{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-01-22", "file": "debates1963-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "cda6b1e91e6831ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-22a.10.5", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "We would all get knighted.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I would be grateful if hon. Members making running commentaries during Question Time would recognise what it would mean to the House as a whole if everybody behaved in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-22a.10.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-22", "file": "debates1963-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "cda6b1e91e6831ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-22a.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT, NORTH-EAST", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept the appreciation of most people in the north of England of the appointment of Lord Hailsham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-22a.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-22", "file": "debates1963-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "cda6b1e91e6831ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-22a.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT, NORTH-EAST", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept the appreciation of most people in the north of England of the appointment of Lord Hailsham—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"]—to co-ordinate the effort to bring permanent employment to the North-East Coast? Will my right hon. Friend also accept our thanks for the fact that the Prime Minister has acted so quickly in response—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-22a.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-22", "file": "debates1963-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "cda6b1e91e6831ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-22a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Don't sob.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "After we have had an experimental period of the proposal which my right hon. Friend has put forward, if it has not worked very satisfactorily may we then have a debate on the matter to see whether we can get everything brought up to date and get everything done which we wish to see done on the North-East Coast?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-22a.39.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-01-22", "file": "debates1963-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "cda6b1e91e6831ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-22a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "MR. HUGH GAITSKELL (TRIBUTES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "ed, to play an ever-increasing role in the world of affairs. We mourn, also, a colleague who was a good and loyal Parliamentarian in the best sense of the word. He was so considerable a figure among us that his sudden and unexpected removal makes it difficult even now to realise that he is no longer with us. To his memory we pay our tribute. To his wife and family we offer our respectful sympathy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-22a.40.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-01-22", "file": "debates1963-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "cda6b1e91e6831ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-22a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "MR. HUGH GAITSKELL (TRIBUTES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": " which I shall never be able to discharge. As we take our official Parliamentary leave of Hugh Gaitskell let us remember, as the Prime Minister reminded us, that he was not only a public figure. He was also a husband and a father, a member of a very charming and very close-knit family. They must know that we have for them unlimited affection and that they will never lose their place in our hearts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-22a.43.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-01-22", "file": "debates1963-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "cda6b1e91e6831ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-22a.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "MR. HUGH GAITSKELL (TRIBUTES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "preceding_text": "it. But what is anyone's loss compared with that of his wife and his children, to whom, indeed, this must be a bleak winter? They have our deepest sympathy on this disaster, which has imposed loneliness on them so prematurely. All we can say—it is not very much—is that, while in Hugh Gaitskell's death there is all too much for tears, there can be nothing but inspiration from the story of his life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-22a.47.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-23", "file": "debates1963-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "5c674c295a22b868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.58.4", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister realise that these commoners turn out their livestock for the winter without caring how the animals will survive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.58.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-23", "file": "debates1963-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "5c674c295a22b868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.85.0", "colnum": "85", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS, NATIONAL INSURANCE AND INDUSTRIAL INJURIES BENEFITS AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "on with sickness and unemployment benefits, departing from the principle of flat-rate benefits and introducing wage-related sickness and unemployment benefits in keeping with tine principle of the graduated scheme? While the flat-rate increases might be an interim measure, will the right hon. Gentleman consider the prospect of introducing a wage-related scheme later? Will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.85.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-23", "file": "debates1963-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "5c674c295a22b868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.85.0", "colnum": "85", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS, NATIONAL INSURANCE AND INDUSTRIAL INJURIES BENEFITS AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "ate 27th May is a long time from now, and there might be bitter weather and grave hardship before that time arrives. We welcome the promise that the National Assistance Board will introduce additional proposals for National Assistance scales. We also welcome the additions to industrial injury and war disability pensions. If the right hon. Gentleman can briefly answer those points it may assist us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.85.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-23", "file": "debates1963-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "5c674c295a22b868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.87.2", "colnum": "87", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS, NATIONAL INSURANCE AND INDUSTRIAL INJURIES BENEFITS AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about your Government? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that the mass of the people will remember that it was his Government Who said only a few months ago that there was no need for a rise in the basic pensions and basic benefits?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.87.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-23", "file": "debates1963-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "5c674c295a22b868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.93.8", "colnum": "93", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Hulbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Hulbert", "preceding_text": " Speaker, I desire to raise a matter of Privilege for your consideration. On Saturday, 19th January, at approximately 10.45 p.m. the British Broadcasting Corporation televised a feature programme entitled \"That Was The Week That Was\". It would appear to bear very little resemblance to any particular week. It was introduced by a Mr. David Frost, who proceeded to name 13 right hon. and hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.93.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-23", "file": "debates1963-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "5c674c295a22b868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.121.3", "colnum": "121", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "The Minister misses my point. How can the Privy Council advise intelligently unless it knows, by consulting the responsible Minister, whether local government has been efficiently administered in that area? How? The right hon. Gentleman said that that was one of the conditions, did he not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-23", "file": "debates1963-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "5c674c295a22b868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.149.2", "colnum": "149", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "e Committee will bear in mind that it is not only a question of numbers but a question of geography. Quite clearly, a fairly high number of electors per representative can be managed in a concentrated area such as, almost by definition, we are dealing with in the Bill. I would, therefore, urge the Committee to withdraw the Amendment, because I think it is quite clear that 60 is an adequate number.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-23", "file": "debates1963-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "5c674c295a22b868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.149.2", "colnum": "149", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "s but a question of geography. Quite clearly, a fairly high number of electors per representative can be managed in a concentrated area such as, almost by definition, we are dealing with in the Bill. I would, therefore, urge the Committee to withdraw the Amendment, because I think it is quite clear that 60 is an adequate number. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"] We regard it as desirable to have uniformity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-23", "file": "debates1963-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "5c674c295a22b868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ive help to their constituents in every way they can. These are honourable endeavours, and we owe a great tribute of praise and gratitude to such people. But—and here is the point of possible disagreement—if the local government machine is working properly, many of the cases that go to the councillors, and with which councillors have to concern themselves, should have been dealt with by officials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-23", "file": "debates1963-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "5c674c295a22b868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Harris", "preceding_text": "From the word \"go\" I have felt that the Bill is being imposed on us from the Department concerned. In spite of my right hon. Friend's reply, I appeal to him to take more note of the feeling of some of his hon. Friends. 7.15 p.m. My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary used facts which, with the greatest respect, were completely wrong. He did not seem to know his subject at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-23", "file": "debates1963-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "5c674c295a22b868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Policy makers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "preceding_text": "h no fault of their own. Now what is to happen? I understand that Lewisham Borough Council has about 45 members. Deptford has a council of about 40. This total of about 80 is to be reduced to something like 60 under the Bill, and this, says the right hon. Gentleman, is a matter of principle. As a matter of principle, may I ask what is to happen to the 200 members of the City of London Corporation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-23", "file": "debates1963-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "5c674c295a22b868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fourteen thousand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "That is a view which the hon. Gentleman is perfectly entitled to hold. The day that the Labour Party loses a seat with a majority of 8,000 we shall need rather more backing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-23a.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.263.0", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The first part of that supplementary question, as the hon. Gentleman knows, has absolutely nothing to do with the Question on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I have no further statement to make about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.268.2", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I very much resent the tone of that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "1 always thought that there was a better climate in the North than in the South.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that his appointment has given pleasure in the area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.273.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.274.6", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I suppose that in the long run we are all judged by results—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.274.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.274.8", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have had three such judgments passed by the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.274.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.280.2", "colnum": "280", "heading": "GAS SUPPLY (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in 1947 hon. Members opposite were alleging that all our troubles were not due to lack of investment but due to the follies of the Government of the day? We are now in the year 1962", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "GAS SUPPLY (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "the view of Her Majesty's Government that these public authorities should not have the capacity to meet demand when we have a few days or a few weeks of wintry weather? Does he realise that this will not be well received in the country? There is a widespread realisation that many countries have climates with greater extremes of summer and winter than we have, and there seems to be something wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.301.8", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "preceding_text": "who, irrespective of the party in power in the town hall, give wonderful service. They are part and parcel of our Civil Service and, therefore, part of the great strength of our democracy. My constituency is a good example. One political party has ruled there for over thirty years, but if we were defeated at the next election our successors in taking over would find all the books in perfect order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.301.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Weitzman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Weitzman", "preceding_text": ", apparently listening to the arguments but nevertheless determined, as we know, not to accept them however just they may be. The Bill deals with matters affecting London and the outer London areas, and it is an appalling fact which we all know perfectly well that if a vote were taken among hon. Members representing London and outer London areas it would not have the slightest chance of surviving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "red by the Government to be one requiring special attention, and that when the Commission issues its Report the Government should pay some attention to it. If hon. Members will be good enough to look at the Conservative Party's election manifesto and the speeches made by the present Prime Minister and other leading members of the Conservative Party they will find quite a lot of references to this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.365.2", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "I cannot imagine a more impersonal council than London County Council. If we went through almost the entire total of 2½ million or 3 million electors in the London County Council area it is very doubtful if we could find 1 per cent. who could even name their county councillors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.365.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "n particular, whatever their political points of view may be. Therefore, my hon. Friend the Member for Bermondsey was perfectly justified in saying that we are not attacking the Bill on any narrow party basis. We are criticising it, and trying to argue our case, on merit. 7.45 p.m. I very much hope that the Minister will be making some concessions: I do not think that he has made very many so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Partridge", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Partridge", "preceding_text": "st be against the Bill, because otherwise they would have spoken in favour of it. I did not want to prolong the proceedings yesterday but I cannot let this debate pass without registering my protests and saying that those hon. Members who have spoken may be against the Bill but many hon. Members are entirely in favour of it, with the exception of one or two points upon which we have our own views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.393.5", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "preceding_text": "the Government are forcing this Bill through Parliament. They are doing nothing of the kind. They are proceeding with the stages of a Bill and will obtain the assent of Parliament which is the sovereign power in the country. It should be known by hon. Members opposite that a vast number of hon. Members on this side of the Committee wholeheartedly endorse the action which the Government are taking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.393.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.395.2", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Member has not the courage to vent his feelings. These are my feelings and I would tell the hon. Member to his face if he came in.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.395.2", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "preceding_text": "n. Member opposite will allow me, I should like to continue my speech. I have been interrupted so often and not very politely. The attitude seems to be that anything should be adopted to delay the proceedings. In the end we shall triumph because the will of Parliament will prevail. We are accused of all sorts of reasons for wanting to pass this Bill. One is to get rid of the London County Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.395.4", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "preceding_text": "I have not said that and I refuse to have my words twisted. I was saying that it was monstrous bureaucracy, and that is not so much on the part of the officials as of the members of the council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.395.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.399.3", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Qualifying.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "preceding_text": "What I have said did not of necessity apply to each and every department of the London County Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member has mentioned my name, may I say that I never supported the claims of Ilford for county borough status.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-24", "file": "debates1963-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "117a472451b113b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Harris", "preceding_text": "As I am the hon. Member who appears to have come into this situation, I should explain that my only crime seems to have been that I left the Chamber for a short while to get something to eat. If there are any hon. Members present now who were here when I spoke on several occasions earlier I think that they would be the last to accuse me of lacking courage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-24a.418.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-01-25", "file": "debates1963-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "9d2a843b122f9e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-25a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "are working and supporting themselves and would be paid to them on top of their earnings. This is to concentrate additional expenditure on the least needy of the widows. The Government consider that there are better ways of distributing what is available, which will help all widows rather than concentrate on those of them who can earn for themselves, and I must invite the House to reject the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-25a.511.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-28", "file": "debates1963-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "07d17255597ae7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-28a.553.4", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "Thirty-two —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-28a.553.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-28", "file": "debates1963-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "07d17255597ae7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-28a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "th the situation, that there is no reason at all why the Government should behave worse than any other employer in this context? How can we get these young girls, who have not quite got the new nursing standards laid down by the General Nursing Council, if this is the way in which they are treated? If they require two days' educational work a week, those in hospital management send them to get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-28a.558.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-01-28", "file": "debates1963-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "07d17255597ae7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-28a.586.4", "colnum": "586", "heading": "SINGAPORE AND BRUNEI (TROOPS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "was inaccurate, Sir. You based it not on what happened in Singapore, but on the decision of the Speaker when a Member wanted to raise the question of reinforcements to Singapore. I accept your rebuke. In the circumstances, may I have an assurance from the Minister of Defence that if the issue is in doubt he will not send these units under strength until the House has had time to debate the matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-28a.586.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-28", "file": "debates1963-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "07d17255597ae7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-28a.586.6", "colnum": "586", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "preceding_text": "I have two announcements to make on this week's business. The Government cannot be satisfied with last week's progress on the Committee stage of Clause 1 and Schedule 1 of the London Government Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-28a.586.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-28", "file": "debates1963-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "07d17255597ae7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-28a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "de by the hon. Member for Sowerby (Mr. Houghton) about the 10s. widow. I gained the impression from what he said that the 10s. widow was worse off than the National Insurance widow. Yet my understanding of the position is that the 10s. widow is receiving 10s. more than the National Insurance widow in comparable terms. As I understand it, the National Insurance widow's benefit stops after 13 weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-28a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-28", "file": "debates1963-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "07d17255597ae7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-28a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"About time, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "f susceptible to quite a number of changes introduced in the ordinary business of Government in the past, as for example the graduated scheme. In the ordinary course of events we shall continue to change the scheme in the direction which we decide it should go. Nothing that has been said should mask the fact that the Bill will bring greatly improved cash benefits to about 8¼ million people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-28a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-29", "file": "debates1963-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "08b5c3c894edbe15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.752.3", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am glad to know that I gave a sense of confidence to the Scottish Trades Union Congress. We had a very good discussion. I have met its representatives on several occasions, and on many occasions I have been able to bring about the things for which they asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-29", "file": "debates1963-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "08b5c3c894edbe15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.757.5", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT DE GAULLE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister realise that the total collapse of the Government's policies in these negotiations, with all that that means for our economic and foreign policy position, suggests that this is no time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.757.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-29", "file": "debates1963-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "08b5c3c894edbe15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.769.2", "colnum": "769", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "concerned the Royal Commission went out of its way to say that its proposals were provisional and had not the same authority as the rest of its conclusions. Hon. Members will find a reference at page 193 of the Report. Again, I think that it may be argued from the size of the majorities on Clause 1 of the Bill, which varied from 66 to 26, that the case for an Allocation of Time Motion is weakened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.769.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-29", "file": "debates1963-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "08b5c3c894edbe15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.773.3", "colnum": "773", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "but the reason that we are taking this Motion today, and not on Wednesday, which, I agree, would be more in accordance with precedent, is that I understand it is the desire of the House, on both sides, to have a two-day debate on defence. These two conflict. Clearly, it would not be possible to arrange the two-day debate on defence on consecutive days without the procedure which we are suggesting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-29", "file": "debates1963-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "08b5c3c894edbe15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Scandalous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "e House and the House as a whole to notice what was done here. Even those of us on this side, who, by the ordinary courtesies of procedure, would be informed first, only knew about three o'clock that this was what was to be done. The House itself was informed at 3.30 that it would be required to debate today a Motion the text of which would not be officially on the Order Paper until this morning.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-29", "file": "debates1963-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "08b5c3c894edbe15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "its Leader. I put it to him that he can be too sure of himself and that, in this early stage of his career as Leader of the House, he has yet to learn quite a lot. If he is to reach the high level of his predecessor as Leader of the House, he should have more consideration for that part of his duty which concerns the House as a whole and that part of it which concerns the rights of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.847.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-01-29", "file": "debates1963-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "08b5c3c894edbe15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.854.3", "colnum": "854", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is a French expression.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, West (Mr. C. Pannell) tell the House precisely what he means when he says that he wants to poodle on in his own way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.854.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-29", "file": "debates1963-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "08b5c3c894edbe15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.855.6", "colnum": "855", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is Enfield, West.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "e Labour Party can win the election on this issue, but I believe that events are overtaking the Government and that when the election comes, we shall undoubtedly be returned with a considerable majority. I have no doubt that the constituency of the Leader of the House, in Enfield, East, is as safe as safe can be. I know the area fairly well, for I spent a great deal of my boyhood days in the area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.855.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-29", "file": "debates1963-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "08b5c3c894edbe15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "ther hand, the hon. Member made an impassioned speech with all the fervour of an ex-president of the Band of Hope Union. It was remarkable. He even went into the Lobby with us against the Bill. We heard the hon. Member for Clapham (Dr. Alan Glyn), who represents a highly marginal constituency, which he will not occupy after the next General Election. He made an impassioned speech against the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-29", "file": "debates1963-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "08b5c3c894edbe15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "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": "that there is the strongest need, for the sake of the people of London, to put the Bill on to the Statute Book. I turn to the point which hon. Members opposite have most emphasised; namely that the Government have not been able to point clearly to any evidence of obstruction and faction. There has, in fact, been every evidence that there was going to be an attempt to delay the passage of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-29", "file": "debates1963-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "08b5c3c894edbe15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"A genius.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "the Amendments tend towards the same objective. The hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington asked whether hon. Members would be placed in the awkward position of having either to be in Standing Committee or in the Committee of the whole House. I can assure the House that arrangements will be made which will prevent the Standing Committee and the Committee of the whole House clashing at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-29", "file": "debates1963-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "08b5c3c894edbe15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "oted about the L.C.C. and never about Middlesex or about Greater London as a whole? They have not realised that 8½million people live in the Metropolis not just 3 million. No one on this side—that is going too far—no Member of the Government and very few hon. Members on this side wish to point any finger of discredit or blame in any way at the London County Council or the existing boroughs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-29a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-30", "file": "debates1963-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6068c66347a36718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.920.2", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e charges against farmers, as the hon. Member for Brixton (Mr. Lipton) has done, as it is to suggest that those people who are worried about animals are sentimentalists? Finally, is my right hon. Friend aware that in consultation with my hon. Friend the Member for Torrington (Mr. P. Browne) and my hon. Friend the Member for Totnes (Mr. Mawby) I have convened a meeting for the middle of next month?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.920.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-01-30", "file": "debates1963-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6068c66347a36718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.920.3", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Browne) and my hon. Friend the Member for Totnes (Mr. Mawby) I have convened a meeting for the middle of next month? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] This is a meeting at which the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture will be present and to which representatives of commoners, the R.S.P.C.A., the Duchy of Cornwall, and the N.F.U. have been invited and where we can thrash this matter out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-30", "file": "debates1963-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6068c66347a36718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.922.3", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the number of figures involved in this and the previous Question are fewer than half a dozen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-30", "file": "debates1963-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6068c66347a36718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.941.0", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "No. I am grateful to the hon. Member for what he has said, but we practise the utmost economy in all sections of the Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-30", "file": "debates1963-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6068c66347a36718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "nagement which led to the negotiations, and our strong criticism, which we maintain and stand by, of the many unilateral concessions he has given, involving vital British and Commonwealth interests, nevertheless I am sure that I am speaking for the whole House in paying tribute to the right hon. Gentleman's industry and patience and not least to his restraint during these very difficult past days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-30", "file": "debates1963-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6068c66347a36718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": " the country, that we certainly do not so regard it; and that it may be of great advantage to the country if it is now regarded as bringing home clearly to everyone that the future of this country depends entirely on our own efforts and what we are prepared to do and if it brings home to the whole House that no British Minister must ever again be put in the position of waiting outside in the cold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.943.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-01-30", "file": "debates1963-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6068c66347a36718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) is next.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-30", "file": "debates1963-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6068c66347a36718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was in the air.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hat we have made is based upon a fuller understanding of each other's views, and is not a shallow formula devised to patch up or hide each other's difficulties. I must now revert to the situation which confronted us when my colleagues and I went to the meeting. I was fortunate enough to have with me the Foreign Secretary and the Minister of Defence. The Commonwealth Secretary was also in the area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-30", "file": "debates1963-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6068c66347a36718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "me importance to the nation. As I have explained, President Kennedy clearly recognised the necessity for such a phrase, and because of the importance which we both attached to it I agreed to bring up to date the moral undertaking which we and the United States already have, that is not to use nuclear weapons anywhere in the world without prior consultation with each other, if circumstances permit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.967.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-01-30", "file": "debates1963-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6068c66347a36718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.968.3", "colnum": "968", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "Would the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.968.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-30", "file": "debates1963-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6068c66347a36718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"'On which mark?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e in this form. It would be related in no way to the actual money spent on research or development which, as I say, is nearly £700 million. It will be related to the final production price and a sum will be added of 5 per cent. to the price which will cover all possible claims to other new weapons that may be devised. It would be the actual production price for the production line plus 5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.969.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-01-30", "file": "debates1963-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6068c66347a36718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.985.3", "colnum": "985", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.985.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-30", "file": "debates1963-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6068c66347a36718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.985.6", "colnum": "985", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "the case for an independent deterrent has always turned on the claim—and the Prime Minister made it again today—that it would add to our political influence and our political voice. There was a time when I took that view myself, but it cannot be claimed now. We have the independent deterrent now. That is the Prime Minister's case. Who would say that we had much influence on events in recent years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.985.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-30", "file": "debates1963-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6068c66347a36718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.985.6", "colnum": "985", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Brussels.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "on the claim—and the Prime Minister made it again today—that it would add to our political influence and our political voice. There was a time when I took that view myself, but it cannot be claimed now. We have the independent deterrent now. That is the Prime Minister's case. Who would say that we had much influence on events in recent years? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"] Oh, much more recent than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.985.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-30", "file": "debates1963-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6068c66347a36718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.985.6", "colnum": "985", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " now. We have the independent deterrent now. That is the Prime Minister's case. Who would say that we had much influence on events in recent years? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"] Oh, much more recent than that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Brussels.\"] Good heavens, we do not know nowadays even that they have happened until some bureaucrat comes out to an ante-room and tells us so that our Ministers can go home again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.985.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-30", "file": "debates1963-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6068c66347a36718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alexander Spearman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alexander Spearman", "preceding_text": "ld be, in some legitimate project, in disagreement with the United States, and, therefore, could not rely upon the United States coming to our support. That seems to me to be pretty unlikely. After all, we could hardly have done anything more in disagreement with the United States than we did in 1956, but then, as soon as we were threatened with missiles, at once the United States came to our aid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-30a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1114.4", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "What the Minister's Answer amounts to is that after all the negotiations, all the submissions by hon. Members, all the representations by the development corporations in the North-East and the submission made by the National Coal Board in Durham and Northumberland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1114.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1115.6", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "preceding_text": "Following the reply to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1115.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1115.6", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "preceding_text": "Following the reply to my right hon. Friend—[ Interruption. ] On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I draw your attention to the fact that this is a most serious question for us? We are sick and tired of the conduct of hon. Members opposite.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1115.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1116.3", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "of the appointment of the noble Lord from another place as the Minister to supervise affairs in the North-East? Does he not realise that on his own statement, the building of a power station in Durham would cost only £3½ million more than to build it elsewhere? Does he not realise that if the power station is not built, 10,000 miners will lose their jobs? Does he not realise that for every—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1116.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "Unless we get this power station, thousands of miners will lose their jobs and the Minister will be faced with three alternatives. Either he will transfer them and have to provide homes for them, schools for their families and hospital services, or he will pay them unemployment benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "nd have to provide homes for them, schools for their families and hospital services, or he will pay them unemployment benefit— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] It is a good speech—or he will pay industrialists the cost of £1,000 a job under the Local Employment Act to go and provide work for the miners who are dismissed. Does not the Minister think it is time that he weighed the £3½ million extra—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1117.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"A few moments?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "preceding_text": "I intervene for a few moments in this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1154.0", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "On the assumption that the Americans will go isolationist, and will either default—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1154.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1161.7", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about a depot ship?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "re needed by the American submarines which have already been built. Thirdly, there is a direct American self-interest in keeping this going. The Polaris is an integral part of their forces, and is needed by them even more now that Skybolt has been cancelled. So we have a direct American interest working upon our side. What is the effect of this on the defence budget and on the conventional forces?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1161.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodrow Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodrow Wyatt", "preceding_text": "l astuteness, has got the country into such a complete and utter shambles. Maybe we have a credible independent nuclear deterrent. We certainly do not have a credible Prime Minister. The truth is, although one would never have guessed it, that the Polaris weapon is the most expensive weapon we have ever had or are ever likely to have. Its first cost is that it has kept us out of the Common Market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodrow Wyatt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodrow Wyatt", "preceding_text": "ident's mind. I see that in the House on Tuesday the Prime Minister said that he had not received an official communication from General de Gaulle for the last twenty years. That is not really surprising, because, obviously, there is no possibility of communication between them at all. The charade of a meeting at Rambouillel broke up to the accompaniment of the usual meaningless communiqué.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Bosworth (Mr. Wyatt) knows so much about so many things that one hesitates to rely upon him about everything. I was very grateful to have his assurance about our V-bombers and his advice about space. This is a dreadful debate—and it will not get any better now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "t be some point at which continuing disappointment and delay means that the organisation and planning are defective. I think that on this occasion what the Government owe to the House, and, indeed, what the Opposition owe to the House, and what we have not had from them yet—except from the Liberals; we had some from them; they are certain that there is no question of independence for this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " of their imaginations are not evidence. That argument ought to receive no attention whatever. Some hypothetical, imaginary cases have been put up which were not too bad, from an argumentative point of view; but I would not rest the point on that, rather on the fact that the expert admission of lack of imagination or limited imagination is nothing like evidence. I have only a few more words to say", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1220.3", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "ises which has not yet, I think, been dealt with in the House. It was used by the Prime Minister, by the Minister of Defence and by the hon. Member for Horncastle in regard to our independent weapon. What the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence argued was that, whereas our contribution to the overall deterrent will be a minor one and will not be a decisive or, in fact, a very important one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Commander Courtney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Courtney", "preceding_text": "ve a political objective in Cuba. Secondly, there was the cancellation of the Skybolt programme, resulting in the Nassau Agreement. Thirdly, there is the French equivalent of a sit-down strike in N.A.T.O. which, although it has been brought into sharp relief over the purely economic considerations of our entry into the Common Market, has been going on for a considerable time, as hon. Members know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " Our criticism is not of the answer but that the question is wrong. Let me restate our position. We can only make the contribution which it is our duty to make to Western defence if we cease these vain nuclear posturings. Britain's claim, her hope, of being an independent nuclear Power ended the day the Blue Streak project was scrapped, and my hon. Friends recognised that within a matter of hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "Power. I did not think it a few weeks ago and nothing that has happened since has altered my view. Thirdly, I mentioned the contribution which we make to international influence. The right hon. Members for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond) and for Huyton have tried to belittle that. I will not try —it is not suitable or right for me to do so at this moment—to tell the story of the whole Cuba week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "ate today, rebuked me for not particularising the sort of situation to which I referred and practically said that I did not do so because I could not think of any real such circumstances. I am now forced to do so, but I can best do it in some words, which have already been quoted, by which the late Mr. Gaitskell, only three years ago, in March, 1960, summed up the arguments fairly and objectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "arch, 1960. The right hon. Gentleman should, however, be fair. He should point out that at that time Hugh Gaitskell was putting the arguments on both sides, for and against the nuclear case. This was part of his fair, balanced argument as he saw it for an independent deterrent. He also put the case against. I must say that the Prime Minister's choice of a quotation is very repugnant to some of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1253.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-01-31", "file": "debates1963-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9557f723cc7ce466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1257.3", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-01-31a.1257.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-01", "file": "debates1963-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "232984b0b84115b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-01a.1384.2", "colnum": "1384", "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/1963-02-01a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-01", "file": "debates1963-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "232984b0b84115b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-01a.1384.6", "colnum": "1384", "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/1963-02-01a.1384.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-01", "file": "debates1963-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "232984b0b84115b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-01a.1384.9", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DISEASES (BYSSINOSIS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I will ascertain by asking again. Did I rightly hear objection?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-01a.1384.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-01", "file": "debates1963-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "232984b0b84115b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-01a.1384.14", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT (1957) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-01a.1384.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-04", "file": "debates1963-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "e89e4767edea4009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.6.3", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that that is so. As I have made clear in the White Paper, I am going to discuss these matters with industry, and I do not want my mind made up by suggestions from hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.6.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-04", "file": "debates1963-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "e89e4767edea4009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.39.10", "colnum": "39", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1962–63; AIR SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which debate?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "May I ask through you, Sir William, a question of the Leader of the House? Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether the Secretary of State for Scotland will intervene in the debate, as last Thursday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.39.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-04", "file": "debates1963-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "e89e4767edea4009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1962–63; AIR SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1962–63", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Where is the Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £20,047,000, be granted to Her Majesty to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of march 1963, for the provision of hospitals, etc., services under the national health services in England and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.41.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-04", "file": "debates1963-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "e89e4767edea4009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "struction industry, despite the pile-up of work which is waiting for them, but once the weather improves unemployment will start to fall. But a seasonal fall—and here there can be nothing between us—is not enough. That is why the Chancellor has taken extensive measures to remedy the position. He has done exactly what the hon Gentleman has just asked for. He has started a vigorous expansion policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-04", "file": "debates1963-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "e89e4767edea4009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "odern homes? Are people in this area to remain living in homes which were condemned years ago and which are sub-standard in the worst sense of the word? Do the Government really believe that people living in these conditions can become good economic units? How could hon. Members opposite do their jobs if that were the portion that Providence held out to them? Or am I unfair to ask these questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-04", "file": "debates1963-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "e89e4767edea4009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel R. G. Grosvenor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel R. G. Grosvenor", "preceding_text": " figure of 9½ per cent. we must not forget the other 90 per cent. of men and women who are in profitable jobs and whose living conditions are ever improving. I am glad that the Minister of Labour mentioned Northern Ireland as well as the north-east of England, of which we have heard so much. He spoke of the great financial benefits that we get from Her Majesty's Government in West-minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-04", "file": "debates1963-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "e89e4767edea4009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel R. G. Grosvenor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel R. G. Grosvenor", "preceding_text": "ster of Labour mentioned Northern Ireland as well as the north-east of England, of which we have heard so much. He spoke of the great financial benefits that we get from Her Majesty's Government in West-minister. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I can assure him, on behalf of the Northern Ireland hon. Members, that we are extremely grateful and appreciative of the financial benefits which accrue principally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-04", "file": "debates1963-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "e89e4767edea4009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.121.2", "colnum": "121", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Slum schools.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Thompson", "preceding_text": "e difficulties and on the long-term measures which we ought to have in mind. There is also the significant similarity between the areas which suffer from unemployment first and worst in these conditions that they contain a large percentage of slum dwellings. They contain, as I know from my experience at the Ministry of Education, a large number of schools which are less good than they ought to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-04", "file": "debates1963-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "e89e4767edea4009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.121.2", "colnum": "121", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Thompson", "preceding_text": "d the materials to put things right. That argument cannot stand up when industrial activity is not as full as it ought to be. How can we possibly argue that we are helping the cause of Britain's efficiency as an instrument for producing wealth to sustain our standard of living when there is idle steel production capacity in the country and there is urgent need for a steel bridge across the Mersey?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-04", "file": "debates1963-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "e89e4767edea4009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "t try to keep this whole matter in perspective. Although we have 815,000 unemployed today, and although this figure is far too high, we must never forget, I suggest, that there are at present about 24 million people in employment. I felt that the right hon. Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay) was not altogether fair when he quoted today's figures and compared them with the figures in June, 1951.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-04", "file": "debates1963-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "e89e4767edea4009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "I know that I was most unfortunate to miss it. I know that, as the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) said, the whole House looks forward to hearing him again on many occasions. The hon. Member for Cardiff. South-East has made a very vigorous and colourful speech. I will not try to compete with him in rhetoric. After all, I am not in the same competition as he is in at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-04", "file": "debates1963-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "e89e4767edea4009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "been pointed out, it is no good for anyone to exaggerate the difficulties, either general or local, because exaggeration creates its own problems. Look at the total figures which have been quoted so often this afternoon—815,000 unemployed. Everybody who thinks straight about this knows perfectly well that a very large proportion indeed of that figure is a temporary figure arising from the weather.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-04a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-05", "file": "debates1963-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b578d200ae33785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE (INCREASED RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "e been given last September? What considerations weigh with the National Assistance Board today that were not as relevant and just as strong last September? What has happened in the interval to give the right hon. Gentleman any possible excuse for withholding these further increases through the bitterly hard winter? Does he not agree that having regard to this, these increases should be backdated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-05", "file": "debates1963-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b578d200ae33785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE (INCREASED RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "evious increase. The increase that is to be given now is wholly an improvement in the standards of these people. It ties in with the increase in pensions on 27th May. The hon. Member asked what the cost of these increases will be. The cost of the increases by themselves will be £34 million, but, taken in conjunction with the increases in National Insurance, there will be a saving to the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-05", "file": "debates1963-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b578d200ae33785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.246.2", "colnum": "246", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Milne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Milne", "preceding_text": " and a revenue in the region of £200 million to £240 million per annum from overseas visitors makes tourism an extremely important sector of our economy. It is 100 years ago this summer since Sir Thomas Cook organised his first Continental tour and I am certain that he would be staggered to realise the extent of the travel trade today and, would, in fact, raise his hands in horror at what happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.246.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-05", "file": "debates1963-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b578d200ae33785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "th they generally grew more conservative. That is wrong. They merely get impatient with conventional methods of reform. I quote that for the benefit of my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucestershire, West. I intervened in this debate to indicate that a fundamental change has taken place because of the improved demographic figures—I think that that is the right word—the demographic prognostications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-05", "file": "debates1963-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b578d200ae33785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " created to justify what was said by Malthus 150 years ago which has not been realised in the event. Human life on this earth has a way of adjusting its own errors. If there are too many old people, people marry younger and have more children. The whole process of nature tends to adjust shortcomings. I have a sort of blind faith that these forces are at work—without being too theological about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-05", "file": "debates1963-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b578d200ae33785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gough", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Eden) and I are engaged in the same business. We are both pension consultants. I came to listen to what he had to say and would not have continued the discussion on this point had it not been for the interruptions of hon. Members opposite. For the benefit of hon. Members opposite, may I say that what my hon. Friend proposes would be of very great value, particularly to the lower-paid workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-05", "file": "debates1963-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b578d200ae33785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.365.2", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Peter Thomas)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Peter Thomas)", "preceding_text": "eir service contracts in 1951, and calls upon Her Majesty's Government, without further delay, to make up the difference between these two sums together with a reasonable extra payment in consideration of the depreciation in the value of £660,000 since 1951, and the loss of interest on that sum. ] I gather from this Motion that they feel that the scales provided for in the Schedule are inadequate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.365.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-05", "file": "debates1963-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b578d200ae33785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.370.3", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " vast majority of this sum will not be recoverable. The sum total represented by the scales provided for in the present Order is the maximum we consider it right to ask Parliament to vote out of public funds. Of course it is not sufficient to meet all claims in full. Given that fact, we believe the system of graduated compensation is in this case reasonable and the most equitable that can be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.370.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-05", "file": "debates1963-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b578d200ae33785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.401.3", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What else is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ipley (Mr. Hirst) and my hon. Friend the Member for Middleton and Prestwich (Sir J. Barlow), who said that if an official receiver were to say to creditors, \"The smaller ones will be paid at a higher rate and the bigger ones at a lower rate\", that would be inequitable. Of course it would be. But that presupposes that this compensation amounts to a debt which should be discharged by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-05a.401.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-06", "file": "debates1963-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "90cf039fe8bd78da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.440.7", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "preceding_text": "The difficulty about the Government's position is that we cannot rewrite history in this matter. When a basis has been laid down in the past, it cannot now be altered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.440.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-06", "file": "debates1963-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "90cf039fe8bd78da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that we cannot give to those who have already retired the right of benefit from the improved conditions of service that Parliament has decided should apply to their successors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.441.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-06", "file": "debates1963-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "90cf039fe8bd78da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.444.4", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. M. Bennett", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has referred to rumours in the Press about a reduction. Is it not the case that the best way that the Government could get rid of them would be to announce that there is not going to be a reduction?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-06", "file": "debates1963-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "90cf039fe8bd78da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Lanarkshire, North (Miss Herbison) has sat here throughout the whole debate and was fully prepared and eager to press the case upon the Minister. However, having regard to his intervention a few minutes ago she feels with me that, out of courtesy to the Minister, I should make just a few remarks. The Minister has earned the Committee's respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-06", "file": "debates1963-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "90cf039fe8bd78da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(PROVISION TO BE SUBSTITUTED IN SCHEDULE 2 PART I OF NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT 1946.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "me. The effect would be that about 500,000 of those now receiving National Assistance supplements would cease to do so. If we did it in this way, basing ourselves on the National Assistance single householder rate plus the rent, we should then be paying the rent of many people who could afford to pay it for themselves. We should be providing more rent than they needed for some and less for others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-06", "file": "debates1963-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "90cf039fe8bd78da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Third Schedule.—(AMENDMENTS OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES ACTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No:", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "preceding_text": "he debates on this Bill before. But the words used by the hon. Member are the very words I myself have used in this House many times, to the derision of hon. Gentlemen on both sides. Under the old Workmen's Compensation Act, which has been so often criticised and yet was one of the best Acts ever passed, with subsequent amendment, the very errors and faults he has complained about were dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-06", "file": "debates1963-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "90cf039fe8bd78da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Third Schedule.—(AMENDMENTS OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES ACTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "That is a different position. The right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends are accurate in saying that even though a man has only a small disability he may be unable to carry out a skilled occupation and will suffer a serious loss of earning capacity. But that position was fully covered under the old Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-06", "file": "debates1963-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "90cf039fe8bd78da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Third Schedule.—(AMENDMENTS OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES ACTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "The Government will do nothing of the sort. Right hon. and hon. Members are wrong in saying this was left over from the old Workmen's Compensation Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-06", "file": "debates1963-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "90cf039fe8bd78da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.615.6", "colnum": "615", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) [MONEY] (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "I must protest at this important matter being brought before the House at this time of the morning. We see an Under-Secretary approaching in silence the penitential stool. I notice that this is Money Resolution (No. 2). I want some information from the Government, and my desire for information is shared by my Scottish colleagues assembled behind me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-06a.615.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-07", "file": "debates1963-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "38c67c929fa9387d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-07a.673.6", "colnum": "673", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "It is an idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-07a.673.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-07", "file": "debates1963-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "38c67c929fa9387d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-07a.683.3", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Congo", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "If the United Nations forces had not entered Katanga there would have been no war. There was no war before they entered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-07a.683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-07", "file": "debates1963-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "38c67c929fa9387d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-07a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Congo", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " and on the question whether the United Nations should have intervened in the first place. The Congo was in a state of chaos after the Belgians handed over. If this proves anything at all, it is that the Belgian record in colonial administration has been very different from our own. When we gave self-government to Tanganyika, it was a different story because successive Governments in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-07a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-07", "file": "debates1963-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "38c67c929fa9387d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-07a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Congo", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "oubt about the responsibility for the outbreak of the fighting just after Christmas in 1962. Mr. Tshombe promised a cease-fire. Even the Daily Express, which, like the hon. Member for Chigwell, is not noted for its enthusiasm for the United Nations, printed a report—I have not looked it up today, because I did not know that I should have to reply to a speech such as that which we have heard today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-07a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-07", "file": "debates1963-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "38c67c929fa9387d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-07a.759.1", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": " I do not believe that this is what my right lion. Friend wishes to happen. It is certainly not what I wish to happen. The record of the Conservative Government in pushing forward with university expansion is better than that of any previous Government. We all want to go fast. I know that I carry the Opposition with me on that, but it must be remembered that this is as fast as has ever been known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-07a.759.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-08", "file": "debates1963-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "4cbee9094ab2eb6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-08a.897.21", "colnum": "897", "heading": "RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND INCITEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-08a.897.20"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-11", "file": "debates1963-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "de1687a32b021798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Well, it is true that the attention of His Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor, whose name appears with those of 28 other persons in the pages referred to by my hon. Friend, would normally have been drawn to the contents of this text before publication. It is regretted that, due to an administrative oversight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-11", "file": "debates1963-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "de1687a32b021798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.924.5", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN (MISS CHLOE VULLIAMY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "In view of what I regard as the unsatisfactory nature of this reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.924.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-11", "file": "debates1963-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "de1687a32b021798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.950.1", "colnum": "950", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "uld not be more insurmountable than in the past. But it will be there, and we must, therefore, face that fact and try to reduce our internal costs by all possible means. We must enlarge our own home market by all the measures of expansion which can increase consumer demand without undue pressure upon imports. I will not embark today on the great economic problem of how to expand without inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-11", "file": "debates1963-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "de1687a32b021798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ulously aloof from day-to-day political affairs that we tend to forget that abroad other considerations obtain. There is no doubt that foreign countries regard royal visits as having a political significance, and, indeed, it is natural that they should. Although this particular visit was, in the main, of an unofficial nature, it was bound, in the circumstances, to assume a semi-official character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-11", "file": "debates1963-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "de1687a32b021798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS:\"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ean unity—indeed, we do not rule out the possibility of further proposals on this—we must understand, agree and resolve that we cannot hang around in European antechambers for a further period of months or years in the hope that the Brussels temperature will become warmer. We certainly do not rule out the possibility of further negotiations in Europe at the right time and under the right auspices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-11", "file": "debates1963-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "de1687a32b021798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " as well. We must, in return for a greater willingness to take our products, be completely forthcoming in our willingness to buy, on a long-term basis from them, guaranteed quantities of Commonwealth primary products. This will mean—we must face it—interference with speculative markets. It will mean bulk purchase or equally effective alternatives. We cannot afford to let ideology stand in the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-11", "file": "debates1963-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "de1687a32b021798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ce. Sometimes, the Government must give guaranteed orders to private enterprise so as to get the production forthcoming. It will mean more than this. It will mean State initiative in building, equipping and running factories to fill the hard-centre gaps in our economy. We must have State factories, too, to provide some of the goods which the Commonwealth will want. Finally, I turn to the measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-11", "file": "debates1963-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "de1687a32b021798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "made the occasion for censure, even though I think that the right hon. Gentleman has not censured the Government very successfully. This is an occasion which, as was suggested by an admirable leader in The Times this morning, calls for constructive thought and a forward view. It is an occasion when, in the classic formula, the House should have constituted itself into a Council of State to devise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-11", "file": "debates1963-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "de1687a32b021798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "y hostility to the Community, as I have tried to make clear all along, but simply because, as things are and as they are likely to be, the Common Market is no place for us. This is true whatever the result of the present struggle for power. Kennedy does not want a Europe dominated by de Gaulle and de Gaulle does not want a Europe dominated by Kennedy, and I must say that I agree with both of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-11", "file": "debates1963-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "de1687a32b021798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.1034.3", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "s part of our responsibility to the under-developed nations. Let us be frank; an agreement on world commodity prices may well mean an increase in the cost of certain foodstuffs. We have also to have a new agricultural policy. I have always believed that the 1957 Act was bust. The Government are, we know, tied to this until the next General Election, but we all hope that that will not be very soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.1034.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-11", "file": "debates1963-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "de1687a32b021798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "nt and urgent to call a conference, if possible, a joint conference of the two. If we are to concert our efforts with E.F.T.A. and the Commonwealth, we have to have a new Government to do it properly. The present Government have alienated and affronted all the friends upon whom we must now most rely. It was very widely believed, and said, that Britain was prepared to abandon its pledge to E.F.T.A.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-11", "file": "debates1963-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "de1687a32b021798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "nsible people. It was so widespread that it reached the headlines of responsible newspapers like the Guardian of 6th December, 1962— Britain may have to break E.F.T.A. pledge. Six rule out agreement with neutrals before 1964 Certainly, if the Prime Minister is now saying that the negotiations were on the point of success, he must have been ready to abandon that pledge because very little progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-11", "file": "debates1963-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "de1687a32b021798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.1059.3", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will make his speech tomorrow. That is what he said. The other alternative is that we were not going in until 1964—no doubt, after a General Election. Very improbable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.1059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-11", "file": "debates1963-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "de1687a32b021798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.1059.3", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will make his speech tomorrow. That is what he said. The other alternative is that we were not going in until 1964—no doubt, after a General Election. Very improbable. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] It is not monstrous. The right hon. Gentleman said that we would come to our own agreement, that is, an agreement to go in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.1059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-11", "file": "debates1963-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "de1687a32b021798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.1059.3", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "ure—is that the Government have given the impression that they do not regard as of any great importance the political value of the Commonwealth to us and to the world. In his speech today, the Prime Minister went to great length to explain that the Commonwealth did not really offer much hope, reinforcing the impression that he has already given, that he has lost interest in the Commonwealth since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.1059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-11", "file": "debates1963-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "de1687a32b021798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.1059.3", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "t have fallen upon us, we should stop trying to isolate France and we should stop wistfully looking over our shoulder all the time for things which might have been or which may be in the future but for which we will have to wait long and patiently. The Government cannot pursue that sort of policy, because it has alienated our partners in E.F.T.A. They have annoyed our partners in the Commonwealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-11a.1059.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1118.8", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that hon. Members were fully attending to the words in the name of the Prime Minister which you read from the Order Paper, Mr. Speaker. Perhaps they should be repeated. That this House expresses its full confidence in the determination and ability of Her Majesty's Government to deal with the political and economic situation\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1118.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1118.9", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A good one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "s I think many hon. Members were, by the Prime Minister and, even more, by the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations. But let us try to set out some sort of balance sheet of where we stand at this turning point in our fortunes. Exports are critical for our health. This is agreed on both sides. It is one of the standard sermons which come out when no one can think of a different peroration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1118.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1118.9", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "elations. But let us try to set out some sort of balance sheet of where we stand at this turning point in our fortunes. Exports are critical for our health. This is agreed on both sides. It is one of the standard sermons which come out when no one can think of a different peroration. [An HON. MEMBER: \"A good one.\"] It is a good one, I agree. But sermons oft repeated tend to lose their first sting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1118.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1118.9", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " which we possess in this country. Men who have been educated here, and have their parents here, frequently live with their families in the Commonwealth countries. Anyone who has been in countries of the Commonwealth knows that the people there turn to us and say, \"We want to buy British. Of course we should like to buy British. But you cannot supply us at the right price and at the time we want\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1118.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman was right and I agree with him, he often says these things, but we do not have any conviction that action will follow—that the most urgent need is to expand industrial production in this country. Ernest Bevin said it many years ago—\"Give me 10 million tons of coal and I will give you a foreign policy\"—and of course, he was right. It is right today. If we could have the exports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, at the beginning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " every reason why the £ and the dollar should support each other, but there is need for a multilateral approach. I want these steps to lead to a genuine multilateral organisation in which I would hope to see each member depositing a proportion of his resources with the central body. I have tried to discuss Britain's economic position. I do not believe that I have yet mentioned President de Gaulle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Surrender.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "e myth that we were on the point of settling the remaining issues when the negotiations were broken up. There is no myth. The view that these negotiations could be settled reasonably in a comparatively short time was, and is, held by the five other countries in the Community and also by the Commission. They know full well the negotiating position of the United Kingdom and of their own Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman may argue that it was wrong to accept it. What I am saying is that if one is to become a member of a community the obligation is to accept the organisation of that community, except where one is able to negotiate special arrangements. This is what we have been doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1152.3", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman should hear me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1152.9", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I said that we were authorised to enter into negotiations with the European Economic Community. That was the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1152.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1152.9", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "prepared to face up to the need for change in almost every aspect of our national life. We examined the whole basis of our policies and looked at all the assumptions on which they stood. The right hon. Member for Huyton and the right hon. Member for Smethwick yesterday said that we must have confidence in ourselves. They were the first to undermine that confidence in ourselves in the negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1152.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1152.9", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "h yesterday. Thirdly, the good faith of all those in the negotiations must be demonstrated from the beginning. The will to succeed must be there, as apparently it was not there in our negotiations for full membership. If any alternative is put forward in this way then, of course, it is bound to receive consideration. What of future developments of another kind? The right hon. Gentleman the Leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1152.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "s it became clear that the French Government were committed to trying to build themselves up as an independent force, and to build Europe up as an independent military and economic force. Those who believe that the source of our troubles is merely President de Gaulle must follow up with the argument—as some hon. Members have been hinting—that on the death of de Gaulle, which cannot be too far off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": " more powerful than the Government— that, too, is something we must accept —unless this relationship exists, the job cannot be done. I do not say that it can be done simply by having a Labour Government instead of a Conservative Government, and I think that my hon. Friend, who made it clear that he is, as one of the people who, in the next few months, will be landed with this problem, aware of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1210.1", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Earl of Dalkeith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Earl of Dalkeith", "preceding_text": "uction of more and more automation, as a result of which millions of people daily gaze at thousands of objects going slowly past them. We must think of their psychological approach to life. There has also been the introduction of the Welfare State which, while it is unthinkable that it should ever be dismantled, has had a profound effect on people's thinking—the \"What do I get for nothing?\" idea.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": " well. But the problem has not been the tactical conduct of the battle. That is why the right hon. Gentleman went wrong today—he was so anxious to prove that, tactically, the battle had been conducted properly. But what went wrong was the strategy. I wonder whether the right hon. Gentleman would not agree with me—he will not do it here publicly, of course, but perhaps in the darkness of the night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "situation, which has been the one clearly overlaying every Ministerial speech, they are unable to summon Britain to action at this moment because they have nowhere to which they can summon it. They are bewildered men; they are exhausted men, and they are desperately awash. They have been humiliated time after time, in a fashion that leaders of this country have not had to tolerate for 1,000 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": " did today, that we were preparing to sell E.F.T.A. short in going into the Common Market. It is ridiculous because, if the Prime Minister really meant what he said on television, and repeated in the House, that that brutal Frenchman—I am using his words—torpedoed the negotiations because they were on the point of success, it must follow that the Government were prepared to welsh on their pledges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is what the right hon. Gentleman lives on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "t. Finally, let me state my third requirement. We must change the mood at home. We must tell the people plainly that the bingo age is over. It is an age for which the Prime Minister, again, bears a heavy responsibility. If the right hon. Gentleman is ever remembered as a Chancellor what will it be for?—the introduction of the lottery. And in their hearts our people know that the bingo age is over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "s the question of profitability. The Government should be telling management at this time what its tasks are and should be calling on it to face its own weaknesses and inefficiencies —and they are many. But given a clear national need, given Government support and adequate consultation, I declare my belief that it will respond, and then we must be equally open and blunt with the trade unions, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "r action at present, he talked first about an industrial plan—a word we have heard very often. He described the proposals of the right hon. Member for Huyton and the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East as a blueprint. Certainly they made many proposals, but I think that when we analyse them we shall find that so far as they were practical proposals they have already been adopted by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ghtened of being accused by the right hon. Gentleman of being popular. The issues which we have been discussing in these two days are serious. I do not share the view of some right hon. and hon. Members who have a feeling of relief at the situation which we have reached. Nor do I agree with the right hon. Member for Smethwick that the nation is facing a very grave situation. That is just not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "he bulk of the world consumers are in that scheme. Frequent reference has been made to bulk contracts. I have no objection of doctrine to bulk contracts, though I fear that in practice they might often finish up with our carrying the burden of higher than world prices. It is dangerous for this country, particularly in this new situation, to carry higher prices for commodities than our competitors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "o the extreme we can, but there are limits. There are international obligations. We are not over-scrupulous about international obligations. [HON, MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\") We believe in interpreting them. We believe in carrying them out fully, but in accordance with what we are obliged to do. I am often told that we are the mugs and that everyone else cheats in these matters. This is just not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "out inflation add more than ever to the significance of the National Economic Development Council. I have heard many suggestions this afternoon about co-operation among Government, unions and employers to plan and work out ideas. This is precisely what N.E.D.C. has been doing since my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Wirral (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd) my predecessor established it. The Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the pay pause.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "It will be working on plans and targets for industry, discussing the problems and discussing the obstacles to growth before decisions are made. The hon. Member said that decisions were made by the Government, but it is not only the Government. The Government have decisions to make in questions like taxation, tariff policy, monopoly policy, expenditure on education, expenditure on roads and so on.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "nsion without a great increase in exports, that we cannot have an increase in exports unless we hold our costs steady, that we cannot hold our costs steady unless we have an effective incomes policy. Surely that lesson has been learned. Of course an incomes policy holds good for all sorts of incomes. It is not just a question of singling out wages. I know that wages are the largest single element.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-12", "file": "debates1963-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1512b65aa95cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1252.0", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRUSSELS NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "practicable. This is a situation not of crisis, not of disaster, but of challenge which cannot be met by the party opposite whose sole idea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-12a.1252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-13", "file": "debates1963-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0ab839494beb3dbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-13a.1304.4", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that we in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-13a.1304.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-14", "file": "debates1963-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73ead4fd58ae5cd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-14a.1456.3", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They have already said it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "There is to be a debate in a few days in another place in which my noble Friends Lord Chandos and Lord Swinton will speak. I cannot anticipate what they will say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-14a.1456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-14", "file": "debates1963-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73ead4fd58ae5cd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-14a.1496.5", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "I know of the feelings about this matter. It is partly for that reason that the Order has been put down for a day when there is, at least, a possibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-14a.1496.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-14", "file": "debates1963-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73ead4fd58ae5cd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-14a.1497.3", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That would be out of order at any time, but on a business question even more so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-14a.1497.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-14", "file": "debates1963-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73ead4fd58ae5cd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-14a.1497.4", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Yates", "preceding_text": "I realised when I made that statement that it was not in accord with Parliamentary custom and therefore, I must withdraw it. Last night, however, when we were present, the hon. Member opposite and I had the impression that there was equivocation. We could not get a proper answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-14a.1497.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-14", "file": "debates1963-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73ead4fd58ae5cd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-14a.1540.2", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "I looked up their social background in \"Who's Who\". While the Parliamentary Secretary's hobbies are given as golfing and shooting, his senior's are golfing and gardening. Let us bear in mind their social background. If I appear to speak with feeling, it is because I am subjective. I remember what happened in the early 1920s. The Bill probably applies more to engineering than to any other industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-14a.1540.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-15", "file": "debates1963-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "f869f15b38631ff8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-15a.1724.10", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OATHS AND EVIDENCE (OVER SEAS AUTHORITIES AND COUNTRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-15a.1724.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-15", "file": "debates1963-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "f869f15b38631ff8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-15a.1732.1", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "BRONCHITIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braille", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braille", "preceding_text": "d to include films and film strips. A new film for schools will soon be ready. I am very glad to say that local authorities are making very widespread use of these posters. In the last nine months 820,000 posters have been supplied. The services of mobile publicity units have also been made available by the Central Council for Health Education with Government assistance and are being. widely used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-15a.1732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.18.7", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "No. I think the hon. and learned Gentleman is for once on the wrong leg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.18.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "rsonally did not follow the hon. Member for Sowerby in the argument which he advanced that National Assistance scale rates and insurance benefits should march in step and hand in hand. What I do think—and this is not, I believe, accepted by the Government—is that the National Assistance scale rates should march automatically in step with increases in the average industrial earnings in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "ture. It was never contemplated that part of the industry would remain nationalised for many years and that the time would come when to protect itself it would need the power to acquire another steel firm. Had the Government come to the House and introduced a short Bill to take Whitehead into public ownership, the Opposition would have given every facility for the speedy passage of such a Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.107.3", "colnum": "107", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When do we start?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "f the industry today. Nationalisation in this context is a matter of administration and operational control. It is also a matter of ownership of shares, which I will deal with in a moment. It has no relevance to the under-capacity or under-employment of the steel industry today, an industry to the denationalisation of which I am glad to see that my party is pledged at the earliest possible moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.107.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " Minister answers it so long as we can have an assurance that there is no dogmatic adherence to denationalisation of this enormous chunk of investment, £240 million, in one operation. It should be denationalised piecemeal. The fact is that we are pledged to this process. A part of it should be carried out in the lifetime of this Parliament, and I hope the remainder of it in in the next Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.113.5", "colnum": "113", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ravon, who showed no courtesies at all. The fact is that if the hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. Mendelson) had looked back over the years to 1945 and had traced the progress and expansion of the whole of the steel industry during the last 18 years, he would have found that the industry had increased its capacity by far more than the overall average rate of growth in our economy over those 18 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.113.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.115.4", "colnum": "115", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "p before I came here tonight. He did not support me in voting against the fuel oil duty. He was protecting the vested interests of the lodges of the National Union of Mineworkers, who wanted a price protection for coal at the behest of Lord Robens, and the Treasury shamefully bowed to those blandishments. I hope that on 3rd April it will reverse its decision. The second point is equally important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.115.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I did not mention Stewarts and Lloyds in my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unhappily?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The issue then, if I remember aright—it does not come within my province—was precisely the same as the issue with which we are concerned now, and that is: What is in the national interest? We should bear in mind that Richard Thomas and Baldwins is still, unhappily, a publicly-owned asset, and so I think it was right on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.128.3", "colnum": "128", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. That is the most utter nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I know why the hon. Gentleman says, \"What a lot of rubbish\". The fact is that he has been needled by my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I know why the hon. Gentleman says, \"What a lot of rubbish\". The fact is that he has been needled by my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, that is absolutely true. My hon. Friend said that with the change of leadership in the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.129.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.129.7", "colnum": "129", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not dealing with the subject. He might as well give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.129.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is in debt.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "Richard Thomas and Baldwins must be in an extremely robust state, because although it has charged a good deal of the expenses of its new enterprises to income—and it has had no profits from those enterprises, because of the running-in period—it has been able to hold its head above water. It owes a certain amount of money to various people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.133.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "nister of Power reminds me of the story in Victor Hugo's novel where the sailor let loose a battering ram against the ship and almost caused a shipwreck. Then at the last moment and by great energy he managed to rescue the situation. What happened to that sailor was that he was first decorated and then shot. That is the prescription I suggest for the Government. The hon. Member for Kidderminster——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.139.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.145.6", "colnum": "145", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Surely it is obvious that here is a prime example of where planning on a grand scale has failed to get the answer right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.145.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I think that the truth is that 1960 was a boom year in our country with boom effects in the steel industry. What has happened since then is that demand has settled back to a normal pattern and we are getting a much more normal type of demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.153.4", "colnum": "153", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "rse, with a sprinkling—I suppose every one of us has to do it—of abuse of the party opposite. Then he recalled one remark which had been made by Inv right hon. Friend in the last debate at the end of July, when my right hon. Friend said that some time would elapse before substantial improvement took place. I can only say to the House that my right hon. Friend was entirely justified in saying that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.153.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-18", "file": "debates1963-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1aac9e325813c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.199.6", "colnum": "199", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS (CANDIDATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "that it is for him to be adopted by one of the three parties known to this House, or one of the other parties to which some people have a certain allegiance. Let us not forget that independents have an absolute right to put their views before the electorate. Thirdly, we are bringing this Motion before the House with considerable speed. There is no overwhelming desire on the part of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-18a.199.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-19", "file": "debates1963-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a646c59a8f60a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-19a.213.5", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows the answer to that as well as I do. In the past year there has not been the expansion of industry that there was in the previous year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-19a.213.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-19", "file": "debates1963-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a646c59a8f60a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-19a.215.2", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman realise the implications of what he is saying? We constantly have reference to the desperate efforts which the Government are making to provide new jobs and new avenues of employment after they have been in power for twelve years and have told us that nationalisation was a gross failure and that private enterprise would do the job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-19a.215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-19", "file": "debates1963-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a646c59a8f60a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-19a.221.5", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-19a.221.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-19", "file": "debates1963-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a646c59a8f60a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-19a.248.5", "colnum": "248", "heading": "HOUSING LAND (BIRMINGHAM, LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. V. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. V. Yates", "preceding_text": "With all due respect to what you have said, Mr. Speaker, no hon. Member from Birmingham has taken part in this discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-19a.248.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-19", "file": "debates1963-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a646c59a8f60a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-19a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A pony and cart.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "or example, that a consignment arrives on an English farm after the regulations are in force and no labels are found inside the bag. It would be quite possible for the consignor to say that he had included the labels and that he could call evidence to prove it. Merely to insert a label and to sew up the bag with string leaves scope for the driving of a small horse and cart through the regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-19a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-19", "file": "debates1963-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a646c59a8f60a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-19a.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "ompetitive, private, free enterprise. I do not know why it is called \"free\", because we spend the whole of our time cribbing, cabnning and confining it, but apparently that escapes the notice of hon. Members opposite. I rose only to point that out. I am in favour of the Clause. I am always in favour of anything which protects people against the activities of private enterprise. That appeals to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-19a.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-19", "file": "debates1963-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a646c59a8f60a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-19a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A good idea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "hat we are talking about Ireland and not France or Cuba. But if that is the basis on which we are going to give subsidies—because we are friendly to a nation and, therefore, the British taxpayer must subsidise it—then heaven help the day when we get complete universal brotherhood. In giving assistance to friendly nations we might find ourselves spending more on subsidies than we are on armaments.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-19a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-19", "file": "debates1963-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6a646c59a8f60a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-19a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Clark", "preceding_text": "To suggest that 3,000 people in Greenock lost their jobs because of 13,000 tons of sugar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-19a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-21", "file": "debates1963-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "b8eb0194ff2446eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-21a.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Hors. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I deliberately phrased my answer as moderately as I could because I have always admired the Welsh concern for selective education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-21a.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-21", "file": "debates1963-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "b8eb0194ff2446eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-21a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "BURNHAM COMMITTEE (MINISTER'S LETTER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Member that I would not have done this lightly. In principle, I have said I do not believe that any Minister of education can disengage from considerations of structure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-21a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-21", "file": "debates1963-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "b8eb0194ff2446eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-21a.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The White Paper, Cmnd. 1936, has been issued by the Government. We will put down a Motion on it. An Amendment can, no doubt, if wished, be tabled by the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-21a.646.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-22", "file": "debates1963-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "d70bc530956a5c25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-22a.862.8", "colnum": "862", "heading": "WILLS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-22a.862.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-25", "file": "debates1963-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f626833b46a1bfa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-25a.881.5", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH-EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "preceding_text": "As I have said before, my hon. Friend is presenting conclusions to his colleagues. Any action which it is decided to take will be taken by the Government as a whole", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-25a.881.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-25", "file": "debates1963-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f626833b46a1bfa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-25a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "ial television. Secondly, apart from what the Postmaster-General said, certain things have occurred which have disturbed many people. We have the case of Scottish Television. We know where the money came from for the purchase of the Sunday Times. We also know that the Thomson group has a preferential advantage in advertising on Scottish Television. At least, that is how the position appears to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-25a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-25", "file": "debates1963-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f626833b46a1bfa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-25a.956.2", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wavell Wakefield", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An ominous name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wavell Wakefield", "preceding_text": "About eighteen months ago a book called \"Pressure Group\" was published. It was written by an American, Professor H. H. Wilson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-25a.956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-25", "file": "debates1963-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f626833b46a1bfa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-25a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what the Postmaster-General said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": " than that, then it will face a real difficulty. I hope, therefore, that this will be on a sliding scale so that the greater the income from advertising revenue the greater the rate of taxation, or, if that is not feasible, that the figure will start only at perhaps £250,000 or £500,000. I cannot propose a precise level, but at any rate taxation should only begin to operate above a certain figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-25a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-25", "file": "debates1963-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f626833b46a1bfa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-25a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "I am not a pillar of the Establishment, nor a member of the Advisory Council of the B.B.C. I have not appeared on B.B.C. television, nor have I a financial interest of any kind in any commercial television company. Nor have I a local axe of any sort to grind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-25a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-25", "file": "debates1963-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f626833b46a1bfa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-25a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has borrowing powers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "earlier, the whole Bill falls within the shadow of the decision to allow the B.B.C. to go ahead with plans for a second programme. Over 40 years ago, under a Conservative Administration, it was decided—and in the light of subsequent events rightly so—to set up this unique organisation, a public broadcasting corporation dependent not on money from the Government but on licence fees from the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-25a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-26", "file": "debates1963-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "cb9da4ac06d809e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-26a.1065.0", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "My hon. and gallant Friend is perfectly correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-26a.1065.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-26", "file": "debates1963-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "cb9da4ac06d809e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-26a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "My hon. and gallant Friend is perfectly correct. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Messrs. Bailey saw fit to destroy or remove all the documents and records before the Council of Administration came into operation in March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-26a.1065.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-26", "file": "debates1963-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "cb9da4ac06d809e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-26a.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONG KONG", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Reverting to the former answer to my right hon. Friend, did I understand the Under-Secretary to say, in the first place, that what my right hon. Friend said was untrue and, in the later part of his answer, that he had no knowledge of it? Are we to infer from that answer that anything of which he has no knowledge is quite untrue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-26a.1073.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-26", "file": "debates1963-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "cb9da4ac06d809e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-26a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARIES (RANK)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I think that that is the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-26a.1079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-26", "file": "debates1963-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "cb9da4ac06d809e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-26a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (NUCLEAR WEAPONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "But surely the right hon. Gentleman can tell us something about what is going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-26a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-26", "file": "debates1963-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "cb9da4ac06d809e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-26a.1145.0", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATE FOR THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Men only?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Butler", "preceding_text": "he Minister is saving, in effect, when he speaks of some land being of low amenity value is that some of the land is scruffy because it is close to the built-up area. The land around towns has always been rather scruffy, ever since primitive days when men threw their meat bones outside the encampments where they lived and made the outskirts of their primitive settlements rather scruffy and untidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-26a.1145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-27", "file": "debates1963-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "01832bf5d543df74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-27a.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Farr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Farr", "preceding_text": " on this subject in the past, but I put the matter in this way. In my view, the minds of young people are extremely simple. Generally, as they grow up to adulthood, they find great difficulty in comprehending much of the world in which they live. They do not understand, and many of them rebel. I am certain that if magistrates once again have power in really bad cases to order the use of the birch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-27a.1347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-28", "file": "debates1963-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae18f5a029542639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-28a.1569.0", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Economic sanctions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": " important, that in the financial settlement—and it will be no easy one—which the end of Federation necessitates our whole attitude—I say this quite frankly—to Southern Rhodesia should be governed by whether or not the Southern Rhodesian Government are moving in the direction that I have indicated. There must be no more grants or loans on easy terms of £3½ million to a racialist Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-28a.1569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-02-28", "file": "debates1963-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae18f5a029542639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-28a.1570.1", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir John Hobson)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir John Hobson)", "preceding_text": "opinion as to what he considered to be the position under the draft Constitution as it then stood—namely, that without the unanimous consent of the four Governments in fact the Constitution could not be liquidated. He asked in the same breath, and twice asked, for an assurance of the lawyers that this view was correct. That assurance never was given to the Conference by any lawyer who was present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-28a.1570.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-02-28", "file": "debates1963-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae18f5a029542639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-28a.1576.5", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. and learned Gentleman permit me to interrupt him just once on this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-02-28a.1576.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-01", "file": "debates1963-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "fd7bce0fcef9fdca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-01a.1654.3", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "HORTICULTURAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "There are many aspects other than railways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-01a.1654.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-01", "file": "debates1963-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "fd7bce0fcef9fdca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-01a.1686.2", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORLD SECURITY AGENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-01a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-04", "file": "debates1963-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6413d8a0ce70a5f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.44.5", "colnum": "44", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "z operation. My hon. and right hon. Friends opposed it in principle, but the Government nevertheless decided to commit a large part of our defence services to a military operation against the Egyptian Government, and after three months of warning and preparation and in eight days' operations our forces failed to achieve a very limited objective against negligible opposition from the Egyptian Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.44.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-04", "file": "debates1963-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6413d8a0ce70a5f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.44.5", "colnum": "44", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unemployment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "overnment to allow recruiting to rise to 180,000 men. Why? Has there been some major increase in our commitments since 1957? Of course, there has not. Our commitments, in fact, are very much lower than they were then. The reason is, as we all know, that the Government think now that they can recruit 180,000 men, so they are prepared to tell the House that we really needed 180,000 men all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.44.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-04", "file": "debates1963-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6413d8a0ce70a5f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.78.2", "colnum": "78", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.78.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-04", "file": "debates1963-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6413d8a0ce70a5f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.78.2", "colnum": "78", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some of them are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "not give up his independent French deterrent merely because there is a N.A.T.O. deterrent. I do not detect much greater enthusiasm among the Italians. Therefore, the only purpose of this exercise as far as Europe is concerned is an attempt to satisfy the Germans. I do not believe that it would do it. I am not at all clear that the Germans are itching to get their hands on nuclear weapons as it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.78.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-04", "file": "debates1963-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6413d8a0ce70a5f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "I will send the hon. Member the Liberal booklet on defence, which sets it out in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-04", "file": "debates1963-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6413d8a0ce70a5f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "e and foreign policy has never been in such a shocking mess as it is at present. That was not written by some wicked Liberal politician. That was written by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor. That is his conclusion on eleven years of Conservative Government. The Minister laughs. He thinks it is very funny. He thinks the total collapse of this country's defence is a matter for joking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.79.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-04", "file": "debates1963-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6413d8a0ce70a5f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.82.2", "colnum": "82", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The Liberals are all going now.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Glyn", "preceding_text": "orical statements with some of which I find myself unable to agree. I had thoughtfully provided myself with the Liberal pamphlet to which he referred, and both before and during his speech I looked at the figures published in it, and the only figures published in it, which, I understood him to say just now, refer to the number of conventional forces which Liberal Party thinks should be maintained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-04", "file": "debates1963-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6413d8a0ce70a5f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.128.4", "colnum": "128", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I am stating what I believe to be a fact. What is more, the only weapon that I know of for which such a claim has been made, namely, the V-bombers, even in respect of those, it is admitted, even by their most persuasive advocates, that they may be defective independent weapons now but they are on their way out and that in a year or two they will not be effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.128.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-04", "file": "debates1963-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6413d8a0ce70a5f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "eek economies within our defence organisation at every single level, and economies can come in various ways, one being greater efficiency in the tri-Service outlook. I am speaking on behalf of my two Service colleagues when I say that we very much welcome the proposals put forward today by my right hon. Friend. Hon. Gentlemen opposite may be surprised that the Government are solid on these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-04", "file": "debates1963-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6413d8a0ce70a5f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I know that it is late in the evening, and no doubt the right hon. Gentleman has been carried away by his own enthusiasm, but he should know that at least on two points he has said exactly the opposite of what I said. I never said that the nuclear weapons should be withdrawn from N.A.T.O. I said that they should be deployed differently and taken out of the front line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-04", "file": "debates1963-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6413d8a0ce70a5f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "s naked from the defence point of view, unless we are to rely on the Americans to do the job for us. Recently this appeared to be the official view of hon. Members opposite, but now we have the hon. Member for Rossendale (Mr. Greenwood) coming with a demand that American bases be removed from this country. I think that the hon. Member for Rossendale is to be chairman of the Labour Party next year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-04a.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-05", "file": "debates1963-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "58e9bb1679bd13f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.193.2", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "aware that his predecessor said in 1958: The show will he presented on behalf of my Department by Atlas Lighting Ltd. · who have generously undertaken to see that there is no risk to public funds.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th June, 1958; Vol. 589, C. 62.] Is he aware that the firm has lost between £20,000 and £30,000 on this project? Is it therefore not a shame that it has not got this contract?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.193.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-05", "file": "debates1963-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "58e9bb1679bd13f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.204.4", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.204.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-05", "file": "debates1963-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "58e9bb1679bd13f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.208.6", "colnum": "208", "heading": "M. GEORGES BIDAULT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I have no knowledge on that subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.208.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-05", "file": "debates1963-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "58e9bb1679bd13f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.221.6", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Threatening us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "wrong answer to the fundamental question of what deters Russia from making a nuclear attack on Britain alone and in isolation. This is the point which the right hon. Gentleman made. The thing which deters Russia from doing that is simply their fear that they would be exposed to the terrifying annihilating first-strike weapon from America. This could happen if they started attacking us in this way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.221.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-05", "file": "debates1963-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "58e9bb1679bd13f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "hat their religions are chosen for them, and sometimes their race. For example, on a major issue of defence the paper's correspondent—a sailor of great distinction who has been decorated, and I acknowledge his prowess and gallantry—had to admit that on this major story one aspect had been pinched from the defence correspondent of the Daily Herald. I freely admit that one cannot go lower than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-05", "file": "debates1963-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "58e9bb1679bd13f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "as a great deal to do with the question: first, whether we should build up our conventional forces; secondly, whether we increase the number of our land forces in the European theatre; and, thirdly, whether we should retain any troops there at all. I should like to bring to my aid the opinion of somebody who, I think everybody would agree, is a military expert. I refer to Field Marshal Montgomery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-05", "file": "debates1963-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "58e9bb1679bd13f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Does he not know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "appy attitude by Ministers that there come the lack of relevant defences today and our total absence of defence policy. I want to consider two or three of the things which have come out of the debate and to turn, first, to the question of the proposed reorganisation and to try to state what I hope will be our point of view and what I think our point of view generally is and what is certainly mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-05", "file": "debates1963-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "58e9bb1679bd13f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": " a sensible start to what must lead ultimately to a still greater degree of integration among the Services. In the end there is an unanswerable case for two Services rather than three, whether one approaches it on a functional basis or not. There will be one Service which will have the strike operation, one which will have the transport operation and one which will have the land duties to perform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-05", "file": "debates1963-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "58e9bb1679bd13f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Peter Thornecroft)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Peter Thornecroft)", "preceding_text": "and gallant Friend the Member for Lewes (Sir T. Beamish) who said that it might be a good thing if we were bipartisan in this, but it is no good trying to conceal differences if they exist. Our policy, as he rightly stated, is deterring an attack on this island, providing conventional and nuclear support for Europe, and carrying out a worldwide rôle, particularly between Singapore and Suez.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-05", "file": "debates1963-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "58e9bb1679bd13f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Peter Thornecroft)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Peter Thornecroft)", "preceding_text": "hich costs money. It can be said of it that it places, as it does, a very heavy strain indeed upon our resources, but in no circumstances can it be said either to have collapsed or to be non-existent. It seems to me that it would have been much better and far more intelligent if the Amendment had been directed to a challenge of the policy on its merits and we had voted on the merits of the policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-05", "file": "debates1963-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "58e9bb1679bd13f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Peter Thornecroft)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Peter Thornecroft)", "preceding_text": "if those responsible for our defence policy started by making that assumption, our policy would be much cheaper than it is today. Very few responsible Governments, however, would ever decide to make that decision for the future. I doubt whether the majority of the British people would be quite as sanguine as the right hon. Member for Belper about the future. The second difference concerns N.A.T.O.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-05", "file": "debates1963-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "58e9bb1679bd13f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "their own weapons, surely it is most astonishing to suggest that the first thing to do is to take away from them the weapons which they have. The object of having tactical nuclear weapons forward is simply that they are tactical. If they are removed out of the range of their targets, we might as well remove them altogether, unless the plan is to shoot at either our own troops or our own civilians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-05a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-06", "file": "debates1963-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7c445a052ac179b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-06a.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "With all respect to the hon. Gentleman, I have looked at this correspondence, and I think there is some room for doubt whether both parties concerned were not just a little touchy on the whole subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-06a.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-06", "file": "debates1963-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7c445a052ac179b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-06a.372.3", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "Whatever the general practice may be, however satisfactory it is or not, is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that in this case there is no no doubt that Dr. Beeching, replying to my hon. Friend, rebuked him in a most offensive way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-06a.372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-06", "file": "debates1963-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7c445a052ac179b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-06a.372.4", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "I also have examined the correspondence and I am afraid I do not take the same view as the right hon. Gentleman does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-06a.372.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-06", "file": "debates1963-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7c445a052ac179b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-06a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "I do not think I can give any assurance of that kind at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-06a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-06", "file": "debates1963-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7c445a052ac179b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-06a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1947 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "ertain local education authorities there are nominees from the churches and although we in the House are an elected body, Parliament as a whole is not. In the other place there are hereditary peers, elected peers and appointed peers, and this combination does not seem to prevent us from regarding Parliament as a whole as a thoroughly sound democratic body. I think that we are all agreed upon that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-06a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-07", "file": "debates1963-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4c8e08a1803846cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.623.4", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that local authorities do not show good sense in all cases and that I can supply him with particulars of an instance when the insistence upon joining a trade union was pursued with great ruthlessness and persecution of an individual who was not a member of the staff of the council in question at the time the resolution was passed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.623.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-07", "file": "debates1963-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4c8e08a1803846cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.623.4", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "that local authorities do not show good sense in all cases and that I can supply him with particulars of an instance when the insistence upon joining a trade union was pursued with great ruthlessness and persecution of an individual who was not a member of the staff of the council in question at the time the resolution was passed? [ Interruption. ] Secondly, is my hon. Friend aware also that once—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.623.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-07", "file": "debates1963-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4c8e08a1803846cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.629.5", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that his predecessor indicated that it was important not to subject householders to too severe a jolt? Surely that is precisely what is happening in a number of cases. Is there not now an obligation on the Minister to grant some form of relief in those cases?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.629.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-07", "file": "debates1963-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4c8e08a1803846cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.630.3", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman tell the House whether the hon. and gallant Member for Poole (Sir R. Pilkington), the hon. Member for Bournemouth, West (Mr. Eden) and the hon. and learned Member for Hove (Mr. Marlowe) did or did not vote for the Government's revaluation Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.630.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-07", "file": "debates1963-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4c8e08a1803846cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.630.5", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. We should be jealous of our duties in this House. With due respect to you, Mr. Speaker, am I to understand that you are ruling that the Minister may not answer?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.630.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-07", "file": "debates1963-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4c8e08a1803846cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.645.0", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that if he wants to discuss this proposal through the usual channels it will get pretty short shrift as far as we are concerned?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-07", "file": "debates1963-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4c8e08a1803846cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.657.0", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell that to the 1922 Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and learned Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) will bear with me, he will see that this aircraft has several rôles, one of which is strategic and another of which is tactical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-07", "file": "debates1963-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4c8e08a1803846cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.682.2", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or in Britain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "raid I lost my wool just now—so often denigrate British efforts? The TSR2—hon. Members opposite tried to run it down—is the most remarkable project that British engineering has ever faced, and they are very nearly home with it. It seems to me that Britain in these days has to a great extent to look after herself. We do not know what the state of the Government will be in the United States in 1970.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.682.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-07", "file": "debates1963-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4c8e08a1803846cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blue Steel,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "er there was any justification for believing what his predecessor said, because I dare say the same people produce the speeches. During the Air Estimates debate on 8th March, 1961, it was said, according to the daily part of HANSARD for that date, No. 69: The missiles with which we plan to maintain our contribution to the Western deterrent —the Blue Streak and Skybolt—will be mounted on V-bombers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-07", "file": "debates1963-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4c8e08a1803846cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.718.3", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Gentleman that there is no comma here. He must not complain. All I am doing is to quote the right hon. Gentleman's predecessor. This has nothing to do with the Oxford Union. There is no wit here, not a scrap. This is not conscious humour, it is unconscious humour, and it comes straight from the right hon. Gentleman. Let us bring the matter more up-to-date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.718.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-07", "file": "debates1963-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4c8e08a1803846cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Apparently, there has been no alteration in the Government's Blue Steel programme, no alteration whatsoever in the slightest degree. If that is so, we shall have to check to see whether it remains true twelve months later. But there is no doubt about Skybolt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-07", "file": "debates1963-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4c8e08a1803846cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.764.3", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "1,838 million is to be extracted from our pockets for defence spending next year. An increase of £117 million. In spite of Mr. Thorneycroft's bland assurance that all he does is the best that any man could do for us, I'll make a prophesy. It is that most of the £1,838 million will be wasted and we shall end the year as defenceless as we began it. That was written by a gentleman called John Gordon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-07a.764.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-08", "file": "debates1963-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "1c136085252e2131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-08a.921.14", "colnum": "921", "heading": "WORLD SECURITY AGENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-08a.921.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-11", "file": "debates1963-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b97557e6602340a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JOURNALISTS (DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Arising from that reply, does the hon. and learned Gentleman not appreciate that, even though the law affords no protection in practice, communications made to journalists by politicians and others have been regarded on both sides as being absolutely confidential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-11", "file": "debates1963-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b97557e6602340a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.987.2", "colnum": "987", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "We shall do everything possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.987.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-11", "file": "debates1963-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b97557e6602340a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.987.2", "colnum": "987", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Hot. MEMBERS: \"Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "We shall do everything possible—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am sorry, but if the hon. Member suspects that answer I should say that we will make sure that all essential parts of the ship are sufficiently and adequately manned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.987.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-11", "file": "debates1963-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b97557e6602340a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What allies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "I am saying that it is rather foolish for us to imagine that we can meet such threats around the world today without allies. That was the point I made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-11", "file": "debates1963-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b97557e6602340a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Maitland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"French cooks?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Maitland", "preceding_text": " us a clear statement as soon as possible and that Parliament will be consulted before any of these curious ideas are seriously considered. I read in The Times today of a scheme concerning a \"multilateral force\" which, I understand, means the production of ships to be manned by men of various nations. I cannot imagine anything more ludicrous. If that is being considered in 1963 it seems fantastic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-11", "file": "debates1963-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b97557e6602340a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1031.2", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "nother £200 million, the Tory Party is not satisfied. There is a Motion on the Order Paper relating to the vital importance to our defence trade and interests of a British space communications satellite system. It is signed by 68 hon. Members who are members of the increased armaments lobby—some have vested interests—and who are demanding a communications satellite for defence and trade interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1031.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-11", "file": "debates1963-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b97557e6602340a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not the Army Estimates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-11", "file": "debates1963-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b97557e6602340a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "val expenditure. He argued that if the money were not available there should be a special naval defence Act to mortgage the cost. The real reason would be to provide a social service for the shipbuilding industry, but he would not advocate that policy—a social service—for the railways and for the advantage of the nation as a whole. There is also a Motion on the Order Paper signed by 10 Tory M.P.s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-11", "file": "debates1963-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b97557e6602340a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Ian On-Ewing", "preceding_text": "They were called destroyers, to get them past the Treasury at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1048.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-11", "file": "debates1963-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b97557e6602340a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Kershaw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Kershaw", "preceding_text": "ssibility that some nations might be equipped in future with weapons which at the moment are quite beyond their purse or ingenuity to manufacture. Therefore, if we are not to subject our conventional forces to blackmail we must have this weapon ourselves. I also think that, in spite of what is sometimes said, it would give us influence in the councils of our friends if we were to have this weapon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-11", "file": "debates1963-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b97557e6602340a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "HON, MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "nt, is able, in clever language, to avoid giving these assurances, the noble Lord must accept, as many of us on this side believe, that this is not an independent British nuclear deterrent. I can see the difference between the view of the noble Lord and that of my own Front Bench on this issue, though it is not very great, because my own Front Bench is not against an independent nuclear deterrent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-11", "file": "debates1963-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b97557e6602340a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Howard (St. Ives)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Howard (St. Ives)", "preceding_text": "ng. Before I begin on the main part of my speech, which I shall keep as short as possible, since many hon. Members wish to speak, I wish to join my hon. Friends in saying how sad we are about the unfortunate illness of the right hon. Member for West Bromwich (Mr. Dugdale). I understand that he is very gravely ill. I am sure that we would all wish to extend our sympathy to him and to his relatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-11", "file": "debates1963-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b97557e6602340a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. H Hayman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. H Hayman", "preceding_text": "ver the Polaris submarines; but there is a ray of hope for the country that there will be a change of Government within the next twelve months. Let us recall the great changes made by the Prime Minister last July. Great changes? One-third of the Cabinet was dismissed but the Admiralty still has a man from Eton as First Lord and a man from Harrow as Civil Lord. The Minister of Defence is from Eton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-11a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-12", "file": "debates1963-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d31ba3f229c4d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-12a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Box", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Box", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend use any influence which he may have with the Leader of the Opposition and ask him to persuade the four Socialist-controlled councils in the immediate vicinity of Cardiff which have consistently refused to sell freeholds to sitting leasehold occupiers⤔", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-12a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-12", "file": "debates1963-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d31ba3f229c4d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-12a.1174.7", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend to accept my congratulations.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-12a.1174.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-12", "file": "debates1963-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d31ba3f229c4d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-12a.1251.7", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "PRISON COMMISSIONERS (DISSOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "sed local prisons, for the reasons which I have given, although I hope and think that the House will agree that wonderful work is being done in prisons, and I should like the public to know much more about it. I welcome the responsible articles about prison conditions like some which have appeared in the Press recently and during the last few days. I should like more hon. Members to go to prisons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-12a.1251.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-12", "file": "debates1963-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d31ba3f229c4d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-12a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "PRISON COMMISSIONERS (DISSOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "eself open to the charge of being merely loyal to old advisers. If one is critical one is disloyal and soured-up. The fact is that the responsibility for this decision is that of the Home Secretary and nobody else. If the Home Secretary tells the House, \"This step I regard as being necessary in the interests of the good administration of my Department\" the House is bound to accept his ipsi dixit —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-12a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-12", "file": "debates1963-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d31ba3f229c4d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-12a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PRISON COMMISSIONERS (DISSOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who was it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "ar up some of the contradictions which have arisen both here and in another place. One contradiction which underlay his speech was less crudely expressed than in the speech of the noble Lord who spoke for him in another place, who really, if I may say so without too much disrespect—though I do not feel too much respect for him, anyway, on this issue made a proper mess of his handling of the Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-12a.1288.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-12", "file": "debates1963-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d31ba3f229c4d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-12a.1296.1", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "PRISON COMMISSIONERS (DISSOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Yates", "preceding_text": " them. Those were corporate decisions. In that Report, which was submitted to the House in 1952, we pointed out the crimes which had arisen as a result of overcrowding and lack of work in the prisons. From my experience of visiting many prisons in the country and talking to Prison Commissioners, I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Nelson and Colne did a grave injustice to the Commissioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-12a.1296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-12", "file": "debates1963-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d31ba3f229c4d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-12a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "FORTH ROAD BRIDGE (TOLLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whiteinch?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "about tolls has been inconsistent. I cannot accept that. The policy is that tolls are an appropriate method of financing expensive bridge and tunnel schemes. This policy was announced in February, 1955 by the then Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, and, for the benefit of the hon. Gentleman, this was the one thing I did read out of my brief. I has been followed consistently since that date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-12a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-13", "file": "debates1963-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b9e2a05e4e9db65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-13a.1338.5", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member knows, I am not very good at making promises. He also knows, however, that I am fairly impatient in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-13a.1338.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-13", "file": "debates1963-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b9e2a05e4e9db65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-13a.1363.6", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Hurd", "preceding_text": "May we take it that this Review, which seems to be fair and reasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-13a.1363.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-13", "file": "debates1963-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b9e2a05e4e9db65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-13a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEIGHTS AND MEASURES BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Believe it or not, when one has ordered ten bags of coal one must watch, when the coal is delivered, to make sure that ten bags arrive. Sometimes, even after one has counted them, one may have received only nine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-13a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-14", "file": "debates1963-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "e932ae0369f89f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-14a.1523.3", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It was written by a woman.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree that this article, written by a very distinguished man, should be taken very seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-14a.1523.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-14", "file": "debates1963-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "e932ae0369f89f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-14a.1532.3", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman realises that there are divergent views on the way of handling the debate. I am anxious to do it in the way in which most of the House would prefer. Of course, I will have consultations on this matter, but what I said orginally, I think to the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-14a.1532.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-14", "file": "debates1963-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "e932ae0369f89f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-14a.1537.2", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "My question, with great respect, Mr. Speaker, was directly relevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-14a.1537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-14", "file": "debates1963-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "e932ae0369f89f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-14a.1567.3", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "tterness. The Government have, therefore, decided not to make any alterations outside north-west Europe. In northwest Europe, however, when Service men die, we intend to give the next-of-kin the choice of having the body brought home at public expense to a stated destination in the United Kingdom or Irish Republic for private burial, or having two relatives flown out to attend the Service funeral.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-14a.1567.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-14", "file": "debates1963-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "e932ae0369f89f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-14a.1586.1", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I would rather not give way to the hon. Member, for I have been too long as it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-14a.1586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-14", "file": "debates1963-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "e932ae0369f89f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-14a.1599.7", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Your own Front Bench.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " credit for it, he can. When people get old we have to give them some credit. The question is: where does the War Office stand? The right hon. Gentleman said that there could be no question of the three Services being fully integrated and referred to something which hon. Members on this side have said about the Air Force and the Navy being fully integrated. That is not a Labour conception at all.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-14a.1599.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-14", "file": "debates1963-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "e932ae0369f89f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-14a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. H. Hayman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. H. Hayman", "preceding_text": " for their help in restricting traffic to the Commoners and the Army and suggested the notice 'No Through Road'. These roads are maintained for the War Department using the Range. I have not at the moment mentioned the gates. I do not think that it would be politic for me to do so, as I have not the authority to put up the gates, as the War Office itself is handling that question. 1 So it goes on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-14a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-14", "file": "debates1963-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "e932ae0369f89f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-14a.1681.0", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He is.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fitzroy Maclean", "preceding_text": " if I may borrow a happy phrase of his own, to draw his attention to a couple of \"tricks\" which I think he has \"missed\". As my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeenshire, West (Mr. Hendry) pointed out, the Secretary of State has stopped recruiting—I think he has, unless he has started again —for the Highland Brigade. Now that he is increasing the scope of recruiting he may be recruiting Highlanders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-14a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-15", "file": "debates1963-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a867d660baa234e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-15a.1717.3", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"1945.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "riate in this place today. I do not deride the mighty dead, but Parliament represents its clay and age, and this one does not do too badly. I may say, and I hope that the Leader of the House is duly grateful, that in 1960 The Times caught on to the idea that the 1950 intake into the Conservative Party was the greatest qualitative intake which the country had ever known on the Conservative benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-15a.1717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-15", "file": "debates1963-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a867d660baa234e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-15a.1717.3", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "occupational disease of Parliamentarians\". What he meant was that admiration, like patriotism, was not enough and that one must look to the future. When we consider Parliament and make an assessment of it in our modern society, we have to see where it begins. It begins not here, but with the people who send us here. If I feel any spirit of humility at all, as I sometimes do when the mood takes me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-15a.1717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-18", "file": "debates1963-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "0552dd75620be781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-18a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "This article refers to \"Gilbertian ridicule\", and it is rather Gilbertian to think of the apparatus without the officers and the officers without the apparatus. I urge all hon. Members who have not read about the price of Admiralty in the Sunday Times —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-18a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-19", "file": "debates1963-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d06b96cd05c3920f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.205.2", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of inflation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "These are relevant matters, of course, but I must point out that if my hon. Friend is thinking that we should try to aim at the same net receipts, the gross sums would rise considerably, because this is the result —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.205.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-19", "file": "debates1963-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d06b96cd05c3920f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.205.6", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "esentative, Mr. Livingston Merchant, to Western Europe? Is he aware that Mr. Merchant's visit has been received with great satisfaction in America, because one achievement has been that Western Germany has decided to take a substantial financial share in the proposed surface fleet equipped with Polaris missiles? If that be the case, does it not cut across the right hon. Gentleman's interpretation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.205.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-19", "file": "debates1963-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d06b96cd05c3920f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.205.6", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "estern Europe? Is he aware that Mr. Merchant's visit has been received with great satisfaction in America, because one achievement has been that Western Germany has decided to take a substantial financial share in the proposed surface fleet equipped with Polaris missiles? If that be the case, does it not cut across the right hon. Gentleman's interpretation—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"]—of Article 6—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.205.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-19", "file": "debates1963-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d06b96cd05c3920f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.212.2", "colnum": "212", "heading": "POST OFFICE (CAPITAL INVESTMENT AND TARIFF INCREASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "On the income side, it is due to the slower expansion of business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.212.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-19", "file": "debates1963-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d06b96cd05c3920f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPPING AND SPECIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "It was caused by this country and others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-19", "file": "debates1963-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d06b96cd05c3920f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPPING AND SPECIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "I am glad to know that the hon. Lady the Member for Tynemouth (Dame Irene Ward) sits down a satisfied woman: she has said all that she wanted to say, and that is a very considerable achievement in this Committee. Very many of us sit down, or are compelled to do so, before we have said half of what we wanted to say. This evening I want to make a very short contribution to the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-19", "file": "debates1963-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d06b96cd05c3920f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPPING AND SPECIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "pital takes, but there were special circumstances here. These firms were very unfairly treated by the Government. I would not look upon this payment as compensation but rather as conscience money paid by the Government to people who tendered and who were treated rather badly, as I know was the case with one firm. I hope that I have lived up to my initial statement that I would make a short speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-19", "file": "debates1963-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d06b96cd05c3920f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPPING AND SPECIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Commander Courtney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Courtney", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman on many of the points which he is raising, but he and his hon. Friends are a little late in the day. All the Questions which he is quoting came from Members on this side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-19", "file": "debates1963-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d06b96cd05c3920f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "ss of this Supplementary Estimate justifies those methods. The hon. Member for Dunbartonshire, East also asked about the cost of research and wanted to know whether the Government got anything back on what they provided for private industry. The answer is that the Government do. For example, the Government get back a levy on the sale of an aero-engine based partly on Government money in research.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-19a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-20", "file": "debates1963-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "088dcc85e5a17652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-20a.363.2", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that developments are confirming the worst fears we have expressed in the past? Will he particularly, on a specific point, press for an inquiry into the behaviour of the Ethiopian troops in Elisabethville, where I hear that Katangese are now frightened to go to work after 12 midday, by which time the Ethiopians are mostly drunk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-20a.363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-20", "file": "debates1963-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "088dcc85e5a17652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-20a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "This matter was fully debated during the defence debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-20a.376.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-21", "file": "debates1963-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "8418d9fec162a5e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-21a.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-21a.599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-21", "file": "debates1963-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "8418d9fec162a5e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-21a.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " American, a Canadian, a United Kingdom citizen or whatever else he might be, under both those Acts that is irrelevant. What is relevant is the country in which he is alleged to have committed the offence. If it is a foreign country the Extradition Act applies. If it is a Commonwealth country the Fugitive Offenders Act applies and that Act covers a wider range of offences than the Extradition Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-21a.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-21", "file": "debates1963-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "8418d9fec162a5e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-21a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "laiming a man and say, \"Because this is a political offence, whatever its implications, whatever might be the consequences to us of not returning him to another country or of another country not returning him to us, nevertheless I will never return a person who has ever committed a political offence of any nature, although it might bring down the Commonwealth and lead to the triumph of Communism\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-21a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-21", "file": "debates1963-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "8418d9fec162a5e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-21a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "JOURNALISTS (IMPRISONMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dingle Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dingle Foot", "preceding_text": "I should like to support the plea of the hon. Member for Gravesend (Mr. Kirk). As he said, we are concerned with a comparatively narrow issue. This is not the time to discuss the general conduct and standards of the Press, nor to consider whether any changes in the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act are desirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-21a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-21", "file": "debates1963-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "8418d9fec162a5e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-21a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "JOURNALISTS (IMPRISONMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "ndreds of years ago. There are those who say, \"Well, the Press deserve what they get on occasion, because, after all, they are not purer than driven snow\". But then democracy is not perfect and never will be. The moment we take the step of forcing journalists to give sources of information, to break their confidence with their sources of information, we destroy the freedom of the Press in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-21a.697.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-21", "file": "debates1963-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "8418d9fec162a5e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-21a.742.2", "colnum": "742", "heading": "JOURNALISTS (IMPRISONMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "All I can say is that my hon. and learned Friend must be the only person in the House who has not heard it mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-21a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-21", "file": "debates1963-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "8418d9fec162a5e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-21a.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "JOURNALISTS (IMPRISONMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Of course there are. It is easy to guy the practical standpoint which I have adopted by taking it to extremes. I am not suggesting, for example, that the Press would be justified in, for example, bribing members of the Cabinet to reveal Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-21a.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-21", "file": "debates1963-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "8418d9fec162a5e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-21a.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "JOURNALISTS (IMPRISONMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Member for Woodford was able to get a useful tip-off here and there, because we all know that because he managed to conduct some sort of campaign it perhaps tipped the scales just enough to enable us to survive the Battle of Britain in 1940. I suspect that most hon. Members on both sides are grateful to those colleagues who leak to the Press the decisions of Parliamentary party meetings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-21a.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-22", "file": "debates1963-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "b68b16081b971b77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-22a.847.0", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ESTATE AGENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " want to say a word about representation. I was somewhat surprised to read about the representation proposed, because it seems to me that the chartered bodies, who represent about 40 per cent. of the people engaged in this activity, will have a dominant part to play in running the profession. It seems highly inequitable that those who represent 40 per cent. of the people engaged in the profession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-22a.847.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-22", "file": "debates1963-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "b68b16081b971b77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-22a.911.9", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER ACT 1936 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-22a.911.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-22", "file": "debates1963-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "b68b16081b971b77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-22a.911.13", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND INCITEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-22a.911.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-22", "file": "debates1963-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "b68b16081b971b77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-22a.911.17", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORLD SECURITY AGENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-22a.911.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-25", "file": "debates1963-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "f4c1ff27b4889a40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-25a.932.0", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "n in these matters? Why is it that they seem to be winkled out or are becoming winkled out, especially—so it would appear—if they happen to be members of the Labour Party? Is not the Minister aware, also, that there is a strong and growing suspicion that appointments to this board and to the management committees of local hospitals is now becoming very much a matter of Tory prestige and patronage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-25a.932.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-25", "file": "debates1963-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "f4c1ff27b4889a40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-25a.949.5", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that an extension of these facilities has recently been sought as part of a military deal with the South African Government under which it is to be helped to obtain Buccaneer bombers from this country? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this kind of military deal with South Africa is deeply deplored by all civilised opinion in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-25a.949.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-25", "file": "debates1963-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "f4c1ff27b4889a40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-25a.953.5", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will realise that some of the figures he has given are not exactly accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-25a.953.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-25", "file": "debates1963-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "f4c1ff27b4889a40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-25a.999.3", "colnum": "999", "heading": "POST OFFICE (CAPITAL INVESTMENT AND TARIFF INCREASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "preceding_text": "t that. As I say, I do not speak officially on this matter, because we on this side have not had the opportunity to discuss it. I should like to be associated with the tribute which the Postmaster-General paid to the Post Office staff, especially to those on the outdoor services, for the magnificent way in which they tackled the very hard and onerous duties which the severe winter imposed on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-25a.999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-26", "file": "debates1963-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7105b3d7ae2ca90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1131.0", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "N.A.T.O. COUNCIL (FOREIGN SECRETARY'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the more words which are used about this the greater grows the confusion? Is not the present position this, that our strategic bomber forces are, in fact, already assigned to N.A.T.O., are already targeted in accordance with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-26", "file": "debates1963-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7105b3d7ae2ca90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "SCHOOL BUILDING AND TEACHER SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Slightly more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. It seems that I was 1 per cent. out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-26", "file": "debates1963-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7105b3d7ae2ca90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1184.5", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "SCHOOL BUILDING AND TEACHER SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twelve months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ng degree of good will from the education world. He knows that the National Union of Teachers and other educational bodies, the local education authorities, and right hon. and hon. Members on these benches, gave a warm welcome to his appointment. No Minister, during the past ten years, has started off with more good will than the right hon. Gentleman. It is six months ago since he became Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1184.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-26", "file": "debates1963-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7105b3d7ae2ca90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1184.5", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "SCHOOL BUILDING AND TEACHER SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ofession is an able profession, that it has always co-operated on major issues with the Ministry? Have not local authorities co-operated with the Ministry? How does the Minister expect to recruit teachers and to have the help of the teaching profession in recruiting teachers when he himself behaves rudely and inconsiderately to their elected representatives who serve them on the Burnham Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1184.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-26", "file": "debates1963-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7105b3d7ae2ca90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "SCHOOL BUILDING AND TEACHER SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "preceding_text": "at there is the smallest ground either for criticising him or for making the imputations against him to which we have listened far the last few hours. I am not representative of any teachers' union or any other body connected with education. I am simply a taxpayer and a Member of the House who is anxious, as I suppose we all are, to see an immense expansion of education in this country. I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-26", "file": "debates1963-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7105b3d7ae2ca90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "SCHOOL BUILDING AND TEACHER SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's intervention will not encourage me to be so generous in giving way to other hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-26", "file": "debates1963-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7105b3d7ae2ca90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1278.4", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Is this in order?", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir John Hobson)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-26", "file": "debates1963-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7105b3d7ae2ca90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1278.6", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Sir William Anstrnther-Gray)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Sir William Anstrnther-Gray)", "preceding_text": "It is a matter of what suits the wishes of the House. I understand it to be the wish of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1278.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-26", "file": "debates1963-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7105b3d7ae2ca90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1280.4", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Prime Minister.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ome Secretary has confessed that he does not know the answer to a fundamental question, a question fundamental to what the House has to decide tonight. In those circumstances, since you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, will not accept a Motion to adjourn the House, would it not be in accordance with the procedure of the House for some Minister who is responsible and who knows the answer to tell us what it is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-26", "file": "debates1963-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7105b3d7ae2ca90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " merits and whether this Act of 1881 should operate or not. There is also a new and purely legal point raised. I do not think that the House can be satisfied about the legality of this, because we are not lawyers. But I go further and make this perfectly clear. If this other charge is withdrawn, the point which has been made will fall. I take it that the right hon. Gentleman would agree With that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-26", "file": "debates1963-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7105b3d7ae2ca90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which lawyers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes; if this particular charge is withdrawn, the point falls. Would that be agreed? If the point is attached to charge 2 and that charge is withdrawn by the prosecution, surely the point falls. That must be so. Very well. If the charge is withdrawn, that point falls. I make this perfectly clear. Until either the charge is withdrawn, or if the lawyers decide and advise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1284.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-26", "file": "debates1963-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7105b3d7ae2ca90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think it would be right for me now, in order to meet the point, to propose the adjournment of the debate as a Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-03-26", "file": "debates1963-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7105b3d7ae2ca90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1287.3", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is perfectly debatable. I want to, be sure that I correctly understand that the Prime Minister is proposing that the debate be now adjourned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-26a.1287.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-27", "file": "debates1963-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "b15b75b78c82f5e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-27a.1325.1", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "RAILWAYS BOARD (PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bourne-Arton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bourne-Arton", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that Darlington, the birthplace of railways, will welcome this bold and sensible plan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-27a.1325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-28", "file": "debates1963-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "306f95e5eeb43c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-28a.1529.0", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I think—without notice—that it will be in operation next winter. As to the general dissatisfaction to which the hon. Gentleman refers, I do not believe that this exists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-28a.1529.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-28", "file": "debates1963-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "306f95e5eeb43c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-28a.1542.0", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "That, of course, must be a matter of judgment", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-28a.1542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-03-28", "file": "debates1963-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "306f95e5eeb43c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-28a.1570.1", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "imself in the same position as Anthony Wedgwood Benn. Do not let it go out from this House that we are prepared to continue a state of affairs where the hereditary Chamber can usurp the place of the elected Chamber. We have had quoted small cases such as the position of some hypothetical Irish earl with a United Kingdom barony. I find that hard to take. I do not know that there is any such animal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-03-28a.1570.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-01", "file": "debates1963-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3705b800ea87a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-01a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "Certainly. We shall consider what our attitude will be when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-01a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-01", "file": "debates1963-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3705b800ea87a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-01a.21.8", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I could not give the hon. Gentleman the answer to the last part of his supplementary question. As to the first part, any figures which show any school leaver still unemployed are too high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-01a.21.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-01", "file": "debates1963-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3705b800ea87a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-01a.28.7", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the strike was settled half an hour ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-01a.28.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-01", "file": "debates1963-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3705b800ea87a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-01a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Half an hour ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "But is the Minister aware that while a settlement of this dispute was made this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-01a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-01", "file": "debates1963-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3705b800ea87a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-01a.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member knows, I take a very close personal interest in these matters in the particular area he has described—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-01a.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-01", "file": "debates1963-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3705b800ea87a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-01a.30.6", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "I certainly hope that something will be done in the next 12 months, because for about seven years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-01a.30.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-01", "file": "debates1963-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3705b800ea87a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-01a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 30.—(LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORI TIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "preceding_text": "I have heard that, and I have also heard that the price of coal is going up, but what it has to do with this I really do not know. 9.0 p.m. However, I think I have said enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-01a.158.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-02", "file": "debates1963-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05501c5da8db67fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.217.5", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "In order to prevent any inconsistency, will my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.217.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-02", "file": "debates1963-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05501c5da8db67fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.217.5", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "In order to prevent any inconsistency, will my right hon. Friend—[ Interruption. ] Perhaps my right hon. Friend will come a little nearer to me, then perhaps he will be able to hear. In order to prevent any inconsistency and so that no one shall be prejudiced by any appeals against valuation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.217.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-02", "file": "debates1963-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05501c5da8db67fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.219.6", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bennett", "preceding_text": " claimed by the county, this demand is falling on a population almost entirely composed of pensioners and people on fixed incomes. Does not my right hon. Friend think, in view of the simmering revolt that is now already becoming apparent, some urgent action is needed by way of intervention to protect these people, such as either a measure of derating or some action by way of rate deficiency grant?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.219.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-02", "file": "debates1963-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05501c5da8db67fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it was a point of order. What happens is that everybody knows that it is a good thing to have short supplementary questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-02", "file": "debates1963-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05501c5da8db67fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is there any real hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-02", "file": "debates1963-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05501c5da8db67fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker. I can understand your Ruling, Sir, that, as between a back bencher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-02", "file": "debates1963-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05501c5da8db67fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1.—(THE LONDON BOROUGHS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was the view of the Conservative Party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "preceding_text": "future\". 6.0 p.m. I do not wish to take up time unnecessarily, because I am most anxious to hear what my right hon. Friend has to say, but I must add that there is establishing itself in the Borough of Wandsworth very strong local opinion supporting the view expressed by the Socialist borough council in October and opposing the view expressed by the Socialist borough council in February and March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-02", "file": "debates1963-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05501c5da8db67fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1.—(THE LONDON BOROUGHS.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Alan Glyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Alan Glyn", "preceding_text": "e and fit, or whether they have failed to regard the terms of his letter to them. It is true that these matters were considered in all three councils, but what is much more important is whether those considerations took into account what the Minister invited the councils to consider. In my view, the considerations which my right hon. Friend asked them to consider were not taken into consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-02", "file": "debates1963-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05501c5da8db67fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.310.3", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1.—(THE LONDON BOROUGHS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Partridge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Partridge", "preceding_text": " have been getting together over the last weeks making such arrangements as will be necessary for the new districts. They have gone far in their consultations and plans. If this seems to be a word of criticism of my right hon. Friend, I am sorry, for I do not mean it to be. But as a result of what he said when we were in Committee on the Floor of the House, there has been a good deal of confusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.310.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-02", "file": "debates1963-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05501c5da8db67fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2.—(CONSTITUTION AND GENERAL FUNCTIONS OF GREATER LONDON COUNCIL.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Harvey", "preceding_text": "ary defects and two major ones. The two major ones have already been touched on. They are that there is no provision as to the determination of the interim arrangements which the sub-paragraph suggests and also that there is no written-in provision for arbitration in the event of failure on both sides to agree. It has been represented to me by the National Association of Local Government Officers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-02", "file": "debates1963-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05501c5da8db67fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.341.4", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2.—(CONSTITUTION AND GENERAL FUNCTIONS OF GREATER LONDON COUNCIL.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "There seems a likelihood that new employees coming into the Greater London authority will find themselves for a period subject to the conditions they had before, but then, unless agreement can be reached between the staff side organisations and the employing authority, they will have no alternative but to move into the present situation in the London County Council, which is an ad hoc arrangement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.341.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-02", "file": "debates1963-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05501c5da8db67fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.364.2", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 17.—(REPEALS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shut up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Since the Minister's predecessor left office he has never put his nose in the place while the Bill has been discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.364.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-02", "file": "debates1963-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05501c5da8db67fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.364.3", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 17.—(REPEALS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "That is not true. We in Chertsey have not forgotten the breadth of approach which resulted in the exclusion from the scheme of our neighbours in Walton, Weybridge, Esher, Sunbury, and Staines, and which provided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-02", "file": "debates1963-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05501c5da8db67fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 17.—(REPEALS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Weitzman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Weitzman", "preceding_text": "vened between the Second Reading and the next stage. Clause 1 was taken on the Floor of the House and we then had 21 sittings in Committee. Sometimes, morning and afternoon, two days of the week were devoted to the Committee stage. We have had 21 sittings in Committee which were rushed through in that unseemly fashion. The Report stage has also been rushed through and we are now on Second Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-02a.379.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-03", "file": "debates1963-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "f64334c8130a9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-03a.481.4", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "In my view, the Local Employment Act has shown itself to be an instrument well designed for its purpose and has worked very successfully. I have a certain paternal interest, and I still think it is true. It has been represented from many quarters that it could be made still better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-03a.481.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-03", "file": "debates1963-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "f64334c8130a9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-03a.504.17", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the 1951 Budget?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " interesting to show the Committee the way in which the pattern of hand-outs has been followed in the last ten years. In 1954 there was a net hand-out of £5·8 million. In 1955 the hand-out was £155½ million. That was the first Budget of 1955. After the election, of course, we had an autumn Budget, in which the hand-out was minus £113 million—£113 million was clawed back very largely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-03a.504.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-03", "file": "debates1963-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "f64334c8130a9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-03a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "But it is only right that the nation should read them, and it is right, too, that I should draw attention to one or two very significant points. Hon. Members are prepared to say that there is a General Election in the offing when there is not, but they are not prepared to say that this is a good Budget —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-03a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-03", "file": "debates1963-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "f64334c8130a9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-03a.567.3", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "East Coast, give us £50 million\". They squirm about subsidies to council house dwellers, the under-privileged, and then smile when it is proposed to give £130 million towards manufacturers and industrialists. I do not begrudge it, because we are forced to do it. Industry today is not big enough to stand capital development without the Government being behind it. Why do not the Government admit it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-03a.567.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-04", "file": "debates1963-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2ef99ea738cda897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the majority of people in this country think otherwise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.614.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-04-04", "file": "debates1963-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2ef99ea738cda897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come on, cheer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "on empty baggage. If he were here now, he would say that they could not even change the labels. It is the same old stuff again, and the Chancellor knows it. He has said it himself before on many occasions, when he has appeared at the Dispatch Box to put forward the case for the Government on various Budgets. In any event, the Government supporters, I understand, are well satisfied with the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.635.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-04", "file": "debates1963-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2ef99ea738cda897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "n my view, the Chancellor has been too cautious. I believe that there is a need for greater incentives if we are to get industry running full out. I do not believe that we can maintain it, but I think that there would be a case for arguing economically that we should have a relatively sudden spurt for a period of twelve months before we settle down to a steady rate of growth of about 12 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-04", "file": "debates1963-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2ef99ea738cda897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Lord Hailsham, who always manages to combine very high morality with very good politics. He said recently: Can you wonder that foreigners speculate against the pound? How can a General Election remove uncertainty when it is want of confidence in the declared policy of the Opposition which is causing the alarm? This really is a very serious matter. Are we to start playing party politics with the £?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.641.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-04-04", "file": "debates1963-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2ef99ea738cda897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.659.0", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "Mr. Warbey rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.658.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-04", "file": "debates1963-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2ef99ea738cda897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "ride, they play a very special and important role in our export effort. I must also say a special word about the personal contribution of the Lord Mayor of London, who has made \"exports\" the theme of his year of office. It is a very apt theme for the holder of this great traditional office at the heart of the commercial and financial life of this country. I turn to another support of the exporter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-04", "file": "debates1963-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2ef99ea738cda897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that the hon. Member when he comes to speak will have some criticism of his Front Bench because the Government have not given him an opportunity to line his pocket with increasing values of shares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-04", "file": "debates1963-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2ef99ea738cda897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.692.1", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " who make these cars, management as well as labour? What sort of discipline would he impose? These questions must be faced. The right hon. Gentleman said that if he were a foreigner he would not buy another British car. Then he goes out to the country saying that Labour will guarantee full employment when he, as an individual, is doing his best to see that there is unemployment in the motor trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-04", "file": "debates1963-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2ef99ea738cda897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.711.3", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "iously, it could be more efficient. Its cost and prices have been kept down. The hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East—the Leader of the Opposition did so yesterday—made rather a cheap gibe about the difference between what was done by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Wirral and the present Chancellor. I do not think that either of those policies are compatible, for the simple reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-04", "file": "debates1963-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2ef99ea738cda897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.711.3", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsensical.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "e more in taxation or give more relief from taxation, unless there is to be a Budget which does nothing. Invariably, a Budget does something, even if it gives only £1 million or takes £1 million away. It should be emphasised to hon. Members not only on this side of the Committee, but opposite, that since 1951, whatever is said about Conservative Budgets, we have reduced taxation from 32 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-04", "file": "debates1963-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2ef99ea738cda897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "e of the Committee to hammer home that message not only in our constituencies but throughout the country, because there is not the slightest doubt that if the Labour Party gets back into power as a result of the next General Election higher taxation will follow. I want to say something about the wealth tax which the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) talked about a week or so ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-04", "file": "debates1963-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2ef99ea738cda897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton", "preceding_text": "ll have to be faced and that as we become a more highly educated community these differences of wealth will not be tolerated. I want to pay a compliment to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I think that his Income Tax reliefs are as fair as they possibly could have been, but 1 noticed that on the other side of the Committee any enthusiasm shown for the Budget has been at a rather tepid temperature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-04", "file": "debates1963-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2ef99ea738cda897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "y right hon. and learned Friend. I think I am right in saying that after the end of the 1914–18 war Field Marshal Earl Haig made a special pilgrimage to Lord Haldane—who had been Secretary of State for War at the beginning of the First World War, and who lost his job because he became unpopular—to thank him for all the preliminary groundwork that had eventually led to the victories of 1918—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-04", "file": "debates1963-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2ef99ea738cda897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": " of the Committee must feel at this time, because, of course, they have to bolster up their spirits in view of the things for which this Budget has really been designed. I want to say something about the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I am very glad that he is here to listen to it rather than that I should have to say it without his presence. I want to say that his speech nauseated me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-04a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-05", "file": "debates1963-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "db0b514d36deedc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-05a.852.3", "colnum": "852", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "f the House. However, whatever has happened—and I accept responsibility for it—the position of the unmarried mother is, I think, a very real one, and a very different one. It places upon the employer the task of establishing whether any member of his female staff has just had a baby or has not. Whatever one says, the position in relation to unmarried mothers ought to be, and I should have thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-05a.852.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-08", "file": "debates1963-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "de7ec4155409e65a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Marsh", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-08", "file": "debates1963-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "de7ec4155409e65a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"After the war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "s existence on international trade many of the factors governing our economic development are quite beyond the effective influence of the planner and wide deviations from even the plans most recently drawn up are therefore unavoidable. The Labour Party made that statement having estimated that the balance of payments deficit for 1947 would be £350 million. In fact it turned out to be £675 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.948.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-08", "file": "debates1963-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "de7ec4155409e65a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.952.2", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I will talk to the hon. Gentleman afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-08", "file": "debates1963-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "de7ec4155409e65a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Marshall", "preceding_text": "alf of Swansea, part of which he has the honour to represent. The town was being blitzed on the last occasion that I was in it, and one always remembers with pride the way in which one's fellow countrymen were withstanding the blast at that time. I sincerely hope that the hon. Member will have a very happy time in this House, and we look forward to the next occasion that he speaks in this Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-08", "file": "debates1963-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "de7ec4155409e65a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "To reply as shortly as possible, the first thing I would do would be to find out what the foreigner wanted and to produce it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-08", "file": "debates1963-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "de7ec4155409e65a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I had better go on. I have only two minutes left. I sum up in this way what I have to say. I regard this as a rather dull Budget. Most of its comes from our own suggestions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-08", "file": "debates1963-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "de7ec4155409e65a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Be careful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "t co-ordinate research over the whole field and see that its results are disseminated to all concerned. In general, it is the. Government's objective to ensure that the industry can meet commitments made both regionally and nationally by public investment programmes. My hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham asked, in particular, about aid and surplus capacity, if I may \"pull his leg\" for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-08", "file": "debates1963-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "de7ec4155409e65a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.1047.3", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not 'pull his leg'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "ed to be a development district. As he suggested, there would be a number of complications of that sort, and we hope to make adequate provision for them in the Finance Bill. However, I can say at once that it is our intention to look after the sort of cases which the hon. Member has in mind. Perhaps I can now turn to the other questions asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Bodmin. To answer him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.1047.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-08", "file": "debates1963-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "de7ec4155409e65a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": " or any other company, I should like to say—and I am sure that I will have the support of my hon. Friends in this—that we would be flatly opposed to any backdoor nationalisation of that sort. Indeed. I go further and say that it is the responsibility of the Government, in making an investment sure, rather than that they should have a gamble, in the words of the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-08", "file": "debates1963-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "de7ec4155409e65a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give Way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": " of my hon. Friends in this—that we would be flatly opposed to any backdoor nationalisation of that sort. Indeed. I go further and say that it is the responsibility of the Government, in making an investment sure, rather than that they should have a gamble, in the words of the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East—[ Interruption. ] If hon. Members wish to interrupt, there is a valid way of doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-08", "file": "debates1963-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "de7ec4155409e65a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order. Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman gets away with that smear, will he give way, according to our usual practice? We do not believe that Britain is a second-class country and neither does Mr. Harold Wilson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-08a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-09", "file": "debates1963-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "681f6061536b1b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-09a.1072.5", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "preceding_text": "I also welcome the right hon. Gentleman's reply, but, when looking further into this matter, may I ask him to bear in mind that, if heavy import duties are to be imposed on police authorities which wish to hire these articles for maintaining a high standard of crime detection, they will be reluctant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-09a.1072.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-09", "file": "debates1963-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "681f6061536b1b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-09a.1073.4", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "preceding_text": "The reason for my supplementary question to the right hon. Gentleman arising from what he had to say to my right hon. Friend the Member for Easington was that this was not only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-09a.1073.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-09", "file": "debates1963-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "681f6061536b1b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-09a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "xpansion of investment and activity there, for which in the private sector he must rely on the response and goodwill of the companies concerned. In the private sector, all the Chancellor can do is to nudge, push the elbow, guide the hand of others, and go round with an oil can with millions of pounds a year in it. Ten years of complacency and inerita have taken their toll on the spirit of Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-09a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-09", "file": "debates1963-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "681f6061536b1b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-09a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "quately, to make is this: if we really wish to sell more British goods on the markets of the world, it is absolutely imperative that we work our economy at a far higher level than it has been worked in the last year or two, and ensure that there is not the amount of underemployment in industry that there is today. There has not been a glamourous reception from industry for the Chancellor's Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-09a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-09", "file": "debates1963-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "681f6061536b1b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-09a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ce of new equipment in the course of a year for any purpose including replacement. The effect of the investment allowances is that the average rate of taxation on industrial profits will not now exceed 48 per cent.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd April, 1963; Vol. 675, c. 490.] I see the Chancellor of the Exchequer nodding. What he forgot was the fact that companies are now paying huge sums in local rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-09a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-09", "file": "debates1963-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "681f6061536b1b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-09a.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "ned Gentleman started this deflation, but lower than the average for the whole of 1961 and 1960. Indeed, we are now back where we were in January, 1960, more than three years ago. For the past nine months industrial capacity and manpower have been under-employed by at least 10 per cent. on average. I have even the hon. Member for Kidderminster with me when I say that they have been under-employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-09a.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-09", "file": "debates1963-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "681f6061536b1b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-09a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ficult if he is already wearing them. Apart from the criticism that it is an election bribe—an inadequate election bribe; it is a strange criticism—the main line has been the criticism of the Budget, not of this year, but of that of 1962, a criticism which was very firmly and conclusively answered by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Wirral (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd) in his speech yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-09a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1251.6", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has been\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman would like to spend a day at sea in thick weather he would see that our all-weather aircraft can operate under the most extraordinarily difficult conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1251.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1269.7", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Cordeaux", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Cordeaux", "preceding_text": "agree that all these orders are of a type which could be carried out by the Royal Ordnance factories in this country? Whatever the reasons may be for the placing of these orders, would he not agree that, when they take place at the same time as the staff of the Royal Ordnance factory in Nottingham is being cut by 30 per cent., it must create the impression there that the factory is on the way out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1269.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1280.4", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "That this House reaffirms the right of individual Members to put Questions on the Order Paper and to withdraw or transfer them within the rules of order.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1280.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1282.0", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that the question of Law Officers for Scotland is a problem for both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1287.6", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "rations to foreign refugees and the effect of the Fugitive Offenders Act operating within the old Empire and now operating within the new Commonwealth. On the question of the legal points, there is, I think, now no doubt. There were two separate points. There was the point raised in the course of the debate by the right hon. Member for Belper. This is now agreed to be a bad point by all concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1287.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "I feel that the Prime Minister cannot have made many hon. Members happy about large parts of the speech that he has just delivered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "eel that the Prime Minister cannot have made many hon. Members happy about large parts of the speech that he has just delivered. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] Large parts of it were very dangerous doctrine indeed. The Prime Minister went very near, as hon. Members will see if they read carefully what he said, to identifying which members of the Commonwealth he regards as trustworthy in this respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I think that a representative in this House of Northern Ireland had better go very carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I think that a representative in this House of Northern Ireland had better go very carefully. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If we had to be satisfied that the Parliamentary system in Northern Ireland was operating in accordance with the precedent set down there, it would take a lot of satisfying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1299.2", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "a representative in this House of Northern Ireland had better go very carefully. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If we had to be satisfied that the Parliamentary system in Northern Ireland was operating in accordance with the precedent set down there, it would take a lot of satisfying. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] However, we are not discussing that aspect today. We are discussing Nigeria and not Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1299.4", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "approach this as impartially as one can—is the culmination of an appalling record of muddle on the part of the Government, of shuffling and of inadequacy when it came to knowing or being able to explain the basis on which they took their decision. Worse than that is the degree of interference that seems to have gone on. The Prime Minister referred to what he had put to the Jamaican Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1299.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1299.4", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "nt, of shuffling and of inadequacy when it came to knowing or being able to explain the basis on which they took their decision. Worse than that is the degree of interference that seems to have gone on. The Prime Minister referred to what he had put to the Jamaican Prime Minister. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I should, of course, have said \"the Nigerian Prime Minister\", and I beg the pardon of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1299.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1299.4", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ting in that capacity. What we have now achieved is, I think, more ill-will in Nigeria over the way in which this has been handled and the pressures applied to them, and the remarks of Ministers, than if Ministers had acted in accordance with the position had the Extradition Act applied here in the first place. I believe that there would have been less resentment than at present exists in Jamaica—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1299.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1299.4", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about your own?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "(2) because it had been decisively rejected by the Nigerian courts—let the House note the language \"decisively rejected by the Nigerian courts.\" He used the plural—the Attorney-General used the word \"courts\" yesterday, and that is important, because a bit of the doubt I have about this is caused by the imprecision of the Attorney-General's language on a matter that needs to be tremendously precise", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1299.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not so fast.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " felony and conspiracy for which I am charged under Nigerian law do not carry the death penalty. Nevertheless, the Affidavit sworn by Joseph Diekola Ogundere, Acting Senior Crown Counsel in the Federal Ministry of Justice, filed in the Court here on behalf of the Nigerian Government in support of the Warrant contains the following words. Then he quotes what we have been saying about Section 37(1).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1310.1", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edwin Leather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edwin Leather", "preceding_text": "n the world which has carried objectivity, in its desire to preserve impartiality and integrity, to this extent. There is, I believe, at least one—if not more—British justices who sits as a member of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. The Nigerians have every right to say. \"We have bent over backwards to show our integrity, and now you question it.\" All the protests by the right hon. Member for Belper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1312.3", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Leather", "preceding_text": "I shall be happy to do so if my hon. Friend likes to see me afterwards. I can say that I would like notice of the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Leather", "preceding_text": "That, of course, is perfectly true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Leather", "preceding_text": "one speech. He took one sentence from a leader in the West African Pilot. I have not equipped myself with that newspaper, but the right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well the general line adopted by that paper and by many other Members of Parliament in Nigeria, that they are indignant and that they regard what we have done as a grave denigration of the integrity of their Government and judiciary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "e to reminisce on the subject of Captain Galvao. I myself had to answer Questions on this subject on the Floor of the House. The hon. and learned Gentleman may care to turn up those answers. It is a fact that the right of asylum may to some extent have been further modified—I have mentioned already that it has had its limitations—when we enter into defensive alliances, at least to the extent that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1336.5", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "alien who comes to this country as a political refugee need not be sent back to his country, whereas a Commonwealth subject who comes here after committing what is regarded as a political offence is in a worse position than an alien and is more likely to be returned to his country. The hon. Member for Hendon, South, has held high office in the Home Office. I believe that he is a learned gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1336.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "eral, in forming his opinion on matters of prosecution, is entirely free from any political influence whatsoever.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th October, 1924; Vol. 177, c. 581.] These were precisely the assurances for which we were asking the Nigerian Government. The rôle of the Home Secretary in these proceedings has been a sorry one. He has on a number of occasions misled and deceived the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1377.6", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. David Price)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. David Price)", "preceding_text": "there are strong economic arguments in favour of an up-to-date and fully integrated pulp and paper mill in this country. The Fort William site has been chosen as being the best possible. The timber is immediately available and supplies coming forward will increase steadily over the next few years as the mill becomes established and gradually builds up to full production. Rail facilities are there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1377.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1384.3", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "r point with which I should like to deal. During the course of the Budget debate last week it was suggested by the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) that this was another illustration of the way in which private enterprise was failing to do the job in the Highlands, and that since the Government are intervening to lend money for the project they should take a share in the equity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "out, using the timber of the forest. Certainly, quality timber could be used for furniture and other products. I believe that larch is used for bobbins in mills and there are certain side products of timber. Then there is the possibility of developing industries for women. If one is to have a population of men working in this factory one must provide industries for the women. I had an arrangement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-10", "file": "debates1963-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee47304347d4531f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [9th April]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. M. F. Vane", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you sold them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. M. F. Vane", "preceding_text": "ed in timber problems. I am a woodland owner and, at one time, I was a member of the Forestry Commission Utilisation Committee—and a good Committee it was, although on too small a scale to deal adequately with this very large commercial problem now facing it. I am also a small shareholder in Wiggins, Teape. I did not buy the shares when this Bill was proposed. I have had them for a very long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-10a.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-11", "file": "debates1963-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "a6a1410a9cc3a453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-11a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "LONDON AIRPORT (NIGHT FLIGHTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fenner Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fenner Brockway", "preceding_text": " recognise that it is quite extraordinary how human beings can become accustomed to noise, but there are two sections of the community to whom aircraft noise at night is an absolute torture. The first section is the elderly. The Medical Officer of Health for Slough has reported that the noise of night flights has a most disturbing effect on the health of old people. I have not yet reached old age—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-11a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-11", "file": "debates1963-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "a6a1410a9cc3a453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-11a.1550.1", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "WELSH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "on to have an agricultural college in Wales. The Government have to consider the estimate of the student demand for an agricultural college in Wales, particularly in view of the decision of the University College of Wales to close down its dairy diploma course. As I have said, the Government would like to see an agricultural college established in Wales, provided it can be done at reasonable cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-11a.1550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-23", "file": "debates1963-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "250866ec46baac72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-23a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY (REGIONAL SEATS OF GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "Is not the root of the trouble in this matter the fact that the Government, in their attempts to make their nuclear deterrent strategy credible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-23a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-23", "file": "debates1963-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "250866ec46baac72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-23a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY (REGIONAL SEATS OF GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I doubt very much whether this is known to half the country. If the right hon. Member were to weigh his words a little more carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-23a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-23", "file": "debates1963-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "250866ec46baac72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-23a.31.2", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY (REGIONAL SEATS OF GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Weighing my words with a great deal less frivolity than the Prime Minister has shown this afternoon, may I ask if he is aware that all the details in this document have been broadcast on Prague Radio and a lot of what Prague Radio said has been published in one of the British newspapers?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-23a.31.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-04-23", "file": "debates1963-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "250866ec46baac72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-23a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER RESOURCES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "If I may be allowed to make a brief reply to that——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-23a.88.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-23", "file": "debates1963-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "250866ec46baac72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-23a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER RESOURCES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "t out that it is proposed that these authorities should have a membership of 21 minimum with a maximum of 31 and that a minimum of 11 members are to be elected from local government with 16 as a maximum. But my right hon. Friend said that the Minister has powers to add to the number of members if necessary. He will have a mass meeting if he is not careful. The best committee is a committee of one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-23a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-24", "file": "debates1963-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "6d7153b34118ed5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-24a.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Gentleman say whether this is normal or abnormal at Easter compared with previous years? Would he not agree that there is increasing evidence that soldiers—in my view rightly—are objecting more and more strongly to the inordinate amount of \"bull\" insisted on by commanding officers? Will he set up an all-party committee from this House to go round asking private soldiers what they think about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-24a.202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-24", "file": "debates1963-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "6d7153b34118ed5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-24a.211.5", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "The problem is that this would have to be dealt with on a United Kingdom basis and not on a Scottish basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-24a.211.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-24", "file": "debates1963-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "6d7153b34118ed5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-24a.220.2", "colnum": "220", "heading": "POLARIS SUBMARINES (OPERATING BASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "mand for this base arises solely out of the Polaris programme, or would it have been necessary in any case for our hunter-killer programme? Is the £12 million to £14 million solely for the armament depot, that is, for construction? Does the figure of 1,700 officers and men include any part of the 1,200 estimated for the crews of these submarines? Finally, can the hon. Gentleman say to what extent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-24a.220.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-24", "file": "debates1963-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "6d7153b34118ed5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-24a.245.2", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(CONTINUATION OF PROVISIONS RELATING TO EXCHEQUER EQUALISA TION AND TRANSITIONAL GRANTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": "I supported the new Clause taken in conjunction with an Amendment proposed by my hon. Friend the Member for Bute and North Ayrshire (Sir F. Maclean). In considering the matter, I feel that I was to some extent wrong in the action which I took at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-24a.245.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-24", "file": "debates1963-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "6d7153b34118ed5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-24a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(CONTINUATION OF PROVISIONS RELATING TO EXCHEQUER EQUALISA TION AND TRANSITIONAL GRANTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "Amendment and our new Clause. The Under-Secretary of State is not going to ride off from this today. My job today is, I think, to make certain that he toes the line and answers this debate very fully, and particularly about that promise. He realised in the Standing Committee that on that occasion he was going to be defeated and that was the only reason why he suggested in his best Highland manner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-24a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-24", "file": "debates1963-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "6d7153b34118ed5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-24a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(CONTINUATION OF PROVISIONS RELATING TO EXCHEQUER EQUALISA TION AND TRANSITIONAL GRANTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leburn", "preceding_text": "n my head about £30 million additional money committed for Scotland within a comparatively short time. It may be that extra grants, be they direct or otherwise, have to be given. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer during his Budget speech made a very important announcement as to additional grants being made available for the clearance of derelict sites. This is the sort of grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-24a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-24", "file": "debates1963-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "6d7153b34118ed5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-24a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 3.—(REDUCTION OF EXCHEQUER EQUALISATION GRANTS IN RESPECT OF LOW RENT INCOME.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leburn", "preceding_text": "This is not as simple as the hon. Gentleman thinks. If I were to accept the Amendment—and if it were only a question of drafting I would consider the matter—it would be almost giving a hostage to fortune—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-24a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-24", "file": "debates1963-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "6d7153b34118ed5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-24a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Thank you, too, Mr. Deputy-Speaker—thanks all round! I was about to say that the Committee and the House owe a great debt of gratitude to the Under-Secretary. He has been in his seat since a quarter-past four without a single break.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-24a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-25", "file": "debates1963-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd106919ffc1793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.404.2", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the hon. Member's fears an anxieties, but I am sure he will agree that it is not helpful if we merely seek to foster fears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-25", "file": "debates1963-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd106919ffc1793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "It has always been the policy of Her Majesty's Government to work with the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-25", "file": "debates1963-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd106919ffc1793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REMUNERATION OF TEACHERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "debate, some of the things that I have not had in mind. I did not set out with the deliberate object of picking a quarrel with the Burnham Committee. I emphasise that to the House. I did not aim to divide the teaching profession or the local authorities by playing off the differences of one association or union against another. I had no sinister plot in mind to put an end to collective bargaining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-25", "file": "debates1963-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd106919ffc1793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REMUNERATION OF TEACHERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "lysis, have I done? In reality, I think, three things. First, I have rejected the recommendations of the Burnham Committee. This is a function entrusted by law to the Minister of the day. I did this because I thought that the Burnham Committee had reached a bad agreement. I told the committee so and I gave my reasons—reasons which, I may add, have attracted a considerable volume of public support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-25", "file": "debates1963-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd106919ffc1793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REMUNERATION OF TEACHERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I am not quite sure that I have followed the hon. Gentleman exactly. He says, \"The missing member is the Ministry of Education\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.450.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-04-25", "file": "debates1963-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd106919ffc1793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REMUNERATION OF TEACHERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "Mr. David Gibson-Watt (Hereford) rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-25", "file": "debates1963-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd106919ffc1793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REMUNERATION OF TEACHERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "That is a compliment to the right hon. Gentleman's intelligence, because this is a paper with circulation. I put that on the numerical side rather than any other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-25", "file": "debates1963-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd106919ffc1793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REMUNERATION OF TEACHERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "he Burnham Committee. In so far as there may be any doubt about which is the better in the national interest and the long-term interest of the teaching profession, I unhesitatingly give the benefit of that doubt to my right hon. Friend. Next, as to the proper rôle of Government, representing as they do the interest of taxpayers who provide the cash for nearly half of the teachers' salaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-25", "file": "debates1963-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd106919ffc1793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REMUNERATION OF TEACHERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. King", "preceding_text": "places in which to train them. We will not solve the teacher shortage by adding £20 here, £50 there or by adding £100 to the better-paid teachers, especially if, in order to do that, the money is taken from the poorest teachers. The real solution to the teacher problem rests on an expansion of further education. There has been so much forging of the facts in the Minister's own propaganda campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-25", "file": "debates1963-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd106919ffc1793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REMUNERATION OF TEACHERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "That depends on what people do at the next election; but I am quite certain that the hon. Member will not be sitting on this side of the House. Having said all that, however, as one who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-25a.513.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-04-26", "file": "debates1963-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "84909b4a57f806a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-26a.671.9", "colnum": "671", "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/1963-04-26a.671.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-04-26", "file": "debates1963-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "84909b4a57f806a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-26a.671.13", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT 1957 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-26a.671.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-04-26", "file": "debates1963-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "84909b4a57f806a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-26a.671.17", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL INJURIES (COMPENSATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-26a.671.16"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-04-26", "file": "debates1963-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "84909b4a57f806a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-26a.671.20", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORLD SECURITY AGENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-26a.671.19"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-29", "file": "debates1963-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8f0a33ce181e9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "e British newspapers as meaning something, would it not have been a good thing, in the week that has occurred since what I have always thought was misreporting took place, if the Government issued a statement making plain that the Ambassador had been misreported and is not in a position to speak on behalf of Her Majesty's Opposition, still less misrepresent the position of Her Majesty's Govemment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-29", "file": "debates1963-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8f0a33ce181e9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.728.3", "colnum": "728", "heading": "RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I did not say that it would stop. What I said was that it might mean delaying a closure if a station master refused to move. I agree that members of the staff move, but, if we accept the doctrine that he must stay until such time as he retires or dies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.728.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-29", "file": "debates1963-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8f0a33ce181e9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.728.3", "colnum": "728", "heading": "RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I did not say that it would stop. What I said was that it might mean delaying a closure if a station master refused to move. I agree that members of the staff move, but, if we accept the doctrine that he must stay until such time as he retires or dies—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I will repeat what I said. This is what has been asked for by the N.U.R.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.728.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-29", "file": "debates1963-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8f0a33ce181e9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.728.3", "colnum": "728", "heading": "RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "losure if a station master refused to move. I agree that members of the staff move, but, if we accept the doctrine that he must stay until such time as he retires or dies—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I will repeat what I said. This is what has been asked for by the N.U.R. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] If the union says that this must be done by natural wastage, every man will be allowed to stay in the same place", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.728.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-29", "file": "debates1963-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8f0a33ce181e9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.729.0", "colnum": "729", "heading": "RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "The real point—and I am dealing with what is being asked for by the N.U.R.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-29", "file": "debates1963-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8f0a33ce181e9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.729.0", "colnum": "729", "heading": "RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "The real point—and I am dealing with what is being asked for by the N.U.R.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The real point is that, if this is so, it destroys the N.U.R.'s case for this reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-29", "file": "debates1963-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8f0a33ce181e9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.730.4", "colnum": "730", "heading": "RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": " two people on a large train, the people have already decided that they do not want to use the railways. This is what is happening. Secondly, each form of transport must be allowed and encouraged to develop itself technically. It must be free to compete and to carry those goods for which it is best suited technically. Thirdly, there must be co-ordination, and we on this side have always said this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.730.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-29", "file": "debates1963-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8f0a33ce181e9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chaos.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "lway system is closed completely, and everything goes through the procedure laid down by Parliament and the whole of the one-third is closed—that is, lines, station' stopping trains and the lot—what will happen is that the traffic which is diverted to the roads will add 1 per cent, to the total road traffic over the country as a whole. This is less than two months' normal increase in road traffic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-29", "file": "debates1963-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8f0a33ce181e9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.735.5", "colnum": "735", "heading": "RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "cent, to road traffic from the closure of the passenger lines. In the urban areas, the rail closures may cause special problems of parking and travel. I recognise the difficulties and will watch the situation carefully. Social benefit techniques give us a new weapon of measurement, as it were, and we are gathering experience. We want conurbation problems to be treated as a whole wherever possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.735.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-29", "file": "debates1963-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8f0a33ce181e9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "tion have we taken? We have already announced the setting-up of the high level official inter-departmental working party. I will give examples of the decisions we have made to prove that we have had this in mind for a long time. First, the railways were allowed to withdraw passenger services between Wellington and Much Wenlock. But Dawley New Town may develop and need a railway—we do not know yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-29", "file": "debates1963-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8f0a33ce181e9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "hchurch and Redditch, because of the proposed expansion of Redditch New Town. Before the Barnard Castle-Penrith line was closed I discussed it with my right hon. Friend the Minister of Defence, who decided that no defence interest was involved. We shall discuss the Stranraer line with Northern Ireland. So the people there need not worry that there will not be consultation before it is closed down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-29", "file": "debates1963-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8f0a33ce181e9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "From this side of the House we have the Secretary of State for Scotland speaking in the debate with particular reference to Scottish problems. I do not think that anyone on the Front Bench opposite will speak from the Scottish point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-29", "file": "debates1963-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8f0a33ce181e9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Put the traffic on the railways.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "the motor car. No country is solving this problem—not America, nor any country in Western Europe or anywhere else. It is the problem of how to reconcile the preservation of environment with the passionate desire of most individuals to own and use their own cars. This is a gigantic problem. Few people realise how quickly it will be upon us and what will hit them when the avalanche of cars descends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-29", "file": "debates1963-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8f0a33ce181e9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "preceding_text": " any consolation to the hon. Member, my constituents are threatened with a very much worse situation because an area north of Inverness, comprising five counties in Scotland—an area at least as big as Wales—will have no railways at all. However, I am sure that the tourists will continue to come, because already the majority of them come by car. I would like to begin by congratulating the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-29", "file": "debates1963-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8f0a33ce181e9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "hese days to suggest that any place is too far away from any other in this pinafore country of ours. It is about 700 miles from the English Channel to the Pentland Firth. The Americans solved this sort of problem long ago. The Canadians solved it, too, with 4,000 miles from coast to coast, from Nova Scotia to British Columbia. But we are a little people —or we have little people in the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-29", "file": "debates1963-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8f0a33ce181e9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.835.2", "colnum": "835", "heading": "RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "No; I really must protest at this point. I divorced myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-29a.835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.903.2", "colnum": "903", "heading": "TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. K. Cordeaux", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. K. Cordeaux", "preceding_text": "ve, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision as to the determination of applications for planning permission under the Town and Country Planning Act 1962. My proposed Bill is designed to safeguard the amenities of householders, particularly those who live in the poorer residential areas of our large towns and cities. At present, I believe that they are not sufficiently safeguarded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.903.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ay operation, of what it can do well and what it plainly cannot do well. The point of consumer choice which the right hon. Gentleman raises is a perfectly simple one. As I said in my remarks—HANSARD will show this clearly—the right hon. Gentleman's policy gives an insufficient degree of consumer choice. Obviously, where there is not a system of any particular kind no consumer can choose to use it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Popplewell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Popplewell", "preceding_text": "sted that the liner service is a new idea. In his speech last night, the Secretary of State for Scotland exploded that myth when he said that the liner services had been in operation for many years—for example, the Aberdeen fish services. As a practical railwayman of many years' standing, I know of other good, fast freight services which have been increased at a reasonable tempo over recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman may laugh now, but when the next batch of by-election results are announced I suspect that the smile will be wiped off his face, as it has been before,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.962.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.964.2", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Mr. G. Wilson rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.964.3", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "or fifty years. I think that the right hon. Gentleman let the cat out of the bag yesterday when he said: in many rural areas where there has never been a railway the problem is more acute than it is in those areas where railways have been closed down.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 29;h April, 1963; Vol. 676, c. 740.] Of course, that is because they have been for so much longer cut off from the outside world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.964.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "preceding_text": "onsidering putting money into the railway industry rather than overcrowding our roads, particularly in view of the number of people killed on the roads? Some of us remember some of the good people killed in road accidents; wonderful human material that has been lost. I believe that many of those deaths rest on the shoulders of the Minister of Transport and the Government because of their policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Birds of a feather.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "nd up for it. I do not believe that the plan by itself is sensible. I do not believe that it can be done by itself. I do not believe that the consequences can be ignored. The best case I have heard made for the Beeching Plan was made outside the Chamber to me by a colleague, who said, \"The only case I can see for it is that it manages to get rid of Huyton, Belper and Saffron Walden all at one go.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "r. G. Wilson) have stressed several points. Their first point was that if they were deprived of the railways would I take into account that their roads were more backward than other areas? Secondly, some of the roads were not classified roads and, if they had to be improved, the whole cost would fall on the ratepayers and not on the central fund. I should like to look at that point very carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Can we get this absolutely clear from the right hon. Gentleman? He has said, we understand, that every closure requires his consent and that he will look at all sorts of points that he never thought of looking at before; but we understand that he intends to look at them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "That is unworthy of the normal intervention that we get from the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "That is unworthy of the normal intervention that we get from the right hon. Gentleman. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Now, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "That is unworthy of the normal intervention that we get from the right hon. Gentleman. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Now, Mr. Speaker—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] What the right hon. Gentleman asked is coming in the answer to the question that he asked earlier, if he will only listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "he N.E.D.C. office was represented on the group which produced the Hall Report, so it knew all about it. It had something to say about it. I hope that the Leader of the Opposition has read that Report, although I do not believe that he has. It was published two months ago and it made estimates of the demand for transport and of railway revenue up to 1980. I should like to read to him paragraph 14—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "s of the demand for transport and of railway revenue up to 1980. I should like to read to him paragraph 14—[ Interruption. ] Somebody has to educate the right hon. Gentleman. It says: Economic growth\"— The right hon. Gentleman asked this question, and if he wants to listen to me, will he ask his hon. Friends at the back to be quiet? Economic growth on the scale that we have assumed is not likely\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "ill\". My hon. Friend the Member for Withington asked about buses taking prams. He said that he had a large Victorian pram which at times was a little difficult. It is interesting to know that he has use for a pram at his time of life. An experiment was tried in the Isle of Wight. The Vectis Company took out six back seats of a bus so that that space could be used for prams and all sorts of things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "Whether they have folding seats or remove the seats, so long as they get the prams on board it will be all right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "eam of the traffic. He would take some of the profit from those owners and put it in a traffic pool. I do not know how he would assess which private road haulage company had made a profit, or how he would take it away. We would want to know that in due course. The right hon. Member said that we must have a system of sharing between road and rail and that it must be economic. Who is to decide that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-04-30", "file": "debates1963-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "e22377e56345e936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1026.4", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "rt of the proposals made by the Railways Board and put forward to the Government for closing are not, in effect, taking appreciable traffic. Therefore, we do not believe that the industry should be dictated to. We do not believe that its profits should be altered, taken away and put into a transport pool. I hope that the House, on this occasion, will have nothing whatever to do with the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-04-30a.1026.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-01", "file": "debates1963-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2c79a87a97dd8ecb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-01a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "Having agreed the amount that was reasonable, the schools which should proceed have been broadly agreed with the local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-01a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-01", "file": "debates1963-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2c79a87a97dd8ecb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-01a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does not matter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "essary to meet difficult situations. We do not need to look at the book of words whenever a problem arises. But all that has been in relation to the employer who is a member of an employers' association. I was waiting to hear from the hon. Member what was likely to be the position of a firm which was not a member, and the majority of engineering firms are not members of the employers' association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-01a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-01", "file": "debates1963-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2c79a87a97dd8ecb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-01a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "or redundancy. That statement was quite unqualified and I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not going back on his words, because my hon. Friends and I are expecting that in due course the Government will face this big issue of severance pay. That was the important problem on my mind, but knowing that hon. Members would rather I did not delay the House for too long I will say no more on that subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-01a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-01", "file": "debates1963-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2c79a87a97dd8ecb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-01a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER.—\"An hour\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "He was jolly lucky to have the Prime Minister to himself for half an hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-01a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-02", "file": "debates1963-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "193bdf410622fe91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I saw eight people. They were not all political supporters of this side of the House, but I do not want to make anything of that point because I do not regard this as a party political issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-02", "file": "debates1963-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "193bdf410622fe91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1284.3", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Member that I did not see anybody in the guise of political supporters of the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1284.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-02", "file": "debates1963-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "193bdf410622fe91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1293.4", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Non- sense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "The primary limiting factor here is pressure on building resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1293.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-02", "file": "debates1963-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "193bdf410622fe91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUEEN FREDERIKA OF GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Thirdly, while I am sure that every Member of this House would deplore any violence or discourtesy to any guest of the Queen, or any other guest visiting this country, in any circumstances, does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that part of the difficulty arises from the failure of his own Government, at diplomatic level, to express to the Greek Government the feelings of people in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-02", "file": "debates1963-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "193bdf410622fe91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman reconsider his intention to bring on the Education (Scotland) Bill after ten o'clock on Wednesday night? I make no complaint about the Fort William Pulp and Paper Bill, but the right hon. Gentleman must be aware that during this Session no time has been wasted on any Scottish Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-02", "file": "debates1963-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "193bdf410622fe91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian O'Malley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian O'Malley", "preceding_text": "e of my period as a Member of Parliament to ask what I consider to be the right questions, to avoid preconceived ideas and to avoid being dogmatic. I therefore intend to ask questions and to make tentative suggestions rather than to come out with dogmatic assertions. I should like to pay tribute to my predecessor, the late Mr. Jack Jones, who, I understand, was held in high regard in this Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-02", "file": "debates1963-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "193bdf410622fe91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James MacColl", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James MacColl", "preceding_text": "rence at Chequers last weekend, with the Government gazing in blank alarm at the collapse of their whole policy. The Common Market has collapsed, Beeching is up the spout, spies galore all over the country, teachers in revolt, the Guards in mutiny—and then, in the middle of it all, the right hon. Gentleman says, \"You needn't worry, Prime Minister—water closets are buoyant\". I give him full credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-02", "file": "debates1963-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "193bdf410622fe91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "y offering to sell or let land below its real price we are faced by the difficult and ticklish problem of deciding to whom to sell or let it. We therefore have to have an allocation scheme, which raises all sorts of difficulties. The lucky people who get the land below its proper price can make a killing by making profit on the discount they receive when buying the land. And there is a by-product.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1438.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-02", "file": "debates1963-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "193bdf410622fe91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1441.5", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Mr. Stewart rose— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1441.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-02", "file": "debates1963-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "193bdf410622fe91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EGGS", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir Harwood Harrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is usual.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir Harwood Harrison", "preceding_text": "right hon. Friend the Leader of the House has answered questions about future de- bates, I have often listened to hon. Members, from all sides, pressing him for a debate on the Agricultural Price Review. Tonight, we have the opportunity of debate unlimited by time—it is exempted business; there is no need to hurry it—and yet we sec a rather thin House, with no members of the Liberal Party present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-02a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-03", "file": "debates1963-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf883abc4e631ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-03a.1496.0", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIMITATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "its course through Parliament. I think that what the hon. Member for Islington. East has in mind, and I certainly have had in mind in supporting the new Clause, is that one really does want to have a rather easier way of correcting this defect. My hon. Friend's Bill is most carefully and skilfully drafted. Indeed, I think that it is plain that he has had what I may call special help in the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-03a.1496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-03", "file": "debates1963-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf883abc4e631ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-03a.1580.1", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Clause 5.—(PRIVILEGE FOR STATEMENTS TO MARRIAGE GUIDANCE COUNSELLORS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "tly indeed, on Third Reading. I am not altogether happy about Clause 6(1) nor about Clause 7. I do not know whether they were part of the original intention of the hon. Member for Pontypool or if they were added, but these are Clauses which give additional powers to the courts in the matter of disposition of property in matrimonial proceedings. I am not happy about them because they are very wide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-03a.1580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-03", "file": "debates1963-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf883abc4e631ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-03a.1584.5", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "REDUNDANT WORKERS (SEVERANCE PAY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. William Whitelaw)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. William Whitelaw)", "preceding_text": "I should like to start by saying that the hon. Member for Gloucester (Mr. Diamond) is entitled to congratulate himself on being a pioneer in this field. He has directed attention to the problem of redundancy and the need for improved financial provision for redundant workers. I can say at once that the Government sympathise entirely with the objective of this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-03a.1584.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-03", "file": "debates1963-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf883abc4e631ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-03a.1584.5", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "REDUNDANT WORKERS (SEVERANCE PAY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. William Whitelaw)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. William Whitelaw)", "preceding_text": "s entitled to congratulate himself on being a pioneer in this field. He has directed attention to the problem of redundancy and the need for improved financial provision for redundant workers. I can say at once that the Government sympathise entirely with the objective of this Bill—[ Interruption .]—which is to ensure that there are financial provisions for redundant workers. In the Budget debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-03a.1584.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-03", "file": "debates1963-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf883abc4e631ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-03a.1584.5", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "REDUNDANT WORKERS (SEVERANCE PAY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. William Whitelaw)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. William Whitelaw)", "preceding_text": "he Government sympathise entirely with the objective of this Bill—[ Interruption .]—which is to ensure that there are financial provisions for redundant workers. In the Budget debate—[ Interruption .]—my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the Government intend to tackle the problem of redundancy vigorously in consultation with both sides of industry in the next few months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-03a.1584.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-03", "file": "debates1963-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf883abc4e631ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-03a.1585.8", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "GIPSY CAMPS (COMPENSATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-03a.1585.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-03", "file": "debates1963-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf883abc4e631ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-03a.1585.14", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "PUBLIC ORDER ACT 1936 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-03a.1585.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-03", "file": "debates1963-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf883abc4e631ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-03a.1585.18", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND INCITEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-03a.1585.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-06", "file": "debates1963-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "a54a59e375f37b5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-06a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Labour Party said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "on) was said to be in dignified solitary opposition to the abolition of this tax. Let me say at once that I cannot share my hon. Friend's dignity. But I will dispose of his solitary condition. I utterly deplore the Government's action in abolishing the Schedule A tax. I regard it as a piece of unprincipled Poujardeism on the part of a Government who are desperately wooing the Orpington electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-06a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-06", "file": "debates1963-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "a54a59e375f37b5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-06a.184.4", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORT WILLIAM PULP AND PAPER MILLS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "—but this is a matter which transcends purely Scottish considerations to me, this is a fundamental matter of principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-06a.184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-06", "file": "debates1963-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "a54a59e375f37b5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-06a.184.4", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORT WILLIAM PULP AND PAPER MILLS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "iving for the people who still live there. Hon. and right hon. Gentleman opposite, as my hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Mr. Rhodes) said, are so preoccupied with ideological considerations—I am not saying we on this side are completely immune from them either—and pride themselves, and posture on public platforms, as being keen business men, and talk down to us bleary-eyed idealists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-06a.184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-07", "file": "debates1963-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0ec65fa4e688e5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-07a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Whether we are top of the league in home ownership is entirely another matter. There is the difficulty about whether this Ministry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-07a.215.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-07", "file": "debates1963-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0ec65fa4e688e5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-07a.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the Minister would make some slight alteration in the inscription on these rainwater heads to record the fact that today has been announced the advent of the first Labour-controlled council in Portland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-07a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-07", "file": "debates1963-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0ec65fa4e688e5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-07a.236.4", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where to?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " my right hon. Friend accept my very warm thanks and the thanks of the North-East Coast for this new initiative, and kindly convey to the Lord President of the Council Lord Hailsham, the deep appreciation of the North for the battle that he has fought to help us in our troubles? At the same time, will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that the Tory Members from the North-East are now on the march—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-07a.236.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-07", "file": "debates1963-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0ec65fa4e688e5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-07a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "VASSALL CASE (TRIBUNAL'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "Has the hon. Member noticed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-07a.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-07", "file": "debates1963-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0ec65fa4e688e5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-07a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "VASSALL CASE (TRIBUNAL'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "en of responsibility going far beyond the ordinary business of a Minister… Lord Radcliffe said that the correspondence was wholly innocuous. He might then take the trouble to read paragraph 14 on page 4 where Lord Radcliffe said: …it was our duty to make up our minds whether…we agreed with the comment or would ourselves support the validity of the inference. in fourteen cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-07a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-07", "file": "debates1963-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0ec65fa4e688e5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-07a.361.5", "colnum": "361", "heading": "VASSALL CASE (TRIBUNAL'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "But I wholeheartedly agree with the strictures of my right hon. Friend against the Prime Minister. I disagree with what he said about the Prime Minister in only one respect. I thought that he was far too mild.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-07a.361.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-08", "file": "debates1963-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "356de4d11f20f82c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.459.3", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Statistics.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "n of the available part of the working population. But we can test the proposition of the hon. Member for St. Pancras, North in another way. We can look at the volume of treatment which the hospital service has been able to give during the last twelve months. We can see whether that indicates \"a contraction\"—his word—in the hospital service. The volume of treatment given during the past year rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.459.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-08", "file": "debates1963-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "356de4d11f20f82c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": "ferently from the way in which we are doing it at present. There is no justification whatever for imposing a poll tax of 3s. 4d. a week on every man and woman who happens to be an insured worker. We want it to be widely known that a future Labour Government will end this totally unfair practice. Of course, when the scheme was introduced many compromises were made. If there had been no compromises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-08", "file": "debates1963-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "356de4d11f20f82c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "tnight, they should be paid overtime rates for working during Sundays or during the night. The profession of nursing—and the nurses are very proud of the fact that they are a profession—would, I think, be entirely undermined if we started paying overtime rates, because no other profession in the country pays overtime rates. I think that the nurses would lose something if we went on to that system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.549.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-08", "file": "debates1963-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "356de4d11f20f82c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "I did not wish to pursue the question of the local elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-08", "file": "debates1963-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "356de4d11f20f82c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.588.5", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "f there is hardship, then it should be met even by stretching the education system. But if the hon. Lady really feels that it cannot be done this way because it will break legal precedence and offend statutory proprieties, then surely she can still give a little more satisfactory answer than the terrible one she delivered, which was, \"It will he all right when Mr. Macmillan pedals into the 1970s.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.588.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-08", "file": "debates1963-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "356de4d11f20f82c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "to every school to do so. My hon. Friend the Member for Lanarkshire, North knows of schools which, despite the fact that they are junior secondary schools, have a better reputation than senior secondary schools. We have a new one in Ayr—Belmont High, which is building up a tremendous record and has broken down the barrier caused by people who want their children to go to a so-called better school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-08", "file": "debates1963-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "356de4d11f20f82c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "I have heard most of the debate. There is no doubt that we have opened up a fascinating subject. So far we have had some first-class speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-08", "file": "debates1963-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "356de4d11f20f82c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "here is no doubt that we have opened up a fascinating subject. So far we have had some first-class speeches. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Rugby (Mr. Wise) does not agree. He does not understand the Scottish educational system. I hope that he will enter the debate and give us his views upon it. At least he will be doing more than his Scottish colleagues who apparently have no views at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-08", "file": "debates1963-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "356de4d11f20f82c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "g used on this side of the Committee, that we must have the junior secondary school and it will solve this problem In the same way as we do not accept the argument in relation to the hon. Lady's case, I do not accept it in relation to my hon. Friend's case. Therefore, on balance, think I might be inclined to support my hon. Friend. I do not know whether he is pressing this Amendment to a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-08", "file": "debates1963-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "356de4d11f20f82c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not at 2 o'clock in the morning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": " order. Nevertheless, at least we have had a speech from the benches opposite, and I commend the hon. Gentleman for that. I draw his example to the attention of other Scottish Members opposite. There is only one present, of course, but, after all, it is not unknown for a Permanent Parliamentary Secretary to speak. I commend the example to him, and he can give us his views on this important matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-08a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-09", "file": "debates1963-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "e377ff67f0585d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-09a.665.2", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Would not the right hon. Gentleman agree that the situation in Southern Rhodesia is deteriorating very seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-09a.665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-09", "file": "debates1963-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "e377ff67f0585d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-09a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since there have not been conflicting statements on the part of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-09a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-09", "file": "debates1963-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "e377ff67f0585d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-09a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE POLICE (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Hors. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "that the specific new powers that it proposes for Ministers would enable my right hon. Friend and me, with the aid of the strengthened inspectorate and the new research and planning branch, to take a vigorous initiative in the promotion of high standards of police efficiency throughout Britain. The additional powers that I have so far indicated would clearly extend my accountability to Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-09a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-10", "file": "debates1963-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "d9712d53d9c87449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-10a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "UNDER-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES (LIVING STANDARDS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Vaughan-Morgan", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Vaughan-Morgan", "preceding_text": "Her Majesty's Government and by all of us in the House. I should also like to congratulate him very much on the manner in which he spoke and on the astonishing way in which he crammed so much into so short a space. However, before I deal with the hon. Member's speech, might I, too, add my congratulations to my right hon. Friend the Member for Mitcham (Mr. R. Carr) on his return to the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-10a.826.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-13", "file": "debates1963-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "f0f8a268672b1f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.919.13", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH-EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. W. Elliott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. Elliott", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that the influence of the Lord President of the Council on the affairs of the North-East is already obvious to those who wish to see it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.919.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-13", "file": "debates1963-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "f0f8a268672b1f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware of the complaints which I have heard from time to time, and that correspondence on the subject has been directed to hon. Members from Australia as regards both the sale of British aircraft and the production of British naval vessels in Australia to the effect that our public relations are most unsatisfactory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-13", "file": "debates1963-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "f0f8a268672b1f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a matter of opinion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "ssue at all was that the health of our civil aviation depends on the strength of the aircraft industry and this, in turn, depends on the strength of our exports and on maintaining a reasonable standard for those who work in the industry, and I thought it important to make clear that the policy of the party opposite would prejudice our exports not only to South Africa, but to other markets as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-13", "file": "debates1963-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "f0f8a268672b1f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Illegitimate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "r Belfast, East (Mr. McMaster) will welcome support. I will not say anything that he would not wish to suggest. He knows that I have been interested in the situation for some time and he knows as well as I do that nobody seems clear whether the Government have made up their minds whether Short's is an adopted child, an approved child, or what the relationship is between the Government and Short's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-13", "file": "debates1963-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "f0f8a268672b1f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "aotic situation. First, the charter companies depend on high-load factor. But there are already signs that as a result of this wholesale granting of licences the charter companies have been operating with rather smaller load factors. The result is that the charter companies which can most easily make a profit are those companies which are prepared to cut down on standards of service and of safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-13", "file": "debates1963-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "f0f8a268672b1f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman heard me. I said that some charter companies run their services impeccably, but that the result of this wholesale granting of licences to charter companies will put a premium on those companies which to some extent lack the finer precautions of safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-13", "file": "debates1963-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "f0f8a268672b1f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "I think that my right hon. Friend's meticulous accuracy in these matters does him credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.1071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-13", "file": "debates1963-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "f0f8a268672b1f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So have we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, I have sat through the debate and tried to get in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-13", "file": "debates1963-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "f0f8a268672b1f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.1076.3", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Beeching plan?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "airports in the Highlands and Islands, but I was left with the impression that it was unlikely that these airports will ever be able to pay their way. In 1961–62, the operation of these airports resulted in a total trading loss of £620,000 plus B.E.A.'s loss of about £250,000 in operating services to them, but they are, of course, important for the economy and social welfare of these areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-13a.1076.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-14", "file": "debates1963-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4cfcf53081a611f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In the main?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "So far as we are concerned, we are satisfied that our services will in the main be as reliable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-14", "file": "debates1963-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4cfcf53081a611f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1122.2", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that a member of his Department told me that the increase in demand in the Reading area in ratio to the population was greater than anywhere else in the United Kingdom? Will he, therefore, take special methods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1122.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-14", "file": "debates1963-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4cfcf53081a611f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1126.6", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is the Postmaster-General aware that a viewer who wants to escape from, let us say, \"Juke Box Jury\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1126.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-14", "file": "debates1963-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4cfcf53081a611f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (NUCLEAR FORCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Has not the Prime Minister in his supplementary answer given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-14", "file": "debates1963-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4cfcf53081a611f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (NUCLEAR FORCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "As far as I am concerned, the shorter the supplementary question the better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-14", "file": "debates1963-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4cfcf53081a611f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1138.3", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "HIRE PURCHASE (LIMITATION OF PAYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "a hire-purchase agreement or a credit-sale agreement to 150 per cent. of the sum stated as the cash price of the goods. Before explaining the terms of the Bill I wish to say, on behalf of all those Members newly elected at bye-elections—on both sides of the House, I imagine—what a pleasure it is to be able to say that we have seen the right hon. Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill) in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-14", "file": "debates1963-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4cfcf53081a611f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1165.0", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Stevens", "preceding_text": "ic Secretary says that, since the greater includes the less, I should accept his assurance that travelling showmen will be included within the mass of organisations or persons of one sort and another whose activities will be excluded. I have had some of this before. In this country we do not govern by Ministerial decree. Later, perhaps, I will tell my hon. Friend, elsewhere, what I am thinking of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-14", "file": "debates1963-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4cfcf53081a611f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1180.0", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "But supposing, Sir Herbert, that you were a particularly generous friend and you invited me to do this forty or fifty times a year and you turned your front parlour into a gaming saloon and quite privately took a fee for the purpose of inviting your guests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-14", "file": "debates1963-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4cfcf53081a611f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1180.2", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "hment. I am complaining of only two words—\"private\" before \"premises\" and \"domestic\" before \"occasion\". I hope that before the Bill leaves the House of Commons we shall have a precise definition of what is meant by those two words and removal of uncertainty about the phrasing \"private premises\" and \"domestic occasion\". Does it mean that one has to fulfil both those desiderata, or one or the other?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-14", "file": "debates1963-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4cfcf53081a611f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1183.0", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Wade", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Wade", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. As I have been here throughout the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-14", "file": "debates1963-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4cfcf53081a611f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": " more information the Government can get the better. I do not dissent from the general objects of the Clause, but I feel that a good deal of elucidation is required. I sympathise with what was said by the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Sir G. Nabarro). What exactly is meant by the words \"private premises\"? Let us take the example of a club where gaming takes place. Is such a club private premises?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-14", "file": "debates1963-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4cfcf53081a611f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the hon. Gentleman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "Budget speech: There is a growing feeling, which I share, that gambling is a form of expenditure which should contribute towards the rising cost of social and other Government expenditure. I go out of my way to make that quotation in reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Sir G. Nabarro) who said that perhaps there was some doubt about my right hon. Friends' sincerity in this matter", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-14", "file": "debates1963-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4cfcf53081a611f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1263.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 7,—(TOBACCO DEALERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "We must be fair to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-14a.1263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1296.7", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "Can my hon. and gallant Friend say how long it will be, because I think this is a very intelligent suggestion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1296.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1369.3", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Clause 10.—(CHARGE OF INCOME TAX FOR 1963–64.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "I shall become even more angry. The hon. Gentleman is merely trying to lay a further political trap in the hope that something may come out of it. I know well enough that there are no depths to which hon. Members opposite will not stoop in their present desperate plight. Intellectual dishonesty will become absolute perfidy before the next election is over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Clause 12.—(AMENDMENTS TO PART VIII OF ACT OF 1952 (PERSONAL ETC. RELIEFS).)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the hon. Member's?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "preceding_text": "I have made my own estimate of what the cost would be, but I have no doubt we shall be given the figure later on. I have made my own estimate, but I think that probably the Government could give an accurate figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1377.5", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "go further in general with personal allowances. Yet it rather looks as if the way in which the Question may be put to the Committee will be such that we shall find ourselves in the Lobby with the Liberal Party. If that is so, we shall have to put up with it. If the Question is put, \"That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Clause\", then we shall have to vote with the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1377.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "to be raised, according to my right hon. Friend's proposal, to £900. I mention that because I think it right that the Committee should bear in mind that this relief which was not raised for twenty-five years has, during the past ten years, been raised four times. I think that shows pretty conclusively—I hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Tynemouth who is very fair in these matters will agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1400.2", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "Surely the hon. and learned Gentleman does not want to mislead the House. The Prime Minister did not in fact say that so long as he got \"Hobson's ipse dixit\" the second half of the undertaking did not apply. He said \"If the lawyers on both sides agree\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1401.4", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister did not say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1401.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1401.4", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ne other point raised by the hon. and learned Member for Northampton. He said that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary had behaved disgracefully or had not behaved in a satisfactory manner in the matter of the time for appeal. There is no Statute which says that there has to be an appeal within 14 days. The Statute says—\"unless you do appeal within 14 days you shall not have an appeal at all.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1401.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I must make this perfectly clear. I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention, because it is important to be clear on a matter of this sort. First, no undertaking has been given by the Nigerian Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "very celebrated case indeed. It is a case which is probably unique in the annals of this Parliament. It is a case in which there are tremendous principles at stake. This has been emphasised previously, and we cannot emphasise it too greatly. The case has caused the Government a good deal of unnecessary trouble and put them in an extremely difficult position which is not really of their own making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1432.3", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERSH 'Which lawyers?'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": " 1283, the Prime Minister said this: I give this undertaking: that until I am satisfied that either this charge is withdrawn, or our legal advisers and others tell me that the view just expressed is absolutely right beyond peradventure, we shall not return this man … At col. 1284 he said: I make this perfectly clear. Until either the charge is withdrawn, or if the lawyers decide and advise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1432.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the Prime Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "How could my right hon. and learned Friend have known early today that the debate was coming on? It came on after half-past three. If the hon. Baronet wants to make a point of it, let me make it quite clear to him that my right hon. and learned Friend does not agree with the Attorney-General in his view of the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1434.4", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hearsay.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "up to speak. The Attorney-General has told the House that he has today spoken to the Attorney-General of Nigeria, and he has told us quite categorically that the Attorney-General of Nigeria has said that it is not his intention that any new charges shall be brought against the Chief when he returns to Nigeria. I think that the whole House has accepted that statement, at any rate as far as it goes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1434.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "The Opposition keep changing their ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": " have not we information about that?\" We could go on playing that game for ever. The answer is that it is silly to do so. The House knows perfectly well that the Opposition are playing cat and mouse and that the Government are being extremely patient. The Opposition have now been taken to the point when they are asking another Government to give an express undertaking that they will not prosecute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1436.3", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "In that speech of the hon. Member for Hendon, South (Sir H. Lucas-Tooth) we heard the essential conservative—I use the word with a small \"c\"—attitude to justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1436.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1436.3", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "noon at very short notice to have given the undertakings about new charges which the Nigerian Prime Minister indignantly said he could not be asked to give a few weeks ago, the very same Attorney, is the man who signed the warrant, the affidavit. It is the very same man. It is the man who signed the affidavit which drew the magistrate's attention to the fact that the death penalty already applies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1436.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1441.1", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "It is a certificate which says: At the Federal Ministry of Justice, Lagos. For authentication and legalisation of the following signatures\". It says: Dated at Lagos this eighth day of December\". It is signed: \"T. O. Elias.\" Hon. Members opposite can have it their way if they want it that way. They mean Mr. Elias signs the documents, maybe has telephone conversations that may mean nothing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1442.4", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman is doing no service to Nigeria at all. The name of Mr. Elias appears at the bottom of this document and he took responsibility for it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1442.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1442.6", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " Elias on the telephone that he told the Attorney-General that no further charges will be preferred which carry the death penalty I am bound to observe the bottom of the affidavit which drew the attention of the magistrates to the fact that the death penalty is carried by that charge. If hon. Gentlemen tell me that the only point of the signature was to authenticate the signatures of other people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1442.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1443.0", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not quite see the point of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1443.0", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not quite see the point of that. [ Interruption. ] I ask the House to listen to this. It may be that my argument is wrong, but let hon. Members listen to it. Perhaps the Leader of the House will stop that \"H'm, h'ming\". It would not be a bad thing if he also started listening, and maybe he would not be in quite the trouble that he is on his own side if he listened a bit more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1443.2", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Let us get this clear again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1444.3", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I asked the Attorney-General: is that the same thing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1444.5", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "It is the word of our Attorney-General with which I am concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1444.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1445.0", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I did not attempt to get an undertaking from the Attorney-General of Nigeria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Clause 12.—(AMENDMENTS TO PART VIII OF ACT OF 1952 (PERSONAL ETC. RELIEFS).)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McKay", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to intervene at this point, because of the time, but I wish to make a few observations on the whole general question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1481.3", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Clause 12.—(AMENDMENTS TO PART VIII OF ACT OF 1952 (PERSONAL ETC. RELIEFS).)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "conomic Secretary; he has had the permanent officials round him, who have been saying, \"Do this, do that; do not do this; do not do that; if you do this something else will automatically happen\". At the end he must be bewildered and tired of it all. But he has come here to listen to it all over again. Who would be Chancellor—except my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff. South-East (Mr. Callaghan)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1481.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-15", "file": "debates1963-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "986b018d30f046b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Clause 12.—(AMENDMENTS TO PART VIII OF ACT OF 1952 (PERSONAL ETC. RELIEFS).)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "ne, and I think the hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) will agree, of taking every opportunity I can to get on with the job to which I have set my mind. I point out, however, that whatever the disadvantages of the Rent Act, if the policies advocated by the parties opposite—both the Socialists and the Liberals—were put into operation, these people would not have any money at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-15a.1486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-16", "file": "debates1963-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "6df608332ea7d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-16a.1590.0", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": " capital asset such as the owner-occupier will have. Still less will they have a capital asset of appreciating value as many owner-occupiers have. When I heard the Chief Secretary referring to some \"modest person\" who had a small mews cottage, I wondered if the right hon. Gentleman had been looking at property advertisements recently. Does he know what a small mews cottage costs? It costs £25,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-16a.1590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-16", "file": "debates1963-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "6df608332ea7d41e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-16a.1638.1", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4.—(CASE VIII OF SCHEDULE D: ALLOWABLE DEDUCTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "sea, but above the tidal reaches and having nothing to do with the sea. I understand the point made that the word \"tidal\" should be removed, but I can only say to my hon. Friend that we deal with a river in that sense because never before has this relief been given. Are we in the middle of this Bill, at this time, on paragraph 13 of the Fourth Schedule, to change what has always been the position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-16a.1638.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-17", "file": "debates1963-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84c172bcb3ce5fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-17a.1776.9", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-17a.1776.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-17", "file": "debates1963-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84c172bcb3ce5fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-17a.1776.13", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER ACT 1936 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-17a.1776.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-17", "file": "debates1963-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84c172bcb3ce5fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-17a.1776.19", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES (TRAVEL CONCESSIONS) ACT 1955 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-17a.1776.18"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-20", "file": "debates1963-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "91d3e70a075e88ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-20a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "l with the administration of consumer protection when we occupy the benches opposite, which will not be very long now. After the hire-purchase laws have been reformed or replaced with better legislation, we think that very little new legislation will be needed. We shall clean up misleading advertising, false labelling and deceptive packaging by appropriate amendments to the Merchandise Marks Acts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-20a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-21", "file": "debates1963-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "8d07f6824cf20616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-21a.180.6", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may say that it is not a static situation. But he knows full well that in the Report —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-21a.180.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-21", "file": "debates1963-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "8d07f6824cf20616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-21a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"Socialist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "ion to the Amend- ment. In many countries today, there are earning valuable export income industries which have grown up from very small beginnings. The hon. Member knows as well as I do that the transistors, cameras and cigarette lighters of Japan, in particular, are earning currency all over the world, as is the camera industry of Germany. This Amendment represents a most undesirable suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-21a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-21", "file": "debates1963-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "8d07f6824cf20616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-21a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not a Scotsman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "have had an interesting debate. Apart from the general interest in many of the points that have been raised today—and I will do my best to reply to them—I think that our discussion has been remarkable for two special reasons: first, the hon. Member for Dunbartonshire, East (Mr. Bence) said that he thought that whisky was a waste. He is the first Scotsman I have ever heard say anything of the sort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-21a.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-21", "file": "debates1963-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "8d07f6824cf20616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-21a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Be reasonable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " only nine Clauses and there are no fewer than 28 more to cover. It will be for the general convenience if we finish the Bill on Thursday and start the new Clauses next week, but it is not always convenient for hon. Members to sit late on Thursdays and I should very much like to conclude the Bill at a reasonable hour on Thursday. We should be more likely to achieve that if we completed Chapter IV.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-21a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-22", "file": "debates1963-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "d0ee90e0ead1b2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Nonsense\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman explain why he and those hon. Members who sit on the benches behind him are so concerned about the relatively small number of days lost due to industrial disputes and appear to be unconcerned about the very large number of days lost through unemployment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-22", "file": "debates1963-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "d0ee90e0ead1b2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.441.9", "colnum": "441", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Pearl (Workington)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Pearl (Workington)", "preceding_text": "illiam. I was under the impression that the Minister of Agriculture was to make a statement to the Committee. I understand that it will be part of his speech, but we are informed today that the right hon. Gentleman did, in fact, make the statement to a meeting of the Conservative Party last night at the House. This is an unusual procedure, and it is also rather embarrassing. There has been a leak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.441.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-22", "file": "debates1963-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "d0ee90e0ead1b2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "t their uncertainty. In 1958, we had a major pig production crisis when the Government's stop-start policy caused uncertainty in the industry. It happened later with meat imports. Time and again producers have asked the Government to do something. I have with me a report of a speech by the president of the National Farmers' Union, Mr. Harold Woolley, which he made at Caernarvon in March this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.455.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-22", "file": "debates1963-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "d0ee90e0ead1b2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.456.9", "colnum": "456", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I cannot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.456.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-22", "file": "debates1963-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "d0ee90e0ead1b2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "tably place a strain on the industry and on the Exchequer while, at the same time, bringing no real benefit to the producer and the consumer. We argued this when we censured the Minister for his miscalculation of February last year. All that we have said has come true. We are seeing now the end of an era. The Government have had to respond to events and to prodding from this side of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-22", "file": "debates1963-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "d0ee90e0ead1b2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "ration for our agricultural producers and workers. As yet, the wages of agricultural workers still lag behind those in industry generally. We still have to get to a situation where the skilled worker in agriculture has a wage comparable with that of the skilled industrial worker. I hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, South-West (Mr. Hilton), who represents the National Farmers' Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-22", "file": "debates1963-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "d0ee90e0ead1b2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pearl", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pearl", "preceding_text": "The farm workers' wage is inevitably linked with the prosperity of the industry. As the hon. Gentleman knows, wages are a matter for negotiation. There is a wages board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-22", "file": "debates1963-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "d0ee90e0ead1b2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hilton", "preceding_text": "mers this year—to the people for whom it is intended. Another complaint of the Norfolk farmers is that too much Government money goes into the wrong pockets—the pockets of the middlemen. I hope that on this occasion great care will be taken to ensure that the help Wes to the people for whom it is really intended. A year ago £78 million mysteriously disappeared and nobody would admit having had it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-22", "file": "debates1963-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "d0ee90e0ead1b2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "or a sustained international campaign against hunger and malnutrition throughout the world. I suggest that our country, particularly as it is the greatest food importer, should take the lead. We have not backed the Food for Peace campaign which the United States Government put forward. At least we have done so only in an half-hearted way. There is a kind of benevolent indifference to this problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-22", "file": "debates1963-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "d0ee90e0ead1b2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" These benches?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "preceding_text": "achieve them. I should like to know of a single attempt the Government have yet made. New Zealand, for example, has put forward a scheme for an international commodity agreement on butter. Are our Government supporting that, or not? It seems to me that Britain has a vital role to play in this matter because she is the largest food importing country. We have come to the conclusion on these benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-22", "file": "debates1963-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "d0ee90e0ead1b2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "I did not want to take up too much of the Committee's time, but I am grateful to my hon. Friend for reminding us of the campaign run by Messrs. Tate and Lyle in the name of Mr. Cube, but that campaign has been effectively disposed of by tonight's Evening Standard, which points out that the cubes of sugar are disappearing through the ceiling at the price that housewives are having to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-22", "file": "debates1963-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "d0ee90e0ead1b2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.557.6", "colnum": "557", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "he neither said nor implied—and said that this was an oblique attack on farmers' prices. The hon. Member for Aberavon made it quite clear that my right hon. Friend had not talked about cutting prices, and that is so. If members of the Liberal Party want to make an effective contribution to our debates, they might at least listen to the debates, and not come with their speeches prepared beforehand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.557.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-22", "file": "debates1963-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "d0ee90e0ead1b2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.565.4", "colnum": "565", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "preceding_text": " have had a long day on agriculture, and, although I know that these things are done by mutual arrangement, to discuss now so many Schemes affecting not only England and Wales but Scotland is not really satisfactory. I know that some of my hon. Friends from Scotland would have preferred these matters to be discussed at another time. In the last Division there were nearly 40 Government abstentions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.565.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-22", "file": "debates1963-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "d0ee90e0ead1b2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Out of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I do not suppose my hon. Friend the Joint Parliamentary Secretary will be imagining that I am about to sound the Jubilate over these Schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-22a.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-23", "file": "debates1963-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3e84e096ef9ed072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I know of no such conversations. In regard to the right hon. Member's earlier question, I referred to the hon. and learned Member for Ipswich as Chief Enahoro's counsel because anyone who followed these proceedings would have known that he was his counsel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-23", "file": "debates1963-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3e84e096ef9ed072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "ter part of the right hon. Gentleman's supplementary question, there is a Question on the Order Paper to one of my right hon. Friends. On the former point, I knew, and the whole world knew, that the hon. and learned Member for Ipswich had acted for Chief Enahoro in his case before the Divisional Court, but neither the Lord Chief Justice nor I could know what barrister Chief Enahoro would wish for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-23", "file": "debates1963-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3e84e096ef9ed072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " a Question on the Order Paper to one of my right hon. Friends. On the former point, I knew, and the whole world knew, that the hon. and learned Member for Ipswich had acted for Chief Enahoro in his case before the Divisional Court, but neither the Lord Chief Justice nor I could know what barrister Chief Enahoro would wish for—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—whether British or Nigerian, if he were returned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-23", "file": "debates1963-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3e84e096ef9ed072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ng with the proviso, this would have serious financial consequences for the parent company concerned. Originally, we thought it necessary to include the proviso because we felt that unless we did so, there would be dangers of unscrupulous people seeking to avoid tax. Since then, we have had more experience of the working of the scheme and we have reached the conclusion that the existing provision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-23", "file": "debates1963-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3e84e096ef9ed072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh dear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "Treasury Bench was slipping. was about to say that perhaps we could get some understanding of the rules in this matter. We do not ask a Treasury Minister to rise and explain a Clause when we know what it means, although we may ask him to explain a Clause when we want to lay a snare for the Minister, as in the case of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) on Clause 43.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-23", "file": "debates1963-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3e84e096ef9ed072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.690.2", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "one might say, has been to steady the market, although it has really pushed up prices considerably. This is substantially the point behind the Amendment. I hope that no one will put forward the time-honoured and totally untrue argument that the Labour Party has any objection to owner-occupiers. Indeed, we on this side of the Committee have done more for them in the past than hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.690.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-23", "file": "debates1963-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3e84e096ef9ed072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Having thus been given an opportunity to consider the matter, my hon. Friend will, I think, find if he looks at the wording that the case which he has in mind is brought within the scope of subsection (2) by the words of the subsection but then would be taken out again by subsection (1).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-23", "file": "debates1963-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3e84e096ef9ed072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to you for reminding me, Sir Robert. I do not wish to go beyond the rules of order. I am not so sophisticated as some of my colleagues. We are asked to agree to a Clause which does not stop some kind of Budget leak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-23", "file": "debates1963-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3e84e096ef9ed072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.712.4", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "preceding_text": "en into account. As anyone who has given any thought to this subject knows, a good deal of time and ingenuity is expended in avoiding Stamp Duty. It has been said that it is not so much what one does as the way in which one does it that is taxed. I have with me an interesting brief from the Liberal Research Department which, at considerable length, sets out ways in which Stamp Duty can be avoided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.712.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-23", "file": "debates1963-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3e84e096ef9ed072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.750.2", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "uld last a long time and exchanges were not frequent. Today, that is not always the case. I uderstand that the coupons are getting larger and larger until they are almost in the form of cheques, and there is nothing rare nowadays in bearer certificates with coupons attached lasting for only four or five years in camparison with the twenty or thirty years that was more usual in other circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-23a.750.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-24", "file": "debates1963-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "cb42a8e1628cc022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-24a.800.2", "colnum": "800", "heading": "EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "I understood that, Mr. Speaker. I should have said that we had proposed to leave out certain words. We should like to seek other means of increasing and encouraging Britain's share in world trade. Do hon. Members opposite believe that to be possible in this modern world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-24a.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-24", "file": "debates1963-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "cb42a8e1628cc022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-24a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "Perfectly true, but my right hon. Friend signed that agreement as a desperate second-best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-24a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-24", "file": "debates1963-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "cb42a8e1628cc022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-24a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Vaughan-Morgan", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Vaughan-Morgan", "preceding_text": "ld go out for it. I am discussing only the means. We had from the hon. Member for Ashfield an excursus on the subject of East-West trade. I am sure that we all noted with pleasure his interest in this subject. In passing I might mention how glad I am to see that three British firms are exhibiting at the Peking Trade Fair in August. They should be given a pat on the back. As one of them is my own —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-24a.808.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-24", "file": "debates1963-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "cb42a8e1628cc022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-24a.885.5", "colnum": "885", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. If this matter is being considered in any way for your advice, Mr. Speaker, may I point out that it would be only right and proper for you in any consideration to realise that this just does not happen from hon. Members on this side as a matter of objection?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-24a.885.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.917.5", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN COUNTRIES (SUPPLY OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "It depends on which arms are sold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.917.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.920.8", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO MAKE ORDERS AS TO REMUNERATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": "'s encroaching on its rights. This is an issue of primary importance. I have noticed that the Conservative Party is making quite a lot of its achievements in education. I read the sponsored advertisements in the Press. I am aware, too, that for the first time after a very long period, in the Gallup poll the Opposition are regarded as more satisfactory in the field of education than the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.920.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.928.3", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO MAKE ORDERS AS TO REMUNERATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": " mentioned so far, but which must be considered, is the wastage at the bottom level of the profession. In no other profession needing training lasting anything like as long as training for teaching is there as great a wastage at the bottom. We know that this frequently arises because there are such things as love and marriage. Many of the young lady teachers leave the profession to raise families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.928.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.941.4", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO MAKE ORDERS AS TO REMUNERATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "hed out his chest, and how his shoulders went back. He wiped out the hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) completely, and he then appealed to the Labour Party to be responsible. What about the Minister of Education, who has interfered with thirty years' work and negotiation? Did he show responsibility to our educational system? Today, our system is one of the worst among the advanced countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.941.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.941.4", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO MAKE ORDERS AS TO REMUNERATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "nsense\", but they should study some of the reports of the educational opportunities available in some of the other advanced European countries, and compare them with ours. The two most explosive things in our educational system today are the Government's policy in respect of the primary schools and their attitude in respect of the 11-plus examination. This has a lot to do with the salary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.941.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.944.2", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO MAKE ORDERS AS TO REMUNERATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "van Straubenzee) being pompous, when all my hon. Friend asked was where the money was to come from, exemplifies all that Socialism stands for in this day and age. It is the attitude, \"Let us have anything we like—to hell with the cost. So long as you can say that this is a public service then, by waving a magic wand, the cost can be borne by somebody else.\" That is way hon. Members opposite think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.944.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO MAKE ORDERS AS TO REMUNERATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "ngton) before you called me, because I was greatly impressed by what he said. If I may venture a criticism, I should say I was impressed by the moderation of his remarks. He spoke about junior chartered surveyors, solicitors and so on. I could not get a qualified solicitor today for less than £1,000 a year to start with, unless he had a rather obvious detriment which disqualified him from the job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.956.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.990.0", "colnum": "990", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "aking was given to the Divisional Court and repeated to the Appeal Committee that, if the Chief Justice gave his certificate for a named English barrister to appear for Enahoro, the Nigerian Government would not refuse that barrister entry into Nigeria merely because he was going to represent Enahoro. They would not refuse him entry, unless in his particular case there were other and good reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.989.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ing heard those words from the Attorney-General, they thought they related to the exclusion of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Ipswich and Mr. Gratiaen? Of course hon. Members did not understand that. What I must ask—and we must be told this tonight—is whether the Attorney-General knew, when he used these words, what the Home Secretary now tells us he knew. Did the Attorney-General know?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ome Secretary now tells us he knew. Did the Attorney-General know? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I do not know whether the hon. and learned Gentleman will try to catch your eye, Mr. Speaker. I understand that the Prime Minister may do so. But if the Attorney-General does not intend to seek to catch your eye, I think that we have the right to ask him to come to that Box now and tell us whether he knew.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "We must at least get agreement on the facts here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" What were the questions all about?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "ady expelled a man, or refused to admit him to the country, would dream of giving a promise to let that man in purely because an accused person in its courts asked that man to come into the country and defend him. I am quite sure that no British immigration officer would admit that man, and no British Government would give an undertaking to admit him simply because an accused person asked for him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " that it would not be unjust or oppressive for Enahoro to be sent back to Nigeria on these terms. It had become quite clear to me by then, and must have been equally clear to anyone following the case even from the newspapers, that the Nigerian authorities were not intending to let into Nigeria to defend Chief Enahoro in court someone they had already expelled or refused to admit on those grounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1004.3", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What reasons?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "Yes, as I understand it, counsel for the Government of Nigeria said there was no intention of again excluding anybody simply because he was coming to defend someone in the Nigerian courts, but they reserved their right—they explicitly reserved their right—to exclude somebody for other and good reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1004.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " accepted that this was not the point on which the question turned whether or not it would be just for Enahoro to go back to stand his trial. There are many able barristers from England whom he could have had. Provided that Enahoro had a free choice of counsel to represent him, whether British or Nigerian, other than those one or two who were already persona non grata in Nigeria for other reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "d. I gave special consideration to a petition which Enahoro had sent in to me urging reasons for not sending him back to Nigeria. I also set myself to make certain beyond all shadow of doubt exactly what the undertaking by the Nigerian authorities meant and that there was no trace of risk that he would be refused the services of all English barristers if he wanted an Englishman and not a Nigerian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1006.3", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1006.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1006.4", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "d that he was puzzled why I attached importance to the fact that a barrister from this country should be able to represent Enahoro. I attached importance to it because the court had attached importance to it: to his being able to have either a Nigerian or a British barrister, as he chose. That is exactly what my hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General said, speaking later in that same debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1006.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1009.2", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "The communication was made on the date that I have mentioned, and, of course, it was known to the Government as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1009.4", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "My hon. and learned Friend had been addressing himself to the question whether Enahoro would be allowed to have only a Nigerian counsel or a British counsel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1009.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Persona non grata.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "here might well be reasons which, the court would appreciate, fell quite outside the question of the trial which would be all the normal reasons, if I could use that word, for a government to refuse entry to an individual … Is it a normal reason for a Government to refuse entry to counsel merely that he wants to represent and defend a member of the Opposition party? That is the only reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "nd the Member for Belper (Mr. G. Brown) gives me the slightest indication of what time he desires to rise I will make way, for I should not like for a mement to trespass on his time. I should, however, like to say this. It may seem irrelevant, but two years ago a very distinguished member of the Bar was brought before the Bar Council on a grave charge and he was temporarily disbarred or suspended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "vernment ought to think a little about what they are doing throughout this whole procedure in relation to that honourable, traditional and proud Act of our ancestors a long time ago. I am sure that they must have in mind now what a grim road they have trodden since they first started interfering with and perverting the ordinary course of justice for purely political reasons. They have been led on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": " the Home Secretary clearly understood what he intended by this undertaking, or did the Home Secretary go to the Lord Chief Justice to ask him what the undertaking meant? If the latter, did the Home Secretary tell the Lord Chief Justice that he understood from the Nigerian Government that the undertaking did not cover my hon. and learned Friend and Mr. Gratiaen? Did he tell the Lord Chief Justice?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " a particular barrister. It is perfectly clear that Lord Reid was trying to make sure that the position of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Ipswich and Mr. Gratiaen was covered by the undertaking which the Lord Chief Justice had drafted. The whole history of this thing, from the day the man arrived thinking that he had assurances which were subsequently dishonoured, the objection to bail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "es in the land have been engaged on the case, and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has been careful to explain throughout how he proposed to exercise his final discretion. The right hon. Gentleman himself referred to the next stage. In our previous debates it was suggested that it was unjust to send the Chief back to stand trial in Nigeria because, it was said, it would not be a fair trial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. The most insulting suggestion of all was that, having been got back on one charge, he would be tried upon another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. The most insulting suggestion of all was that, having been got back on one charge, he would be tried upon another. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, that was the whole basis of our discussion. The right hon. Gentleman said that the whole story threw great discredit upon the British Government. Therefore, it is he who has brought up these matters from the start.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1047.2", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I claim a point of order, Mr. Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1047.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1047.7", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "oves that the Nigerian Government carried out absolutely rigorously what they undertook to do. It is said that nobody understood that. My hon. Friend the Member for the Isle of Ely (Sir FL Legge-Bourke), who always speaks with the greatest sincerity in this House, said that he did not understand this. I am quite sure the court understood it. I am quite sure the majority of the House understood it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1047.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-27", "file": "debates1963-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3503c1e2873857c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1050.3", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "CHIEF ENAHORO (HOME SECRETARY'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did he know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—should be made in these very precise and carefully chosen words, my hon. and learned Friend would not have used phrases like that; he would have used quite different phrases. The fact that so guarded and carefully worded a statement had been made made it abundantly clear that the Government of Nigeria reserved the right, as every Government has the right to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-27a.1050.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-28", "file": "debates1963-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "f1bd77713bd1c30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-28a.1103.7", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is not one-fifth in Scotland more than Scotland's fair share?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-28a.1103.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-28", "file": "debates1963-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "f1bd77713bd1c30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-28a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "We are not setting aside a decision of the court. What we are doing is to pass legislation—something which very often happens—which has been shown to be necessary by a decision of the court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-28a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-28", "file": "debates1963-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "f1bd77713bd1c30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-28a.1124.2", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "Would not the Secretary of State agree that it is vitally important that we should not even appear to play fast and loose with the Constitution of this Colony?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-28a.1124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-28", "file": "debates1963-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "f1bd77713bd1c30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-28a.1133.5", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "n. Members on either side of the House rising in their places and objecting to the principle of a Bill or any other matter, but what we do object to is the fact that hon. Members come here to object to Bills and are obviously not anxious to have it known that they are objecting because some of these Bills are of great import. They slide in and then slide out and hope that no one will have noticed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-28a.1133.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-28", "file": "debates1963-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "f1bd77713bd1c30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-28a.1163.0", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "e in which it rose—the Labour Government doubled many items of Purchase Tax, including those on the lower levels, from 16⅔ per cent. to 33⅓ per cent. During the period of office of the Labour Government from 1945 to 1951, the cost of living rose virtually every year, but there was no compensating reduction in Purchase Tax. Indeed, during that period, the tax was definitely increased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-28a.1163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-28", "file": "debates1963-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "f1bd77713bd1c30a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-28a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "uantity of American coal, we should do something to secure the position of British industry. After all, it is British industry which is largely responsible for the exports of this country. It may be a happy circumstance if we could export a little coal, but that is purely marginal. Are we to say that industry must carry the heavy burden because the coal industry cannot keep its own house in order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-28a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-05-29", "file": "debates1963-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "6f26b87365cb435b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-29a.1302.4", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Cannot the Lord Privy Seal make any comment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-29a.1302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-29", "file": "debates1963-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "6f26b87365cb435b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-29a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "FOOD IMPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Harrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Harrison", "preceding_text": " of course, could apply both ways. When adverse conditions arose duties could be removed for a period, as was done regarding foreign vegetables in the spring of this year, when we were short of home-produced vegetables owing to the prolonged frost. For many years I have firmly believed that the consumer likes stable prices. Nothing upsets a housewife more than when prices either rocket up or down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-29a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-29", "file": "debates1963-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "6f26b87365cb435b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-29a.1423.2", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "again, as I asked him last year: what is the difference? He wanted to save out of husbands' incomes. We want to save out of the housewives' spending. We were prepared to assist him in his effort last year, will he come to assist us in our effort this year; to encourage the savings which women make when they spend money in a co-operative society? 8.45 p.m. My five minutes are up, much to my regret.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-29a.1423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-29", "file": "debates1963-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "6f26b87365cb435b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-29a.1460.3", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "preceding_text": "alth than spend it on trying to recover its health once it has gone. Prevention is better than cure. I believe that in training our youth in sport we are making a contribution towards building its character from which the nation will benefit. After all, when we are talking about surpluses—I wish that my right hon. and hon. Friends on the Opposition Front Bench would keep quiet while I am speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-29a.1460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-29", "file": "debates1963-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "6f26b87365cb435b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-29a.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "e far beyond those which householders can reasonably be called upon to pay. The present Minister of Housing has continued and intensified this policy, building upon the foundations laid by his predecessor. He announced soon after he assumed office that he was putting pressure on local authorities to compel them to charge the economic rent of a council house to every tenant who could afford to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-29a.1486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-30", "file": "debates1963-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "142d98b159cc390c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-30a.1535.2", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I should hate to give the impression that my right hon. Friend would not give very serious consideration to any advice offered by the hon. Gentle-man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-30a.1535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-30", "file": "debates1963-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "142d98b159cc390c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-30a.1540.5", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, there was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the Opposition is increasing the bidding, as he knows. There was no mention of a two-day debate the last time that it was discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-30a.1540.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-30", "file": "debates1963-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "142d98b159cc390c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-30a.1550.2", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "PUBLIC ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I am advised by the police that there is now no doubt whatever about interpretation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-30a.1550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-30", "file": "debates1963-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "142d98b159cc390c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-30a.1551.5", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "PUBLIC ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Forthwith.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Mr. Speaker. We have still not been told when the Bill is to be introduced in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-30a.1551.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-30", "file": "debates1963-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "142d98b159cc390c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-30a.1551.5", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "PUBLIC ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Forthwith\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Mr. Speaker. We have still not been told when the Bill is to be introduced in another place. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Forthwith.\"] What does \"forthwith\" mean? Today, or tomorrow, or when?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-30a.1551.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-30", "file": "debates1963-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "142d98b159cc390c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-30a.1551.5", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "PUBLIC ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Mr. Speaker. We have still not been told when the Bill is to be introduced in another place. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Forthwith.\"] What does \"forthwith\" mean? Today, or tomorrow, or when? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Forthwith\"] I am putting this question to the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-30a.1551.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-30", "file": "debates1963-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "142d98b159cc390c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-30a.1608.0", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": "urned down in just the same way. These proposals have been made at a time when there is desperate need not only to do something to promote and encourage education but to give the appearance of doing it. That is what is required, and the same is true about apprenticeships. In its humble way, the Treasury could help. I hope that the Financial Secretary will not be content to live only in his briefs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-30a.1608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-05-30", "file": "debates1963-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "142d98b159cc390c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-30a.1663.5", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I shall not be too long, but I feel that it would be right if occasionally an hon. Member on this side of the Committee took part in the discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-05-30a.1663.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.34.13", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "War Office clerks, engineers in Admiralty establishments, or workers in Ministry of Aviation contractors' works, are frequently moved on the initiative of the security authorities if any security risk condition such as I have defined is found. Only two days ago we read that an Oxford undergraduate was barred from the University O.T.C. on a security initiative because his mother was born in Moscow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.34.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "e a personal statement. It had to be done that night because next day was Friday and it had to be made as soon as possible, and, therefore, at eleven o'clock in the morning instead of 3.30 p.m. as is usual. Accordingly, Mr. Profumo arranged for his solicitor to go to the House of Commons in order to make quite certain, as he was to make the statement, that it should be correct in every particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "ident that Mr. Profumo could hardly dare to give a misleading account of the contents of this letter. Here, I should tell the House that the Ministers did not know the contents. They were aware, and I was made aware that the letter began with the word \"Darling\". This was volunteered by Mr. Profumo, who explained that in circles in which he and his wife moved it was a term of no great significance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ause of the character of the information which she says she was instructed to obtain. What is significant—and I fully admit it—is that this is the first and only time that any suggestion came to the notice of the authorities that Mr. Ward was trying to use Miss Keeler as an instrument for obtaining information. This was 30th January. The security service did not pass either of these reports to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the Leader of the Opposition—to which he referred today—and to the discussions I had with him. I will also deal with other reports which are alleged to have been sent to me during this period. I have dealt with everything up to the time of Mr. Profumo making his statement and now I wish to deal with what happened between the time that statement was made to the House—in which I had every confidence", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.76.3", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, I think that tells exactly the other way. I have had the difficult task—and Prime Ministers have—of making changes for what seemed to be improvements in the national service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.76.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.79.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.79.3", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "hings which were brought to his attention could carry weight. First of all, there was the information from the Leader of the Opposition. Then there was information from the hon. Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg). Then there were various documents from Dr. Ward himself. As far as I can understand—I should like the Prime Minister to correct this if I am wrong—at no time did he see Mr. Profumo personally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.79.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.81.3", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "But whatever the reason, the right hon. Gentleman never saw him. He was never seen by the Prime Minister. That is what we are told. The Prime Minister says there was no reason to see him. But there were, in fact, many allegations and he must have been aware of these allegations. He had seen and heard from the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.81.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": "have got to deal with this situation. The only way you can do so satisfactorily is to make a statement in the House of Commons\". He said that he would like to do this, so it was than said to him—I should myself regard this as a perfectly proper step—\"In the circumstances, we had better ask Mr. Clogg to come here and see that there is no question of your saying anything which you ought not to say\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": "tainly. If hon. Members will be patient, they will see what was meant by that. Mr. Clogg came here. The Law Officers of the Crown drafted the statement, and they submitted it to Mr. Clogg, asking him whether, in his view, it was right and proper that Mr. Profumo should make it. We should not forget that he might have been incriminating himself. They did not know what Mr. Clogg's attitude would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.90.3", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Breaking off what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "They were also told, as was the fact on his story, that this was a farewell letter. It was a letter breaking off communication because, as he said, he had been told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.90.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "I do not think that some hon. Members have it in mind that it has been stated that before this letter was written Mr. Profumo had been warned and told to break off the association. That was why he broke it off. He had been warned against Ward. I do not think I can continue with this, but I must make this point quite clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "have said, \"You have caught me\", but he did exactly the same as John Profumo did. He lied. There is not a right hon. or hon. Gentleman on either side of the House who accepts Lord Hailsham's interpretation of what a three-line Whip means. The three-line Whip is the final appeal to loyalty on party lines, and Lord Hailsham knows it. Whether I am in order or not, I call Lord Hailsham a lying humbug.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Glyn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Glyn", "preceding_text": "was there to look after his interests and the Ministers were there to make sure that it was a comprehensive statement and accurate so far as they could possibly tell. There really was no reason to doubt its veracity. We had a number of rumours of scandalous conduct. But as the hon. Member for Dudley pointed out, Mr. Ward said firmly that up to that point there was no impropriety so far as he knew.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Glyn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Glyn", "preceding_text": "That, of course, is a matter which the hon. Member must decide for himself. There might be occasions where the same lady was referred to by both terms by different people. I am satisfied on the facts presented so far in this debate that there is no case against my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, no case of dishonesty nor any charge against his integrity and no evidence of neglect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "o publish it. As I have tried to show, a lot of people outside those newspapers knew something about it. In this connection, I will now deal with the Sunday Pictorial. The three of us had something at stake. We had been accused in a personal statement of spreading rumours under the shield of privilege. I was interested to read the week before last in the Sunday Mirror that it had in its possession", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Black", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Black", "preceding_text": "re of the responsibility which is mine on to other people. I believe that, to some extent, what has been happening is a matter of responsibility for all of us because for a long time all parties and all of us as individuals have been putting the emphasis on the wrong things. We have been emphasising the importance of the material things of life, the things which make life pleasant and worth while.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "), that if they really mean to say that this was done in bad faith and that the Prime Minister was privy to a deception of the House, they ought to say so, and in plain terms, and not first of all deny that they mean that and then go on to say things which can mean nothing else. This has been done time and again, and these are the habits which will lower the tone of political life in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.146.5", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "There has been much talk about a moral issue. There are moral implications in this matter. But the issue before us of moral character is not whether Profumo should withdraw from public life. He has already done so. Is it the issue that the Prime Minister should resign?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.146.5", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "h talk about a moral issue. There are moral implications in this matter. But the issue before us of moral character is not whether Profumo should withdraw from public life. He has already done so. Is it the issue that the Prime Minister should resign? [Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"] If that is the issue, then it is a moral issue only if the Prime Minister was privy to the deception of the House by Profumo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "he evidence that they were not. I am satisfied that their error about this was fully shared by the Opposition themselves, who had been equally deceived, and that everybody knew about this only after Mr. Profumo had confessed, except possibly one or two Members opposite who appear to have had contacts with the sort of people who might know the truth. I do not wish to say any more about this except—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "ley (Mr. Wigg) pointed out, he had to move pretty unprepared. I believe that we owe him a measure of gratitude for that, but this is the man who is now the goat upon whom the members of the Tory Party are seeking to discharge their guilt—because it is their guilt and they were with him in this. From Lord Hailsham we have had a virtuoso performance in the art of kicking a fallen friend in the guts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "se it is their guilt and they were with him in this. From Lord Hailsham we have had a virtuoso performance in the art of kicking a fallen friend in the guts. [ Interruption. ] It is easy to compound for sins we are inclined to by damning those we have no mind to. When self-indulgence has reduced a man to the shape of Lord Hailsham, sexual continence involves no more than a sense of the ridiculous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "we are inclined to by damning those we have no mind to. When self-indulgence has reduced a man to the shape of Lord Hailsham, sexual continence involves no more than a sense of the ridiculous. [ Interruption. ] Yet this is the performance which made the Tory Party say, \"Here is our missing leader.\" The moment he was cornered, by being asked about the three-line Whip, what did he do? He told a lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": " that the interview between the five Ministers and Mr. Profumo and his solicitor strikes me with horror. First of all, I cannot understand this feeling that because he is accompanied by his solicitor therefore he is an honest man. In my experience litigants nearly always deceive their solicitors, and very often there were cases where they specially selected solicitors who would believe their lies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Here he comes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "nevitably the Prime Minister, who is not with us at the moment, is deeply involved. There is no question that if responsibility means anything in terms of our society it means that in a case of this kind the Prime Minister is personally and totally responsible and involved. I got the impression—I am sorry to be saying this when he is not present, but I did delay starting my speech until very late.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"9th August.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "nior Ministers about the people with whom they are associating, despite the way in which the matter was treated by the Prime Minister, must be regarded as a fairly substantial act. The Secretary of State was warned by the security services about his association with Ward once they had learned that he had had more than a casual meeting with Ward. It is therefore now clear that, still in July, 1961—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "r, must be regarded as a fairly substantial act. The Secretary of State was warned by the security services about his association with Ward once they had learned that he had had more than a casual meeting with Ward. It is therefore now clear that, still in July, 1961—[Hon. Members: \"9th August.\"]—no, this is still in July. I believe that Profumo was warned round about 12th July, but still in July—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "e commented that it was strange that the solicitor attended. On reflection, I cannot believe that they can think this wrong. After all, if someone had held to a story for months, if he had said, \"As soon as it reasonably can be raised, I am committed to sue anyone, even my dearest friend\", if he was making that public announcement, it was essential that the legal advice that he had had throughout—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": " the Chief Whip. The timings are, I think, accurate as I gave them in an intervention to the Leader of the Opposition. We called the meeting, not actually at 12 o'clock, although, again, it does not alter the strength of the right hon. Gentleman's case, but at about half-past one and immediately after the debate had ended, when the Leader of the Opposition replied. The Home Secretary left at 1.22.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": " think, accurate as I gave them in an intervention to the Leader of the Opposition. We called the meeting, not actually at 12 o'clock, although, again, it does not alter the strength of the right hon. Gentleman's case, but at about half-past one and immediately after the debate had ended, when the Leader of the Opposition replied. The Home Secretary left at 1.22. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] He had left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Of course, it was a personal statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Of course, it was a personal statement. [ Laughter. ] It was a personal statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "I do not find any difficulty in reconciling that, and my right hon. Friend dealt specifically with that point. I must answer specifically the point about security and the point about an inquiry. I want to dispose quickly of this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I suggest that we look at the method suggested by the Prime Minister after the Vassall Case. This would mean that a small number of Privy Councillors would examine the Lord Chancellor's Report and that that could be followed by an independent judicial inquiry. I believe that that would be a better method.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, in view of the fact that on a Motion of confidence the Government's theoretical majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, in view of the fact that on a Motion of confidence the Government's theoretical majority—[ Interruption. ]—is nearly 40 less, may I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.175.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Let there be silence. I understood that the right hon. Gentleman was addressing me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.175.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-17", "file": "debates1963-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "08957b8d96f68440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.176.3", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "y I finish my sentence? I find some difficulty in finding a parallel when the Question before the House is whether or not it should adjourn and the extent of the Government's majority is a matter of mathematics rather than a swing over the other way. I know of no precedent which would allow me to oblige the right hon. Gentleman in this instance and to accede to his question in these circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-17a.176.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-18", "file": "debates1963-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2c108fc8fb4ef6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.223.6", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that this is a growing practice? Just before the Whitsun Recess my hon. Friend the Member for Fulham (Mr. M. Stewart) and I had a Question down about the housing policy of the Government. Before the Question was reached, statements were made, and yet on the day on which the Question was due to be answered the Government published—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.223.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-18", "file": "debates1963-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2c108fc8fb4ef6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.225.3", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "preceding_text": "right hon. Friend aware that there is a genuine difficulty in this matter in respect of Ministers replying to Questions in the House of Commons? I do not want to ask the Prime Minister to make any comment on Question No. Q10 this afternoon, but is not he aware that it is the number and length of supplementary questions, the multiplicity of supplementary questions which are asked by the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-18", "file": "debates1963-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2c108fc8fb4ef6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.225.3", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "preceding_text": "nt to ask the Prime Minister to make any comment on Question No. Q10 this afternoon, but is not he aware that it is the number and length of supplementary questions, the multiplicity of supplementary questions which are asked by the Opposition—[Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"]—and the contents of those supplementary questions, which are more indicative of giving information, or purporting to give information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-18", "file": "debates1963-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2c108fc8fb4ef6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.225.3", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "preceding_text": " it is the number and length of supplementary questions, the multiplicity of supplementary questions which are asked by the Opposition—[Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"]—and the contents of those supplementary questions, which are more indicative of giving information, or purporting to give information—[Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"]—which create the difficulty—[ Interrup- tion. ]—and that if the House could return—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-18", "file": "debates1963-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2c108fc8fb4ef6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.225.3", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "preceding_text": "pplementary questions which are asked by the Opposition—[Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"]—and the contents of those supplementary questions, which are more indicative of giving information, or purporting to give information—[Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"]—which create the difficulty—[ Interrup- tion. ]—and that if the House could return—[Hon. Members: \"Speak up.\"]—and that if the House could return to the practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-18", "file": "debates1963-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2c108fc8fb4ef6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.322.4", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REMUNERATION OF TEACHERS (Re-committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "e would have been little to complain of up to the present time. It is true that certain organisations on both sides wished to come in. Some teachers' organisations which were not included when the first committee was set up in 1944 resented the fact, and some local education authority associations objected to the more powerful position in which the Association of Education Committees found itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.322.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-18", "file": "debates1963-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2c108fc8fb4ef6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REMUNERATION OF TEACHERS (Re-committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ive Resolution procedure. I agree with what my hon. Friends have said. The matter we are discussing seems, both in substance and procedurally, to be essentially the kind of matter which the Minister should be required to explain and justify to Parliament by taking the initiative and laying an affirmative Resolution and finding Government time to justify it before it obtains Parliamentary approval.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-18", "file": "debates1963-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2c108fc8fb4ef6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.386.6", "colnum": "386", "heading": ">Clause 2.—(Amendments relating to BUILDING GRANTS.)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 2, to leave out lines 12 and 13 and to insert: and subsection (2) of that section is hereby repealed\". The effect of this Amendment is to restore the position as it was on Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.386.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-18", "file": "debates1963-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2c108fc8fb4ef6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.408.1", "colnum": "408", "heading": ">Clause 2.—(Amendments relating to BUILDING GRANTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "towards development districts and the concept of steering industry to them, and decide whether development districts were right or wrong at a given point of time and not be able to let the matter drift because of lack of a terminal date. It is not intended to put an end to everything, but to force Parliament and the Government of the day—which is un doubtedly bound to be a Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-18a.408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-19", "file": "debates1963-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "164887a8ee5008bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-19a.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "des of the House? First, does he think that the accuracy of the missiles carried by such a force will be sufficient to allow it to be used in an interdictory rôle by the N.A.T.O. Supreme Commander? Secondly, does he believe that such a force would be sufficiently invulnerable to escape destruction before it was required to be used? Thirdly, in spite of all the evidence, does he now believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-19a.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-19", "file": "debates1963-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "164887a8ee5008bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-19a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "DURHAM PRISON (COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "May I apologise for the absence of my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Exchange (Mrs. Braddock), who first raised this question? She wishes me to apologise for the fact that she is not here. She is on her way to Leeds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-19a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-19", "file": "debates1963-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "164887a8ee5008bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-19a.467.2", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PEERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "Does a courtesy title, either now or in the future, have any legal existence at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-19a.467.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-19", "file": "debates1963-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "164887a8ee5008bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-19a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PEERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": " the only institution in the world which is kept going by the persistent absenteeism of the great majority of its Members. Lord Hailsham in his memoranda gives his reasons for objecting to the complete extinction of a title at the choice, as he puts it, of its \"temporary holder\", He says that many of these titles are links with a famous past and justly regarded as a part of the national heritage\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-19a.496.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-19", "file": "debates1963-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "164887a8ee5008bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-19a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PEERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I have several disqualifications for addressing the House today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-19a.498.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-19", "file": "debates1963-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "164887a8ee5008bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-19a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PEERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": "ple or not, provided that there is an effective second Chamber. The hon. and learned Member for Ipswich has just come back. In his absence I have suggested that he should do some tense missionary work on his own Front Bench and I sincerely trust that he will. Basically, he is a lone Liberal voice in a slightly more extreme party. Basically, the party opposite does not want a second Chamber at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-19a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-19", "file": "debates1963-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "164887a8ee5008bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-19a.519.3", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PEERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. M. Bennett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. M. Bennett", "preceding_text": "h. I suggested that the same principles which apply over the abdication of monarchs should apply in this case. If one wants to contract out of responsibilities which go with a title one should contract out altogether. If one has sons after that it is just too bad. I regard it as just too bad in relation to a peerage as for a monarch who abdicates, and for his children after the date of abdication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-19a.519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-20", "file": "debates1963-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a868a62ef34de03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "The difference is exactly as was explained by my right hon. and learned Friend on Monday. In the one case Miss Rice-Davies was regarded as an essential witness. In the case of Miss Keeler, it was not considered that she was an essential witness for the furtherance of the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-20", "file": "debates1963-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a868a62ef34de03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.630.2", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "It is no responsibility of mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.630.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-20", "file": "debates1963-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a868a62ef34de03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.645.2", "colnum": "645", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Before he answers that question, will he bear in mind that Iam not against the privileges of Privy Councillors in general, irritating though they sometimes are, but that I am against the abuse of those privileges, as exercised by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Flint, West (Mr. Birch) on Monday last—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.645.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-20", "file": "debates1963-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a868a62ef34de03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.650.2", "colnum": "650", "heading": "AVIATION DELEGATION (VISIT TO SOVIET UNION)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Aviation (Mr. Julian Amery)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Aviation (Mr. Julian Amery)", "preceding_text": "useful exchanges with the Soviet authorities. I paid a courtesy call on Mr. Khrushchev. We were received by Mr. Rudinev, a Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and the Chairman State Committee of the Co-ordination of Scientific Research. We had a number of talks with Mr. Dementiev, his senior staff, the leading chiefs of the Russian design bureaux, and some of those in charge of production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.650.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-20", "file": "debates1963-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a868a62ef34de03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.658.2", "colnum": "658", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (MR. PROFUMO)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "preceding_text": " been present as a responsible Cabinet Minister and as one who was in the debate when the matter arose. I think that the House is entitled to know why he was absent, why he was, obviously, deliberately absent. I can draw only one conclusion, and that is that the Home Secretary knew too much. By that time, the Home Secretary already knew that Mr. Profumo had been engaged in an improper association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.658.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-20", "file": "debates1963-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a868a62ef34de03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.667.9", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Barony pit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "at stake. It is not a case of 10,000 new jobs for miners—there are no new jobs in this—it is a saving of 10,000 jobs. We would have lost 10,000 jobs, and the mining industry would have been down to about 30,000 miners. We would not have been able, even had we wanted to do so at that time, to build that kind of power station, because we would not then have had the miners, or the pits, in operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.667.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-20", "file": "debates1963-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a868a62ef34de03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What have they done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "preceding_text": "s difficult, if not impossible, to attract new industry. He was given the power. The power was in the 1945 Act and it was repeated in the 1960 Act. The right hon. Gentleman boasted the night before last that he was at the Board of Trade when this Bill was going through. He will know then that power was given to the President of the Board of Trade to clear up these derelict sites about the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-20", "file": "debates1963-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a868a62ef34de03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": " Members opposite who survive this great experience, which is only a few months ahead, will be able to speak their minds from this side of the Chamber and say how much they really care for Scotland. Today the Secretary of State for Scotland told us about the wonderful organisational change in the creation of the Scottish Development Department and the building up of the Scottish Development Group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-20", "file": "debates1963-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a868a62ef34de03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "een in, so that the improvement since then looks to be all the better. That is what the Secretary of State did. I have the unemployment figures for every month since the war. The Secretary of State chose the year in which the month of May had the lowest number of people in employment during all that period and the highest number of people out of employment. That was the base from which he started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-20", "file": "debates1963-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a868a62ef34de03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Frederick Erroll)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Frederick Erroll)", "preceding_text": " being at the Dispatch Box once again for a Scottish debate on industry and employment. I was interested to be reminded of the speech I made when Economic Secretary. I regard it as a great compliment that my speeches of so long ago are quoted. Last year, we went over a great deal of ground and I do not believe that this will be the valedictory speech of the Conservative Government on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-20", "file": "debates1963-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a868a62ef34de03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.764.3", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not in Scotland. You lost Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "ionist Government—call it what you like. I was rather shocked by the arrogant and boastful attitude of the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. T. Fraser). It was very much on the line which he was taking in 1958 when he said that hon. Members opposite were about to form a new Labour Administration and make life happy for the people. What happened? We doubled our majority at the ensuing General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.764.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-20", "file": "debates1963-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a868a62ef34de03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Only six miles of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "is driving from London Airport along the Great West Road to Westminster and how he found the road always up with great new developments going on. I have paid two visits to Scotland since I spoke in the debate on this subject a year ago and I have driven along the A.8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh and been held up by the same sort of road developments taking place on that thoroughfare. Furthermore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-20", "file": "debates1963-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a868a62ef34de03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What development?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "e road, far more than is taking place on the A.4. There are practically no factory buildings or extensions taking place on the A.4 between London Airport and Westminster. What is clearly obvious along the A.8 is an immense amount of industrial development taking place visibly from the road, quite apart from the considerable measure of industrial development taking place in other parts of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-20", "file": "debates1963-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a868a62ef34de03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "this year. When I was there for a couple of days I had discussions with the Scottish T.U.C., the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, the Scottish Council and the Scottish Tourist Board, and I had meetings with the Press. For what it is worth, I gained the impression that business circles were definitely more confident about the future than they had been at the time of my previous visit in September last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-20", "file": "debates1963-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a868a62ef34de03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You never know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "It is a foundation stone, not a tombstone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-20", "file": "debates1963-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a868a62ef34de03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.771.5", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "bout the Fort William pulp mill project because we have been criticised for making that a loan by the Government instead of taking a share in the equity. The advantage of the loan is that the money will come back to us, whereas if we took up a share in the equity we should never get the capital repaid. We should be taking a share in the equity which could be a loss producer and not a profit maker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-20a.771.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-21", "file": "debates1963-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "712f3049380642bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.803.0", "colnum": "803", "heading": "SECURITY (JUDICIAL INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "us see. Then there was the question of a Select Committee of the House of Commons, and that is certainly a possible procedure. But it is one open to the kind of things which, I fear, are going to come to Lord Denning affecting men in many walks of life. I think that it would be terrible if 24 men, even if kept secret to the end, however much we trust our colleagues to try to deal with that aspect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-21", "file": "debates1963-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "712f3049380642bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.805.2", "colnum": "805", "heading": "SECURITY (JUDICIAL INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I quite understand the unusual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.805.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-21", "file": "debates1963-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "712f3049380642bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.805.3", "colnum": "805", "heading": "SECURITY (JUDICIAL INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Then say so.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I quite understand the unusual—[Hon. Members: \"Sit down.\"] I am raising a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-21", "file": "debates1963-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "712f3049380642bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "SECURITY (JUDICIAL INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give them now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the very distinguished judge who has been appointed will give great confidence to the whole of the rest of the country? If in any way he feels that he lacks power, then the House at any time can grant powers to him, and I am certain that on both sides of the House we shall be pleased to do so.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-21", "file": "debates1963-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "712f3049380642bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.808.2", "colnum": "808", "heading": "SECURITY (JUDICIAL INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "vice with the Government, with the Home Secretary, under whom it is officially, and with me, under whom it is on the whole. The second part is: …and the adequacy of their co-operation with the Police…\". That is the second item. I think that covers the whole of it. The other question is the matter of the witnesses. While they will, of course, have what I believe is called \"qualified\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.808.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-21", "file": "debates1963-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "712f3049380642bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.903.8", "colnum": "903", "heading": "GIPSY CAMPS (COMPENSATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.903.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-21", "file": "debates1963-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "712f3049380642bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.903.12", "colnum": "903", "heading": "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/1963-06-21a.903.11"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-21", "file": "debates1963-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "712f3049380642bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.903.20", "colnum": "903", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT 1957 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.903.19"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-21", "file": "debates1963-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "712f3049380642bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.904.2", "colnum": "904", "heading": "PRIVATE HOUSE OWNERS PROTECTION (BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.904.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-21", "file": "debates1963-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "712f3049380642bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.904.10", "colnum": "904", "heading": "REDUNDANT WORKERS (SEVERANCE PAY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [ 3rd May. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.904.9"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-21", "file": "debates1963-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "712f3049380642bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.904.18", "colnum": "904", "heading": "PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1961 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-21a.904.17"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-24", "file": "debates1963-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "abaf151e0fc2ba43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-24a.944.3", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MISS MARILYN RICE-DAVIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "Consideration is being given to the question whether a charge should be brought against her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-24a.944.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-24", "file": "debates1963-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "abaf151e0fc2ba43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-24a.965.0", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Mason", "preceding_text": "demanding that this medium should be increasingly used to raise moral and cultural standards. The history of the Clause is showing and has shown Parliament in its worst light. It has shown not hidden persuaders, as it did in 1953, but those who have been openly contesting the Postmaster-General, nearly all of whom have interests in television, either manufacturers, shareholders, or in advertising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-24a.963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-24", "file": "debates1963-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "abaf151e0fc2ba43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-24a.1040.0", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which unions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Barnsley can help. One of the basic difficulties now facing British television producers and the whole of our film industry is the grossly unreasonable attitude of the unions. A short time ago, despite the poverty of work in this field, we lost an excellent series to be produced by M.G.M. They wanted to produce the series here, but the unions put up a series of impossible demands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-24a.1040.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-24", "file": "debates1963-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "abaf151e0fc2ba43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-24a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "preceding_text": "ovision of (other than by programme contractors) or, if need be, themselves provide programmes or parts of programmes to be broadcast by the Authority. I should think that on the law of averages it is about time the Postmaster-General said \"Yes\" to something. I have an idea that I shall be dealing with something now which everyone will understand. There is no question of any adjudication on merit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-24a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "If I were to give guidance to the company, and I could not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1135.0", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Foot", "preceding_text": "be able to judge for themselves what is the verdict on these letters. There have been cases where the Monarch has attempted to communicate with the Speaker, and where a previous Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, took up the matter with the Monarch and protested very strongly against a confidential letter being sent by the Monarch to the Speaker—which, I should have thought, had a parallel in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1135.0", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Foot", "preceding_text": " has attempted to communicate with the Speaker, and where a previous Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, took up the matter with the Monarch and protested very strongly against a confidential letter being sent by the Monarch to the Speaker—which, I should have thought, had a parallel in this case. [ Laughter. ] Maybe I have made an error; it is the only office to which the noble Lord has not yet aspired.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1142.3", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I dare say that it is not strictly in order, but the circumstances are peculiar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": " point to you, Mr. Speaker? Since you have indicated that, if, to get out of the difficulty, a Motion were put on the Order Paper requesting you to publish the correspondence, you would, naturally, comply with it, might not the Leader of the House at least agree now to have discussions through the usual channels and with all hon. Members concerned to see whether an agreed Motion might be put down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "With respect, I think that the Leader of the Opposition ought not to take that line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1268.2", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "ruction to companies to publish them. But the Committee was running away from the problem—for two reasons. In some companies it has reached noticeable proportions. One iron and steel company spent £250,000 supporting the Tory Party campaign before the last General Election. Another spent a similar sum. We know from private information that many companies spend £60,000 to £100,000 on these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1272.0", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": " direct contribution but is made to the Aims of Industry organisation, and companies have been contributing to the Economic League for years. I warn right hon. Gentlemen opposite, because this is tied up with so many things, that there is now a public awareness of what is going on. There is now public concern about the suggestion that faceless men are controlling the Tory Party for nefarious ends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "ributions to political parties. My objection is to the classification under one general Clause, not only of that kind of contribution but of all other kinds of contributions which the hon. Member has in mind and to calling all these things, under one general heading, political activity. It is a measure of the desire of hon. Members of the Opposition to make a very large mountain out of a molehill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. T. Parkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. T. Parkin", "preceding_text": "at in the debate has been engendered on the subject of companies. The Clause would have some extremely complicated results in respect of persons, and I should like the Chief Secretary to sort them out straight away. If not the Chief Secretary, then the Patronage Secretary is aware that in Admiralty House on 5th July a lunch will be held, in the terms of the invitation \"to meet the Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1280.0", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Ledger", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Ledger", "preceding_text": "ncy. I heard nothing more until I received from the agent of the Conservative M.P. in the next constituency a letter dealing with a perfectly normal matter, but I noticed that by strange coincidence I got a very similar sort of envelope, and when I opened the letter I found it was, again, from the Conservative Party agent. I read it quickly, and to my astonishment it was inviting me to donate £50—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1280.0", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Ledger", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Ledger", "preceding_text": " coincidence I got a very similar sort of envelope, and when I opened the letter I found it was, again, from the Conservative Party agent. I read it quickly, and to my astonishment it was inviting me to donate £50—[Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"]—to the Hornchurch and District Industrial Association, and informed me that this would give me the right to four lunches or dinners at the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1282.1", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Roberts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Roberts", "preceding_text": "ld, so he will do well to keep his place. A great deal of information might be given in this debate. If the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) is to reply to the debate, as I hope, his answers to certain questions might assist the Conservative Party. Is it the intention of a Labour Government, if they ever get into power at some far-distant date, to nationalise the steel industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1282.1", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Roberts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Roberts", "preceding_text": "ve Party. Is it the intention of a Labour Government, if they ever get into power at some far-distant date, to nationalise the steel industry? [Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"] We are entitled to know. Is it the intention of the Labour Party, if it gets into power, to nationalise the road haulage industry? Come on—we want to know. Is it the intention of the Labour Party to nationalise the insurance industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1283.4", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "pany law will be so amended that information about all moneys spent by public companies is published in a clear form so that everyone can see where the money goes. I sat in a man's office in my constituency and he showed me a letter. I have never read anything like it in my life. I wish that I could have pinched it and read it out to the House. It was almost a demand from the Tory Party for funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1283.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1288.2", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " I have explained, is very small—the value which it would have for the real purpose behind it is absolutely nil. Consequently, we have spent a considerable time tonight suggesting that the House of Commons should enact something which would not have the effect that those who wish to enact it want. That has the agreeable consequence that it does not necessitate a speech of any great length from me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1288.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What has this to do with the subject?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " in the speech of the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East when he talked about television interests and suggested that there was a sinister connection between the alleged contributions of television magnates to the Conservative Party and the existence of independent television. Perhaps he would tell us whether the Labour Party, if it came to power, intends to abolish independent television or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1290.3", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman, because he is now making it clear that he thinks that trade unions are in a privileged position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1290.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether I would have leave of the House to speak again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether I would have leave of the House to speak again. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Very well. But I think that some hon. Members said \"Yes\" and some \"No.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-25", "file": "debates1963-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "180f4a20b5ee4492", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I hope that there will be no dubiety about it. If objection is taken the hon. Gentleman cannot speak for a second time. May I assume that leave is granted by the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-25a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1315.0", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that I expect a Tory Government to do a great deal better than a Socialist Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1315.0", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I expect a Tory Government to do a great deal better than a Socialist Government? [Hon. Members: \"Why?\"] Would he bear in mind that I am very grateful to him for what he said in reply to my previous Question? I have been to see him and have been to see the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. I am received most charmingly by most Ministers; but I am not susceptible to charm—I am susceptible to action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1332.2", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "How far is this service available to all civilians and how far, for example, would it be available to ratings who wished to fly by helicopter from Lee-on-Solent to the Isle of Wight under similar conditions? How far is this old school tie business between commanding officers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1337.4", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "THE YEMEN (BRITISH SERVICE PERSONNEL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": " agree that this House is concerned about the worry of the parents of the people who are now in imprisonment? Fourthly, if it is intended to move these people from the border area to Ta'iz, it might be possible for a British official to go with them. Further, is the Under-Secretary aware that I have sent a message to the effect that if I could do anything to assist in the movement of these people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1337.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1347.8", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": " it a biscuit which is untaxed. Chocolate in the middle as a sandwich makes it still a biscuit which is untaxed. But if there is chocolate on both sides it becomes a sweetmeat and is caught by the 15 per cent. tax. 4.0 p.m. So while scandals rock the Government and the Prime Minister is deeply, if not mortally wounded, the absurdities of the Purchase Tax, in a manner of speaking, take the biscuit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1347.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1347.8", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "–62 did, as a matter of pure fact—to quote his own phrase—increase prices. Incidentally, I would like to ask what is so \"pure\" about facts which are only conjecture? In forming any judgment of the effect on the Retail Price Index of reductions in the Purchase Tax, there can be no certainty either that a reduction in prices will follow or that it will not. The pure fact is—I stick to purity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1347.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1347.8", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "wn phrase—increase prices. Incidentally, I would like to ask what is so \"pure\" about facts which are only conjecture? In forming any judgment of the effect on the Retail Price Index of reductions in the Purchase Tax, there can be no certainty either that a reduction in prices will follow or that it will not. The pure fact is—I stick to purity—[ Laughter. ] Purity is not a dirty word in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1347.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Chief Secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "ch I have always held, that direct taxation—payment according to ability to pay—is the only fair form of taxation. After that kind of payment is made by direct process, the individual can spend his money as he wishes and without the hidden taxation on the various goods or articles which we use. There is, therefore, a fundamental difference of opinion on this point. I appeal to the First Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": " certainly be excluded. I remember that when we reached this stage of our debate on Clause 2 and we discussed this it was observed that no Member of the Liberal Party was present. They seem to be curiously uninterested in the subject. I remember that my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster answered the question he posed himself, and where were they? He said they were probably playing cribbage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1483.0", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "I would not quarrel with much of what the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) has said. My impression is that we are now making very good progress. I thought we would have a very good chance of finishing the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "nother new Clause or Amendment but cannot be moved, which is the category into which the hon. and learned Member's Amendment falls; and where a new Clause of Amendment is discussed with another new Clause or Amendment and you allow a Division on both. Your predecessor in the Chair indicated to the hon. and learned Member for Southport that he could discuss his Amendment but it would not be called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1522.3", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "You, Sir, cannot know what was said by your predecessor in the Chair, but those who were present heard your predecessor tell the hon. and learned Member for Southport that he could discuss his Amendment but not move it. No indication was given then, or earlier. that he would be allowed to move it later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1525.4", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "ouse approves the Amendment it will be written into the Bill. May I therefore ask whether the House is now free to ask further questions about the Amendment, and to probe a little further what exactly it means, and the extent to which it may influence, in an important respect, the economic development of the areas involved? I submit that we have not debated this matter, as a substantive Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1525.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1526.3", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was not here during the previous discussion, but we will leave him alone. I want to put it on record—we must get these things right—that there is no broken understanding on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1556.0", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Johnson", "preceding_text": " meet my point. This he has done, and I am very glad that I stayed until this early hour in the morning to say \"Thank you\" to him for it. I notice that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Huntingdonshire (Mr. Renton) had a somewhat similar Amendment down which was not selected. He asked me to say that he had hoped to be here but he had an engagement which prevented him from staying on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": " sense if one buys any shares in England, but this applies whether they are bought on the Continent or in England. The argument is the same. When people invest in securities, whether British or Continental, and buy them through this country, the invisible earnings accruing from the transactions come to this country by way of the purchase, and that does not hold if they are bought on the Continent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1569.1", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "ith all its expertise and potential, is fully developed, with deterrents and barriers to that development removed. A good deal has been said by my hon. Friends about the efforts that are being made to encourage the public to be shareholders in industry. There is no question, as a matter of fact, that new and potential investors are deterred, and have been deterred, by the 2 per cent. rate of duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1571.2", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "In dealing with the Finance Bill we do not try to put down all the subsequent repeals. The hon. Gentleman knows that perfectly well. It is quite exceptional to try to deal with the Schedule of repeals. The hon. Gentleman and everybody else in the House understood what the intention and effect of this proposal would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "tary before he was promoted to his present office, the hon. Member for Nottingham, South (Mr. W. Clark)—and I do not think the hon. Member for Torquay (Mr. F. M. Bennett). He is not here often enough in debates on the Finance Bill ever to constitute a lobby. I know that he is always here at three o'clock in the morning when this subject is discussed but I have not seen him at all previously today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1575.1", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "We could divide against it, except that I understand from what the Economic Secretary tells us that owing to the deficiency in drafting if we do we shall be abolishing it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1575.5", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ccasion be of benefit. But it could also be a great disadvantage to us and could influence the position of sterling very substantially. The Swiss, as I think is becoming increasingly known, certainly on occasion, if not continuously, impose a penalty on those who wish to invest money in Switzerland. They make people pay interest for the pleasure of investing there because the Swiss do not want it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1575.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I withdraw my flattering remark that the hon. Gentleman knows what he is talking about, because he does not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1587.1", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "mber for Notingham, South (Mr. W. Clark) is in his place. I appreciate that he could not be here during our discussion of an earlier Amendment. He was good enough to give us notice of that. The Amendment was proposed and the new Schedule has been drafted to meet the point that he made during the Committee stage. I mention that in case the point should have escaped his attention during this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-26", "file": "debates1963-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "37dcd43c4ceaae0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1605.0", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4.—(CASE VIII OF SCHEDULE D: ALLOWABLE DEDUCTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "is now to be written into the Bill. I have no doubt that hon. Members are beginning to think about their breakfast and I will not detain the House any longer, but when we are kept up as late as this we might as well make a night of it and do it properly. There are some things that can be said at a quarter past four in the morning that would not be tolerable at a quarter past four in the afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-26a.1605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-27", "file": "debates1963-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "06528cdc499efdba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1632.1", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "Our objective will be to resist any further nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1632.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-06-27", "file": "debates1963-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "06528cdc499efdba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1650.1", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Because the matter was still under consideration. A submission had been made to Her Majesty which she was graciously pleased to approve, and the matter has been dealt with. I should have thought that the House would like to leave the matter there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-27", "file": "debates1963-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "06528cdc499efdba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1662.1", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Will not the House be handicapped in the debate on defence by the fact that there is not a Secretary of State for War?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-27", "file": "debates1963-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "06528cdc499efdba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1671.3", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PEERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Amendment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I understand that we are discussing together two Clauses, both designed for the same purpose, one perhaps being more effective than the other. If, therefore, it were understood that if I say anything by way of approbation it relates to the Clause in the name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-27", "file": "debates1963-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "06528cdc499efdba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1672.6", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PEERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I think, great sincerity—I have a high regard for him from the limited acquantance that I had with him during the Committee's deliberations—opted for the opportunity of resigning his title, coming here and becoming Conservative Prime Minister—the electoral processes make this a little less likely—and then, when he concluded his stint, he advised Her Majesty to make him Marquess of Salisbury again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1672.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-27", "file": "debates1963-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "06528cdc499efdba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1731.8", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David James", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Then wipe your tears.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David James", "preceding_text": "re so vulnerable that a profit of £1 million in one year could be a loss of £1 million the next year, it tends to take steps to protect itself against insolvency. However, in the end, I do not believe that these companies will suffer. I do not believe that the big four will go out of business. I do not think that Mr. Norman Collins will need to take advantage of Lord Beaver brook's generous offer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1731.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-27", "file": "debates1963-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "06528cdc499efdba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1774.0", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. V. Yates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. V. Yates", "preceding_text": " have such a safeguard from the words of the Amendment— a sum being such a proportion of the advertising receipts of the programme contractor as the Authority, with the consent of the Postmaster-General, may determine\". That safeguard would help to give confidence not only to the writers but to those who produce the scenery, the carpenters, the painters and all the other artists who are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-27", "file": "debates1963-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "06528cdc499efdba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1794.1", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "uld be bowing down to the selfishness of the advertisers. Many reserves of technical skill and manpower required for other developments would be sucked into it, and we could ill afford it. Neither do I wish to see a higgledy-piggledy growth of broadcasting and television. That could easily happen. The growth must be orderly and controlled. I think that sufficient has been authorised at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-06-27", "file": "debates1963-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "06528cdc499efdba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1815.2", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "preceding_text": " insist upon reserving to the Government the right of making such big financial decisions which involve not only money and capital investment but the use of material, labour and the rest which are factors in the economy of a great industrial nation. I am surprised that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has so readily thrown over the cloak of his responsibility to the nation for big expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-06-27a.1815.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-01", "file": "debates1963-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a26275d093d173da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-01a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Holt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Holt", "preceding_text": "ly protected market for textiles. If that is to be done, we must fairly face up to the issue of how the Government can create a feeling of confidence within the industry. I do not like the Labour Party's plan for an import board—that is far too bureaucratic, and quite unnecessary—but I believe that the Government should set up a committee to consider the basis on which this feeling can be created.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-01a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-01", "file": "debates1963-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a26275d093d173da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-01a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member:\"Of what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": " we must remember that there are many preferential tariffs for the export of British textiles to Commonwealth countries; these were very much enjoyed by Lancashire, and regarded as very important, before the war but after the Ottawa agreements were negotiated. They are in the main, though not entirely, still in force if only Lancashire will do a bit more exporting. I very much wish that she would.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-01a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-01", "file": "debates1963-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a26275d093d173da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-01a.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "ons change. But there is another side of the picture, and that is that if one had excessive categorisation it would lead to great administrative difficulties. The industry in this country claims however, that categorisation would help the exporting country. Therefore, if that is so, clearly the best way is for the British industry to negotiate and to talk matters over with the exporting countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-01a.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-02", "file": "debates1963-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "00e094c9fb7514f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.193.0", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"It was the party opposite.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must not be so petulant. He has no right to laugh this off. Is he aware that he was the Minister who cleared Philby and that for eight years since then he has been free—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-02", "file": "debates1963-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "00e094c9fb7514f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.204.5", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BURMAH OIL COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "I ought to say that I have an interest in a few shares in Shell and Burmah—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.204.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-02", "file": "debates1963-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "00e094c9fb7514f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.208.2", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HON. MEMBER FOR BRIXTON (PERSONAL STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I am coming to the point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-02", "file": "debates1963-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "00e094c9fb7514f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.208.4", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HON. MEMBER FOR BRIXTON (PERSONAL STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "The point of order is this,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.208.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-02", "file": "debates1963-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "00e094c9fb7514f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HON. MEMBER FOR BRIXTON (PERSONAL STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Bogus.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "The point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-02", "file": "debates1963-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "00e094c9fb7514f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HON. MEMBER FOR BRIXTON (PERSONAL STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"There is not one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "On this point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-02", "file": "debates1963-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "00e094c9fb7514f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HON. MEMBER FOR BRIXTON (PERSONAL STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "On this point of order—[HON. MEMBERS:\"There is not one.\"] This is between us and you, Mr. Speaker. On the point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-02", "file": "debates1963-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "00e094c9fb7514f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "6. As a result, E.F.T.A. has set its course firmly for the rest of the transitional period. As the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) so often said that the result of these negotiations would be to undermine and finally lead to the end of E.F.T.A., I hope that he and his colleagues will agree that E.F.T.A. today, despite the challenges put to it, is stronger than it has been at any time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-02", "file": "debates1963-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "00e094c9fb7514f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member will agree that the position of Her Majesty's Government is absolutely plain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-02", "file": "debates1963-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "00e094c9fb7514f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should not make assumptions about my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-02", "file": "debates1963-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "00e094c9fb7514f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "and noted how warmly he was welcomed there. I wish that more Opposition leaders would go to Moscow, for I believe that it is important that the Soviet leaders should understand better the rights, privileges and duties of a loyal Opposition, which is something they do not at the moment comprehend. I am convinced that the Soviet people want our friendship, but only on the basis of absolute equality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-02a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-03", "file": "debates1963-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "08aaf440f5519d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-03a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ggested to Mr. Khrushchev, or, perhaps, we suggested in more detail to Mr. Kuznetsov and Mr. Gromyko, was this: that either as a means of following up the underground problem once a three-environments test ban had been agreed, or, if we like, more ambitiously, as a means to securing a fully comprehensive test ban, Soviet and Western scientists should meet, and argue the problem out on these lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-03a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-03", "file": "debates1963-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "08aaf440f5519d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-03a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"And Scotsmen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "at I should ever use the phrase\"love-hate relationship\" between the Russians and the Germans. The word\"love\" does not quite fit in. But, at any rate, the Russians have a very powerful mixture of respect and hatred for the Germans. After all, going back to Czarist times, almost anything which ran successfully in Russia, from a railway to a cotton mill, was probably controlled or managed by Germans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-03a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-03", "file": "debates1963-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "08aaf440f5519d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-03a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I do not know how the right hon. Gentleman argued these things in Moscow, but if he said in Moscow anything like what he says in the House of Commons he must have done a singular disservice to the cause of Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-03a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-03", "file": "debates1963-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "08aaf440f5519d75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-03a.528.3", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAFFIC SIGNS (DISQUALIFICATION FOR OFFENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": " us who speak on these matters do so from considerable knowledge and experience, and I advise the Minister to pay a little attention. It is unfortunate that he is not here. He has left the Parliamentary Secretary to deal with this and he will have to turn our representations down. We shall find ourselves in the usual position of having to consider our position when the House comes to vote on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-03a.528.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-04", "file": "debates1963-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f1672417a87fe063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend, equally, say what reports he has received from the security authorities about any hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.587.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-04", "file": "debates1963-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f1672417a87fe063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.587.7", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"No, repeat it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I should like to ask my right hon. Friend, in view of the innuendo in the Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.587.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-04", "file": "debates1963-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f1672417a87fe063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.587.11", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. When the hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley)\"recapped\" on the question, he did not give it in the precise terms, as Hansard will show. He attempted a cowardly withdrawal, because he knew—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.587.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-04", "file": "debates1963-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f1672417a87fe063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.587.11", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. When the hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley)\"recapped\" on the question, he did not give it in the precise terms, as Hansard will show. He attempted a cowardly withdrawal, because he knew—[Hon. Members:\"Order.\"]—if I may say so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.587.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-04", "file": "debates1963-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f1672417a87fe063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.588.2", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I am on a point of order. The hon. Gentleman asked the Prime Minister whether he would inform the House of any threat to security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.588.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-04", "file": "debates1963-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f1672417a87fe063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.588.8", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.588.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-04", "file": "debates1963-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f1672417a87fe063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.588.10", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Do not withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman appears not to have understood the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.588.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-04", "file": "debates1963-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f1672417a87fe063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.596.5", "colnum": "596", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Government time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "It certainly is an extremely important subject and no doubt one which is in the mind of the Leader of the Opposition as the Opposition are considering the remaining days which are available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-04", "file": "debates1963-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f1672417a87fe063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "and the money which must be supplied. I agree, of course, as we all must, that the price of labour and materials enters into the rent of a house, but it is worth noting that a 2 per cent. increase in labour costs adds only £10 to the cost of a £2,200 house, but on the other hand a 2 per cent. increase in the interest charge adds £2,204 to its price. I take the £2,200 house at 5 per cent. interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-04", "file": "debates1963-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f1672417a87fe063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.659.3", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Gilmour", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member:\"No means test.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "her in one place. Some hon. Members tend to underestimate the life of a house. I have heard people say that once a house is 60 year, old it is finished and done with. I must here declare an interest because, as the owner of houses, I have drawn grants from the Fife County Council to improve a number of houses. I still have one or two more to improve, for which I hope to draw the appropriate grant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-04", "file": "debates1963-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f1672417a87fe063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.679.3", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": "he present Government. The housing problem in Scotland is still desperately bad, but Rome was not built in a day, and the Government have done pretty well, on the figures. Year after year after year they have produced more houses than were produced by the Labour Government in the period 1945–51. In the years when the Labour Government were in power it was comparatively easy to build houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-04", "file": "debates1963-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f1672417a87fe063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.688.3", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Two thousand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ncillor for Kinning Park. There was a piece of ground there on which we suggested that it was possible to build and decant from the buildings behind it. The buildings behind it have now gone. The people have gone. What do hon. Members think is on that first piece of ground? There is a petrol filling station there. Hon. Members talk about building houses. Glasgow built under 1,000 houses last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.688.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-04", "file": "debates1963-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f1672417a87fe063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Noble)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Noble)", "preceding_text": "the hon. Member for Craigton when he says that the problem of the small house is to some extent a traditional one in Scotland. It is a traditional pattern from which perhaps we have not departed quickly enough, but it is none the less true—and I think the Committee must accept this—that the pattern of local authority building is not laid down by the Government; it is chosen by each local authority", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-04a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-08", "file": "debates1963-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2df51e2c54ef1a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. HAROLD PHILBY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Mr. Philby was recommended to the Observer in 1956 on the strength of a statement made to the House of Commons that there was no evidence against him at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-08", "file": "debates1963-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2df51e2c54ef1a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. HAROLD PHILBY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Mr. Philby was recommended to the Observer in 1956 on the strength of a statement made to the House of Commons that there was no evidence against him at that time. [Hon. Members:\"Why?\"] I am coming to that point. He was recommended because it was thought not unreasonable, and, indeed, wise, at that time that he should be in employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-08", "file": "debates1963-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2df51e2c54ef1a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.869.4", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. HAROLD PHILBY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "No suggestions were made by the Foreign Office about the quality of Mr. Philby's work, or his capacity for carrying out journalistic tasks. What the Foreign Office did was to suggest his name to the Observer, and it was always the responsibility of the Observer —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.869.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-08", "file": "debates1963-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2df51e2c54ef1a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.870.4", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. HAROLD PHILBY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member:\"It ought to be debated.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We cannot debate this matter now without a Question before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.870.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-08", "file": "debates1963-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2df51e2c54ef1a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "HOUSING AND URBAN LAND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "he party opposite must bear a considerable part of the blame for the major deterrent, which is its continued dedication to the reimposition of rent control. I do not deny for one moment that there are cases where landlords have exploited the housing shortage or demanded exorbitant rents and inflicted great hardship on tenants. This is an evil, but this sort of activity is not typical of landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-08", "file": "debates1963-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2df51e2c54ef1a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.876.3", "colnum": "876", "heading": "HOUSING AND URBAN LAND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"They are doing it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "likely to have over the housing situation as a whole. Neither control nor decontrol as such increases the number of houses, but there is a good deal of evidence to the effect that control reduces, and is always likely to reduce, the supply of houses to rent. Before the Rent Act was passed it was becoming the almost invariable practice for landlords with vacant properties to sell rather than relet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-08", "file": "debates1963-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2df51e2c54ef1a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "HOUSING AND URBAN LAND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ld mean that during those next 20 years that part of the rise in the standard of life which is reflected by luxuries rather than things like housing would not show so rosy a picture. We should at the end of those 20 years have more houses and fewer luxuries. What those luxuries are, neither I nor anyone else can say. But they would be the kind of things that would be produced in the next 20 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-08", "file": "debates1963-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2df51e2c54ef1a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "HOUSING AND URBAN LAND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Butcher", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: There is no industry there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Butcher", "preceding_text": "re to examine the price of land, we must ask the Government to concentrate on the development of parts of the country which are now regarded as less favoured. While land is terribly expensive in London and around other great cities like Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow, there are cities and other areas where it is freely available at reasonable prices. Why do people not build their houses there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-08", "file": "debates1963-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2df51e2c54ef1a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "HOUSING AND URBAN LAND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Butcher", "preceding_text": "body was subsidising almost everybody else in one way or another. As one who was once in the laundry trade, this is the best example I know of taking in one another's washing. The right way to deal with these matters is to allow housing to be dealt with on an economic basis. Instead of subsidising the houses and the land, we should allow the natural forces of supply and demand to find their level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-08", "file": "debates1963-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2df51e2c54ef1a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.948.2", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Clause 79.—(Provision of facilities FOR RECREATION ON RESERVOIR.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member:\"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "h the House of Commons should be subject to this sort of Amendment at the very last minute. I am not suggesting that hon. Members have not a right to try to amend it now. They obviously have, and that is why we are discussing the Amendment, but I do not myself think that it is in the best Parliamentary traditions to leave this sort of Amendment to this very last stage in the proceedings on a Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.948.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-08", "file": "debates1963-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2df51e2c54ef1a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.948.2", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Clause 79.—(Provision of facilities FOR RECREATION ON RESERVOIR.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Honourable and learned.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "Amendment to this very last stage in the proceedings on a Bill. [An Hon. Member:\"Nonsense.\"] The hon. Member may say it is nonsense. That is a subject on which, I readily admit, he knows a great deal. The fact is we have spent a long time considering this Bill, and Clause 79 follows almost exactly the provisions in the Great Ouse Water Act, 1961, in respect of which the hon. Member for Montgomery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.948.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-08", "file": "debates1963-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2df51e2c54ef1a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Clause 79.—(Provision of facilities FOR RECREATION ON RESERVOIR.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "or-boat industry in this country. I agree that motor boats make a lot of noise, but at some time in the future manufacturers might be able to produce a more silent engine. It would then be ludricrous to prevent them enjoying motor-boating simply because, when this Measure was going through the House, nothing was said about noise. There is nothing more that I want to say about these two Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-08", "file": "debates1963-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2df51e2c54ef1a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "HOUSING AND URBAN LAND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "as been responsible, there is still a considerable problem? I often get the impression that the atmosphere in the House of Commons and that in the country are totally different. Ministers make speeches here and we may make speeches here, but all the time we are thinking of the atmo- sphere in the House and of the critics in the Galleries and we are acting as though we are actors putting on a show.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-08", "file": "debates1963-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2df51e2c54ef1a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.985.3", "colnum": "985", "heading": "HOUSING AND URBAN LAND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Was that the only point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.985.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-08", "file": "debates1963-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2df51e2c54ef1a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.985.3", "colnum": "985", "heading": "HOUSING AND URBAN LAND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Was that the only point? [ Laughter. ] I do not think that anybody would think that that was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.985.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-08", "file": "debates1963-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2df51e2c54ef1a74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.985.5", "colnum": "985", "heading": "HOUSING AND URBAN LAND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ing a sufficient proportion of our gross national product for houses. It is a straightforward inefficient allocation of our resources. The last figure I got was 3 per cent. for houses. The Parliamentary Secretary asks from where we would take it. It is the business of the Government to decide the priorities. The sad business is that under this Government housing has been given a very low priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-08a.985.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-09", "file": "debates1963-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0400dd72e4c7b681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1025.5", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HIGH COMMISSION TERRITORIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ctions on political refugees from South Africa and that we are still protesting against them? Is he not aware that what he has just said in reply to the previous Question amounts to saying that this country has decided to deny political asylum to refugees from South Africa whose only crime is that they have criticised the policies of that Government in the same terms as our own Prime Minister has?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1025.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-09", "file": "debates1963-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0400dd72e4c7b681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1037.4", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "A very good question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give an assurance that this compensation will be given to those who helped to build up the country of Kenya, not to those who left this country after the war to avoid paying taxes to develop the Welfare State?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1037.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-09", "file": "debates1963-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0400dd72e4c7b681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1045.10", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL AFRICA (VICTORIA FALLS CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Secretary of State (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1045.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-09", "file": "debates1963-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0400dd72e4c7b681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1113.4", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "o the dissemination of racial hatred and I do not see that there is any difficulty about devising such a provision. The hon. Member got it right the first time. No doubt he has been listening to some member of the Government who advised him badly. He got into trouble on that account and he should return to his original inspiration. To return to the Bill which, after all, is what we are discussing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1113.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-09", "file": "debates1963-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0400dd72e4c7b681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1113.4", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member:\"Flog 'em.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ng a great deal. It is a Bill which intensifies the penalties without clarifying the offences and without making the certainly of detection any the greater. That is a bad principle on which to legislate at any time. Governments usually do that when they are in a panic. They cannot think how they can specify the offence more clearly, so they say,\"Let us slam on the penalties and make them tougher\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1113.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-09", "file": "debates1963-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0400dd72e4c7b681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1120.0", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is quite correct. The police can decide whether to make a charge and, in most of these cases, when the person comes before the magistrates the police evidence is accepted. It is all very well to say that the police have a very difficult job. We always use that sentence before we say what we think about it. No one envies them their job. They ought to have more pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-09", "file": "debates1963-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0400dd72e4c7b681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "preceding_text": " which does not measure up to the discontent of our time. Considering the indignities and obscenities to which minority groups in Britain are being subjected, something much more enterprising is needed from the Government. I was appalled by the speech of the hon. Member for Buckinghamshire, South (Mr. Ronald Bell), who tried to smear coloured people as being the cause of immoral houses being kept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-09", "file": "debates1963-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0400dd72e4c7b681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1139.0", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mannel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mannel", "preceding_text": "I agree, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, but I am endeavouring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-09", "file": "debates1963-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0400dd72e4c7b681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION MEASURE, 1963", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ss him and go to another stage. He will be dealing with, and acting as a judge over, his colleagues in the Church. He will have to bring as impartial a mind to that task as the judge brings to his normal duties. I believe that there is danger in this question. Today The Times, which is, in my view, a very readable newspaper—I do not wish to patronise it, but it is usually behind the establishment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-09", "file": "debates1963-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0400dd72e4c7b681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION MEASURE, 1963", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "f episcopacy, and I am sure that it is not theirs. What we want to see is a greater, wider Church of England. We want to work for a Church of England where everyone who is a Christian within the land can feel that he has an opportunity to belong to it. This Measure will inevitably work against it. It is a Measure produced by a party within the Church, and it will eventually divide both the Church—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-09", "file": "debates1963-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0400dd72e4c7b681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION MEASURE, 1963", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend put the sugar on first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-09a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-10", "file": "debates1963-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "296d8d52ff60d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-10a.1243.3", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR CENTRAL AYRSHIRE (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had notified you, Mr. Speaker. I thank you for the opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-10a.1243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-10", "file": "debates1963-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "296d8d52ff60d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-10a.1246.5", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BOARDS, SCOTLAND (MACKENZIE COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to associate myself in any way with the congratulatory note sounded by the hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross). I express my grave disappointment with the Minister's decision in this matter. Does he realise that the people he should consult are the Members of this House, and not a lot of foreign bodies outside?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-10a.1246.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-10", "file": "debates1963-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "296d8d52ff60d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-10a.1246.5", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BOARDS, SCOTLAND (MACKENZIE COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to associate myself in any way with the congratulatory note sounded by the hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross). I express my grave disappointment with the Minister's decision in this matter. Does he realise that the people he should consult are the Members of this House, and not a lot of foreign bodies outside? [ Interruption ] I mean foreign non-parliamentary bodies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-10a.1246.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-10", "file": "debates1963-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "296d8d52ff60d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-10a.1305.1", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "PORTS (ROCHDALE COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James H. Hoy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James H. Hoy", "preceding_text": "e we realise that he knows much more about shipping than does his right hon. Friend. That is why we are prepared to discuss this scheme with him. Not only does the Minister refuse to have a meeting, but only last week the Ministry issued another letter, of which I have a copy, which asks the Commission, if it has any proposals for improvement schemes, to let the Ministry have a copy in triplicate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-10a.1305.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-10", "file": "debates1963-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "296d8d52ff60d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-10a.1382.0", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "ROYAL NAVY (REPLACEMENT PROGRAMME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. John Hay)", "preceding_text": "ther commitments which my hon. Friend stated, but we have for some years had to meet these requirements—and all of them do not usually coincide—with four operational ships. This is a very difficult task and an arduous one for the ships' companies concerned, and I feel sure that hon. Members would wish to join me in a tribute to the work done by the ships' companies under very difficult conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-10a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-11", "file": "debates1963-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "d40c466cf91d0d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1390.6", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the roof of the primary school I have mentioned is leaking in about 10 places, that the floor of the entrance hall is very worn and unsafe, that the walls of several classrooms are badly cracked, that much of the building is damp and that the health of both teachers and pupils is likely to be badly affected, and that a devoted staff has been working—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1390.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-11", "file": "debates1963-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "d40c466cf91d0d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1391.2", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Gentleman that I have only recently agreed to the replacement of one school which quite clearly was becoming an urgent danger to health and was in danger of falling down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-11", "file": "debates1963-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "d40c466cf91d0d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1411.4", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH-EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1411.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-11", "file": "debates1963-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "d40c466cf91d0d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1415.3", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister to which remedy he is referring?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-11", "file": "debates1963-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "d40c466cf91d0d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1416.3", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS(ANNOUNCEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the reason which prompted me to put this Question on the Order Paper was the way in which the recent announcement was made of the appointment of Baron Hill of Luton as Chairman of the Independent Television Authority? Is the Prime Minister aware of the extreme dissatisfaction felt, on both sides of the House, at the manner in which the announcement was made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-11", "file": "debates1963-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "d40c466cf91d0d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1416.3", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS(ANNOUNCEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " both sides of the House, at the manner in which the announcement was made? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"] May I deal with the basis of that? Is the Prime Minister aware that the Postmaster-General was repeatedly asked by hon. Members to disclose to the House the name of the person whom he proposed to make the Chairman of the Independent Television Authority? He failed to do so even after the eleventh hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-11", "file": "debates1963-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "d40c466cf91d0d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1417.2", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS(ANNOUNCEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER:\"So is Lord Hill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Was it not felt widely on both sides of the House, and has it not been proved since, that Lord Robens was the best man for the job?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-11", "file": "debates1963-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "d40c466cf91d0d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1427.3", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "The First Secretary of State (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The First Secretary of State (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "g and will be to the advantage of all three territories. I now only have to refer to Clause 2(2), which will interest the House because it implies the control which the House will have. We have thought it right—and I am sure that the House will agree—that any Order in Council under this Measure, dealing as it will with matters of the highest importance, should be subject to affirmative Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-11", "file": "debates1963-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "d40c466cf91d0d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1457.3", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"We have it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "That is the difficulty. The right hon. Gentleman wants to put the clock back. He has not got the answer. Is he really going to suggest that he will bring in a Bill to take Southern Rhodesia back to the time before the 1923 Constitution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-11", "file": "debates1963-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "d40c466cf91d0d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "GREENWICH HOSPITAL AND TRAVERS' FOUNDATION", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "ucation, and also the maintenance—this is important, because maintenance was provided—of the sons of poor seamen and preferably orphans. I do not want there to be any back-chat from the Civil Lord at this stage, because in a moment I shall quote the 1836 Regulations and the 1939 Regulations so that we get them on the record and have no nonsense about it. The Navy's orphanage is paid for partly by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-11", "file": "debates1963-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "d40c466cf91d0d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1573.3", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "GREENWICH HOSPITAL AND TRAVERS' FOUNDATION", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "ere is no question about it, I will repeat for the ninety-ninth time that the Royal Naval Hospital was for two centuries the Navy's orphanage for the sons of poor ratings and, preferably, orphans. I wonder whether I have made that clear to the hon. Member. To pick up the quotation again: The present aim, believe me, is to enhance the school's snob value and to turn it into a sort of public school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1573.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-11", "file": "debates1963-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "d40c466cf91d0d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "GREENWICH HOSPITAL AND TRAVERS' FOUNDATION", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "ents to justify the present entry of officers' sons. The first was that officers' sons were entered in earlier times. I will make this clear for the hon. Member. The second argument was—andthe Civil Lord made the point earlier in the debate—that present officers who have their sons there were ex-ratings. But this is straining at the leash. Admittedly officers' sons were entered over a century ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-11", "file": "debates1963-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "d40c466cf91d0d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "GREENWICH HOSPITAL AND TRAVERS' FOUNDATION", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": " was a time when the boys slept in hammocks, but I have not yet found anything in the records to show whether the girls slept in hammocks or not. So at that time the officers' sons were to be one in 10. What are of importance are the conditions of entry for officers' sons. I have here a copy of the 1836 Regulations. I have not it in mind to quote a lot of them, unless challenged by the Civil Lord.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-11", "file": "debates1963-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "d40c466cf91d0d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1579.1", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "GREENWICH HOSPITAL AND TRAVERS' FOUNDATION", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "een pukka commissioned officers, to use a term everybody understands, those who received their commissions at an early age, and those ratings who become warrant officers and long-service lieutenants at a later age, the salt beef squires. Moreover, an officer commissioned from the lower deck loses a lot of\"perks\". He loses his free tot of grog, his free kit allowance and his rail warrants and so on", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-11a.1579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-12", "file": "debates1963-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b73b43e9a85b607", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-12a.1690.0", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "TIMING OF THE PRESENTATION OF SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES (ESTIMATES COMMITTEE'S REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member:\"For special reasons.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "ver, that this Fund is not at present being held at an artificially high level. My hon. Friend will appreciate from what I said earlier that there was a real difficulty here this year. Were it not for these proposals which we are now discussing, the charges and winter estimates on account, there is no doubt that the Fund would have had to be increased. In 1946 the Fund was as high as £250 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-12a.1690.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-15", "file": "debates1963-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e42a730bb3bbf79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-15a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — YEMEN OPERATIONS (PROSCRIBED WEAPONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A scoop.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Yates", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend say whether the Department of the United States Secretary of State has also sent observers there and they have confirmed that these weapons have not been used at all? Is he aware that the report in the Daily Telegraph does not mention gas; it mentions poison gas? Why is it that only the Daily Telegraph has this report?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-15a.24.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-15", "file": "debates1963-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e42a730bb3bbf79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-15a.189.5", "colnum": "189", "heading": "New Clause.—(ESTABLISHMENT OF CASE COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Vickers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Vickers", "preceding_text": "May I have the leave of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-15a.189.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-15", "file": "debates1963-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e42a730bb3bbf79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-15a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Clause 2.—(CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS IN NEED OF CARE, PROTEC- TION OR CONTROL.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "e House wishes me to go into the whole vista which is opened up by discussion of the position of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. I submit that it must be one thing or the other. Either the authority to the Society to bring proceedings should be withdrawn, as I appreciate that a large number of hon. Members opposite, to judge by our Committee proceedings, would wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-15a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-16", "file": "debates1963-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cab3043f059600e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-16a.335.2", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. HAROLD PHILBY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e lead from one question to another and one question leads to another. It is dangerous and bad for our general national interest to discuss these matters. It has been a very long tradition of the House to trust the relations between the two parties to discussions between the Leader of the Opposition of the day and the Prime Minister of the day. I ask the House now to revert to the older tradition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-16a.335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-16", "file": "debates1963-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cab3043f059600e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-16a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "LORD PRIVY SEAL (PERSONAL STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the importance of the point the right hon. Gentleman makes will be noted and understood. From the point of view of the Chair, there is nothing out of order in any way in this personal statement as submitted. It represents nothing more than a non-controversial verbal correction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-16a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-16", "file": "debates1963-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cab3043f059600e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-16a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "LORD PRIVY SEAL (PERSONAL STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "What you have just said is the very thing that worries me, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-16a.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-16", "file": "debates1963-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cab3043f059600e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-16a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION MEASURE, 1963", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "rovision in the Measure was something which might make it more difficult to produce that rapprochement or reunion between the Church of England and some Nonconformist bodies which is devoutly desired by a great many members of both professions. In saying that, I am quite sure from the inquiries I have made that my hon. Friend was not speaking for the consensus of Methodist opinion in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-16a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-16", "file": "debates1963-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cab3043f059600e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-16a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION MEASURE, 1963", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "se who speak for a minority, possibly, of our constituents, but we are speaking for our constituents. I have heard only from constituents who have asked me to oppose this Measure and it is because they came to see me and persuaded me to take an interest in it that I have done any homework at all, shabby though it may be. Will not my hon. Friend have the grace this evening to withdraw this Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-16a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-16", "file": "debates1963-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cab3043f059600e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-16a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "WHITE, FISH AND HERRING INDUSTRIES (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "ts for automatic reductions in the basic rate of subsidy as we do for the trawling fleet. While our aim is still to see a gradual reduction in subsidies for the inshore fleet, we look at the position year by year and take it on its merits. Inshore fishermen have been gratified by the Government's decision to free themselves from the various treaty obligations which bind us to the three-mile limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-16a.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-17", "file": "debates1963-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "6e3278d86a607054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-17a.507.6", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Member explain why there has been such a sudden rise in these figures? Does he expect that the position in Greenock will be eased when the new branch clinic at Dunoon is open?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-17a.507.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-17", "file": "debates1963-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "6e3278d86a607054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-17a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "HIGHER EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Fitch", "cue_text": "An Hon. Membe: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Fitch", "preceding_text": "ite must not regard themselves as blameless in this matter. The Minister of Education, who is not here at the moment, wears the new Tory look. I was interested to read in the Press the other day that he has a sense of awareness. Of what, I do not know—the article did not say; but it is an interesting thought. The hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras, South is a progressive radical Conservative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-17a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-17", "file": "debates1963-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "6e3278d86a607054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-17a.636.5", "colnum": "636", "heading": "HIGHER EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "I can follow up with further correspondence if necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-17a.636.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-18", "file": "debates1963-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "48ce3fd2acd44dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.705.5", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The reason why we have to keep to the rules about Questions and have to keep supplementary questions short and not make speeches at Question Time is so that the common interest of all hon. Members with Questions on the Paper may be served.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.705.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-18", "file": "debates1963-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "48ce3fd2acd44dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.706.2", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shocking.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. King", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that, without any prospect of oil at all, a piece of land in Hampshire on which the county council placed a value of £10,000 in 1957 is being sold to London County Council after passing through several hands for £500,000? Does he not think that this is disgraceful?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-18", "file": "debates1963-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "48ce3fd2acd44dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.730.10", "colnum": "730", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows very well that in paragraph 13 of the Allocation of Time Order there was provision for a supplementary Motion to be moved. We would, of course, propose to move such a Motion on Thursday, 25th July.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.730.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-18", "file": "debates1963-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "48ce3fd2acd44dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": ", of which no fewer than 156, for example, are consequential, and 40 or 50 are drafting, in a Bill that is as contentious as this one—there would have been no point otherwise in this part of the Allocation of Time Order—it always was the intention that if a substantial number of Amendments came from another place, this provision would be used. I am, of course, ready to think again. I cannot think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-18", "file": "debates1963-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "48ce3fd2acd44dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the Opposition for giving some of us on this side an opportunity to put some questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-18", "file": "debates1963-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "48ce3fd2acd44dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the Opposition for giving some of us on this side an opportunity to put some questions. [Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] May I ask my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.732.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-18", "file": "debates1963-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "48ce3fd2acd44dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the Opposition for giving some of us on this side an opportunity to put some questions. [Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] May I ask my right hon. Friend—[Hon. Members: \"Sit down.\"] May I ask my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-18", "file": "debates1963-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "48ce3fd2acd44dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Leader of the Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I am not aware whether you heard, Mr. Speaker, but the hon. Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. P. Williams) prefaced his remarks by saying that he thanked the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.732.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-18", "file": "debates1963-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "48ce3fd2acd44dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I am not aware whether you heard, Mr. Speaker, but the hon. Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. P. Williams) prefaced his remarks by saying that he thanked the Leader of the House—[Hon. Members: \"Leader of the Opposition.\"]—for giving him and his hon. Friends the opportunity of asking a question from that side of the House. Am I not right in assuming, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.732.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-18", "file": "debates1963-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "48ce3fd2acd44dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Lewis", "preceding_text": "r. I am not aware whether you heard, Mr. Speaker, but the hon. Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. P. Williams) prefaced his remarks by saying that he thanked the Leader of the House—[Hon. Members: \"Leader of the Opposition.\"]—for giving him and his hon. Friends the opportunity of asking a question from that side of the House. Am I not right in assuming, Mr. Speaker—[Hon. Members: \"No.\"]—that every—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.732.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-18", "file": "debates1963-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "48ce3fd2acd44dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.732.6", "colnum": "732", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Speaker, if I have added to the burden of the water which flows under the bridge. May I ask my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.732.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-18", "file": "debates1963-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "48ce3fd2acd44dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.740.5", "colnum": "740", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "o the Lord Chief Justice, that I think that though the statement about him is in bad taste, presumably he has his own rules. I have nothing more to say about that, except to ask the House to reflect on the propriety of the Lord Chief Justice being asked to contribute any gift to a Conservative fête. Sir, I wish to say straight away that I acquit you of any conduct derogatory to your Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.740.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-18", "file": "debates1963-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "48ce3fd2acd44dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER RESOURCES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "cause of local reactions, it would be a strange Minister who would use his directing power and ignore local feelings. That would be true whether there were a Welsh board or not. The technical advice would have been given. Surely we can all accept that a Welsh board set up to give technical advice would give it. It is not the duty of a board under the Bill to give psychological or political advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.757.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-18", "file": "debates1963-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "48ce3fd2acd44dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Schedule.—(SEAWARD BOUNDARIES OF RIVER AUTHORITY AREAS.)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Where is the Humber?", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "nt because paragraph 2(2) says: In this paragraph 'the sea' includes any bay, estuary or arm of the sea\". We first have a reference to a water course and for the Humber this could be anywhere out into the North Sea, because there is no line of delimitation, and then we get the reference to the sea including any bay, or estuary, or arm of the sea. How far does the estuary of the Humber go upstream?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-18a.879.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1028.4", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "It is difficult to assess this because of the service which is given as well as the actual providing of the milk—the service of delivery on a door-to-door basis which we enjoy in this country which very few other countries have. Certainly the price of milk in this country is as high as any in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1028.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "hief Whip whether we are to have the benefit of one or two of the responsible Ministers here this afternoon. Tax avoidance is a very important part of this, and we could do with the presence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Since what we are to debate this afternoon is the whole situation which the Prime Minister glories to have created, I think that we should have the Prime Minister here, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1058.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1065.0", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "the last housing debate, in which the Minister intervened with his utterly silly suggestion that there were adequate powers to deal with Rachman and his ilk, Mr. Joseph gave an interview to a local newspaper, and as a result of this he was followed by strong arm men and he had to go into hiding. This is in Britain in 1963. What was it that the Prime Minister said in 1959, before the last election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "This is what he said: All the evidence shows that the Rent Act is working out more or less as we believed it would.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "This is what he said: All the evidence shows that the Rent Act is working out more or less as we believed it would. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"] My hon. Friends must realise that he has no time for dealing with the state of the nation these days. He has other things to deal with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "This is what he said: All the evidence shows that the Rent Act is working out more or less as we believed it would. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"] My hon. Friends must realise that he has no time for dealing with the state of the nation these days. He has other things to deal with. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Then bring him here. Why is he not here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1065.6", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Who is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " how it turned out over the Rent Act. The honourable people in the Labour Party must have it on their conscience that they caused thousands of tenants so much needless anxiety, fear and misery by false propaganda. I will give the House only one more reference to what has being going on. I quote now a former member of the staff of this slum empire. He said: I was a member of the Heavy Glove Gang \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1065.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "from the right hon. Gentleman. We have had a speech—the contents of which we could all have gathered from the Press—without, as I understand, a single effort to verify anything, without a single word about the background which makes this problem so intractable and so awful, and with a few perfunctory words at the end related to the so-called, alleged Socialist solution. I shall now try to explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "een of complicated company transactions. That is why he was not hindered. Rachman was not punished because no people who knew of any crimes that he committed or condoned came forward to give sufficient evidence. The conduct which is alleged against him is loathsome, but I believe that the House would wish to knew what is known about both the past and the present scale of intimidation of this sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "mber of successful prosecutions were taken. But in no case was there any evidence beyond supposition, that Rachman was knowingly conniving at intimidation or brothel keeping, on account of the extent to which he personally was removed from day-to-day transactions, hiding, as he was, behind agents and companies. The police are still watching the situation in respect of those and similar properties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "worse and that was whatfull rent control was doing. Whatever their needs, whatever their income, whether they needed to be in London or not, people were, naturally, clinging to their bargain accommodation. In those days no new family or household had any chance of renting a home or a flat of their own. Every time a flat or a house became vacant the owner immediately sold it to escape rent control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1082.3", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. W. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "Mr. G. W. Reynolds (Islington, North) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1082.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ear, but I shall have to consult local authorities because there is a difficulty of definition. Of the tens of thousands of multi-occupied houses, the vast majority are decently conducted, orderly establishments, providing rooms for nurses, students, teachers and typists. It would wrong to force these premises to be registered unless that were the only way to increase the power against racketeers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "overnment will introduce any necessary legislation at the earliest possible opportunity. But the main solution must be, of course, more houses and, as the right hon. Member said, better distribution of employment. Over most of the United Kingdom the Government's housing programme has outpaced the growth in population sufficiently to keep us still one of the most spaciously housed people in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "We have a difficult task to obtain a better distribution of employment from the big cities, without imperilling the prosperity which is so vital to the country. Of course London and Birmingham are magnets, and will remain magnets whether or not there is a more or a less slice of office building. We have tried with office building to steer a middle course. Perhaps we should have acted more quickly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1088.3", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " to say that the justifiable anxiety about all these things should not obscure for a moment the extreme weakness of the Opposition's position. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition is absolutely entitled to probe and criticise, but when he adopts, as he did just now, a highly moral tone I am bound to remind him and the House that there were parasites in the Socialist paradise, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1088.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1088.3", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "overnment action in introducing the 1961 Act was designed to strengthen the hands of the local authorities, and was being used. They raise the subject now not because of worry about housing but because of the Rachmanlink with the Ward case. The high-minded Leader of the Opposition leapt at the opportunity of a general smear based on an admitted evil of which he should have known for several years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1088.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1088.3", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "d. They raise the subject now not because of worry about housing but because of the Rachmanlink with the Ward case. The high-minded Leader of the Opposition leapt at the opportunity of a general smear based on an admitted evil of which he should have known for several years. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members opposite will not hear me I shall stayhere until they do. Am I being asked whether I knew?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1088.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "preceding_text": " a fixed number of years purchase, perhaps on a mortgage arranged through a building society or insurance company but guaranteed by the Government. I tried this out on one or two other people with knowledge of the property world, and they agreed that this was a feasible proposition. I have said that I hold no brief for and would not seek to defend anything that Rachman or any of his ilk have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1106.5", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "The House will appreciate that I was asked a point of order and another hon. Member rose further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1106.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. If in fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. If in fact—[ Interruption. ]I was trying to go on when I heard those offensive epithets across the Floor of the House. The point of order I am making is this. The hon. Gentleman made an allegation that I was acting for Mr. De Lisle. It is without foundation. Is it in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1108.2", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "I expect I did. I expect I meant the right hon. Gentleman's predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1108.4", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I do not mean to quarrel with the hon. Gentleman. I just do not know whether he said that about me or not. Because if he did, I do not think it is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": " Anyway, I do not want to take long and I have a lot to say. It is clear that this question of security is irrelevant to today's debate. The reason that the debate was put on was first to deal with the question of law enforcement on Rachman; but, of course, the main issue was to try to get another stick to beat the Government with, another scandal which would be timed on the same day as the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "I was not reading from an article. I was in fact giving a set of facts which Mr. De Lisle has authorised me to give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "I will certainly give way to the hon. Gentleman if he is now wishing to withdraw the imputations and allegations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us the one about the three bears.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": " from that house, which is run by a man called Farr. It is called the St. Stephen's Gardens Association. Mr. Farr is a self-confessed Communist and political agitator. Mr. Pinto Fox, the tenant of the basement of No. 262 Westbourne Park Road, is a member of a society called the Rasitafarians, who follow the line of the Black Lion of Judah, and it is their spiritual belief that they are Ethiopians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1124.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1130.5", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "Mr. Parkin rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1130.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1130.7", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have hesitated to put this point to you because I have been trying to satisfy myself whether it is a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1130.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1131.2", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "me—it is still coming—from the tenants. I am not saying that this is the only case. Here we have an organisation deliberately trying to poison the minds of certain hon. Gentleman in order to create a scandal which I suppose will be known as the scandal of the Rachman affair. Hon. Members will have observed the way in which it is done. The same journalists are on this case as were on the Ward case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1131.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1131.2", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "case. Here we have an organisation deliberately trying to poison the minds of certain hon. Gentleman in order to create a scandal which I suppose will be known as the scandal of the Rachman affair. Hon. Members will have observed the way in which it is done. The same journalists are on this case as were on the Ward case—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—in order to try to pad out the information on the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1131.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1131.5", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1131.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1131.7", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1131.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1132.3", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "Mr. Rees-Davies rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1132.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1133.10", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "Mr. Parkin rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1133.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not withdraw?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "I have great sympathy with the hon. Member for Sheffield, Attercliffe (Mr. J. Hynd), who wants to get on with the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1135.2", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have no intention of doing any such thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1147.5", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "t is not. It seems to me that the Motion cannot be supported on this ground. If it simply demanded that the Government should take immediate and drastic action to cure or curb this evil, I could have supported it—but not if it tries to make the maximum political capital out of the situation by linking it with the 1957 Act. I should like to say why I am unable to support the Government's Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1147.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1149.3", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "difficult situation. We must be very careful about the kind of control which we introduce, otherwise we may do more harm than good and create more difficulties than we solve. What I suggest can be done is this. Under Part V of the 1957 Act, power is vested in local authorities to take over by compulsory purchase property for which extortionate rents are charged. Very few people know of this power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "ady been mentioned of building far more dwellings, providing far more houses and doing away with the housing shortage, because whilst we have a shortage, whatever controls are applied, evil people will always try to exploit them. It does not matter how many additional controls are introduced. Unless they are fairly simple and direct, there will be racketeers who will get round them the whole time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1159.2", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is happening all over the country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "preceding_text": "eople were able to move about in my constituency. They were living in privately-owned flats. Those who had been occupying two-roomed flats could move into three or four-roomed flats while those in larger flats could move into smaller. But now, because of so much decontrol, such movement is impossible because those moving out would have to pay such higher rents. That is what is happening in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Singh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "aching the point where we ought to be frightened of the sort of people of whom we were frightened in 1958. There is the perfect example in my constituency. The previous landlord signed a lease under this landlord and tenant legislation for some decontrolled property. The tenants were paying extra rent, but they were quite happy about that. Suddenly, a Mr. \"Singh\"—a good old bright Bermondsey name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman should read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "unpleasant things done by one individual and by his associates and others of the same kidney. What the right hon. Gentleman did not do was to establish, or even to attempt to establish, a connection between those things and the remedy which he proposes: that is, the repeal of the Rent Act, 1957. Indeed, when the Leader of the Opposition has the experience of reading his speech tomorrow in Hansard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I understood the right hon. Gentleman's argument very well, but I want to take it a little further. His argument, apparently, is that these practices will not be followed if the result of getting one lot of tenants out is to get in a further lot of controlled or protected tenants. On the face of it, that seems a fairly improbable view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-22", "file": "debates1963-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0562a068a5a27992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSEQUENCES OF RENT ACT 1957 AND PROPERTY PROFITEERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "er lot of controlled or protected tenants. On the face of it, that seems a fairly improbable view. [ Interruption. ] Does the Leader of the Opposition really think that people who are not prepared to stop at beating up individuals, invading their homes and breaking up their furniture will be deterred by the fact that if they put in another tenant they could not legally charge above a certain rent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-22a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-23", "file": "debates1963-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "406c4e5ed1b85ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman appreciate the precedent set and the problems created in putting a very active party politician in charge of a public medium of expression of opinion? That is the crucial problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-23", "file": "debates1963-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "406c4e5ed1b85ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1270.7", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEW WRIT (STRATFORD)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "for Dorset, South (Mr. Barnett) has proved his worth already. It is necessary to find a seat for Mr. Angus Maude; I can mention his name without transgressing Standing Orders. He may not have fully recovered from his escapade in Dorset, South. Why rush him into this venture? Let us ascertain the reasons for this decision. I have no doubt that the Leader of the House is fully armed with precedents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1270.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-23", "file": "debates1963-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "406c4e5ed1b85ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1270.7", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEW WRIT (STRATFORD)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "other it, it reappears now and again not merely in the form of a shadow, but endowed with substance. So hon. Members opposite have to rush this by-election and get it over quickly. What for? To raise the deteriorating morale of the Conservative Party. That is all it is. Why indulge in this particular task? In order to prevent the Labour Party from organising its resources in time for the election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1270.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-23", "file": "debates1963-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "406c4e5ed1b85ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEW WRIT (STRATFORD)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "There is nothing like eager expectancy, whether the by-election is to take place in August, next year or whenever the General Election comes. Perhaps the Leader of the House might furnish a little information on that subject. We are all very anxious to know, myself in particular. I have a majority of only 28,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-23", "file": "debates1963-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "406c4e5ed1b85ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEW WRIT (STRATFORD)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " morning that the Patronage Secretary was to present the decision of the Government about the Stratford-on-Avon vacancy to the House today. Nevertheless, I have had a little time to cogitate. I have come to the conclusion that the reason the Government have decided to rush this by-election is that Lord Denning is to submit his report during the Recess, and heaven knows what will be in that report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-23", "file": "debates1963-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "406c4e5ed1b85ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1280.3", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEW WRIT (STRATFORD)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "preceding_text": " the active people in any party are the workers. They are the people who make up the rank and file of the Labour Party or the Liberal Party or the Tory Party. I put the Tory Party last. It is not necessarily in order of merit that I place the parties in this order. We have here a real chance to show the country that on both sides of the House we believe in democracy and in the ordinary workpeople.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-23", "file": "debates1963-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "406c4e5ed1b85ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1280.3", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEW WRIT (STRATFORD)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "preceding_text": "hat great regard ought to be paid to the fact that many workpeople will be on holiday during that period and that many of them will be unable to get back for the election. They do not all have cars, and they cannot afford to pay a double fare to return home the day of the election. Right hon. and hon. Members opposite talk as if workers had plenty of money and they were all in the £20a-week class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-23", "file": "debates1963-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "406c4e5ed1b85ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEW WRIT (STRATFORD)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "I apologise for using the word \"you\", Mr. Speaker. I certainly did not mean you. You know that I did not mean you, and you know who I did mean. I humbly apologise, but I ask you, when the House is dealing with a subject which some of us consider to be serious, to control the ignoramuses on the other side of the House who have been making those remarks. I want to propose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-23", "file": "debates1963-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "406c4e5ed1b85ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1282.3", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEW WRIT (STRATFORD)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"July.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "preceding_text": "on. Members have said that to have an election in August, is for some reason, almost ex hypothesi unfair. The hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) said that he had found a precedent since the war, and he is quite right, in Mid-Ulster, but in 1946 the Writ for Glasgow, Bridgeton was moved in August and the poll took place in August—and that was a seat that had been held by the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-23a.1282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-24", "file": "debates1963-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b3fd659fc8f8a92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-24a.1529.3", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT (YOUNG PERSONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "—the loch—had more or less dried up. The lake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-24a.1529.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-24", "file": "debates1963-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b3fd659fc8f8a92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-24a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AFRICA (SUPPLY OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to hear it, and I am sorry that they sent arms before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-24a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-25", "file": "debates1963-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "03b967b4cbfd1260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-25a.1759.2", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I am bearing Dumbarton in mind and I hope to visit Dumbarton before very long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-25a.1759.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-25", "file": "debates1963-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "03b967b4cbfd1260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-25a.1776.4", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The Question relates to South Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-25a.1776.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-25", "file": "debates1963-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "03b967b4cbfd1260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-25a.1780.6", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "I do not think that there is any reluctance in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-25a.1780.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-25", "file": "debates1963-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "03b967b4cbfd1260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-25a.1781.2", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "So far as this matter is in order on business, it was, I think, put in the Library of the House yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-25a.1781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-25", "file": "debates1963-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "03b967b4cbfd1260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-25a.1923.1", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "al government employers and employees may do. We have relied effectively on their voluntary co-operation in settling terms and conditions and no argument has been adduced to show that we should not go on so relying in the future. The voluntary system works well. We have no evidence why we should not rely upon it. The Amendment would discard the voluntary system by introducing a compulsory element.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-25a.1923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-25", "file": "debates1963-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "03b967b4cbfd1260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-25a.1953.9", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "NUCLEAR WEAPONS (TEST BAN TREATY)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I should like to take this opportunity of paying a tribute both to my noble Friend the Lord President of the Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-25a.1953.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-29", "file": "debates1963-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a466713323fa3f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-29a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Box", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Box", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that the hon. Member is quite correct. I certainly have asked the editor of the newspapers concerned to provide me with any information that is obtainable, so that if there is substance in it, it will be passed to my right hon. Friend the Minister of Education. This is something new. I am still awaiting the information. As soon as I get it, I will pass it to my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-29a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-30", "file": "debates1963-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "b36473739887c4e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-30a.228.6", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS PROCEEDINGS (TELEVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that we agree with him that it certainly is a House of Commons matter and that if there are to be talks, we shall be glad to take part in them? If the Prime Minister thinks that this is a matter—we are quite prepared to go into it—which can be usefully pursued in the last Session of a highly moribund Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-30a.228.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-30", "file": "debates1963-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "b36473739887c4e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-30a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD DENNING (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not know about the minutes of evidence because I have not yet seen them, I will discuss the Report with the right hon. Gentleman. I hope that we shall agree what ought to be omitted either on security or on any other grounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-30a.236.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-07-30", "file": "debates1963-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "b36473739887c4e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-30a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Swingler", "preceding_text": "yesterday by the Minister of State, Board of Trade, who said that there was no adequate evidence at the moment for him to establish such an inquiry. This is a thoroughly unsatisfactory situation. It is, again, a case where the suspicion will be spread that because perhaps some of the paymasters of the Tory Party are involved in some of these businesses the Government will not establish an inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-30a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-30", "file": "debates1963-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "b36473739887c4e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-30a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "I was about to do that, Mr. Speaker. I recognise that in my last sentence I was possibly straying a little outside the terms of the Motion in expressing my own view of what should happen. I conclude by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-30a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-30", "file": "debates1963-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "b36473739887c4e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-30a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "is not speaking too soon. We have had a lamentable year this year in relation to unemployment. Thank goodness, it is lower this month that it has been for some time, although still higher than it was twelve months ago, but I forecast that we have seen the lowest level of unemployment this year, and that it is highly likely that the unemployment figure will continue to rise over the next few months", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-30a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-30", "file": "debates1963-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "b36473739887c4e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-30a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": " dangerous ground. The hon. Member for Islington, East went further in the same speech. He asked, \"Is somebody to be entitled to get up at a public meeting and ask for the deportation of Commonwealth immigrants? Is that sort of thing to be allowed?\" My answer is, yes, it is to be allowed. Quite definitely. Provided, of course, that it is done in a way that is not insulting, abusive or threatening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-30a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-30", "file": "debates1963-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "b36473739887c4e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-30a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "WHITE FISH AUTHORITY (LEVY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By what standard?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "What I am saying is that I think that the cost to the Authority of their London premises is very reasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-30a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-31", "file": "debates1963-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebf2a1d0157b1033", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-31a.454.4", "colnum": "454", "heading": "NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-31a.454.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-31", "file": "debates1963-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebf2a1d0157b1033", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-31a.474.0", "colnum": "474", "heading": "DEFENCE (CENTRAL ORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I hope that we will have a serious debate. To make the thrust back at me that I was thinking in terms of my membership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-31a.474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-31", "file": "debates1963-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebf2a1d0157b1033", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-31a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "DEFENCE (CENTRAL ORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "till fail to produce forces adequate to fulfil the commitments which we have accepted. We have failed to formulate a strategic policy which makes sense. If the right hon. and hon. Members opposite will not accept this from me, let me quote the words of the defence correspondent of the Sunday Times, who is certainly no friend of my party and whose newspaper is very friendly with the party opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-31a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-07-31", "file": "debates1963-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebf2a1d0157b1033", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-31a.519.2", "colnum": "519", "heading": "DEFENCE (CENTRAL ORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "he American Government have a system for doing this, but here we are, the elected representatives of the people, trying to speak on these complicated matters. From where are we to get our information? Must we take an old friend, say an Air Marshal or an Admiral, to lunch and get something out of him? One can only get bits of information, like Lobby correspondents try to do from the 1922 Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-07-31a.519.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-08-01", "file": "debates1963-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "d84391cbca2366ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-08-01a.619.2", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "I do not accept it as at all unreasonable that the Chancellor should be able so to do, knowing the shortage of places in Scottish universities. Surely the Minister must be aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-08-01a.619.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-08-01", "file": "debates1963-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "d84391cbca2366ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-08-01a.650.4", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL SCOTLAND AND NORTH-EAST (DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "A great number of schemes have been brought to Scotland in the last years and are being brought under the Budget and under many other schemes, both in central Scotland, the great pulp mill in the north of Scotland, and these new proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-08-01a.650.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-08-01", "file": "debates1963-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "d84391cbca2366ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-08-01a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION (NEW COUNTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Small beer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "While congratulating my right hon. Friend on his decision about Rutland—in which fight I have played a part—may I ask whether he is aware that there is considerable disappointment about his decision on Burton upon Trent? Presumably Rutland has special qualifications as a small unit, but is he aware that Burton is a small unit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-08-01a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-08-01", "file": "debates1963-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "d84391cbca2366ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-08-01a.722.5", "colnum": "722", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "eam. Quite clearly there will be need for an efficient design team at the company for years ahead. It may not be as large as it has been but there are various projects which Shorts are putting up to my right hon. Friend the Minister of Aviation. I know that in due course he hopes to be able to announce his decisions on them. There need be no anxiety that the design team is to be totally dispersed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-08-01a.722.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-08-01", "file": "debates1963-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "d84391cbca2366ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-08-01a.780.3", "colnum": "780", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS ACCOMMODATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sharples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mean.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sharples", "preceding_text": "That depends upon the purpose for which it is used. If it is used for purposes of the House or of an all-party committee of the House it could legitimately be said to be part of the facilities of the House, but if it is used for a single party meeting or for a political meeting it might be more difficult to justify.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-08-01a.780.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.902.11", "colnum": "902", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "n. Members on the other side of the House, some of whose feelings for the noble Lord fall well this side of enthusiasm. It is perhaps right that we should re-emphasise that the process of bringing him here would be impossible but for the great and successful constitutional fight of my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Wedgwood Benn), whom we are glad to welcome here this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.902.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.902.11", "colnum": "902", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "), whom we are glad to welcome here this morning. [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am glad that that welcome is shared with such enthusiam by so many hon. Members who not long ago trooped into the Division Lobby to deny his right to sit in this House, including the Front Bench, most if not all of whom are now glad to see the Prime Minister coming into this House on the coat-tails of my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.902.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.902.11", "colnum": "902", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "candidates should have a chance. But my right hon. Friend's eloquence was not capable of overcoming the innate conservatism of hon. Members opposite and it was voted down. Fortunately, thanks to the initiative of a Labour Peer in another place, the matter was dealt with. Therefore, we are in the situation that we may expect the possible arrival in due course of Sir Alec Douglas-Home in this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.902.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.902.11", "colnum": "902", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Northern Ireland? This does suggest a serious tampering with the rights and duties of this House. The other thing that I am surprised about is that we are being told that we, all of us, experienced Members of the House of Commons, simply cannot meet except under his guidance. The headmaster is away; close the school till he returns. Hon. Members will have seen the leader in The Times of yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.902.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.902.11", "colnum": "902", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Like Scarborough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "rime Minister on television the other evening—appears almost patronising. In any case, we have suggested to the Government quite frankly that we are prepared, so far as it lies with us, to forgo a special day on foreign affairs in the debate on the Address next week. If the Foreign Secretary needs time, we, so far as it lies with us, will be prepared to postpone an arranged foreign affairs debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.902.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.902.11", "colnum": "902", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "hat we shall have no Oral Answers on any Questions to the Minister of Transport until the end of January. The right hon. Gentleman may be glad about that—I do not know—but it means six months in which the Minister of Transport, at a time of acute concern about his Department, with all the railway closures which are going on, cannot be brought to face the scrutiny of this House at the Despatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.902.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.902.11", "colnum": "902", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " one day for the Board of Trade—in other words, one day of Oral Questions in six months—and this in a Government whose Prime Minister on his appointment, in his very first promise to the people, said that he would tell the people more about the conduct of affairs. The Government, or, at least, the Prime Minister himself, has taken this decision. The Proclamation has been drawn up on the advice of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.902.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "fore, that I should intervene early in this debate to put to the House the considerations which have influenced the Government. I should like to kill at once the canard that this was decided on Saturday morning by a statement from No. 10. The question asked was whether it was possible for the meeting of the House to be delayed, and the answer to that was \"Yes\", but the decision was not then taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": ". Macmillan). I think that there will be other opportunities of paying tribute to him, but I also think that we must all, on both sides of the House, feel deep sympathy with him in the fact of the suddenness of his illness. That was the situation which led to this. It is not unreasonable to suggest that the Government should meet Parliament three weeks after a new Prime Minister has been appointed", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": " of the suddenness of his illness. That was the situation which led to this. It is not unreasonable to suggest that the Government should meet Parliament three weeks after a new Prime Minister has been appointed [Hon. Members: \"Why?\"] The main argument for that—I will give it—is that the new Prime Minister considers it better that he should be in his place when the new Government meets Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I did not say he had to be here but that it would be better if he were. I will leave the hon. Member to pursue that line himself and not take up our time with it. So far as the supporting argument is concerned, the question about the other changes in the Government, I think that it is reasonable that the new Government—because it is a new Government—should have some time to consider.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ent would be made to the House today. I think that everybody knows that that Report is a very complicated matter. The statement which will be issued later today is a statement of the Government's approach to the Report. It is a longish statement. I doubt whether supplementary questions upon it would have been useful, but my right hon. Friend is to see that the statement is issued as a White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.926.3", "colnum": "926", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Nugent", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Nugent", "preceding_text": " I have given is substantially correct. Perhaps I might relieve the anxiety of the hon. Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) by saying that the quotation is not from a statement made in another place but from a statement made by Lord Attlee at London Airport. The Leader of the Opposition has called my right hon. Friend the new Prime Minister \"a scion of an effete establishment and an elegant anachronism.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.926.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.928.5", "colnum": "928", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ent no longer counting. That is what people have been saying. But this shameful episode—this decision not to recall the House in order to enable it to participate in important debates—has done more damage to the reputation of Parliament than anything that has happened in the past 25 years. I have been in the House for rather more than 40 years—off and on, it is true. I am not a baby in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.928.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.928.5", "colnum": "928", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "for the right hon. and learned Gentleman. I am sorry that he has been pitchforked into this honourable position of Leader of the House. He has had a bad time. I wonder what he thinks about the old Prime Minister. He apparently thinks a lot of the present one, but he had better watch his step. One never knows what may happen. If he does not make a good job of this he will be out in a year, or Jess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.928.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Kerr", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Kerr", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's supporters said so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "If I may say so to the hon. Lady the Member for Cannock (Miss Lee), I admire her spirit enormously. Her indignation is always impressive. I only wish to say to her that over and over again in my own life the more extraordinary a decision has appeared to be, the more I have found there was a good reason for it in the end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member has anticipated what I was going to say. It could well be argued that this is a matter of such importance that it ought to be debated as quickly as possible, but does it make sense that we should debate an issue like this without having the Prime Minister here to intervene?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.953.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member keeps talking about our reverence for Parliamentary democracy, with which we all agree, but Parliament includes both the House of Lords and the House of Commons and, surely, a Member of the House of Lords is just as entitled to be Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Member for Chertsey (Sir L. Heald) cannot know very much about the Labour Party, otherwise he would not have drawn that foolish parallel about my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Wedgwood Benn) in hypothetical circumstances which are never likely to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-10-24", "file": "debates1963-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "407168dd72f5f0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.974.3", "colnum": "974", "heading": "NEW SESSION (OPENING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"She is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "Let us assume that the Queen herself was reading the Speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-10-24a.974.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "in terms of election defeat. I remind the House that the by-election in Luton took place in conditions uniquely favourable for the Government. We have just had two weeks in which the Prime Minister was free, without interruption, almost without riposte, to make upwards of 70 speeches—72, in fact—all of them fully reported. I read them all, or, more accurately, I read the six speeches twelve times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "strike, every speech we make in Parliament or elsewhere, must have that in mind. We have been warned. Certainly we have all the pre-election signs. We have the carefully staged election boom, carefully fostered, carefully held back for a couple of years while the country suffers and now forced on at fever heat. We have had it all before. I remember that in 1959 the then Chancellor of the Exchequer", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": ", a school building programme costing £3,500 million over five years, with big increases to come later, technical education to cost £160 million for current programmes and welfare services costing £152 million in the next five years. There will also be the cost of the housing programme, while the shipping subsidies to be spent before the election total £75 million. These are formidable commitments", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " which some right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite were willing to sell the Commonwealth down the river in the Brussels negotiations, but there are other reasons as well. There was no right hon. Gentleman more keen to get into the Common Market than the Prime Minister. He made a powerful speech on this subject in another place two months before the Government made up their mind to apply for entry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.25.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "e who was qualified would have a place and there would be no diminution in the proportion of students getting into universities. I remember him telling us that we could not afford the few extra millions for expansion, and the present Minister of Education was telling us the same. We had from the Home Secretary this pearl of wisdom which I commend to the House: But, as I have said in every debate\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Alec Douglas Home)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Alec Douglas Home)", "preceding_text": "Opposition said that from now on we should no longer pursue personalities, that we shall not hear, I hope, any more of the 14th this or the 14th that, but that we shall be able to compare our policies, because that is what both sides of the House ought to do. I think that the right hon. Gentleman misunderstood one thing. I did not say in my speech last night that the City of London was the source—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Alec Douglas Home)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Alec Douglas Home)", "preceding_text": "hat, but that we shall be able to compare our policies, because that is what both sides of the House ought to do. I think that the right hon. Gentleman misunderstood one thing. I did not say in my speech last night that the City of London was the source—[ Interruption .] I said that the City of London was the source of wealth in this country in the sense that it was the first great trading centre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps we can turn from a review of the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ammes within the Gracious Speech can be completed. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be speaking tomorrow afternoon and he will be able to show that our calculations are sound. Therefore, our plans and our programmes can in no sense be said to be castles in the air. They are not like that. They are programmes which are being accelerated after long preparation and they have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I said \"almost doubled\", from 120,000 to 230,000. I am, perhaps, not quite as good a mathematician as the right hon. Gentleman, but, surely, that is almost double, if my mathematics are right, and the universities figure has gone up from 85,000 to 125,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.42.3", "colnum": "42", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " lieutenants, and I notice that the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan), a day or two ago, said that we were embarking on a spending spree. All right: the only deduction which we can draw, surely, if this is so, is that the Socialist Party would cut here and prune there. Where would it do it—on our programmes for education, on our programmes for roads, on our programmes for health?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.42.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Is not the kind of problem which the hon. Gentleman has posed exactly the kind of problem into which my right hon. Friend will inquire and about which he will make recommendations? My right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about central Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " that they should be used—to stimulate and assist those on the spot who know their job and their needs. The right hon. Gentleman asked me what has been done for Scotland. I think that he must have overlooked lately the Local Employment Act. We have already spent £45 million to £50 million, more than half the money allocated for the whole of the United Kingdom, in attracting industries to Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " own, independent nuclear deterrent. I intend in due course to put this question of Britain's independent deterrent to the electors. I thought that I would keep what I said about a General Election right to the very last sentence in my speech. But before this goes to the electors, I think that the House and the country would be interested in the policy of the Opposition. Indeed, they must know it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.50.5", "colnum": "50", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman is going to answer me that the British deterrent is not, in fact, independent, is he really going around the country as Leader of the Opposition and later, possibly, as Prime Minister, questioning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.50.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.50.5", "colnum": "50", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"GO on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e country now as Leader of the Opposition, or possibly later as Prime Minister, questioning the good faith of Britain's greatest ally? If the right hon. Gentleman really is going to abandon the control of the British Prime Minister and Government over the British nuclear arm, then he must go to the country and plainly say so. I must not, on this occasion, take up too much of the time of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.50.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.50.5", "colnum": "50", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"GO on.\"]—but I should like to turn now for a moment to the passage in the Gracious Speech which says that Her Majesty's Government will sustain the authority of the United Nations. I wish that it could be a more effective force for keeping the peace, as the authors of the Charter envisaged. The right hon. Gentleman will have noticed that we have supported the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.50.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tarted and which has already made good progress in the Commonwealth Economic Council—which meets at official and Ministerial level—and in the various activities one of which I particularly value, and which I mentioned—the exchange of teachers with different Commonwealth countries. Therefore, by every means we shall try to strengthen the Commonwealth ties. I trust that I have answered, in the main—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "So far as Southern Rhodesia is concerned and, indeed, my own attitude to these problems perhaps, as the right hon. Gentleman has reminded me, I might—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.53.2", "colnum": "53", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I think that the House will be grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for taking up this question of Southern Rhodesia and for what he has just said. He said there must be protection for the rights of minorities. Will he make clear that in Southern Rhodesia there will be protection for the rights of majorities as well as minorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.53.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-12", "file": "debates1963-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c20704197ece490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.71.4", "colnum": "71", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "a great improvement on the present situation. However, I must admit that we sometimes hear some very interesting remarks from members of the other place. One was reported in the Press the other day as asking: How much longer can we go on exploiting every feature of this country purely for gain? I hesitate to name the noble Lord who said that, but hon. Members will probably recognise the quotation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-12a.71.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.185.3", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not think so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.185.3", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "clear weapons before the electorate. I believe that the nation is further advanced on this question of the nuclear deterrent than some right hon. and hon. Members. I believe that the people outside recognise that this is much too complex and too vital an issue to be dealt with by slogans or by the loaded, issue-begging questions of the wife-beating variety which the Prime Minister asked yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ite, as well as the present Minister of Aviation. They all make the point that the only claim for us trying to be an independent nuclear Power, or, to put it more rationally, pretending we are, is that we are afraid that we will not at all times be supported by our American Allies. The claim is that the Government want to be in a position where they can blackmail our American allies into a policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.190.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Yates", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.196.2", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That is not what we shall do. Thereafter, we shall certainly cease trying to maintain beyond the present credibility of this force the illusion of being an independent nuclear Power. We will stop this very costly effort to project into the future, into missile after missile, and into who knows what, what becomes increasingly the sheer illusion of being a nuclear force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.196.2", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ereafter, we shall certainly cease trying to maintain beyond the present credibility of this force the illusion of being an independent nuclear Power. We will stop this very costly effort to project into the future, into missile after missile, and into who knows what, what becomes increasingly the sheer illusion of being a nuclear force. [ Interruption .] I ask the House to do me a little justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.196.4", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "urse, this decision involves our having to review the position of any programme for future weapons that they leave behind them. That applies to the TSR 2 and to the Polaris submarines. What the incoming Government do depends on the point which that programme has reached when we arrive, and on what other purposes those weapons or vehicles can serve. It is therefore obviously impossible, in advance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.196.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which would you cut?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "h the Prime Minister, in a wonderful phrase at Kinross, said would soon be rolling off the production lines, and also build at the same time the training colleges, and a hospital every 19 days, and all the factories which the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for Industry, Trade and Regional Development will get into the regional depressed areas—and carry out the vast new road programme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.204.3", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " and the steady increase in the rate of growth of productivity over these years given by these figures is a final answer to the charges of stagnation that we so often hear. It is quite possible to achieve a 4 per cent, growth rate, and the House will remember that I based my Budget proposals very largely and systematically on the proposals of the N.E.D.C. and its recommendations for sweeping away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.204.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.205.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.205.4", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer chooses to make accusations, and deliberately deceive the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.206.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.206.5", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.206.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.208.0", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "If tens of thousands of new jobs in Scotland are not a form of success, I do not know what is. I have been dealing with the broad basis for a 4 per cent, growth programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "preceding_text": "oming almost democratic, indeed almost like an American convention at moments, and I hazarded a guess as to which Member of Parliament would be chosen leader. I had to give up trying to explain when the Establishment decided that nobody on the Government benches in this House was fit to be Prime Minister. I should like to turn now from what is the controversial part of my speech to something else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.231.3", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "mes to power—if it comes to power—there will need to be wages restraint as part of an incomes policy. We ought to say of the right hon. Gentleman in his absence that it required great courage for him so to do, and I congratulate him on doing that. But why did he not mention it yesterday? There was not one word about it. The reason is that hon. Gentlemen opposite are so violently divided about it .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.231.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "forms of private income, provided that within the package deal we also have equal restraint in wages and salaries. If we could do that, the British miracle—I should like to say \"English miracle \", because I love the word \"English\", which we never use now—would arrive, and it cannot come without that. I ask the leaders of the Opposition what their position is on this. They have not said a word yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that hon. Members opposite do not like this, but they are going to get it. At the Labour Party conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "osite tell the electorate that they could undertake that the trade union world—including Mr, Hill and Mr. Cousins—would support this? If they cannot, then on this issue they will be getting votes by false pretences. This is how the situation was summed up. A major achievement of today's debate was the presentation of a new phrase to take the place of wage restraint—' the planned growth of wages \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.239.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.240.2", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You asked a question.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.240.8", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way to the hon. Gentleman. He has only just come into the Chamber. The Times went on to say, and on this I want to finish as quickly as I can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.240.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iorwerth Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Region\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iorwerth Thomas", "preceding_text": "sing an encyclopaedia than a pamphlet. The important aspects of the Gracious Speech have not received from him the emphasis one would have expected. What is to me a very serious omission from the Gracious Speech, though it may seem slight to many hon. Members, is that though mention is made of Scotland and of the North-East there is a complete absence of reference to a very important region—Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEM- BERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Smith", "preceding_text": "lieve in our independent deterrent and that its possession enables us to join in the councils of the world where otherwise we should not have been able to play a part. One can argue whether or not we have an effective first strike weapon and whether our second strike weapon is credible. I was surprised that in what was admittedly a brilliant speech, the right hon. Member for Belper (Mr. G. Brown)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-13", "file": "debates1963-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "00052262c75c46c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "statement unless that were possible. I think a large number of economies can be made in the conventional field and also with some new weapons. Although there has been much comment about TSR2, I do not think it has been authoritatively stated that it will not be a credible weapon. I was surprised to hear the right hon. Member for Belper say that he did not think Polaris would be all that effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-13a.301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-14", "file": "debates1963-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "799f81b73937bd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows only too well that I have already dealt with what I said are the powerful forces working in this region. What we are doing is endeavouring to get to the root cause of the trouble and to deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-14", "file": "debates1963-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "799f81b73937bd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "rnment are said to have done so little for these areas. These are long-term plans, but under the Local Employment Acts, since April, 1960, total assistance of nearly £93 million has been offered by the Board of Trade. Of this sum, £45 million have gone to 160 projects in Central Scotland to provide 36,000 jobs and £15 million have gone to 110 projects in the North-East to provide over 17,000 jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-14", "file": "debates1963-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "799f81b73937bd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "A deputation from the south-west of England has been to see me and discussed this matter, but there is no work in hand at the moment for the south-west region.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-14", "file": "debates1963-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "799f81b73937bd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.349.3", "colnum": "349", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "An. Hon. Member: \"They forgot it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e Bill. The Government could find room to say all sorts of things about protecting the breeders of new and rarified plants. One would have thought it was just as important to mention the matter of hire purchase, if the housewife is to be protected against these hire-purchase people who go from door to door; we call them \"tally-men\" in South Wales. Why was this not mentioned in the Gracious Speech?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.349.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-14", "file": "debates1963-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "799f81b73937bd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " General Election. I am grateful for having extracted that undertaking from the right hon. Gentleman. It only goes to show that if we shove this Government in their present state of electioneering jitters, they will give almost anything. I advise my hon. Friends to keep it up. We have about six months before Father Christmas forecloses, and then we shall be back to the same dreary old round again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-14", "file": "debates1963-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "799f81b73937bd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Somehow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " men in South Wales still have to leave home and come to England—they come from many walks of life and from many trades—if they wish to train as apprentices. This is something which is deeply resented. More opportunities are needed. I wish now to refer to transport. The Prime Minister told us that if a line has to be closed in the Highlands, adequate alternative transport must be provided somehow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-14", "file": "debates1963-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "799f81b73937bd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Someone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "d from many trades—if they wish to train as apprentices. This is something which is deeply resented. More opportunities are needed. I wish now to refer to transport. The Prime Minister told us that if a line has to be closed in the Highlands, adequate alternative transport must be provided somehow. [Hon. Members: \"Somehow.\"]Does that pledge apply also to Wales? If so, by whom is it to be provided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-14", "file": "debates1963-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "799f81b73937bd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "provided—[Hon. Members: \"Someone.\"]—and at whose expense, and when? At the moment we have nothing but closures in central Wales where it has been said that a desert is being created. We have exactly the same problem as exists in parts of the Highlands. I wish to ask the Prime Minister whether he will give us an assurance that the pledge he made about the Highlands will also apply to central Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-14", "file": "debates1963-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "799f81b73937bd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The North-East.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend reminds me that, of course, the present Prime Minister was then Minister of State for Scotland. He should have got on with it ten years ago. Now we are told that we are to have a large-scale area in the North-West—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-14", "file": "debates1963-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "799f81b73937bd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hundreds of millions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "he must avoid all the untaxed profits which at present, because they are not narrowly construed as income, escape their proper share of taxation; and he must show that he is being fair and equitable in what he is doing. Let me give one example. It is only one of many that I could give, but I select this one. Estate Duty is a clear case where avoidance is taking place to the tune of millions of £s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.365.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-14", "file": "debates1963-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "799f81b73937bd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.369.0", "colnum": "369", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "le, a net personal wealth tax has been in operation in Sweden for many years. Now I come to the sentence which bears on the question, \"What on earth is the relevance of this to expansion?\". The paragraph goes on: The introduction of a wealth tax here would be a controversial step\"— I do not deny that— but it may have a useful role in any major review of taxation related to a programme for growth\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-14", "file": "debates1963-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "799f81b73937bd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.369.2", "colnum": "369", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"ANSWER.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "might influence growth, in conjunction with a general review of the tax system. The right hon. Gentleman might ask the Minister of Labour about it; he also sits on the N.E.D.C. and is responsible for this publication. He might ask the Secretary of State for Industry and Trade, who also is a member. Let him ask them what they think of these economic concepts. I am all in favour of straight talking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.369.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-14", "file": "debates1963-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "799f81b73937bd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.369.4", "colnum": "369", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not told us what his proposal is All I was asking him to do was to explain his own tax on capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-14", "file": "debates1963-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "799f81b73937bd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " Government, I would hope that such a review would be undertaken, and I believe that it could bring relief to a great many ratepayers if we were to reassess some of the artificial distinctions which now exist and which ought not to be brought into play. If I am asked what the details are, I reply, \"Elect a Labour Government. Let us make the review. Let us get at the books and see what is in them.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-14", "file": "debates1963-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "799f81b73937bd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "t is in them.\" [Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"]There has been a good deal of cooking going on in the last few months, with the rate of productivity increased from 2.3 per cent, to 3 3 per cent, without any manifestation of alteration in the objective facts. There ought to be, there must be—I hope that no one will be frightened of it—a complete review of the taxation system of this country from top to bottom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-14", "file": "debates1963-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "799f81b73937bd4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "o have been dodging a good deal of tax liabilities during the past few years face their liabilities at last. The man on P.A.Y.E. has to pay on every penny of overtime. There is not a penny which goes untaxed for him. There is a great deal of wealth in this country which evades or avoids or dodges our tax system. If I am challenged on that, I will go on for a long time giving more and more details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-14a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-15", "file": "debates1963-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "fdd7caee7c694de7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-15a.493.3", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "This question was completely and fully answered on Wednesday by my right hon. Friend the Member for Belper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-15a.493.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-15", "file": "debates1963-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "fdd7caee7c694de7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-15a.494.0", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "This question was completely and fully answered on Wednesday by my right hon. Friend the Member for Belper. [ Interruption. ] I do not expect the hon. Gentleman to understand our arguments. That would be asking too much. I believe that the public will understand them, and that is the important thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-15a.493.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-15", "file": "debates1963-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "fdd7caee7c694de7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-15a.494.2", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "I have stated this and will state it again. As a matter of fact, though, this wastes time. I think that the House knows me well enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-15a.494.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-15", "file": "debates1963-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "fdd7caee7c694de7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-15a.494.5", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. I am in the middle of a sentence. Will the hon. and gallant Gentleman kindly sit down?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-15a.494.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.628.5", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BERLIN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman thinks that, on all these matters, no independent initiative should be made, why do we have an independent deterrent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.628.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "I want to ask the Minister why the target is so low", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.646.3", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Office building.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "It would need a lot of analysis to compare our performance with Germany's, but, of course, our target is fixed below what, in a perfect world, anybody in this House would like, because we have, at the same time, to cope with rising programmes in schools, colleges, universities, hospitals, power stations, factories and the rest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.646.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.653.4", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"About time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "which the hon. Member did not refer in any detail, I hope that it will be made plain at what price Socialist policy would have compulsory enfranchisement set. Near market value? That would be a disappointment to many people wooed by Socialist propagandists. Far below market value? That would be a taste of Socialist confiscation. We still await the details. Now I come to the problem of land prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.653.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.653.4", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"They are too high.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ppointment to many people wooed by Socialist propagandists. Far below market value? That would be a taste of Socialist confiscation. We still await the details. Now I come to the problem of land prices. [An Hon. Member: \"About time.\"] I have given more time to these things than the hon. Member for Fulham did. The first thing to get clear about land prices is what is really troubling us about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.653.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "hat the new town corporation recoups itself for earlier expenditure. Local authorities expanding a town will do the same, although they will sometimes hesitate to incur cost by buying land comprehensively well in advance. We shall, however, increasingly do this. It is a corollary of regional development that land planned for major development should be bought well in advance by a public authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "Our policy is to increase both public and private enterprise building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Butcher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Butcher", "preceding_text": "completions; there would also have been more commencements. The hon. Member went on to give us a harrowing set of figures—and they are harrowing—concerning the number of homeless persons. He said that in the Metropolitan area it had increased from 1,000 in 1957 to over 4,000 at present, and he attached a large measure of responsibility for that to the Government's action in repealing the Rent Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.681.5", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hocking", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hocking", "preceding_text": "m the Occasional Bulletin issued by the Cooperative Permanent Building Society which was distributed to many hon. Members last week. The Bulletin says that: Nearly two-thirds of the houses bought cost under £3,000; and one-fifth cost under £2,000. Almost two-thirds of house purchasers are under 35 when they purchase a house—the ages of over one-fifth are between 21 and 25 years. The Bulletin adds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.681.5", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hocking", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hocking", "preceding_text": "er £20 per week and more than one-quarter earn under £16 a week (i.e., less than the average weekly earnings of adult males in industry). These are interesting facts which have not been borne out in the speeches from hon. Members opposite today. This document adds that: Nearly half the purchasers are able to buy houses with deposits of less than £400. This is not a very substantial sum these days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hocking", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hocking", "preceding_text": "ation ensured that building land was relatively cheap. It was easy in pre-1939 days to obtain building land in almost any part of the country for much less than £300 an acre. It was far too cheap. Today, of course, prices of £5,000 an acre are quoted for building land. I wonder how many hon. Members realise that, at £5,000 an acre, building land is cheaper than carpet bought at 25s. a square yard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hocking", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hocking", "preceding_text": "uilding land is cheaper than carpet bought at 25s. a square yard. [Hon. Members: \"Come off it.\"] There are 4,840 square yards in an acre. I leave hon. Members opposite to work it out. Is it reasonable to expect a person to pay less for the site upon which his house is built than he actually pays for the floor covering on his kitchen floor? We must put all these things into some sort of relativity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who wrote the article?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": " Birmingham, Small-Heath (Mr. Denis Howell) was very pessimistic about this. May I quote from a recent article in the Sunday Times, which said: After 300 years of near-stagnation, building is transforming itself dramatically from a low-grade muck-and-wheelbarrow craft to a modern, science-based mathematically-managed business\". I think that that is true; the building industry is being transformed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Electioneering.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "s not really any very great problem, that in so far as there is a problem he is dealing with it perfectly and that, indeed, he is doing it better than anyone else could do it. He was satisfied and so were they. I intervened at one stage to say that he was not \"kidding\" any one but himself and his hon. Friends. I spent this last weekend, as I am now spending most of my weekends, out in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Having made a propaganda speech for fifty minutes this afternoon, we do not need it a second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.743.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.743.2", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear. hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I deny the suggestion that we are restricting Liverpool in any way. We are urging it forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "be able to—with the present land prices and the present interest rates. If that were done we should simply bankrupt every housing authority in the country. We should break the back of every ratepayer, because the burden coming on to the rates in consequence would be so high that people would have to starve. If we are having to compete for Lord Lambton's land at tens of thousands of pounds an acre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I will leave that issue alone. The issue is: make the money available at lower rates of interest. The next thing to do, if we are to solve this problem, is to end the Rent Act or, at any rate, replace it with different legislation. The thing which is causing so much of the trouble in our big cities is the Rent Act which the Government forced through. This is what is bringing about homelessness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "b might have been brought to fruition. There is another thing to do. It is no use talking about this building programme in isolation, and how many houses are to be set as a target. There are all these other building programmes—the Minister of Education and his schools; the Minister for Science with his higher education provisions; the hospital every 19 days; the great road construction programmes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "nd what has emanated from the Government benches, is empty paper promises. They do not relate to anything. They will not end in anything—in houses, or schools or hospitals being built. They will end in promises that will be dishonoured next year or the year after just as the housing and the slum clearance targets have been consistently dishonoured throughout the last twelve years. If it is denied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Housing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " promises that will be dishonoured next year or the year after just as the housing and the slum clearance targets have been consistently dishonoured throughout the last twelve years. If it is denied—[Hon. Members: \"Time.\"] I assured the Minister that his share of the time would depend on whether I was interfered with too much. If it is denied that the slum clearance programme has been dishonoured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Housing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "ferential rents differential interest rates. This may be a perfectly proper thing to do. It is done in some countries. It is done in Sweden, where land and house prices are not cheap. But it is done as the alternative method of subsidy. If we are to have differential rates of interest, the Opposition must say over what section of the public or private programme they would prefer to introduce them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-18", "file": "debates1963-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "83a5c66112c20d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF EDUCATION(CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": "I would only say that if the hon. Member has done so, he has done so very inconspicuously in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-18a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTTISH TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is another question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.803.0", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "are that the arrangements which he has described were clearly not known either to the security services or, at any rate, to the five Ministers? On the position for the future, does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that there is a significant change here if Questions have tobe put down to the Home Secretary? Can he tell us how many Questions on security the Home Secretary has accepted since 1961?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman seems a little clearer about this than he was. His first statement said that the Questions should be put down to the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman is really mistaken. This is why I should like to have a talk with him about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman is really mistaken. This is why I should like to have a talk with him about it—[ Interruption .]—because these are matters of importance, as the right hon. Gentleman has properly said, and they must be understood. It is clear that there is a great deal that the right hon. Gentleman does not understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It was impossible because of the noise on the other side of the House to ascertain whether the Prime Minister was quoting from the directive which he says he has now given. I asked him whether he would publish that directive, and I am not sure whether he answered or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "peaker. It was impossible because of the noise on the other side of the House to ascertain whether the Prime Minister was quoting from the directive which he says he has now given. I asked him whether he would publish that directive, and I am not sure whether he answered or not. [ Interruption .] If the right hon. Gentleman was quoting it, under our rules of order, he is required to lay the paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECURITY (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "he has now given. I asked him whether he would publish that directive, and I am not sure whether he answered or not. [ Interruption .] If the right hon. Gentleman was quoting it, under our rules of order, he is required to lay the paper. [ Interruption .] I am, however, quite prepared to believe that the right hon. Gentleman was not quoting it. In that case, would he try to teach his hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.815.3", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "During the four or five years after the Second World War it was considerably higher than it was after the First World War, when the Conservatives were in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.815.3", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " have in the family a child who wishes to pursue a course of higher education, there should be a place at technical college or university for that boy or girl to fill. That is the right hon. Gentleman's objective. Let me give him some facts. They might not have been included in the briefing that he got from his hon. Friend from the J. Walter Thompson Agency, who helped him through the by-election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "t allowance is made it is an increase of 25 per cent. The right hon. Member passed strictures on the 11-plus, with which I think that many people might not be lacking in sympathy. I was not sure, however, whether what he said about comprehensive schools indicated that he would favour a continuance of the grammar schools. The right hon. Member did not make that clear. He does not make it clear now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Angus Maude", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Angus Maude", "preceding_text": "ped down on them from Curzon Street with such statements as, \"You will have nothing but comprehensive schools as from tomorrow.\" The ability to experiment with other types of school has, as we have seen from Leicestershire to Bournemouth, made this one of the most stimulating periods in the organisation of secondary education. The rigid tripartite system of education is virtually dead or is dying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "university and I hope, without boasting, that no one has tried harder than I have to assist other people along the same path. Yet in trying now to promise the maximum of university opportunity to the maximum number of children, we ought not to make the argument dishonest by misusing, as unconsciously almost all of us have done today, and as the Robbins Report itself does, the word \"qualification\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "49, again because of pressures on the economy, the Government stated there would have to be a slowing down of educational building, and in September, 1951, they said resources available do not permit any significant increase in expenditure on old schools. \"Resources available\" and \"pressures on the economy\". The hon. Gentleman the Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. Willey) has just said that I had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Got the sack for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "or Sunderland, North said that I had a cardinal and personal responsibility. The suggestion was that I had unnecessarily and wantonly cut education. I, too, had to contend with pressures on the economy and with the problem of resources available; yet in 1961–62 the amount of public money actually spent on all forms of education increased by £141 million, from £943 million to £1,084 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "r on the people now. In fact, it was a confidence trick by him based on the hope that his quotations would not be verified. He was on a completely false point. We have based our views upon figures independently arrived at by N.E.D.C. and I believe that this increase in productivity is within our power. Of course, the margin between continual repetitive crises and economic solvency is a narrow one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "om the slums to decent homes? Dealing with secondary education, have the years been wasted when from 1954 to 1961, 1,808 new secondary schools have been built in England and Wales, most of them secondary modern schools? Have the years been wasted in which the number of owner-occupiers in their own homes has increased by 2 million; in which National Insurance pensions have gone up by 125 per cent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Luton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Finally, have the 12 years been wasted in which the confidence of the individual in the future of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-19", "file": "debates1963-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "4d02094eb3f093bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.938.0", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "believe in the concept of development planned by consent, of disciplines willingly accepted, of investment buttressed by savings voluntarily given, of co-operation, of a free country looking confidently into the future, with pride in the past. The Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-19a.938.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-20", "file": "debates1963-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "92a57557ca319fe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-20a.958.3", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why return?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I confess I am rather surprised by—if I may so call it—the ingratitude of the hon. and learned Member. I understand that British European Airways have just laid on a daily service from Aberdeen to London and return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-20a.958.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-20", "file": "debates1963-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "92a57557ca319fe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-20a.965.4", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-20a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-20", "file": "debates1963-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "92a57557ca319fe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-20a.980.0", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": " get away with that argument, especially when within the last few weeks a committee of experts has advised the formation of regional crime squads for the United Kingdom as a whole? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the mind of the criminal knows no geographical barrier and that the regional crime squad to which he referred is limited. Is not it about time we had a Scotland, Yard for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-20a.980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-20", "file": "debates1963-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "92a57557ca319fe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-20a.996.6", "colnum": "996", "heading": "NEW WRIT (DUMFRIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "e calibre of every possible candidate. The people of Dumfries have grave doubts whether they should elect the Solicitor-General for Scotland without finding out his views on important questions of the day. Naturally, the Solicitor-General for Scotland will want to explain, for example, the housing policy of the Government in all the innumerable villages, especially those where there are no houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-20a.996.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-20", "file": "debates1963-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "92a57557ca319fe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-20a.1025.3", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL TRAINING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "o people from outside would simply be that doing so would take those schools out of a monastic state in which they may not be in touch with the general stream of life. That is why I cannot agree with the party opposite which wants to destroy these schools altogether. I would prefer to follow the Fleming Report on this matter. I may be asked what this has got to do with the subject we are debating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-20a.1025.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-20", "file": "debates1963-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "92a57557ca319fe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-20a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL TRAINING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "preceding_text": "e intervention of my right hon. Friend's Department, the settlement is temporary and, however it may affect a particular industry or particular employers, it frequently conflicts with the national interest. I know that the Opposition are as aware of this as I am, but their remedy is for the State to exercise increasing control through nationalisation, or the buying of shares in existing companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-20a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-21", "file": "debates1963-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4c669f9c17d2c9ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1175.0", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I am simply making a comment, Mr. Speaker. I am asking for information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-21", "file": "debates1963-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4c669f9c17d2c9ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1175.5", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The difficulty about it is that I do not know in which capacity the noble Lord was engaged in these activities, whether he was acting as a member of the Government or not acting as i member of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1175.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-21", "file": "debates1963-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4c669f9c17d2c9ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1175.5", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The difficulty about it is that I do not know in which capacity the noble Lord was engaged in these activities, whether he was acting as a member of the Government or not acting as i member of the Government—[ Interruption ] No, this is quite complicated. 1 do not know whether he was acting a; Lord Chancellor, whether as a Member of the other place, or where the attack is directed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1175.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-21", "file": "debates1963-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4c669f9c17d2c9ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1176.3", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And in Germany?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think in the usual way; the Lord Chancellor attends party conferences, as I understand it, as a member of the Government, but he does not take part in the discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1176.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-21", "file": "debates1963-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4c669f9c17d2c9ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1176.5", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Lord Chancellor was on a tour on behalf of the British Council, meeting various people under the auspices of the British Council, which I think is a perfectly proper thing to do, talking about matters which are his proper concern in this country. As I understand it, a speech had been made by the Leader of the Opposition which seemed to suggest that a Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1176.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-21", "file": "debates1963-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4c669f9c17d2c9ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1177.7", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. Since the Prime Minister wants to pursue this, is he aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1177.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-21", "file": "debates1963-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4c669f9c17d2c9ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "In view of the importance of the White Paper which was issued yesterday on the official status of the Welsh language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-21", "file": "debates1963-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4c669f9c17d2c9ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1181.6", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House consult his right hon. Friend the Prime Minister about the practice of transferring Questions addressed to the Prime Minister to other Ministers? Could he ascertain from his right hon. Friend whether the Prime Minister vets the Questions himself; whether he looks at them and comes to a conclusion about whether or not they should be addressed to him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1181.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-21", "file": "debates1963-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4c669f9c17d2c9ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1186.3", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "rvice men standing at by-elections? Is he further aware that the Committee, under his right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, met during the Recesses? An interim Report was presented to the House, and just before the Summer Recess the final Report was presented, and the then Leader of the House assured my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. M. Foot)—who, we all hope, will soon be back with us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-21", "file": "debates1963-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4c669f9c17d2c9ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "BRITISH EUROPEAN AIRWAYS AND BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "id leaving uncertainty in the minds of Corporation's staff it would be best, in my view, if the new appointments were made as soon as possible after your statement. If you agree, therefore, I would propose to vacate the chairmanship of the Corporation on 31st December, 1963 and so make way for Guthrie to succeed me as Chairman. This letter makes it plain that there was no issue of policy at stake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-21", "file": "debates1963-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4c669f9c17d2c9ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "that changes will occur in the next six or nine months—I mean political changes. It may be that my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East, may occupy this honourable position. May I assure him that when that happens he will have a tough task in the legacy which the present Government willleave. He will then have to live up to some of the proposals he has made and the criticisms he has indulged in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-21", "file": "debates1963-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4c669f9c17d2c9ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": " and dear to my heart to be carried out. In six months' time when my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. Wilson) is Prime Minister I want him to give a pledge. I want him to undertake and pledge his personal honour to examine the defence situation which he finds and then undertake to carry through whatever steps the situation requires regardless of the political consequences to his Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-21", "file": "debates1963-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4c669f9c17d2c9ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1305.1", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. John Hay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Suez?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. John Hay)", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) and several other hon. Members who have taken the time of the House this afternoon and this evening in speaking, not about the Bill but about what they claim are our failures In defence policy—that, whether they like Government defence policy or not, over these years Government defence policy and Government defence effort have kept this country at peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-21a.1305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-25", "file": "debates1963-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0315e74b60478d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.15.7", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that he has not fully and truthfully answered the Question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.15.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-25", "file": "debates1963-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0315e74b60478d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.16.0", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "leman aware that he has not fully and truthfully answered the Question? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I have read every one of the International Control Commission's Reports and talked to members of the International Control Commission in Vietnam. The Question asks the hon. Gentleman to collate the evidence of the supply of military material by any party. The hon. Gentleman knows full well that materials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.15.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-25", "file": "debates1963-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0315e74b60478d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.18.2", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the visit of this Minister is very greatly resented", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.18.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-25", "file": "debates1963-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0315e74b60478d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.18.2", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the visit of this Minister is very greatly resented [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—by many hon. Members on this side of the House and is also resented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.18.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-25", "file": "debates1963-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0315e74b60478d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "Will not the Foreign Secretary convey to Senor Fraga Iribarne the repugnance felt by most people in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.19.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-25", "file": "debates1963-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0315e74b60478d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.30.4", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "May I first, ask my hon. Friend whether she is aware that hon. Members on both sides of the House are delighted to see my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley (Mr. H. Macmillan) back again in the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.30.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-25", "file": "debates1963-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0315e74b60478d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.35.4", "colnum": "35", "heading": "PRESIDENT KENNEDY (TRIBUTES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " bind me as well as the House, this Motion should have been placed on the Order Paper today to enable it to be moved tomorrow. On this occasion, however, I felt convinced that hon. Members would not wish to proceed with the ordinary businessof the week without passing, at the earliest possible moment, an Address expressing our sympathy and to waive the Rules of the House to enable this to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.35.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-25", "file": "debates1963-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0315e74b60478d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "PRESIDENT KENNEDY (TRIBUTES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " are parliamentarians, both here and in other countries of the world, must see that this promise is not lost, that the light is not dimmed and that our sense of purpose is not stunned. We pray for the good health and sense of mission of the new President and pledge ourselves, with him, to the task of making life safer and better far our generation and those still to come. I beg to move the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.35.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-25", "file": "debates1963-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0315e74b60478d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "PRESIDENT KENNEDY (TRIBUTES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": " bereavement, and to the whole of humanity, struggling in this world of darkness, the sudden and cruel extinction of a shining light. We mourn for him and for his bereaved family, to whom we offer our respectful sympathy, and for all the American people; and we mourn him—and this is perhaps the greatest tribute to Jack Kennedy's life and work—for ourselves, for what we and all the world have lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-25a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-26", "file": "debates1963-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "2ccacc1285eb73b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.62.6", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Several times.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Does not the Minister realise that probably at least half of the local authorities have had to raise their rents in the last eighteen months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.62.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-26", "file": "debates1963-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "2ccacc1285eb73b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "What I know is that, whatever the level of rents, the people on the waiting list are only too anxious to get local authority houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-26", "file": "debates1963-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "2ccacc1285eb73b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "e is one of those persons who, for obvious reasons, must be subject to limitations in his social life. It is most important that we should have chief constables of the right calibre and character, and I believe that the overwhelming proportion are in this class. But there must be obvious limitations to a chief constable's social life. It is undesirable, for instance, that he should be a freemason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-26", "file": "debates1963-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "2ccacc1285eb73b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is so already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "preceding_text": "sion therefore rejected that alternative. However, there are some who take the opposite view—I thought that the hon. Lady came very close to this—and argue that in a democracy the police should be subject to control by democratically elected local councillors. But this would increasingly mean the direct influence of party politicians upon the work of the police. In my opinion, that would be wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-26", "file": "debates1963-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "2ccacc1285eb73b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ike to ask the hon. Gentleman how much he expects to be paid under each of these respective elements: first, the police grant under the local enactments relating to local government in Scotland or by way of Exchequer equalisation grant in Scotland. I am sure my hon. Friends are anxious to have information about this. We are always anxious to know what is happening to local authorities in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-26", "file": "debates1963-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "2ccacc1285eb73b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.221.0", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ion into the Bill. I want it to be omitted. In doing so, we may find that we shall throw the cost on to another authority, and there is no authorisation in the Money Resolution for that authority to bear that expenditure. This point relates to human rights and reasonable justice for chief constables. I know what the chief constable in Kilmarnock had to put up with in respect of this kind of thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-26", "file": "debates1963-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "2ccacc1285eb73b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.224.2", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodhouse", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodhouse", "preceding_text": "I have not much time to deal with the other remaining matters and I should like to get on to \"B\" and \" C\" .—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.224.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-26", "file": "debates1963-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "2ccacc1285eb73b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.246.5", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TSR2 AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. While realising, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.246.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-26", "file": "debates1963-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "2ccacc1285eb73b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.246.7", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TSR2 AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "While realising, Mr. Speaker, that the selection of those who rise to speak is a matter entirely for you, as the hon. Member having the Adjournment debate, instead of using it for the purpose of raising a constituency question or some other question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-26a.246.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "I should like to correct the hon. Gentleman when he says this has been going on for over a year. I think it is a matter of about eight or nine months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.289.10", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"M. Bidault.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "y for a nefarious purpose, for espionage or to escape Interpol or for any other purpose, has the slightest difficulty in doing so. The Home Office is candid enough to give a whole series of illustrations of how it can be done. A person can land from a yacht at some unfrequented port or get on a helicopter and land on a moorland somewhere, or, without going to that expense, come in through Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.289.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "eel that financial help should be given to local authority and voluntary efforts to ensure the integration of Commonwealth immigrants in local communities. In this connection, our party is setting up a working party to study these problems. There are, of course, a number of vital issues. A number of other important steps have to be taken which I should be out of order to outline in detail tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "s that the Bill when introduced bore all the hallmarks of racialism in its most blatant form. I say straight away that this was not the motive which prompted the present Foreign Secretary to introduce the Measure. He is a humane man. Perhaps in the Tory Party that has been his great drawback. He has been too humane for their liking. They prefer the wielder of the axe to the man with a human heart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.384.3", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "st Indies, who have always relied on migration for their economy, have been very much left out in the cold. In regard to the question of free entry, which was the third reason why the Immigration Bill was passed, I concede straight away, although I was bitterly opposed to the Bill and am still bitterly opposed to the Act, that obviously there are certain limited benefits which have flowed from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.384.3", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "o the question of free entry, which was the third reason why the Immigration Bill was passed, I concede straight away, although I was bitterly opposed to the Bill and am still bitterly opposed to the Act, that obviously there are certain limited benefits which have flowed from it. [ Interruption .] I am not as ungenerous as the hon. Member for Louth and I shall say what I think those benefits are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "hich have been made in by-elections, no doubt not by hon. and right hon. Members opposite but by their supporters in areas where there happens to be a large coloured population sometimes suffering from a housing shortage which, strangely enough, is not of their creation but of the Government's. Therefore, I can understand that the hon. Member wants to probe and I shall be delighted to satisfy him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "os whereby a specific number of migrants is taken annually from Barbados for work at the London Passenger Transport Board is a very good thing for Barbados, because it can give certainty to a percentage of its employable population, and it also produces a vital source of labour for the London Passenger Transport Board. Having said that, I believe that there is a case for some form of co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.392.7", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"How apologetic was the hon. Gentleman himself?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "exist—that, if they got power, they would repeal the Act. The Liberals should equally honestly say that they would support such a repeal if individual Liberal Members were returned. I, for my part, would freely accept that challenge at any General Election. I depart from the views expressed by the Opposition in that I think that the Act was reluctantly and apologetically introduced into the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.392.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank McLeavy", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Black and white?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank McLeavy", "preceding_text": "n arriving in a strange land and finding no work available. Parliament surely has a clear duty to avoid such circumstances arising. Australia in particular is taking a large number of emigrants from this country annually, and they have to be medically fit, of certain ages and required for industry and agricultural development. While I believe it is good that people from Britain should go overseas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "preceding_text": "se I believe that it is my duty to the people I represent in Bradford and also to the nation, and I intend to carry out that duty whatever the cost may be. We must say clearly that, while we welcome Commonwealth citizens to our country—I want them as much as anyone else—they must be absorbed into our industrial requirements. In Bradford we have a large influx of immigrants from Pakistan and India—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "preceding_text": "er Members have had and, after all, we'have a responsibility to our people from the trade union point of view when they feel that they are being put into difficulty because of the danger to public health of overcrowding. We have a responsibility to our ordinary trade union members in our towns and cities who have been waiting for houses for many years because of the neglect of the Tory Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.406.9", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wishes me to contradict him again, I will. Naturally, in issuing these vouchers we took into account that some of them would not be taken up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.406.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.408.3", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot ride off on that one either. First, I have as much experience in Gloucester as he has in Wycombe, probably more—right? Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "cause the given number of people do not come in. It does not satisfy anyone's criteria of equity, fairness or justice, so what is the benefit of it? One has to examine the situation as it was before. We had an automatic control which worked without all these difficult overtones. It worked perfectly satisfactorily. When there were jobs, people came, and when there were not jobs they stopped coming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "e have under this Government, we have to reverse the process and give them vouchers to go back again because we have too large a labour force. The whole idea that we can control it in this way in order to achieve a satisfactory level of employment is nonsense. That is one argument out of the way. The other argument out of the way is housing. It is nonsense to say that this causes housing problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I shall give way afterwards, but I have already given way eight times. What is the electoral issue? It is not unemployment; I have demonstrated that. It is not control; I have demonstrated that. It is not housing, I have demonstrated that. It is because the people who support this attitude loathe black men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.411.3", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "First, I want to refute the utterly contemptible statement just made by the hon. Member for Gloucester (Mr. Diamond) that hon. Members on this side of the House hate black men. That is a scandalous untruth, and we reject it utterly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which law?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "nd by the attitude which I took then. May I make it clear for my hon. Friends and myself that we all believe that everybody in this country, irrespective of race, colour or religion, is entitled to the full protection of the law, and that anyone who stirs up hatred of any kind on racial matters or any other matter or who indulges in anti-Semitism should be punished to the utmost rigour of the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.412.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.415.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.415.6", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "On those figures —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.415.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "We would have to find 10 million new jobs because of automation; I am obliged to the hon. and learned Member. That being so, and 10 million new jobs having to be found for our workers, does it not seem crazy to open our doors to allow millions of unskilled unemployed to come here to make it more difficult for our own people to find work for themselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\" Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " I am quoting what the Leader of the Labour Party said to his own people. Take the question of housing and what immigration has done there. Hon. Members opposite should speak to their colleague who represents Bradford, East, who knows the problems which have arisen. Half a million immigrants have come to this country in the last eight years. If they had not come, there would be no housing problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "the problem would remain the same. We must face this. We must be honest with ourselves. Throughout the world, wherever there has been a racial problem, a colour problem, whether it be in East Africa, of Africans against the Asians, or anywhere, where there is a racial problem, there is difficulty, and so far men of good will of every race have yet to find the answer to the terrible racial problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Dallas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "who are keeping him from getting employment. What the hon. Gentleman has said will release forces in the country which are so explosive and dangerous in character that even hon. Gentlemen opposite will regret what they have done. I warn the Home Secretary not to give respectable cover to the sort of arguments that we shall hear from people like his hon. Friend in every constituency in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "An. Hon. Member:\" Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "That is not the point. I am not dealing with the case of employers who do employ coloured people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.423.3", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "preceding_text": "In black and white.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-27", "file": "debates1963-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b991c6e3a4def858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.427.2", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And the Old Etonians.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "l find that the entire Polish community attends that church, They go together. It is natural, right and proper. It is racial absorption that I am talking about—and it has nothing to do with colour. The Polish community stick together; the Italian community stick together intensely; the Jewish community stick together; the Ghanaian community stick together; the West Indian community stick together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-27a.427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-28", "file": "debates1963-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "008bc10c2d526aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.470.5", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIXED-MANNED NUCLEAR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Our advice is that certainly it is militarily practicable to have such a force. Not only our Government but all the allies in N.A.T.O. wanted to examine this proposal which the American Government have made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.470.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-28", "file": "debates1963-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "008bc10c2d526aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.470.6", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIXED-MANNED NUCLEAR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman recall that some weeks ago, before he became Premier, after a series of inconclusive Cabinet meetings there was clear evidence in the Press of briefing by the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence in a contrary sense to one another? Does he not agree that this practice, which may have been familiar in past years in Washington, is absolutely unheard of in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.470.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-28", "file": "debates1963-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "008bc10c2d526aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.473.2", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PROPOSED RAILWAY CLOSURES, WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "We welcome the Answer given by the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.473.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-28", "file": "debates1963-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "008bc10c2d526aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PROPOSED RAILWAY CLOSURES, WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman and his friends had listened they would have heard me say just now, I hope, that the Minister of Transport applies exactly the same procedure as the Secretary of State for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.474.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-28", "file": "debates1963-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "008bc10c2d526aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.475.2", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PROPOSED RAILWAY CLOSURES, WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.475.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-11-28", "file": "debates1963-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "008bc10c2d526aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "MALAYSIA(GUT OF A SPEAKER'S CHAIR)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "In accordance with what I am sure is the wish of the House, I shall cause the Resolution referred to by the hon. Baronet to be recorded in the Journal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-28", "file": "debates1963-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "008bc10c2d526aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "to apply the 1962 good management code to tenement blocks. Finally, we are removing the time limit which, at the moment, prevents any local authority from proposing a registration scheme until, I think, the autumn of 1964. By removing that time limit we shall make it possible, as soon as the Bill becomes law, for local authorities to propose a registration scheme for consideration by the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-28", "file": "debates1963-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "008bc10c2d526aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "he Minister will deal with it. The other great thing that needs to be done to strengthen Part IV is to deal with the other aspect of Rachmanism—the cozening or bullying or persecuting of the controlled tenant out of his controlled tenancy. I repeat what I have said before: the motive for this activity is simply that part of the Rent Act which provides for creeping decontrol, which tells everybody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-28", "file": "debates1963-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "008bc10c2d526aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ides for creeping decontrol, which tells everybody—[ interruption, ] The Minister must grasp this. One buys a property in which there are controlled tenants, and one buys it cheap because they are controlled. If one can bully them out, it is a positive gold mine to one. I know what some members of the Conservative Party will say, that the real cause of this is that we have got rent control at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-28", "file": "debates1963-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "008bc10c2d526aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " way. The hon. Member for Aldershot (Sir E. Errington) is right in saying that this Bill constitutes an admission that private landlordism cannot solve the housing problem of the majority of our people, and that the Government now admits balance has to be restored. But the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras, South, in response, as always, to the vested interests behind the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-28", "file": "debates1963-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "008bc10c2d526aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to follow the hon. Member for Chippenham (Mr. Awdry), though I agree very much with the sentiments he has expressed. I have spent a long period in local government, but there is no indication in any Clause of this Bill that it is in any way in the Minister's mind just now to do what the hon. Member suggested, and I do not think it is of much use, therefore, talking about it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-28a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-11-29", "file": "debates1963-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "f992722eeb10f159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-29a.721.5", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY AND GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "preceding_text": "d industries. We have always taken the view that there ought to be a national fuel policy, with coordination between the fuel industries, which would recognise the long-term value of this country's indigenous source of fuel and would take full account of the strategic advantages and importance of coal as an export commodity. Our hope lies in a change of Government in the few months that lie ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-11-29a.721.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.773.3", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "Research and inquiry always precede action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.773.5", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of all those considerations. This matter will have to be considered. Adding a passenger tends to turn a tricycle into a motor car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.773.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Gentleman that, if he looks into it a little further, he will find that there is nothing inconsistent between the words of the Prime Minister and what my right hon. Friend and I have said. The fact is that last year fourteen new or substantially remodelled hospitals were started. This year twenty-one either have been or will be started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.775.4", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I do not know, Sir. All I can tell the right hon. Gentleman is that in this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.775.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.782.2", "colnum": "782", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT DEBATE (27th NOVEMBER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": " you that that Ruling by Mr. Speaker was merely an endorsement of the fact that Mr. Deputy-Speaker had chosen, as he had a right to do, and as you had a perfect right to do, to call what Member he liked. You yourself, Mr. Speaker, in your reply to me, pointed out that an hon. Gentleman who makes charges has a right to expect a reply. Equally, if it was an hon. Member opposite who made the charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.782.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.782.4", "colnum": "782", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT DEBATE (27th NOVEMBER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I am not on this occasion seeking the protection of the Chair, Mr. Speaker, I can look after myself, but if I am subjected to a running fire of interruption, from the benches opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.782.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.782.4", "colnum": "782", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT DEBATE (27th NOVEMBER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I am not on this occasion seeking the protection of the Chair, Mr. Speaker, I can look after myself, but if I am subjected to a running fire of interruption, from the benches opposite—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—I shall have only two courses open to me. One is to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.782.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.782.4", "colnum": "782", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT DEBATE (27th NOVEMBER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "can look after myself, but if I am subjected to a running fire of interruption, from the benches opposite—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—I shall have only two courses open to me. One is to—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Sit down.\"]—exactly, which I have no intention of doing, or, secondly, to reply to hon. Members. They are making the points made by the hon. Member who has run away from the challenge to debate with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.782.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.782.4", "colnum": "782", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT DEBATE (27th NOVEMBER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tedious repetition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "ption, from the benches opposite—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—I shall have only two courses open to me. One is to—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Sit down.\"]—exactly, which I have no intention of doing, or, secondly, to reply to hon. Members. They are making the points made by the hon. Member who has run away from the challenge to debate with me. [ Interruption. ] May I continue to put to the Chair the point of order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.782.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.782.4", "colnum": "782", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT DEBATE (27th NOVEMBER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "—exactly, which I have no intention of doing, or, secondly, to reply to hon. Members. They are making the points made by the hon. Member who has run away from the challenge to debate with me. [ Interruption. ] May I continue to put to the Chair the point of order? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Tedious repetition.\"] May I put the point that on 16th December, 1958, Sir Gordon Touche, who was occupying the Chair", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.782.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "r. Indeed, the Select Committee drew attention to this sort of thing in paragraph 218 of its 1959 Report when it queried the degree of control which the Minister should exercise over the Corporation. The Minister would be wrong to tell the Chairman how to adjust the figures in the accounts. I therefore hope that what I have said will clear up this point and will end the controversy on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.803.4", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "preceding_text": "rote: The momentum of B.O.A.C.'s financial recovery is now so great that it could carry us to a £3 million profit at the end of the financial year—enough to pay the interest on all our active capital. and \"active capital\", I take it, excludes interest on accumulated deficit. He pointed out that sales in Britain had increased by 12 per cent, compared with last year and that in the four weeks ended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.803.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.803.4", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "preceding_text": "s not necessitate increased borrowing powers, but it is a good thing if we can keep in mind exactly what is at present happening and the fact that this turn of events has been brought about by the present management and Board of B.O.A.C. Even more important, since the Corbett Report has not be made available to the management and since the contents of the White Paper were kept from the management—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.803.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.803.4", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "preceding_text": "his weakness in financial control to continue for a further long period, after he received such a major criticism, rather than show the Report to the chairman and the members of the present board. It would almost appear that, while complaining about the losses, he was afraid of the prospect of the present management getting back to profitability., if it had had the advantage of the Corbett Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.803.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.803.4", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "preceding_text": "e read were written the authors knew that Sir Matthew Slattery, Sir Basil Smallpeice and probably Sir Wilfred Neden would be out by the end of this year. To believe otherwise stretches the credulity even of Members of Parliament beyond a reasonable point. I think that the position was made impossible for the board and the officials of B.O.A.C. In other words, in plain English, they were fired out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.803.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.803.4", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "preceding_text": "position was made impossible for the board and the officials of B.O.A.C. In other words, in plain English, they were fired out—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] From the noises opposite I assume that that is considered to be a prejudiced opinion from members of the political Opposition. Perhaps I may be permitted to read part of the leading article in Flight International for Thursday, 28th November: It says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.803.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"More than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "preceding_text": "r was a mischance. Clearly, the delay in the delivery of the Britannias was, for the airline, a misfortune. From the figures, one can see that a large part of the deficit can be set against this element. What the proportion is, I imagine, is beyond anyone's capacity to fix, but one may say that, perhaps, something like one-third of the total deficit was attributable to one of these three elements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "preceding_text": "fferent story. One knows that, as a flag carrier, a nationalised Corporation has to do a variety of these things and, as I say, carry the rough with the smooth. But what the Minister's attitude, and the political attitude on the other side of the House, favours is that there should be created private-enterprise firms, and that there should be hived off to those private-enterprise firms the smooth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ave been better, in terms of internal organisation,if some way could have been found to consult more accurately and actively the views of pilots? The hon. Member for Gloucester referred to the fact that there have been conversations on both sides of the House on these matters. I am frankly astounded by the powder keg of views which the pilots hold which appear to have no expression upwards at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very superficial.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "c. I suppose that hon. Members have seen the same figures that I have seen, brought together very conveniently by the British Air Line Pilots Association from the annual reports of I.A.T.A. and B.O.A.C. Whether one talks of the overall load factor or the passenger load factor, both these sets of figures show B.O.A.C. in a worse light than is the average case for world traffic. This is unfortunate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.856.5", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "mber, since so much idiocy comes from him that at times it is difficult to sort it all out. I took a note of his words. He may alter them at the appropriate moment, but I still say that he advocated, in my hearing, that the policy of the Government should be to purchase aircraft in the cheapest market. He used those words. How they appear in the OFFICIAL REPORT will be a matter for his discretion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.856.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"1964.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "ial judgments seem to be extraordinarily naive. For example, we are told that there is to be an expenditure of £2 million on publicising the VC10. This went off with a big bang last week. I am all in favour of publicising the VC10, which, I believe, will be a first-class aircraft, but, had I been faced with this judgment, and knowing that this aircraft will not come into active service until 1965—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "ad started the job. I would have preferred that some form of publication had been arranged, though I realise the difficulties. I would certainly say that if anything was to be to the disadvantage of the British aircraft industry, or British aircraft operators, it would have been taken out of the Report. Had it been to the disadvantage of the Minister we would, of course, not have worried about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": " House would like to have this information, and the Press would like to have this information. But on every occasion we come up against a complete block—it is confidential; it is in the Corbett Report. I suggest that this is the absolute negation of British ideas of justice and fair play. This is probably one of the most disgraceful miscarriages of justice that has occurred since the Dreyfus case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-02", "file": "debates1963-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d164b3c965487a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "pe that the Minister will give us some definite news about what is to happen to Sir Wilfred Neden. Will he let us know also what he is to do about the extraordinary situation which has now arisen on the board? None of us knows what is happening. We hear that some directors have resigned, some are about to resign, and some are saying that they refuse to resign. There seems to be complete confusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-02a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-03", "file": "debates1963-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "23ec061e338bcf0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.962.6", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "it took a High Court action to stop it, and in the case of Leibigs Extract Meat Co., Ltd., it took an informer to stop it? In the former case, marketable Securities were sold by the principal company to a subsidiary. Those securities, worth £800,000, were sold for £200,000 in order to make an artificial loss of £600,000. In the case of Leibigs Extract of Meat Co. a manipulation of stock valuation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.962.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-03", "file": "debates1963-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "23ec061e338bcf0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.962.6", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": " Extract Meat Co., Ltd., it took an informer to stop it? In the former case, marketable Securities were sold by the principal company to a subsidiary. Those securities, worth £800,000, were sold for £200,000 in order to make an artificial loss of £600,000. In the case of Leibigs Extract of Meat Co. a manipulation of stock valuation—[ Interruption .]—I take full responsibility for what I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.962.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-03", "file": "debates1963-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "23ec061e338bcf0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "I am pressing the point upon the hon. Gentleman as to how he can be satisfied with existing powers when this kind of tax avoidance can go unchecked unless there are special circumstances which brings it to light. The manipulation of the valuation of stocks and marketable securities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-03", "file": "debates1963-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "23ec061e338bcf0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.964.6", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "Would not the hon. Gentleman agree that an equitable tax system is a prerequisite of any national incomes policy? Would he also agree that if an incomes policy is to work it must be seen by the public to operate effectively and impartially? Is he further aware that there has been great dissatisfaction over the last few years with the way the Tory Government's so-called incomes policy has operated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.964.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-03", "file": "debates1963-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "23ec061e338bcf0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.964.6", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "ic to operate effectively and impartially? Is he further aware that there has been great dissatisfaction over the last few years with the way the Tory Government's so-called incomes policy has operated—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Would he agree that any effective incomes policy must include a proper capital gains tax and a proper assessment of expense account allowances? Will he look at this again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.964.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-03", "file": "debates1963-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "23ec061e338bcf0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.966.5", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I cannot say more than I have said so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.966.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-03", "file": "debates1963-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "23ec061e338bcf0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.966.8", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Mystery.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "In this case there is a certain amount of history to the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.966.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-03", "file": "debates1963-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "23ec061e338bcf0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.978.4", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CANCER RESEARCH (FRENCH PROPOSAL)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Not until after the-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.978.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-03", "file": "debates1963-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "23ec061e338bcf0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "Close consultation with local authorities is starting now and will continue regularly. There has been consultation before, of course, but now we have to get down to the details. The hon. Member for Kilmarnock asked that we should make a plan for the whole of Scotland. Of course we could have done that, but it would have taken a good many months extra to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-03a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-04", "file": "debates1963-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7579b4d0bc9faa4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "If the information put forward at one of these T.U.C.C. hearings is germane and relative to the scope of the inquiry, statements may be made and questions asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-04", "file": "debates1963-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7579b4d0bc9faa4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1151.0", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "ROYAL ORDNANCE FACTORY, WOOLWICH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "preceding_text": "This decision was taken by me as a result of an examination carried out by me upon advice and I cannot undertake to publish the results—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-04", "file": "debates1963-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7579b4d0bc9faa4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "t alone needs 100,000 jobs in the next five years. Two more things need to be done. Not only must we try to attract industries which are on the move, but there must be some policy to dislodge industry from the South-East, either by the sort of means suggested by Professor Fogarty, or by outright purchase of industrial undertakings in the South-East and reopening them in the older industrial areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-04", "file": "debates1963-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7579b4d0bc9faa4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "ither outright publicly-owned industries in the old areas, or joint enterprises based upon ideas thrown up by publicly-financed research. This must be the third step to get the right amount of work into the old areas. I want now to refer to additional capital investment. This is the biggest hoax of all. The older industrial regions are suffering from a century of depredation by private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-04", "file": "debates1963-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7579b4d0bc9faa4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1172.4", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speir", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1172.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-04", "file": "debates1963-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7579b4d0bc9faa4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1172.8", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is not a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speir", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. As the hon. Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Central (Mr. Short) made a completely false statement about the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1172.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-04", "file": "debates1963-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7579b4d0bc9faa4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1172.10", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "Paragraph 76 is headed \"Urban improvements generally\" and says: There must also be continual improvement in a wide range of civic facilities, from libraries and swimming baths to street lighting and public gardens, and the renovation of areas not due for reconstruction. This paragraph on the provisions of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1172.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-04", "file": "debates1963-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7579b4d0bc9faa4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "50 when the Labour Party was in office. If that is challenged, I point out that the national average of unemployment in that period was below the present national average. Hon. Members opposite may sneer at that Labour Government, but the level of unemployment then was lower than it is now, and I know why. The reason it was lower was not entirely attributable to a Labour Government; of course not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-04", "file": "debates1963-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7579b4d0bc9faa4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Then sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Browne", "preceding_text": "One always feels at this time of the day, when one is told that one must sit down in five minutes, that perhaps it would have been better if one had not been called at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-04", "file": "debates1963-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7579b4d0bc9faa4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " if it will be there. Let us look at what the future holds for us: I think that it probably holds very great promise. Unlike the Secretary of State for Industry and Trade, I do not feel \"daunted\"—that is the word he used yesterday—by the prospect that lies ahead. If he feels daunted, the sooner he resigns from his job the better. Looking back over the last 40 years, the population of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-04", "file": "debates1963-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7579b4d0bc9faa4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1267.0", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. MEmbers: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "he old Adam creeping in. The right hon. Gentleman is not fully a Socialist yet, but he is coming along, and I hope that he will take the opportunity tonight to explain to us in relation to this vast growth of population over the next 20 or 30 years how these land studies and his land programme will fit the needs of the situation. I come, in my last five minutes, to the final part of our Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-04", "file": "debates1963-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7579b4d0bc9faa4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1273.8", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "cial policy and, above all, the Government's investment priorities, must take the Government's regional policies into account. But this will involve some change in the present machinery and the planning machinery being set up is not just being set up in order to prepare static plans. The essence of planning machinery must be to anticipate emerging trends which can be forecast, and as I shall show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1273.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-04", "file": "debates1963-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7579b4d0bc9faa4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "broken down into two periods. From 1945 to 1948, when the world was starved for good safter the war, the then Government managed to steer 45 per cent, of the new industrial capacity to the development districts. But immediately after the present Leader of the Opposition became President of the Board of Trade the figure dropped not to 30 per cent., but to 19 per cent., far below our own proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-04a.1277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-05", "file": "debates1963-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "1031b1c6dc04f0ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1340.5", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALDIVE ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "While I do not doubt the integrity of the Secretary of State and do not question the information which he submits to us, may I ask whether he would agree that it is very unusual for an elected leader to accept exile to desolate islands like the Seychelles?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1340.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-05", "file": "debates1963-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "1031b1c6dc04f0ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1340.5", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALDIVE ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "While I do not doubt the integrity of the Secretary of State and do not question the information which he submits to us, may I ask whether he would agree that it is very unusual for an elected leader to accept exile to desolate islands like the Seychelles? [ Interruption .] Is he aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1340.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-05", "file": "debates1963-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "1031b1c6dc04f0ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1340.5", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALDIVE ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "hile I do not doubt the integrity of the Secretary of State and do not question the information which he submits to us, may I ask whether he would agree that it is very unusual for an elected leader to accept exile to desolate islands like the Seychelles? [ Interruption .] Is he aware—[ Interruption .] — this is the \"Voice and Vision\" lobby again. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the mother—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1340.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-05", "file": "debates1963-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "1031b1c6dc04f0ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1353.4", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "preceding_text": " Answer from the Financial Secretary in which he said that the pottery was bought because of suitability, delivery service and value for money? Is he aware that the pottery industry in North Staffordshire, which has made a tremendous contribution to the economy of this country, is angry and annoyed that a public body, which receives money collected from taxes paid by the industry, should consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1353.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-05", "file": "debates1963-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "1031b1c6dc04f0ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1357.4", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE PRESS (AMALGAMATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "I agree with the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1357.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-05", "file": "debates1963-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "1031b1c6dc04f0ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1370.4", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Reverting to the question put by the hon. Member for Brixton (Mr. Lipton), will my right hon. and learned Friend bear in mind that this is a matter between the Prime Minister and me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1370.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-05", "file": "debates1963-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "1031b1c6dc04f0ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1370.4", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Reverting to the question put by the hon. Member for Brixton (Mr. Lipton), will my right hon. and learned Friend bear in mind that this is a matter between the Prime Minister and me? [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] To begin with, it is a matter between the Prime Minister and me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1370.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-05", "file": "debates1963-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "1031b1c6dc04f0ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1389.3", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARBOURS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "versial Measures with which I have anything to do. That will be an unusual experience. We have tried to make this a first-class Bill and I hope that during its passage I shall have the support of all hon. Members, whatever their party. I hope that today's debate will range over the many important principles involved and will not get tied up with the needs and problems of individual ports too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-05", "file": "debates1963-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "1031b1c6dc04f0ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARBOURS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "liamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Trans- port for agreeing to send assessors from the Ministry to that conference It was a very difficult conference to arrange. It showed in a way what difficulties we shall have to achieve unification on the Clyde. I am sure that this must apply in many other rivers. Human beings are the same the world over. Hon Members will sympathise with me in this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-05", "file": "debates1963-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "1031b1c6dc04f0ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1431.3", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARBOURS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which Royal Docks?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "preceding_text": ", Sir Robert Letch, who died a year or two ago. I am glad to be able to say that tonight, because I knew him intimately. It was a great loss when he passed over. It is interesting to show how serious losses can be turned into profits by good management and foresight. My main object in speaking tonight is to protest at the threatened closure of the Royal docks, which I have known for over 50 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1431.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-05", "file": "debates1963-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "1031b1c6dc04f0ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1461.3", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARBOURS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": "ent. It seems to present that sort of picture, but what particularly worries me about the Bill is the power which my right hon. Friend is taking to allow the National Ports Council to ask for information. Government Departments are entitled to ask for and give information, but I always fear that when a Government Department has the information it goes on asking for more whether it wants it or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-05a.1461.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-06", "file": "debates1963-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9b0843a95d60686d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-06a.1509.10", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Postmaster-General (Mr. Reginald Bevins)", "preceding_text": "w read a Second time. This, I think, is the first Post Office debate for many a long year in which the late Mr. W. R. Williams is not taking part, and I hope that the House will think it appropriate if I take this opportunity of saying what great affection he had for the Post Office and all those who worked in it, and that I am sure that hon. Members on both sides of the House will miss him today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-06a.1509.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-06", "file": "debates1963-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9b0843a95d60686d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-06a.1518.2", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Mason", "preceding_text": "s that the duty falls to me because of the loss of our late and respected colleague, Bill Williams. He was an officer of the Union of Post Office Workers for many years and acquitted himself well in Post Office affairs by his considerable personal knowledge and experience. I shall miss him, Mr. Speaker, but, more important, I am certain that during these debates the House of Commons will miss him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-06a.1518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-06", "file": "debates1963-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9b0843a95d60686d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-06a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "waiting list for telephones by March, 1966. I mean no disrespect to my right hon. Friend or to anybody, or to any Government of whatever colour, but I am a cautious person and I think that I. shall wait until I get to March, 1966, and believe it when I see it. However, I think that we have far more chance of achieving it with the present Postmaster-General than we are likely to have in the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-06a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-06", "file": "debates1963-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9b0843a95d60686d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-06a.1602.1", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEGAL AID BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Niall MacDermot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Talk it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Niall MacDermot", "preceding_text": "I echo the embarrassment felt by the right hon. and learned Member for Chertsey (Sir L. Heald) in having to seek to make a Second Reading speech in the very short time available. I will try to avoid making what can properly be Committee points, but there are some matters which one can raise on the Second Reading of a Bill which are not in order at a later stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-06a.1602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-09", "file": "debates1963-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "dca8bef921573a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-09a.14.1", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "e situation. But I think that the hon. Member should bear in mind that the main survey to which he has referred took place in 1958—more than five years ago. There has been very considerable improvement since then. The number of hospital maternity beds, the number of midwives and the number of confinements in hospitals have all been increasing year by year. Perhaps I could add just one other point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-09a.14.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-09", "file": "debates1963-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "dca8bef921573a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-09a.68.3", "colnum": "68", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "of Lord Montgomery's speech. One statement he made was that National Service would at any rate result in the Beatles getting their hair cut. I do not know why they should get their hair cut. I do not understand that that argument is likely to bring young men into the Army at present. Why should a soldier need to have his hair cut in a certain way? Why should not soldiers be allowed to wear beards?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-09a.68.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-09", "file": "debates1963-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "dca8bef921573a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-09a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "man a question about rejections. This is not a new question. We had a debate a year ago, which was a memorable debate for me, because I got neatly trussed up. I was \"mug\" enough to accept a change of procedure in good faith, and I spoke first on the Adjournment and both Front Bench speakers spoke after me. But tomorrow is also a day. And the day after that is another day. And we wait—yes, we wait—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-09a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.193.2", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SEYCHELLES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "In a small territory like the Seychelles civil servants cannot expect to be allowed to take leave whenever they wish to do so. I hope that the hon. Member will not mind my saying that in my view the primary purpose of a job is to do it and not to use it as a laboratory to learn about trade unionism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.193.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.213.2", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ST. VINCENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is it in order for an hon. Member opposite to allege against the Prime Minister that he bought pints for electors in Kinross, thereby imputing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.213.2", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ST. VINCENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is it in order for an hon. Member opposite to allege against the Prime Minister that he bought pints for electors in Kinross, thereby imputing—[Hon. Members: \"Sit down.\"]—a breach of electoral law against my right hon. Friend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.213.4", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ST. VINCENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.213.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ST. VINCENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept the hon. Gentleman's suggestions and forecasts in this case. The total of assistance on firm offers, for instance, under the Local Employment Act at the end of October amounted to £93 million for 494 projects which can provide employment for nearly 100,000 people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ST. VINCENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Do those answers mean that the right hon. Gentleman proposes to ignore the low standard of living, and, in many cases, the lack of proper nutrition for more than 400,000 unemployed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ST. VINCENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Do those answers mean that the right hon. Gentleman proposes to ignore the low standard of living, and, in many cases, the lack of proper nutrition for more than 400,000 unemployed? [ Interruption. ] Is that what it means? Is that all the sympathy he has? Let him answer that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.221.4", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ST. VINCENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Of course we did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.221.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.225.2", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ST. VINCENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": "of these boneless wonders who seem to be running some of the greatest commercial institutions in the country. As the Arabs are not likely to cease these activities, will the Minister consider going a little further and taking legal action to prevent discrimination in international trade by industrial and commercial organisations in this country? We want all trade discrimination to be made illegal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.225.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.226.3", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ST. VINCENT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Public Building and Works (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Public Building and Works (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "preceding_text": ", Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I should like to make a statement on the establishment of a National Building Agency. To fulfil the country's needs for new buildings of all kinds, the output of the building industry must increase by more than 50 per cent. in the next decade. Accordingly: the Government propose to set up a National Building Agency to further the industrialisation of building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "the same form. The new Minister comes along and, having read his brief about the history of pensions since 1945, asks for more details of the Labour Party's scheme. Then he adds, \"I am feeling my way and I have a few little ideas which I will ventilate.\" Thus we have the strange spectacle of the Conservative Government ventilating ideas and relying on the Opposition to work out a practical scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": " that one of the greatest obstacles to attracting scientists from industry to help the Government is the non-transferability of their pension rights. The greatest difficulty in the way of sensible circulation between the universities, Whitehall and industry is non-transferability of pensions. It is obviously sensible as well as just that in changing jobs we should carry our pension rights with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "esent old-age pensioners. We cannot introduce half-pay for them, because we cannot give them half of nothing. These old people present a major problem of social injustice. We have put forward a clear scheme in our New Frontiers for Social Security. As a co-author, I think that this book explains the position very clearly, but if the Minister does not understand it, I shall explain it to him again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What level?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "at this book explains the position very clearly, but if the Minister does not understand it, I shall explain it to him again. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] If hon. Gentlemen opposite know of this scheme, and appreciate that it is clearly set out in that booklet, that is fine by me. We are going to guarantee that no widow's income, or the income of anybody who has retired, shall fall below a certain level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.283.3", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Dame Edith Pitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Edith Pitt", "preceding_text": "r too long. The hon. Gentleman said that £5 9s. is poverty and he asked how anyone could live on it. The answer is that no one has to live on £5 9s. If that is all that a married couple in retirement have, they are eligible for National Assistance. In any event, does not the basic pension of £5 9s. contrast extremely favourably with the 42s. available in the day when the Labour Party was in power?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Dame Edith Pitt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Edith Pitt", "preceding_text": "me, and who because of their age could not come into the present comprehensive scheme. They are diminishing in number, but at the same time are seeing the precious assets which they saved in years gone by, hoping to be comfortable in their old age, also diminishing. I am very sorry for these people. I realise that there is practically no way of bringing them into insurance so long after the event.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "tings—for example, nationalisation and defence. I am not clear whether they are both as strong runners in his mini as once they were. Why does he not make pensions a challenge, take the difference of philosophy and ideological approach on this issue and let the people decide on it? I should be happy to accept if challenged. The Prime Minister would find it a rather rewarding challenge for himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": " not merely to have the 10s. It is a great pity that if the Government were making these other ad hoc piecemeal improvements for widows, this one was not done. I turn for a moment to our plan. It has been published in detail and unless people are wilfully blind, there is no difficulty even in anybody on the benches opposite understanding it. We have, however, just brought out a simplified version—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "d the relationships which will apply at some period after the election which is to take place on a date and in circumstances which we do not yet know, would have to be hypothetical. The Government do not attach themselves to figures about future situations. They do as we are doing—attach themselves to relationships, proportions and examples. I believe that the people outside understand our answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The General Election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "ious debates—and I have taken part in many of them—have not taken place, as this has, against a background of very recent and very substantial increases in benefits. They have generally been arranged at another time, when increases which had recently been put into effect might have begun to fade from people's memories. But this debate comes—and this is the peculiar thing—against the background of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.333.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Minister would like to add—he is a fair man—that I wrote to The Times the next day—they published the letter—pointing out that this was a completely unfair quotation which did not quote what I said at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.339.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.339.4", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I not only say it now, it was published in The Times the next day, and the right hon. Gentleman knew that perfectly well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.339.5", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.339.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.339.5", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Of course—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheat.\"]—I accept what the hon. Gentleman says and he, I am sure, equally will accept what I say now—that I have not seen that letter and knew nothing of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.339.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.339.8", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.339.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I am not the sort of person—as the hon. Gentleman knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": ": \"Apologise.\"]—to blame officials or anybody else. I quoted in good faith from a copy of The Times newspaper which I had. All I can do is to tell the hon. Gentleman that, of course, I accept his statement, and equally I ask him to accept from me—because it is the truth—that I was totally unaware of the letter. What is important is that plainly there would be heavy contributions under this scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "dustry at this moment heavy additional burdens. I must again stress that to ask people to accept this scheme, the cost of which we are not told, the cost of which for one reason or another is withheld, is not a proper method of asking the people of this country to deal with a serious issue. I comment that it was not the method which the hon. Member himself used in the earlier editions of his plan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "anted additions to their pensions if they are to be based on a return made at the beginning of the year. There is no provision whatever in such a scheme for all the changes which can come to people, particularly old people, in the course of a year—illness, death of a breadwinner and so on. More important, it relates to only one side of the problem. It relates to income; it does not relate to need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " no provision whatever in such a scheme for all the changes which can come to people, particularly old people, in the course of a year—illness, death of a breadwinner and so on. More important, it relates to only one side of the problem. It relates to income; it does not relate to need. [ Interruption. ] I ask the House to consider this example. There can be two people with the same taxable income", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-10", "file": "debates1963-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b83c861a83b5c753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.341.2", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ing by herself with her stock of clothes exhausted and paying a high rent. Under a scheme turning on the Income Tax return, it is not possible, as I understand it, to distinguish between the two, because only income, not needs, is taken into account. That is a very serious defect in a scheme based upon Income Tax. The right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) referred earlier to the 10s. widow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-10a.341.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-11", "file": "debates1963-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4fd7b94cd8ff55f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-11a.383.2", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman draw the attention of the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs to the figures which he has just given? Does he realise that the figures he has just given are a complete contradiction of the impression which the Minister tried to convey when winding up the debate last Wednesday? In that debate his right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-11a.383.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.543.6", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Howard", "preceding_text": "Can my hon. Friend say whether Her Majesty's Government have any ideas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.543.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.543.7", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak for yourselves.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.543.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIXED-MANNED NUCLEAR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Gentleman knows the position perfectly well. This matter is being examined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.566.0", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND AND LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is not the Prime Minister's hon. Friend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I hope that next week part of the troubles of my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTTISH TRADES UNION CONGRESS (CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Everyone has recognised that there have been stubborn pockets of unemployment in Scotland and other areas but that we are taking drastic measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.569.2", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY AND TRADE (RACIAL DISCRIMINATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister wants to widen this question, will he be a little more specific and not try to score cheap points of that kind?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.572.7", "colnum": "572", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "gements for next week, time has been provided for a clear statement from the Government Front Bench on the question of who is to lead our delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva? Is he aware that the statement made by the Prime Minister the other day, the only statement that we have on the record of the House—and we applauded it when he made it and support it—has apparently been denied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.572.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.572.7", "colnum": "572", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Get on with the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " the question of who is to lead our delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva? Is he aware that the statement made by the Prime Minister the other day, the only statement that we have on the record of the House—and we applauded it when he made it and support it—has apparently been denied—[ Interruption. ] We want the right answer this time—by the Foreign Office, by an anonymous spokesman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.572.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.577.2", "colnum": "577", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that we on this side of the House have been very accommodating on this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.577.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.588.1", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who pays it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "If cereals are bought abroad and delivered to a port, the levy is paid on any difference between the price at which it comes into the port and the minimum import price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.598.4", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should await the development of my speech. I was taking up a point made by the Minister and was pointing out how refreshing it was that a Conservative Minister should pay tribute to the 1947 Act. It is refreshing because hon. Members opposite divided against Part I of the Bill in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.598.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "It is the total number, but within that total number the vast majority are the small men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "Unlike the right hon. Gentleman, I was not an enthusiastic supporter of entry into the Common Market. Despite what he has just said, I should still like to know whether the Bill has been introduced to prepare for our entry into the Common Market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.603.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.616.2", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Green.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "d along those lines because I do not want the right hon. Gentleman to get testy again. We all agree that the National Farmers' Union has one of the strongest lobbies in the country and that it sees to it that hon. Members who are interested in agriculture are briefed. It is because of this that most hon. Members in the Chamber today have been given this blue piece of paper which I hold in my hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denys Bullard", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Sluice gates\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denys Bullard", "preceding_text": "ace. Preparations would have to be made for it long before that. If this procedure is to be of any use to horticulture, very early steps will have to be taken if the mechanism is to be effective in replacing or supplementing the existing antidumping procedures. In a way, the minimum import price system has been taken from the mechanisms operated by the European Economic Community. They have their—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": " an affirmative Resolution is always necessary if taxation is being raised. This is a point which the House will have to look at very narrowly in Committee, because it should not lightly surrender its control over these matters to any Government. Although the Minister himself may be blameless in his intentions, we do not know who the next Minister will be, or to whom we may be giving these powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "That is a point which I am sure the hon. Member will want to raise in Committee, and it can be discussed there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "I have a tremendous number of questions and points to answer. Perhaps I may carry on and if there is time at the end, the hon. Member can return to this point. It is interesting that the Soviet Union and China should both now be coming into the world as buyers of cereals. This does not seem to me to give very great support to those who like fully Socialist systems with nationalisation of the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.688.3", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "A lot of our tenant farmers farm the land brilliantly, but not a very high proportion of tenant farmers are nationalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.688.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BY-ELECTION, SCOTLAND (SCHOOL CHILDREN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Fife, West said It is political indoctrination of our school children. Of course, one would not presume to suggest, although, in the context in which it is raised it cannot have failed to cross one's mind, that the Labour candidate was, of course, a school master and had in fact on very many occasions been very close to the school children in question, but one would never suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.709.2", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BY-ELECTION, SCOTLAND (SCHOOL CHILDREN)", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "Hon. MemBers: \"Answer the debate!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that the hon. Lady has left me half a minute in which to reply to the article which was the subject of this debate, in which it is clearly stated that the hon. Member for Fife, West—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.709.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-12", "file": "debates1963-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ab60da456e8ba88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.710.2", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BY-ELECTION, SCOTLAND (SCHOOL CHILDREN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I gave way, leaving the noble Lady half a minute for one specific purpose. I was only giving way. The noble Lady, again in a very wrong way, has used my giving way for some other purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-12a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.846.4", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ILLEGITIMATE PERSONS (COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Will this Committee have an opportunity of inquiring into the illegitimate birth rate in Dunoon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.846.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said that he accepted the Report and then proceeded to try to demolish the only part of it that was critical of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"That is not what he said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said that he accepted the Report and then proceeded to try to demolish the only part of it that was critical of the Government—[ Interruption. ] The Prime Minister did not say that he accepted the two paragraphs that he read out. He spent a long time trying to show that they were nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.868.2", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly clear that what Lord Denning says, in effect, is that Ministers were deceived; he says so. All I say is that paragraphs 285 and 286—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.868.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.868.3", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " occasion when there was a big Parliamentary storm. That was about Nyasaland. The Government then managed for some time to buy time to lower the temperature by setting up the Devlin Inquiry. Then, when the highly critical Report came from Lord Devlin, we all remember the slurs which the then Attorney-General, the noble Lord who now goes to Germany to preach about the independence of the judiciary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.868.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.868.3", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " for this House. The Government should not bring judges into it unless they intend to accept their decision at the end of it. I turn now to the findings. We unreservedly accept, as the Prime Minister did, the conclusions of Part IV, headed Rumours affecting the honour and integrity of public life\", because those rumours neither began on nor were they given any currency from this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.868.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.868.3", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"A dramatic change.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "me Minister. When the Prime Minister was asked if there had been a change, he said there had not been a change. He said: …my right hon. Friend…made the position clear. I must point out that there has been no change since then. Since Questions until then had only been put to the Prime Minister and after that were supposed to be put to the Home Secretary, there must have been a change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.868.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman will be the first to agree that he was wrong when he said that there had been no change. I am sure that the whole House knows that up to now Questions have been put to the Prime Minister except in the very odd case. There was one such case dealing with pay and rations or conditions of service and so on. I will refer only briefly to the responsibility of the five Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "or innocence, whether or not before a criminal court, or a matter of the divorce law, which the right hon. Gentleman said had been merged into this. No one has a prescriptive right to a Ministerial appointment. No one can sue for compensation for loss of office. We can ask the Leader of the House about that. There was never any suggestion at all that the Leader of the House was guilty of anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And the Press?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "elf open to damaging rumour and blackmail. It seems to me, on the apparent view of Lord Denning that what people may reasonably believe rather that what actually happened is what matters, that Gladstone might have been proved guilty, even though he were innocent. It seems to me that the danger of the Profumo case has been that private lives might become the normal stuff of politicians, and it was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "gations. In one the right hon. Gentleman repeated four times that there might have been an actual security leak. If that was not an allegation against Profumo, I do not know what is. He also made an allegation against the former Prime Minister that he had been gambling with the nation's security. On all these three occasions, subsequent judicial inquiry proved these rumours to be hopelessly false.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "out it. During the Whitsun week before Mr. Profumo resigned he came to me in the Lobby outside the Chamber and said, \"I wish you had found it possible to come to me over this case\". I replied, 'Well, Jack, you understand why I could not\". I added, \"After the Kuwait operation, I did not trust you, and that was the basis of the reason why I did not come to you first\". We parted as very good friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.929.5", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": "ch he finds himself at the moment. his question of immorality was pressed by the Opposition, and pressed steadily. I can quote the right hon. Member for Smethwick (Mr. Gordon Walker) as saying that: The whole question of immorality in high places is certainly worrying me. Does that mean that there is no question of immorality in high places, or that the right hen. Gentleman is imputing immorality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.929.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.969.4", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way, the last interruption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.969.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "dual cases or asking it to be constantly reporting to me, or to the Prime Minister, about its investigations. The Security Service is, after all, a secret service. That is part of its essence. Its cost is borne on the Secret Vote and one must bear in mind, therefore, that the number of Parliamentary Questions which could be put to me with any hope of an answer being properly given is very limited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Chair would allow those Questions. The point I was seeking to make was that, despite what the Denning Report said, four or five weeks have passed and nobody, despite the invitation there, has put any Question to the Home Secretary. Nevertheless, I am completely open to Questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.980.2", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " Leader of the Opposition in that debate, when he said: …it is clear, I think, that none of us can ever know whether there was\" a leak although the Government are clinging desperately to the argument that they do not think that there was\".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th June, 1963; Vol. 679, c. 46.] The sentence which I have just read from the Denning Report confirms that the Government were right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.980.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-16", "file": "debates1963-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "54897dc29cf5d88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.998.3", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "I am coming to legislation and the question why we do not have a United Kingdom Bill or possibly a Scottish Bill. The Rating (Interim Relief) Bill has been introduced to deal with what is a specific English ratepayers' problem in advance of the Allen Committee's Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-16a.998.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-17", "file": "debates1963-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "766cc53612c5fecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-17a.1023.6", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Some?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "preceding_text": "Does the Parliamentary Secretary realise that in this building and in the other place there are nearly 2,750 people, including hon. Members, workmen and others who are employed here? Is he aware that if anyone is taken ill we depend on the doctors who are Members of this House—and we are grateful to them for the excellent work they do—or the policemen, some of whom are very good?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-17a.1023.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-17", "file": "debates1963-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "766cc53612c5fecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-17a.1023.6", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"All of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "preceding_text": "lace there are nearly 2,750 people, including hon. Members, workmen and others who are employed here? Is he aware that if anyone is taken ill we depend on the doctors who are Members of this House—and we are grateful to them for the excellent work they do—or the policemen, some of whom are very good? [Hon. Members: \"Some?\"] They are very good. We have an excellent staff of policemen in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-17a.1023.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-17", "file": "debates1963-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "766cc53612c5fecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-17a.1035.4", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Digby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Digby", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that although I cannot regard this as an entirely satisfactory Answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-17a.1035.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-17", "file": "debates1963-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "766cc53612c5fecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-17a.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have no contact for that purpose with the usual channels. Perhaps I might be allowed to say that it is much appreciated if hon. Members can make their supplementary questions short—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-17a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-17", "file": "debates1963-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "766cc53612c5fecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-17a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. M. Thomson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. M. Thomson", "preceding_text": " a racial minority that is now utterly unacceptable to the modern world. This concept is now as abhorrent to the old Commonwealth countries, such as Canada, as it is to the new Afro-Asian Commonwealth. If this small group of Europeans in Southern Rhodesia were to obtain their independence by one means or another they would find themselves excluded from the Commonwealth and from the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-17a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-18", "file": "debates1963-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "b41af20d05548aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1225.4", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "With respect to the hon. Gentleman, I do not think he has considered all the complications which would arise. If we were to do this, we should have, first, to place an obligation on all the radio dealers in the trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1225.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-18", "file": "debates1963-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "b41af20d05548aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1233.7", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "It is quite true that Scottish Cables Limited are making a considerable amount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1233.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-18", "file": "debates1963-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "b41af20d05548aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1244.3", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "There has been no special consultation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1244.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-18", "file": "debates1963-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "b41af20d05548aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1244.3", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "There has been no special consultation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—with the Ministry of Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1244.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-18", "file": "debates1963-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "b41af20d05548aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1246.2", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "so a fact that an official of the right hon. Gentleman's Department has said that the reason why this robbery was not made public was because nobody asked them? Does the Minister wish to confirm that we have to inquire every day whether there has been a robbery? Is: he not aware that if it were not for the B.B.C. in Wales this story would never have come to light? Have we to depend on journalists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1246.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-18", "file": "debates1963-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "b41af20d05548aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1247.3", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the hon. Gentleman means by \"stifling\" publicity, but I can tell the hon. Gentleman that if the Post Office were to give publicity to every one of these cases which occur the newspapers would probably be taking far too much material from the Post Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1247.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-18", "file": "debates1963-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "b41af20d05548aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "Could I ask the right hon. Gentleman, have the criminals in this case been caught? If this complacent attitude of the Postmaster-General continues, is he not aware that soon the public will lose all faith in the Post Office services?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1247.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-18", "file": "debates1963-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "b41af20d05548aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1248.7", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I have said quite freely to the House that the Pembrokeshire Police were not informed for 48 hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1248.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-18", "file": "debates1963-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "b41af20d05548aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1248.7", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I have said quite freely to the House that the Pembrokeshire Police were not informed for 48 hours—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] That was so because these mail bags so often are misdirected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1248.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1963-12-18", "file": "debates1963-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "b41af20d05548aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1253.2", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "MAJOR P. R. CORY, R.A.S.C.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What does that mean?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "preceding_text": "No, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-18", "file": "debates1963-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "b41af20d05548aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING (INTERIM RELIEF) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "We are all indebted to the Minister for his clear exposition of the Bill. He said that some of the later Clauses did not call for explanation at this stage. I agree with him about \"this stage\", but they will call for a good deal of explanation later. Indeed, some of them could be more briefly written if mathematical symbols could have been applied throughout.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-18", "file": "debates1963-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "b41af20d05548aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING (INTERIM RELIEF) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. P. G. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. P. G. Channon", "preceding_text": "such an excellent representative in the House, if he has any grievances no doubt he will be able to take them up with him. A remarkable feature of the debate has been the very churlish welcome—one might almost say carping welcome—that the Bill has so far received from HON. MEMBERS opposite. I for one—I am sure that I speak for many of my hon. Friends—am delighted that the Bill has been introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-18", "file": "debates1963-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "b41af20d05548aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1326.2", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING (INTERIM RELIEF) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is being very provocative. She is tempting me to say something that I might regret later on. But if there is any question about this being an electoral device, it can be disposed of by having an election now—by putting up the shutters in this House and going to the country on this issue. If you will allow me to be serious for a moment, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-18", "file": "debates1963-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "b41af20d05548aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING (INTERIM RELIEF) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "cannot afford it, whether aged or not, will be penalised because they happen to live in another area. I do not want to say any more about Clause 1, except that I hope that the Press will take note—what is the Parliamentary Secretary giggling at? If he has something to say, let him get up and say it. He cannot keep giggling on his own. Does he want to get up? He does not have the courage to get up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-18", "file": "debates1963-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "b41af20d05548aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1386.2", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING (INTERIM RELIEF) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " order. They have asked those questions and they are entitled to get answers. It is quite obvious that the Minister of Housing and Local Government cannot answer those questions. It is possible, though I doubt it, that the Secretary of State for Scotland may be able to answer them. He might at least have a try. Since the Patronage Secretary is sitting there, in control and command of these things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-18a.1386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1442.0", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "REMUNERATION OF MINISTERS AND MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (REVIEW COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "a matter for the House as a whole, and that, between now and the General Election, and during the election campaign, this should not be regarded as another party matter, or related to other questions? Finally, am I right—I think I am—in taking the last sentence of the right hon. Gentleman's statement as meaning that if, at the end of the General Election, we find a Government under his leadership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1442.0", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "REMUNERATION OF MINISTERS AND MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (REVIEW COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An. Hon. Member: \"What about the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "nce to follow. Am I right in thinking that if this were to occur he would feel that something does need to be done, and that the Government would take action quickly in the life of the new Parliament just as, on behalf of my party, I give a similar pledge that if the result of the election were to be a Labour Government we would equally regard it as essential that something should be done quickly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1446.4", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "ADEN (DETAINED PERSONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I am not responsible directly for the arrangements for the detention of these people, but a British medical officer visited the place of detention and I have with me a full report. He visited the place on three different days and held a clinic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1446.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1448.3", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "ADEN (DETAINED PERSONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "That is all very well but I know perfectly well that the hon. Member would like to see the British driven out of Aden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1448.9", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "ADEN (DETAINED PERSONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "On the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1448.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1448.9", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "ADEN (DETAINED PERSONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "On the question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] With regard to my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1448.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1448.9", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "ADEN (DETAINED PERSONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "On the question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] With regard to my remarks—[Hon. Members: \"Apologise.\"] I should be very happy for any objective person to study my hon. Friend's earlier remarks and speeches on this subject. I think that it would fully bear out my impression of his attitude to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1448.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1449.5", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "ADEN (DETAINED PERSONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1449.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1450.3", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "ADEN (DETAINED PERSONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I did not construe them in that fashion. Of course, I shall be able to lock at what the words were when I read Hansard, but, to indicate to the House the principle upon which I was going, I thought that what was being said was that the hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mr. W. Yates) represents a point of view which, in these circumstances, would have the result which the Minister was indicating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1461.2", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Yates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Yates", "preceding_text": " No. 117 the House can be recalled, but I have never known the House to be recalled in such circumstances. Thirdly: are these matters of public importance? Taking into account the fact that Ministers, and Commanders-in-Chief of the Arab armies are now meeting in Cairo, and are endeavouring to decide what action they will take towards Israel's threat of unilateral breach of the armistice agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1461.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1479.1", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Bernard Braine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Bernard Braine)", "preceding_text": "ears have seen in the nation's health, and it is unfair as well as wrong in its implication that the Government are failing to get their priorities right to the detriment of the patient. It might be helpful, therefore, if I begin by putting this matter in perspective. The truth is that whatever the imperfections of our arrangements, the British people are fitter and longer-living than ever before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1479.1", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Bernard Braine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Bernard Braine)", "preceding_text": " therefore, if I begin by putting this matter in perspective. The truth is that whatever the imperfections of our arrangements, the British people are fitter and longer-living than ever before. [ Interruption. ] Many of the diseases which used to carry off young children and men and women in their prime have been checked or mastered, and I claim that our medical services are the envy of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1481.1", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "I listened with close attention and, I hope, courtesy to what the hon. Member for St. Pancras, North said from the Opposition. There were many moments when I could have risen to check some of his statements. I did not do so because I was anxious to hear what he said, whereas the hon. Member for Greenwich (Mr. Marsh) is not anxious to hear the case which I am deploying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1481.1", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nobody is denigrating.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": " were many moments when I could have risen to check some of his statements. I did not do so because I was anxious to hear what he said, whereas the hon. Member for Greenwich (Mr. Marsh) is not anxious to hear the case which I am deploying. [ Interruption. ] I want, first, to get the facts on the record. During the same ten years—and I do not know why hon. Members opposite should seek to denigrate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1481.1", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "e have been brought to bear more quickly, more effectively and more fairly to the whole nation and not just to one section of it. It is not surprising that Professor Almont Lindsay, an American social historian who made an eight-year study of the Service, has described it as one of the notable achievements of the twentieth century, magnificent in scope and almost breathtaking in its implications\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1489.3", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": " before detailed proposals are in our hands. In the plan as it now stands, an increase of 45 per cent. in the numbers of trained staff is envisaged. We hope to increase the number of health visitors, social workers and home nurses by about 2,000 in each category, training staff for sub-normals by about 3,000, staff for residential establishments by about 10,000, and home-helps by more than 11,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1489.3", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": " as it now stands, an increase of 45 per cent. in the numbers of trained staff is envisaged. We hope to increase the number of health visitors, social workers and home nurses by about 2,000 in each category, training staff for sub-normals by about 3,000, staff for residential establishments by about 10,000, and home-helps by more than 11,000. [Hon. Members: \"When?\"] This is over a ten-year period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1489.3", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "ves not great, but the increases are in line with experience. There has been an increase of about 20 per cent. in the last five years. Training facilities are being rapidly developed. I am not surprised that the hon. Member for St. Pancras, North made no mention of these matters, but this is where progress is taking place at an extremely rapid rate. The Council for the Training of Health Visitors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-19", "file": "debates1963-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "5a581020db5e5caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1495.0", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "Of course, local authorities are carrying out these works—with Government help and approval. A substantial part of the money comes from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-19a.1495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-20", "file": "debates1963-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "af552f5b63151d60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-20a.1612.1", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "MINISTER OF AVIATION (PERSONAL STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Amery", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Amery", "preceding_text": "As I have said, I went to Washington to discuss the feasibility, cost effectiveness and other aspects of the military value of the Skybolt system. When one has a discussion on matters of this kind, one naturally discusses the pros and cons", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-20a.1612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-20", "file": "debates1963-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "af552f5b63151d60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-20a.1612.2", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "MINISTER OF AVIATION (PERSONAL STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J Eden", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J Eden", "preceding_text": " agreement in which the Polaris missile bases were one other component part. The Americans were still determined to back this system. They had made this clear to us, and surely, under those circumstances, it would have been extremely wrong for a Minister of this country to cast doubt upon it. May I ask, Mr Speaker, whether we have not had a very clear and full exposition from my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-20a.1612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-20", "file": "debates1963-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "af552f5b63151d60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-20a.1612.2", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "MINISTER OF AVIATION (PERSONAL STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J Eden", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J Eden", "preceding_text": "om my right hon. Friend—[Hon Members: \"No.\"]—in which he has assured the House that he gave the information which he was then able to give and which, within his absolute rightful duty, he was bound to give to the House, and that there is no question of trying to press Ministers to divulge what later took place at private meetings? We have had a perfectly clear exposition from my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-20a.1612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1963-12-20", "file": "debates1963-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "af552f5b63151d60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-20a.1715.1", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "ROYAL ORDNANCE FACTORY, WOOLWICH (CLOSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Marsh", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Millions\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Marsh", "preceding_text": "new people. Already, people have to travel from the area into central London to work. They travel like cattle. Is this to be how people are to get into central London to seek jobs if this is the policy that the Government intend to pursue? When was this decision first taken? All the evidence is that in recent times hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money have been poured into this factory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1963-12-20a.1715.1"}