-07a.1721.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-10", "file": "debates1962-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "2d5be7d5866d0021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.13.3", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. Speaker, I am asking the Minister what the answer is to this question: Why has the board stopped recruiting nurses in the eastern area? If it has no money left, which I understand is the basic reason, to recruit nurses, will my hon. Friend answer two questions? First, what is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.13.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-10", "file": "debates1962-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "2d5be7d5866d0021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "While thanking the Chairman of the Kitchen Committee for that reply, may I ask whether he is not aware that he ought to be ashamed of it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-10", "file": "debates1962-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "2d5be7d5866d0021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.49.2", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government, and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government, and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "ingle authority had become separate or, if not separate, remote. Replacements for the vigorous and competent men and women who had been attracted to local government when its powers were greater were becoming harder and harder to find. The complexity of local government had produced in the citizen a sense both of fatalism—that nothing would be done, and of apathy—that there was no point in trying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.49.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-10", "file": "debates1962-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "2d5be7d5866d0021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.49.2", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government, and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government, and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "for the vigorous and competent men and women who had been attracted to local government when its powers were greater were becoming harder and harder to find. The complexity of local government had produced in the citizen a sense both of fatalism—that nothing would be done, and of apathy—that there was no point in trying. [Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] I am repeating the conclusions of the Royal Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.49.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-10", "file": "debates1962-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "2d5be7d5866d0021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has already happened.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": ". These, together, will add up to a very large programme. As for the future of the Inner London Education Authority, there will be substantial work to be done in building, since it is bound to go forward at a massive rate. If this is properly handled, I do not think that the hon. Lady is right in anticipating that there will be any danger to the Architect's Department of the London County Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-10", "file": "debates1962-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "2d5be7d5866d0021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ight in anticipating that there will be any danger to the Architect's Department of the London County Council—[An HON. MEMBER: \"It has already happened.\"] An hon. Member says that it has already happened, and I expect that part of the outflow of architects from the London County Council has been connected with the uncertainty aroused by this Bill; but a large part of it has been for other reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-10", "file": "debates1962-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "2d5be7d5866d0021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "tude of the problem which London local government faces. The Government believe, and they have the full authority of the Commission for believing, that London government is at the cross-roads. If we cannot find ways within the local government system of coping with the overall London problems, and if we cannot rehabilitate the boroughs, responsible local self-government in the capital with wither.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-10", "file": "debates1962-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "2d5be7d5866d0021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For welfare?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "Is there any reason why the Greater London Council should not? It is a housing authority for all these purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-10", "file": "debates1962-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "2d5be7d5866d0021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "Is there any reason why the Greater London Council should not? It is a housing authority for all these purposes. [An HON. MEMBER: \"For welfare?\"] Some of the boroughs—'in particular, one of the biggest which is in the inner area has no fewer than 341,000 people. Surely that sort of borough will have the resources for that sort of operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-10", "file": "debates1962-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "2d5be7d5866d0021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "It will also enable the Council to arrange its own priorities in the overall allocation of vacancies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-10", "file": "debates1962-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "2d5be7d5866d0021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "It will also enable the Council to arrange its own priorities in the overall allocation of vacancies. [ Interruption. ] But it will not interfere with the basic responsibilities of the London boroughs with regard to their own housing accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-10a.161.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.198.4", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Yates", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend has since seen this prison and the conditions himself, does he not now agree that the Governor is responsible for the prison and his Administration are solely and absolutely to blame fl or what occurred?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.198.5", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Express regret.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "en should have known about these callings, or at least the second series, for the first series was announced on the radio before the second series took place, is there not a clear dereliction of duty? Will the right hon. Gentleman not take some stops to inform the Governor of Aden that the people of this country are most concerned that such a violation of justice should be committed in their name?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.198.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.199.0", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is making a great deal of a very simple breach of the regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.199.0", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A demonstration.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "g a great deal of a very simple breach of the regulations. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The breach was that in the case of five out of the nine prisoners the delay imposed by the regulations of 24 hours before the caning was not observed. That is the extent of the complaint. As for talking about political prisoners, these people were serving a sentence imposed by the court for an offence against the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISEASES (BYSSINOSIS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Always on Monday\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "icials in Oldham decided to appeal on a question of fact. The case went before the Commissioner, and on the evidence he heard, and there was not much, and on the certificate given by the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance doctor—who did not turn up at the hearing, when another doctor came along to say, \"I have read what he said and I think it is right\"—the widow was deprived of a pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "supporters that there was no question of a reprieve for the London County Council. That was the only purpose of the exercise. Then we got the reprieve announced on 3rd May last, and I welcomed it. Yet it is different from the sort of reprieve exercised on condemned criminals. It is not absolute—one need only look at the Bill to see that. I shall not waste time discussing the proposals of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "n the light of this debate, that it will lead to less humanity. It will particularly affect the old and the young. It will particularly affect the handicapped and the specially talented. I am convinced that there is a fourth reason, a fourth motive, which has impelled the Government to take this action. By doing this they believe they can contain and limit the further growth of the Welfare State.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "atever of breaking up the School Health Service in inner London, Which will be the responsibility of the I.L.E.A. All the Bill does is to require the I.L.E.A. to prepare schemes jointly with each of the constituent boroughs and the City for the joint use of professional staff and buildings, and for consultation as to the qualifications of the professional staff concerned with both health services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.276.3", "colnum": "276", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "n is the absence of any reference to co-operation between the Greater London Council and the public transport undertakings operating within Greater London. I hope that when the Bill is in Committee machinery for such co-operation will be written into the Measure and made mandatory. It would be impossible, in a short speech, for me to cover all the points that I would have liked to have dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Curran", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Curran", "preceding_text": " vested interest, but no one, as far as I can recall, has asked the question which seems to me to be fundamental to these changes, namely, do we or do we not want municipal democracy in the London area? I understand that the basic purpose of the Bill is to create units which will have not only a democratic basis but also powers which will make democracy sufficiently magnetic to get people to vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.311.2", "colnum": "311", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "preceding_text": "ich we create will generate an interest in muni- cipal democracy greater than the interest which is now shown in the London County Council mechanism and, to be fair, in the county council mechanisms around it, because the London County Council is no worse than the Middlesex County Council. It is just as difficult to get people to take part in county council elections and in borough elections, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.311.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "pect that the present Home Secretary is more responsible for this Bill than is anybody else; and secondly, they are devoted to the writings and speeches of the Minister of Health on dismantling the Welfare State. He has written so much and said so much about parents paying for their children at school, about charging for in-patients' board and lodging, about hating the poor, the sick and the lame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ries say, the boroughs may well be—I think that they will be—continuously Labour. This is what upsets the Streatham Conservative Association. The Greater London Council could well be a Labour authority. The Inner London Education Authority will have a built-in Labour majority. Since the reason that the Tories want to destroy the London County Council is that they do not like comprehensive schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Enoch Powell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Enoch Powell)", "preceding_text": " from the reorganisation of the government of Greater London which is enshrined in the Bill. The challenge has come from the other side of the House that we should show not merely that the services which Greater London enjoys will be maintained at their present level, but that they will be improved and made better as a result of the Bill. I accept that challenge with enthusiasm, on no ground more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Enoch Powell)", "cue_text": "Interrupton.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Enoch Powell)", "preceding_text": "nt of Greater London which is enshrined in the Bill. The challenge has come from the other side of the House that we should show not merely that the services which Greater London enjoys will be maintained at their present level, but that they will be improved and made better as a result of the Bill. I accept that challenge with enthusiasm, on no ground more—[HON. MEMBERS \"How?\"]—on no ground more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.333.2", "colnum": "333", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ing exceptional in the exercise of children's powers. East Ham which, at the moment, has powers as a children's authority, has four-fifths of the children under its care outside its own boundaries. But gradually, as these larger homes are run down, they will be replaced by smaller ones, more suitable and more conveniently situated. Borough control will speed up this provision and this improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.333.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I do not conceive that the Opposition seriously believe that there is a party political motive behind this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ds will think it right to vote against the Money Resolution, because we are totally opposed to the purposes for which it is required and, if I may say so, anybody who was opposed to the Bill before the Minister of Health spoke will not be likely to have changed his opinion by the time the Minister had finished. If I may say so, it was a very shoddy speech, and unworthy of the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-11", "file": "debates1962-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "5cbf02cc927aacab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "If that is not so perhaps the Parliamentary Secretary will explain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-11a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-12", "file": "debates1962-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "515aa06b7d5e6330", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-12a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "As there is a higher birth rate in Scotland than in England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-12a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-12", "file": "debates1962-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "515aa06b7d5e6330", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-12a.398.7", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "Can the Parliamentary Secretary please change the record? Does not he realise that this is the kind of Answer I have been getting for 10 years? There are always jobs in prospect, there are always jobs in the pipeline, but these jobs never materialise. Does he not appreciate that what the people of Jarrow are experiencing now is what they went through in the inter-war years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-12a.398.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-12", "file": "debates1962-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "515aa06b7d5e6330", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-12a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I can only assume that the reason why the hon. Member is getting the same answer is that he has been asking the same question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-12a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-12", "file": "debates1962-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "515aa06b7d5e6330", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-12a.413.2", "colnum": "413", "heading": "FOREIGN BASES (REMOVAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Before the donkey.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "ndent, that in the process of these negotiations Hound-dog, the other American stand-off bomb, is an inadequate weapon and that a Polaris submarine force is probably impossibly expensive and not necessarily a substitute for a bomber. In the Daily Herald today we are told that when the Prime Minister goes to America at the end of this month a carrot will be dangled before the nose of Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-12a.413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-12", "file": "debates1962-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "515aa06b7d5e6330", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-12a.413.2", "colnum": "413", "heading": "FOREIGN BASES (REMOVAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": " tells us: During the last three days from October 26th to October 28th the danger was at its greatest. Thanks to coolness and sanity on both sides, and to U Thant's mediation, the crisis was overcome. But, as now admitted in the White House, it was a near thing. In the middle of that crisis the American forces were alerted and the \"Proteus\" was alerted in the Holy Loch. The \"Proteus\" disappeared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-12a.413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-12", "file": "debates1962-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "515aa06b7d5e6330", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-12a.413.2", "colnum": "413", "heading": "FOREIGN BASES (REMOVAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": " the island base which was threatening the United States. We should, therefore, carry this argument a little further, to its logical conclusion, and say that the people of this country would be very glad indeed to see the American submarines go back to the United States so that they did not live in danger of being a target for missiles and bombers in the event of an attack. I am not anti-American.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-12a.413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-13", "file": "debates1962-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3ffed3d307e9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that, even if it is true that the public gains, it is also true that there is very grave public disquiet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-13", "file": "debates1962-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3ffed3d307e9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.572.3", "colnum": "572", "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": "In regard to the first part of that supplementary question, it is perfectly true that there has been a change in the range of Government purchase and work in connection with industrial firms from which they make large purchases. That, I should have thought, would have been a reason not for tightening the rule, but, if anything, for relaxing it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.572.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-13", "file": "debates1962-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3ffed3d307e9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "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": "The very introduction of the word \"market\" must have made it almost certain that he did not refer to anything of the kind. I do not as yet know that the question of a European deterrent is even under discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-13", "file": "debates1962-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3ffed3d307e9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The British nuclear independent deterrent exists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-13", "file": "debates1962-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3ffed3d307e9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.613.4", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is the devil?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "I appreciate your efforts, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, to keep me within the bounds of propriety. I am further grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, East (Mr. Willis) for keeping me in order. I am between what might be called the devil and the deep blue sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.613.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-13", "file": "debates1962-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3ffed3d307e9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Gilmour Leburn)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Gilmour Leburn)", "preceding_text": ". I consider the decision taken by my right hon. Friend to be a fair and reasonable one. I should like to turn to the main principles of the debate. The Opposition Amendment claims that the effect of the Bill will be to reduce considerably the Exchequer equalisation grant paid to Scottish local authorities. As my right hon. Friend said, the Government cannot accept that this is a fair description.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-13", "file": "debates1962-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3ffed3d307e9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Lord Privy Seal will speak twice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Hurd", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) has given us the benefit of his views at considerable length—much greater length than the Lord Privy Seal's speech. I shall try to follow the example of my right hon. Friend the Lord Privy Seal and speak for only a few minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.673.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-12-13", "file": "debates1962-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3ffed3d307e9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.680.2", "colnum": "680", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who did they vote for?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "ouse. It is customary to say that we hope that we shall hear the hon. Gentleman again here on many occasions. I hope, perhaps, that those occasions will not be too many. I hope that he will forgive me for saying that. I very much appreciated what he said about his constituency. Dorset is a lovely county. I do not think he knows that among his constituents are my parents. They did not vote for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-13", "file": "debates1962-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3ffed3d307e9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "re closely with every month that passes. If Britain joins the Community, it will not only be control of our agricultural policy that passes from the purview of this House. It will be the control of taxation policy, of exchange rate policy and, therefore, of social service policy and of planning policy. This House of Commons will become almost an empty shell and democratic power will become a myth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-13", "file": "debates1962-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3ffed3d307e9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.721.2", "colnum": "721", "heading": "HORTICULTURAL MARKETING COUNCIL (DISSOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "preceding_text": "have been proved correct. Are the Government going to take the initiative? I do not believe that they will, because the Minister—and I understand why he is not here—and the Parliamentary Secretary who speak for the Government have said over and over again in relation to agricultural marketing—and this applies also to horticultural marketing—that it is not for the Government to take the initiative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-13a.721.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-14", "file": "debates1962-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "6035ed40ef6c3ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-14a.814.3", "colnum": "814", "heading": "CHURCH OF ENGLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "nconformists or the leaders of the Salvation Army should not be there as well. I believe, indeed, that if the general staff of the Salvation Army were there they would be able to contribute as much knowledge and experience of the ordinary day-to-day life of the poorest people of the country as the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Bishop of London. I deplore the reference to the Bishop of Southwark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-14a.814.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-12-14", "file": "debates1962-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "6035ed40ef6c3ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-14a.847.2", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SERVICE DISABILITY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-14a.847.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-12-14", "file": "debates1962-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "6035ed40ef6c3ffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-14a.847.9", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DISEASES (BYSSINOSIS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-14a.847.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "SKYBOLT MISSILE (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have not got one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I am aware that there are men who believe passionately that we should strip this country of her deterrent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.897.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.913.1", "colnum": "913", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is the Government's job.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "None at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "preceding_text": "e it from what the right hon. Gentleman is saying now that he does not mean to do anything in the short term about unemployment? He is saying that growth is the only way, taking a Long-term view. In other words, he does not mean a crash programme of public works to ease the present unemployment problem and difficulties, but he is thinking of a long-term programme and would 'starve immediate needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.914.5", "colnum": "914", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We told you that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "t in the construction trades, agriculture, and so on, falls off. Every year we get rising unemployment during this period till January or February, and then it falls off again. This is a seasonal movement that no one can ignore and no one can deny. Another point that I would make is that this year there has been a substantially higher number of school-leavers to be absorbed than in previous years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.914.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ober and November the very substantial measures to put further purchasing power, further stimulus, into the economy as a whole, to which I will refer again a little later. That seems to me to be the best analysis I can give of the general level of unemployment and the reasons for it. I turn for a short time to the special problems. Great progress has been made under the Local Employment Act, 1960.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " which hon. Members are asking. All I say, in addition, is, \"Let us look at what is being done.\" Anyone who presses us to go further and faster must calculate the cost that is likely to arise at the time when it makes itself fully felt, some time next year. I turn now to our policy for local unemployment. We shall certainly continue the system of the Local Employment Act, which is basically sound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.922.3", "colnum": "922", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "dustry should be directed into particular areas. I remember reading the powerful argument by the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) himself at the recent party conference, when he pointed out the difficulties of direction, and no doubt he will also have the opportunity to enlighten us later. The Opposition's policy is not to direct firms to these areas, and in that they are right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "What I was saying was that the £70 million of additional expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.924.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.928.5", "colnum": "928", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Can I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.928.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "nd steady rate of growth. This means that we must have more elbow room than we have at the moment. As all parties know perfectly well when they think seriously about the problem, a level of unemployment of 550,000 or 600,000 is too high. On the other hand, a level of unemployment half that would lead us back into the difficulties of inflation and balance of payments which we have seen in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ersons in the west of Scotland. But all that resulted from the agitation was that I found myself in Calton Goal in Edinburgh serving a rather longer sentence than I cared to serve. I was, of course, quite innocent—but that was not the view of the judge who tried me. I will not take up much time of the House. I want to be brief, because I know that many hon. Members wish to take part in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.945.5", "colnum": "945", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "l happen in the future? How will the Government tackle this job? By talking about the balance of payments? By providing a few advance factories with no certainty that they will be occupied? By telling us about a little road improvement in the North-East and talking about something in the nature of public works, and by talking all the balderdash that comes from hon. and right hon. Members opposite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.945.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.945.5", "colnum": "945", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " why. The hon. Lady has been criticising the Government without the courage to go into the Lobby against them. She pretends that she is interested in shipbuilding and shipping and the like, but she has never raised a finger to help those industries and has done nothing except talk about them. The hon. Lady is an excellent talker, though when it comes to action there is no courage behind it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.945.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.947.3", "colnum": "947", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member should ask the Prime Minister some day about that fuel crisis. He should ask him to disclose all the facts. I have never done so, but let the Prime Minister, with Cabinet documents, disclose the facts and hon. Members opposite may not be laughing any longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.947.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.948.4", "colnum": "948", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"After he left office.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "preceding_text": " not be better if it were remodelled and made into a real development department for Scotland. Any reference to planning in these debates always produces a derisive reaction from the other side of the House, but I remind hon. Members that a is some time now since the late Sir James Henderson Stewart, after he left office as Joint Under-Secretary of State, called for a five-year or a ten-year plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.948.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Currie", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A change of Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Currie", "preceding_text": "nd techniques which will be required in industry from now on. I agree that in many cases this training has come much later than it could usefully have come, but it is very much better that it should have come even late than that we should have failed to appreciate the situation at all. Many of our unemployed are unskilled. One might then ask what is suggested to bring those people into employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. John Hare)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. John Hare)", "preceding_text": "er for the Wirral (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd) was Chancellor of the Exchequer. By implication, of course, the hon. Gentleman has criticised my right hon. and learned Friend for the present unemployment position. He does not acknowledge, or has not acknowledged in the House today, that unless my right hon. and learned Friend had acted as he did today's unemployment position might have been infinitely worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. John Hare)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. John Hare)", "preceding_text": " the monopoly of hon. Members opposite to be concerned when unemployment is being discussed. I think also, considering the speeches, that we did not run into what some people might have imagined would have been a real danger. We did not on both sides talk ourselves into a crisis. We did not try to create greater dismay than is justified. We did not try to destroy morale or to undermine confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. John Hare)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. John Hare)", "preceding_text": "inking that there might possibly be a change of Government. Hence their lack of confidence. Hon. Members opposite were saying, \"This is a sad story after eleven years of Tory rule\". I wonder whether they would like to look at a figure or two? Today, there are 1¾ million more in employment in Britain than there were eleven years ago. This represents an increase of 160,000 new jobs each year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. John Hare)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. John Hare)", "preceding_text": "n vehicle production by 21 per cent. Another significant factor is that during these eleven years distribution and the professional and scientific services have each increased by over 500,000. This therefore represents—and I hope that my hon. Friend will agree—a picture of very considerable expansion and one is only sorry that hon. Members opposite do not seem able to realise it. Having said this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "dustries. One of the troubles that we find, even when unemployment is high, is that industrialists are having great difficulties in getting the skilled manpower they need to meet their requirements. I know that during the expansionist period during 1951 and 1961 employers who would have been perfectly willing to go north were not able to do so because they could not find the skilled men available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "I am hoping to find jobs for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-17", "file": "debates1962-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "928713cc5d6dafb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "I am hoping to find jobs for—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I hope to start a class of 20 straight away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-17a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-18", "file": "debates1962-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "97abc1aa5ed43cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-18a.1080.2", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. An instance of our seriousness was given in the speech of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-18a.1080.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-18", "file": "debates1962-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "97abc1aa5ed43cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-18a.1094.5", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY (WITNESSES' EXPENSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "As I raised this in the first instance, I hope that the question of blame still enters into it. I trust, for example, that the Tribunal will not con sider paying Mr. Vassall his expenses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-18a.1094.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-18", "file": "debates1962-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "97abc1aa5ed43cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-18a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I cannot give way. When Ministers seek Mr. Speaker's approval to make a statement, they have never yet said, \"We are merely reporters.\" It would not be worth the time of the House or the impertinence of asking Mr. Speaker's approval if all that they were doing was reporting something which we can all read in the Press. What Ministers do is to make a statement of Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-18a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-18", "file": "debates1962-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "97abc1aa5ed43cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-18a.1101.5", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "r a weapon that is crucial to us and that all our defence turns upon it, even though we know that they, who know more about it than we do, say that it has all its defects, is such a tragic situation for the country's defence policy that for the House to be asked to go away and to stay away for a month, leaving it just like that, is impossible. I hope that the Minister will take cognisance of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-18a.1101.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-12-18", "file": "debates1962-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "97abc1aa5ed43cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-18a.1128.6", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I do not want in any way to inhibit the hon. Member for Heywood and Royton (Mr. Leavey) in giving his figures, but are we not in some danger from the fact that the Chair increasingly rules in accordance with the convenience of the moment and not in accordance with the rules of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-18a.1128.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-18", "file": "debates1962-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "97abc1aa5ed43cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-18a.1142.3", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "The point is that I should be heard", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-18a.1142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-20", "file": "debates1962-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8879bd660d18717f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-20a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "BRITISH MUSEUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Edward du Cann)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Edward du Cann)", "preceding_text": "h Shields (Mr. Ede). Were he in his place at the moment—and I appreciate that he cannot be, just as other hon. Members cannot—I would quarrel with him very violently, for he made the extraordinary statement that his presence at a meeting of the Board of Trustees lowered their standards somewhat. I am sure that that is completely untrue, and I know that the House would agree with me in that regard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-20a.1534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-20", "file": "debates1962-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8879bd660d18717f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-20a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "BRITISH MUSEUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Edward du Cann)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Edward du Cann)", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend the Member for the Isle of Thanet (Mr. Rees-Davies) on the subject of the public relations of the Museum; about the need for better display; about the need for better facilities for visitors, and so on. In this context I should like to pay the warmest possible tribute, with which I am sure the House would like to be associated, to the devoted work done by keepers and staff in general.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-20a.1534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-20", "file": "debates1962-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8879bd660d18717f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-20a.1540.1", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "BRITISH MUSEUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "se Marbles away. Whereas, as I say, I think that the proper thing to do is to pay tribute to his memory, both as a lover of Greece and all which Greece stands for and as a patriotic citizen. Turning to specific points raised by the hon. Member for Swindon, my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary is always glad to see any hon. Member who may wish to discuss any matter with him, whatever it may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-20a.1540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-20", "file": "debates1962-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8879bd660d18717f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-20a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "anks pensioned since the last war are receiving a lower rate of pension than men pensioned after the First World War, forty years ago. In fact, there are men still being paid pensions under the Crimean War scheme and earlier schemes. They are being paid a pension of ½d. per day per year of service, with further halfpennies for petty officer service, and farthings for leading seaman service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-20a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1962-12-20", "file": "debates1962-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8879bd660d18717f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-20a.1570.1", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"TOO long a speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "ou have joined, get out as early as possible. You will do better outside\". Pensioned at 40 a chief stoker gets a job as a stoker, instead of being in charge. A chief petty officer becomes a labourer in a dockyard. Pensioners are forced to take the lowest jobs and private employers, particularly in personal jobs, often consider the pension when arranging wages. What emerges from this investigation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-20a.1570.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1962-12-21", "file": "debates1962-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "42a5d442d6da74da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-21a.1617.0", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Nigel Fisher)", "preceding_text": "ing and stifling union activity. Nevertheless, it is now possible that the purpose for which it was originally designed—promoting the more peaceful settlement of disputes and reducing the number of strikes—has been achieved. I am able to say, gladly, that the Aden Government have informed the Aden T.U.C. that they are willing to consider suspending the Ordinance as soon as local conditions permit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1962-12-21a.1616.1"}