{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-14", "file": "debates1964-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "1fe1f630bd7acc36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-14a.16.7", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I agree that I made an exception in that case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-14a.16.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-14", "file": "debates1964-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "1fe1f630bd7acc36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-14a.27.5", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think so. I think that the House at large is satisfied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-14a.27.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-01-14", "file": "debates1964-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "1fe1f630bd7acc36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-14a.56.2", "colnum": "56", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (LICENCE AND AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Greenwood", "preceding_text": "In standing today at the Dispatch Box, I am very conscious of the fact that but for his untimely death my place would have been taken by Mr. Bill Williams, a most distinguished Chairman of Committees, a stimulating contributor to debates in this House and a very dear friend to many of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-14a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-15", "file": "debates1964-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "8d5c4433fd59190b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman explain why it was necessary to award prizes to four architects when only one bridge is required and not four? Will he also explain why it was necessary to give a share in the major prize of £5,000 to the chairman of the Goole Conservative Association?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-15", "file": "debates1964-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "8d5c4433fd59190b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "ion introduced in 1962 altered the definition of drunken driving from \"unfit to drive\" to …if his ability to drive properly is for the time being impaired\". It required the courts to consider chemical tests and it increased the period of disqualification for a second offence within 10 years to a minimum of three years. That has been operative for nearly a year and we should see how it goes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-15", "file": "debates1964-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "8d5c4433fd59190b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.222.4", "colnum": "222", "heading": "STEEL COMPANY OF WALES (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that both sides of the House will, I am sure, appreciate the efforts he is making to get a solution to this dispute? Is he further aware that there is a strong feeling—in the country, at any rate—that the unions reallyought to agree that this matter should go to some form of arbitration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.222.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-15", "file": "debates1964-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "8d5c4433fd59190b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "MONOPOLIES, MERGERS, RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES AND RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "effective. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to know that we are to have the support of the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. and right hon. Friends in taking the measures necessary to modernise the economy in all respects. I am aware of the facts which the right hon. Gentleman has given It was perfectly well known at the time why the change in the Commission was made by my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.226.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-01-15", "file": "debates1964-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "8d5c4433fd59190b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.229.2", "colnum": "229", "heading": "MONOPOLIES, MERGERS, RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES AND RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " which resale price maintenance is not practised and who carry on a very successful and effective living. There are many small shopkeepers engaged in trade in groceries, in which resale price maintenance has now broken down, who are carrying on a very successful, prosperous and efficient living. I therefore hope that on mature reflection she will withdraw any accusation of the kind which she made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-15", "file": "debates1964-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "8d5c4433fd59190b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "preceding_text": "stry, that the function of the Government is not to make the nation prosperous. Governments cannot make the nation prosperous. What they can do is do give a lead and to create a feeling of confidence so that people get stuck into their jobs and are not afraid of the future, thus bringing prosperity not only to themselves but to the country as a whole. One thing about the Bill which disappoints me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-15", "file": "debates1964-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "8d5c4433fd59190b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": " the exception of one that is engaged in nuclear submarine building, which is in a quite different category—will fall behind in the building \"know-how\" that is so essential if they are to remain in business for the rest of the century. It has always rather surprised me, and here I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland, South—though I do not wish to reflect on the Minister in any way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-15", "file": "debates1964-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "8d5c4433fd59190b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "We are told that the maximumis £75 million and that 73·8 million has been committed, leaving a margin of £1·2 million. The Minister told us that it includes something set aside for a Cunarder which is to be built on the Clyde.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-15", "file": "debates1964-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "8d5c4433fd59190b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "ch is published and which would appear to suggest—and this, strangely enough, gives us no more up-to-date figures than to March, 1962—that E.C.G.D. under Section 3 then had advances outstanding of something like £135 million, but for what period that covers or for what period these advances have been made I was unable to discover. I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman might give us this information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-15a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-16", "file": "debates1964-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "feac212943a9f7dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.403.5", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I see no contradiction in my public duties and membership of the National Farmers'Union. No Government money is paid to the National Farmers' Union", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.403.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-16", "file": "debates1964-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "feac212943a9f7dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.403.5", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I see no contradiction in my public duties and membership of the National Farmers'Union. No Government money is paid to the National Farmers' Union [ Interruption .] I imagine—although I do not know—that many Ministers have been members of different trade unions while holding office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.403.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-16", "file": "debates1964-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "feac212943a9f7dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SKYBOLT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shut up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "In view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-16", "file": "debates1964-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "feac212943a9f7dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SKYBOLT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I beg to give notice that, as the right hon. Gentleman has challenged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-16", "file": "debates1964-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "feac212943a9f7dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I am asking whether or not the Leader of the House has been kept informed by and is in the confidence of the Government, be cause other hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-16", "file": "debates1964-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "feac212943a9f7dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I am asking whether or not the Leader of the House has been kept informed by and is in the confidence of the Government, be cause other hon. Members—[ Interruption .] Can I ask whether or not the attention of the Leader of the House has been drawn to the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.415.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-01-16", "file": "debates1964-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "feac212943a9f7dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.438.3", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-16", "file": "debates1964-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "feac212943a9f7dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman really is as uncertain of all these matters as he says, how is it possible for him, if he really expects to be taken seriously by the country, to say today that the Labour Party if returned to power would abandon our nuclear weapon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-16", "file": "debates1964-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "feac212943a9f7dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I think, if I may say so, that in the answer which he has given this afternoon the right hon. Gentleman has been reasonably frank with the House. He seems to have said to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-16", "file": "debates1964-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "feac212943a9f7dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not know. I should like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-16", "file": "debates1964-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "feac212943a9f7dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What a dismal prospect!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "card our British nuclear deterrent. I cannot tell, nor can the right hon. Gentleman tell, at this time how many other countries are going to acquire nuclear weapons or a delivery system of some kind. What I know for certain is that China will acquire one and France will acquire one and others may. Unless we get international disarmament, each country will judge this according to its own interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-16", "file": "debates1964-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "feac212943a9f7dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about China?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. Gentleman refers to France, he does not mention the Government's responsibility for encouraging France at the time of the Common Market in her nuclear ambition. He should deal with that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-16", "file": "debates1964-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "feac212943a9f7dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " right hon. Member for Belper (Mr. G. Brown) and from the right hon. Member for Smethwick (Mr. Gordon Walker) and found them very confusing and, more than confusing, ambiguous. That is not my word and nor do I get it from any Tory pamphlet. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman does not read his own literature as he might, but in the issue of 6th December, 1963, five weeks ago, Tribune had this to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-16", "file": "debates1964-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "feac212943a9f7dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "That is one of the questions I would rather answer after talks which I hope the Minister will allow us to have with him, because questions of weapons choice and priority are impossible to be answered satisfactorily without knowledge of all the facts, facts which are certainly not available to the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-16", "file": "debates1964-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "feac212943a9f7dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.547.3", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman has overruled his right hon. Friend the Minister of Defence on the multilateral force. The Government are supporting the multilateral force—although they know that it is militarily unnecessary and politically dangerous—because Germany wants it and Germany, although she has not got nuclear weapons, has more influence with the United States than Britain, which has nuclear weapons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.547.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-16", "file": "debates1964-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "feac212943a9f7dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I did not announce it on 30th July last year. The right hon. Gentleman ought to have some of these talks; then, he might understand a little more about these things. He asked a series of questions on these matters, but none of them touches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-16a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-17", "file": "debates1964-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "7df433e63217da0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-17a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "The net book agreement is exempted by the Restrictive Practices Court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-17a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-17", "file": "debates1964-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "7df433e63217da0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-17a.606.3", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "Ibelieve that the price of the rail ticket should cover the entire cost of the railway journey for which the ticket is bought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-17a.606.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-17", "file": "debates1964-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "7df433e63217da0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-17a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Glyn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Glyn", "preceding_text": "The increase in discount houses, which I prefer to call multiple stores, or what one will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-17a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-17", "file": "debates1964-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "7df433e63217da0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-17a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Cleveland. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I do not accept what the hon. Gentleman says. I do not know his constituency, and I may very well be wrong, but what he says smacks of the Metropolitan mind. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-17a.626.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-20", "file": "debates1964-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "bc86bf07a4f78990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-20a.740.2", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ays that we must not think about counties, but aboutwhole areas. Let me do that. It makes my case even stronger. Exceptionally heavy development is taking place in an are 20 to 30 miles north of London—in Bishops Stortford, Hoddesdon, Cheshunt, Harlow, Ware, Hertford, Hatfield, Welwyn, Stevenage, Hitchin, Letch-worth, Baldock, Luton, Dunstable, Harpenden, St. Albans. Heaven help them, and Watford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-20a.740.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-20", "file": "debates1964-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "bc86bf07a4f78990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-20a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Gough", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Gough", "preceding_text": "gton (Mr. Skeffington) of the famous prayer of Sir Francis Drake, who said—I hope I am paraphrasing it fairly accurately—that it is not the commencement but the continuance thereof which renders the true glory. What gave me a temporary cold shiver down my back was the thought that hon. Members opposite have learned absolutely nothing from their colossal failure in housing when they were in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-20a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-20", "file": "debates1964-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "bc86bf07a4f78990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-20a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Gough", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Gough", "preceding_text": "ave learned absolutely nothing from their colossal failure in housing when they were in office. [ Laughter .] Hon. Members may laugh, but we all remember when hon. Members opposite said that it was impossible to build more than 200,000 houses a year, merely because their idea of building a house was to make a plan and build the foundations. They built far more foundations than they ever completed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-20a.752.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-21", "file": "debates1964-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "5d7cc2d3f3fb8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-21a.914.2", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH PRIME MINISTERS' CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And Zanzibar.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister consider an early decision on this matter and call a conference this year, in view of the tensions which there are in the Commonwealth and to which his Government have very largely contributed? Will he consider whether it is not desirable to have a Conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers on such subjects as Southern Rhodesia, Cyprus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-21a.914.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-21", "file": "debates1964-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "5d7cc2d3f3fb8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-21a.917.4", "colnum": "917", "heading": "TITLES (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "emiership we would have had at the Dispatch Box, instead of the present Prime Minister, Mr. Randolph Churchill; but I will not comment on that. I suggest that the time has come when we should look at the whole question of honours and that we should abolish the Honours List. We should rationalise and modernise this whole business of titles. Naturally, the office of the Patronage Secretary would go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-21a.917.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-21", "file": "debates1964-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "5d7cc2d3f3fb8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-21a.919.4", "colnum": "919", "heading": "TITLES (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "While not seeking to oppose the request by the hon. Gentleman, may I still ask him a question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-21a.919.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-21", "file": "debates1964-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "5d7cc2d3f3fb8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-21a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PLANT VARIETIES AND SEEDS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryant Godman Irvine", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryant Godman Irvine", "preceding_text": "ve met with great success. There are many people in this country who would like to know why that scheme was rejected. There are, also, others in Sweden, Germany and elsewhere. It was indicated in another place that there were five main varieties which might be covered by the scheme. They were potatoes, barley, oats, wheat and roses. There is one major exception that springs to the mind. It is rye—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-21a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-22", "file": "debates1964-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "950ec31298df6fd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-22a.1082.0", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "M.1 MOTORWAY (ACCIDENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "otorists apparently drove very carelessly on this occasion, is the Minister satisfied that all the warning signs that are required are on the M.1? Would it not have been possible, with the various devices that have been suggested by hon. Members at various times, to have brought about a slower speed of driving on the M.1? Does the Minister not realise that he has some responsibility in the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-22a.1082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-22", "file": "debates1964-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "950ec31298df6fd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-22a.1082.0", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "M.1 MOTORWAY (ACCIDENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "e required are on the M.1? Would it not have been possible, with the various devices that have been suggested by hon. Members at various times, to have brought about a slower speed of driving on the M.1? Does the Minister not realise that he has some responsibility in the matter—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—which, in the opinion of many people, he has not carried out as completely as he should have done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-22a.1082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-22", "file": "debates1964-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "950ec31298df6fd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-22a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "preceding_text": "is possibe for someone—whether widow, widowed mother or pensioner—to be penalised by the rule because he or she earns money, whereas, if the income were unearned, there would be no penalty whatever. I regard it as extraordinary, and I am sure that the ordinary citizen regards it as extraordinary, that there should be this differential bias against people who earn and in favour of those who do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-22a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-01-22", "file": "debates1964-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "950ec31298df6fd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-22a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ce in the direction of relieving a greater amount of earnings. One or two of my hon. Friends have asked for really up-to-date figures on the cost of abolishing the earnings rule. My hon. Friend the Member for Torrington said that he did not believe the figure of £100 million. My hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge has expressed a similar view on other occasions. I have got a really red-hot figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-22a.1193.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-23", "file": "debates1964-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "f704dff0d550aa3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-23a.1267.5", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Janner", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Who are 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Janner", "preceding_text": "hin the territory of Israel, that these are no concern of any other territory and that Jordan has already proceeded with the water plan, on her territory, without consulting anybody else? The courageous and energetic attempts being made by Israel to arrest the desert should be encouraged and not deprecated by anybody, and we will not put up with the kind of blackmail being used by the Arab States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-23a.1267.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-23", "file": "debates1964-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "f704dff0d550aa3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-23a.1374.1", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRISONS AND BORSTAL INSTITUTIONS (RULES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "0 about 1922. Throughout the period he lived at a very stately hall in Derbyshire. He had a wife and a charming family, most of whom married well. I liked the man and he was not devoid of virtue. A man does not pay debts if he is well off. He does not sacrifice his property. He has it salted away under a trust. We once drew up a trust so well that, in the end, my client could not get at the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-23a.1374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-23", "file": "debates1964-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "f704dff0d550aa3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-23a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRISONS AND BORSTAL INSTITUTIONS (RULES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that nod. That is the cost of maintaining a prisoner in terms of food, while the cost in respect of warders, in terms of keep and uniform, works out at about £6 per head. Is there anybody in this House, or anybody on the massed Tory benches opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-23a.1379.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-27", "file": "debates1964-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a0d753ba35d9e1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-27a.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The Campaign for Educational Advance is only necessary because of the policy of the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-27a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-27", "file": "debates1964-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a0d753ba35d9e1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-27a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has been there before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "This has left the local authorities as dissatisfied now as they were before he went. Does the right hon. Gentleman deny that? He knows that I am speaking the truth. Of course, I am; I would not do otherwise. The Minister of Education ought to have told us something today about the future set-up of the Ministry of Education. I see a strange face alongside the Minister on the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-27a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-27", "file": "debates1964-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a0d753ba35d9e1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-27a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "r mind on the elementary principle of who is to run the Ministry of Education? Are they dissatisfied with the present incumbent? Is not he of sufficient stature to take over? Are we to have the new boy, the Lord President of the Council, coming like a cuckoo into the nest and pushing the sparrow out? I believe that the Government are in a state of turmoil about the future of the education service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-27a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-27", "file": "debates1964-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a0d753ba35d9e1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-27a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ities, and he returned from his visits to universities so despondent, so disgruntled and so unable to understand a world which appreciated him so little that I sent a letter to the Minister. The right hon. Gentleman may have some recollection of it, because he sent me a most helpful reply, which I sent to my great-nephew—and I am glad to say that in the end he managed to get a place at Birmingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-27a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-27", "file": "debates1964-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a0d753ba35d9e1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-27a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Minister for Science (Mr. Quintin Hogg)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Minister for Science (Mr. Quintin Hogg)", "preceding_text": "t to take a decision on the raising of the school-leaving age. Then there were references to the two specific Reports of Newsom and Robbins. But the hon. Member for Coventry, East abandoned these grounds of contention altogether. He charged us instead with a stop-go economic policy ranging over our entire economic affairs and with a piecemeal approach to education. My Lords—I beg your pardon, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-27a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-27", "file": "debates1964-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a0d753ba35d9e1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-27a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ised and internationalised. It is the function of the university to achieve the transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship. I am, of course, aware that, as several hon. Members have pointed out, there is a genuine and proper fear within our institutions of learning that the requirements of expansion may destroy the standards that they have so carefully built up. My Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-27a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-27", "file": "debates1964-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a0d753ba35d9e1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-27a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " suggested. The hon. Member for Coventry, East referred to the question of Government machinery. My right hon. Friend said that a decision on this can be expected in a week or two and I can give the hon. Gentleman the explicit assurance that, whatever differences of opinion may exist outside the Government about the subject of Government machinery, an announcement can be expected within that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-27a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-27", "file": "debates1964-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a0d753ba35d9e1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-27a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Newsom.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "proposal for that favoured by the hon. Member for Coventry, East or by my hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham. On the assumption that we were right to approach that matter in that way, it seems excessive to question the Government's view that the beginning of February is as good as any other time to announce a decision. This decision was framed about the school leaving age and the Robbins Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-27a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-28", "file": "debates1964-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "75ea55db0802ab6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-28a.184.7", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNIVERSITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "What is not hypothetical is whether the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-28a.184.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-28", "file": "debates1964-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "75ea55db0802ab6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-28a.198.4", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "preceding_text": "Is the noble Lord aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-28a.198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-28", "file": "debates1964-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "75ea55db0802ab6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-28a.198.4", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "preceding_text": "Is the noble Lord aware—[ Laughter. ] Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that from such evidence as the Road Research Laboratory has published it appears that the accident rate in one ordinary car exceeds that of another of the same size—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-28a.198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-28", "file": "debates1964-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "75ea55db0802ab6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-28a.206.7", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. RANDOLPH CHURCHILL (BOOK)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Question asks about a document. I will not disclose to the right hon. Gentleman or anyone else whether or not there was a document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-28a.206.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-28", "file": "debates1964-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "75ea55db0802ab6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-28a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTINENTAL SHELF BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "urposes only. I think it a little odd that we should be asked to apply that Section of the 1934 Act, bringing in, as it does, the Gas Regulation Act, 1920, and completely ignore the passage of the Gas Act, 1948. I realise that the Gas Act supersedes many of these previous enactments, but this seems all the more reason to recognise the difference which exists at present between oil and natural gas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-28a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-29", "file": "debates1964-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "4ac9429d02bcd5f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-29a.346.4", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"60,000 years?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "I accept the fact that my interests are wider, but an annual increase of cost of £10,000 over a period that could be as long as 60,000 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-29a.346.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-29", "file": "debates1964-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "4ac9429d02bcd5f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-29a.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I think that the whole House will agree with me that my reference to the former Member for Manchester, Openshaw was a perfectly courteous and gentlemanly one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-29a.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-29", "file": "debates1964-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "4ac9429d02bcd5f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-29a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER: \"Why bring it up?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I can only refer the House to the OFFICIAL REPORT of 25th March, 1963. I think that we can all see from that fairly clearly what the late hon. Member for Manchester, Openshaw said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-29a.369.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-29", "file": "debates1964-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "4ac9429d02bcd5f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-29a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "preceding_text": "be paid to these people for the fact that they were held in prison and were subsequently found to be innocent. To my mind it is a shameful situation. The matter was drawn to my attention because of what happened to a constituent of mine. He had been working in his garden, one Friday night, and later went to the public house at the corner of the street, where he got into certain minor difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-29a.403.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-29", "file": "debates1964-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "4ac9429d02bcd5f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-29a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAVENDER HILL ALLOTMENTS, ENFIELD", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "ry up all the voluntary supply of land. By drying it up, they would increase the value of existing houses. Neither the Labour Party nor the Government wish to do anything deliberately to increase the value of houses, but that would be the by-product of any action that the Labour Party took. Suppose that by a combination of State action of a high-handed nature, putting this as objectively as I can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-29a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-29", "file": "debates1964-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "4ac9429d02bcd5f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-29a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OFFICES (DISPERSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A stooge Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter", "preceding_text": "e Government on issues like this. Here is an opportunity for them to show a little spirit of independence and Scottish grit in demanding from the Government a reversal of this decision. I do not know when the decision was taken that this office accommodation was to be built in Hastings. It was reported to the House only yesterday in reply to a Question—probably a Question arranged by the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-29a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-30", "file": "debates1964-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "04d6c20a642c5064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-30a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GHANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tilney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tilney", "preceding_text": "I would rather not go into great detail about this. I think that this is an incident which is liable to damage Anglo-Ghanaian relations. It is unfortunate, and in many ways the less said about it at the moment, the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-30a.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-30", "file": "debates1964-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "04d6c20a642c5064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-30a.515.8", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EAST AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Hon. Members \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Responsibility for internal security and intelligence in that connection is a matter for these independent Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-30a.515.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-30", "file": "debates1964-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "04d6c20a642c5064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-30a.524.5", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend two supplementary questions? First, is not this an outrageously big tax-free profit to make in such a short time, particularly when they were dealing partly with Government money and with Government restrictions? Secondly, if the company is now doing so fabulously well, why sell it?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-30a.524.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-30", "file": "debates1964-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "04d6c20a642c5064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-30a.525.2", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why sell it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "If the company is to be sold and if satisfactory arrangements can be made—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] then, of course, the Government will be in receipt of the full value of the company.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-30a.525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-30", "file": "debates1964-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "04d6c20a642c5064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-30a.532.3", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC INQUIRIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have made inquiries on this point. The Transport Users' Advisory Council has told me that written representations are given just as much attention as any other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-30a.532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-30", "file": "debates1964-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "04d6c20a642c5064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-30a.533.10", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that most people are getting heartily sick of all the rubbish that is being spoken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-30a.533.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-01-30", "file": "debates1964-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "04d6c20a642c5064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-30a.534.6", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TANGANYIKA (NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree that there is every merit in the public of this country being made fully aware of the Communist menace in Africa and that this article went a long way to enlighten them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-30a.534.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-31", "file": "debates1964-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb3ad9e349c18dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-31a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADING STAMPS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborn", "preceding_text": "It does not. We have had counsel's advice on this point. It is not the intention that this should refer to banknotes. Hon. Members will realise that I am not a lawyer, so I will leave it to my hon. Friend the Member for Colchester (Mr. Buck) specifically to deal with this point when he winds up the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-31a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-31", "file": "debates1964-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb3ad9e349c18dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-31a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADING STAMPS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "The trouble is that hon. Members opposite do not know how to run nationalisation. When they nationalise anything, they put up prices. When they nationalise it, they mess it up. I could use an even stronger word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-31a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-31", "file": "debates1964-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb3ad9e349c18dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-31a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADING STAMPS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Had I known that I was giving way for the hon. and learned Gentleman to throw the comments and abuses which he usually throws across the Floor of the House, I would not have done so. He speaks about the dozey incompetence of the Board of Trade, but will he look at—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-31a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-31", "file": "debates1964-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb3ad9e349c18dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-31a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADING STAMPS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. David Price)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ghastly word.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. David Price)", "preceding_text": "ch is positively committed not to adopt stamps. I have no reason to suppose that these traders will not stick to their guns. They have made their position so public that it would be a big volte-face for them to change their minds. Even in the United States, where stamp trading has developed a great deal further than it has here, the percentage of total retail trade handled by philatelised outlets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-31a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-01-31", "file": "debates1964-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb3ad9e349c18dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-31a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADING STAMPS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "rfectly entitled to report that station to the stamp promoting company, and it will, I think, deal with it very severely. The principle on which stamp trading is based is the most difficult thing to get people to understand fully. There is a genuine belief—otherwise, I do not believe that hon. Members would have said what they said today—that the customer is bound to pay in the end for the stamps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-01-31a.757.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-04", "file": "debates1964-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b8a6c07e81a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.976.5", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EAST AFRICAN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since I did not have the advantage of seeing the right hon. Gentleman on television, but recall his answer in the House last Thursday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.976.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-04", "file": "debates1964-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b8a6c07e81a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.976.5", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EAST AFRICAN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since I did not have the advantage of seeing the right hon. Gentleman on television, but recall his answer in the House last Thursday—[ Interruption. ] I do not have access to American television.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.976.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-04", "file": "debates1964-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b8a6c07e81a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.982.2", "colnum": "982", "heading": "EVICTIONS FROM RENTED DWELLINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. T. Parkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. T. Parkin", "preceding_text": "rrible in its effect on the family. This case caused me and the solicitor a good deal of anxiety. The solicitor wrote to me one day and said, \"I find that the senior partner in the firm which has been acting on behalf of the landlords is a Mr. X, a Conservative M.P. Do you know him?\" I know him and I think that his opinion of me is lower than my opinion of him. I shall not name him for the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.982.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-04", "file": "debates1964-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b8a6c07e81a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "he postman is not the only one involved. Citizens will be embarrassed and offended, too, and the public service will inevitably be involved in a growing area of controversy from which, so far, it has been kept. On the political side, I admit quite frankly, unless an hon. Member opposite disputes it, that for the most part it will be friends of the Conservative Party who will use this organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-04", "file": "debates1964-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b8a6c07e81a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is on the record.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "This is becoming tiresome. I never said anything of the sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-04", "file": "debates1964-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b8a6c07e81a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.1032.5", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Vote with us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": ", we may make the postman the focal point for resentment, and we will lose the kind of good relationship which the public has always had with the postman. Therefore, I hope that my right hon. Friend will go forward with this service but will look at it again and consider whether it can be rather more defined than he has defined it so far. The way it is, I cannot support the Amendment in the Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.1032.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-04", "file": "debates1964-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b8a6c07e81a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.1045.0", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "rts of law have said that we must presume that postcards are read in transmission. One can go further and stamp a political slogan on an envelope going through the ordinary post. In May of this year the director of the Labour Party's publicity organisation in Smith Square asked the permission of the Post Office to put a slogan on envelopes emerging from that address stating \"Let's go with Labour\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.1043.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-04", "file": "debates1964-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b8a6c07e81a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A Frenchman said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "he same—was offensive to him. The right hon. Gentleman is confusing two things what is in the real sense offensive to all decent people, and propaganda. The attitude of the right hon. Gentleman is painfully different from that of the old radical who said. \"I hate what you lay, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.\" That was the older and better tradition of radicalism in England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-04", "file": "debates1964-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b8a6c07e81a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.1047.4", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman says, they pay for it, as the customers of this service will pay for it—at the full rate. I have no doubt that if the Liberal Party put in a similar request British Railways would be happy to supply a minibus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.1047.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-04", "file": "debates1964-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "32c1b8a6c07e81a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LION FILM COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "r task is at least to try to safeguard the future independence of British Lion. The viability and independence of the company depends ultimately upon its falling into the right hands. I wish for two minutes to consider the contenders. First, there is the Box group, none of the members of which have been announced, apart from Lord Willis, who must be something of an embarrassment to the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-04a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-05", "file": "debates1964-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7b49a438ff5cdc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-05a.1148.0", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "er with B.U.A. The B.O.A.C. feels that its negotiating power in future negotiations of this kind might be hampered if the party with which it was negotiating knew all the details of the agreement in question. While I was away in South America my hon. Friend offered to let the hon. Gentleman and his colleague the hon. Member for Lough-borough (Mr. Cronin) see the agreement in confidence themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-05a.1147.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-06", "file": "debates1964-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "4602a977b7360fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-06a.1312.1", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that the recent price increases which have taken place in engineering and other industries have been the result of increases in wages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-06a.1312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-06", "file": "debates1964-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "4602a977b7360fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-06a.1314.4", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to my right hon. Friend for that information, but is it not possible for greater control to be exercised over so-called finance corporations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-06a.1314.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-06", "file": "debates1964-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "4602a977b7360fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-06a.1336.2", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PROPOSED RAILWAY CLOSURES, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the delegation came away with no such impression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-06a.1336.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-06", "file": "debates1964-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "4602a977b7360fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-06a.1363.1", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH TRADE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND COMMONWEALTH LINKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do they do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ies, who must create a climate of confidence. Otherwise, the investment will go elsewhere. I now turn to technical assistance, one of the most effective ways in which Britain can assist the Commonwealth countries. Under the various technical assistance schemes, we now have 18,000 officers in 39 Commonwealth countries, and these officers are assisted in one way or another by the British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-06a.1363.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-06", "file": "debates1964-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "4602a977b7360fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-06a.1386.2", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH TRADE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND COMMONWEALTH LINKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "was living in— the terms were not suitable and we stayed out, I will say this. A few days later the right hon. Gentleman had another go at it and evolved a form of words to which he stuck right through his by-election. I think that he said this seven times, which shows very considerable consistency: There is no question of getting into the Common Market before there is a General Election. He said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-06a.1386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-06", "file": "debates1964-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "4602a977b7360fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-06a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH TRADE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND COMMONWEALTH LINKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "preceding_text": "or the statement—because it was a statement—that under no conceivable circumstances would we negotiate again to go into Europe. I cannot but find it sad, and I find it also alarming, that a potential alternative Government should be blind to what is happening just across the Channel and should again and again seem to stress, possibly unintentionally, though I doubt it, a tinge of anti-Europeanism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-06a.1398.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-06", "file": "debates1964-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "4602a977b7360fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-06a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH TRADE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND COMMONWEALTH LINKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "ops to come to their aid. I have not noticed quite the same enthusiasm for Russian, Chinese or even German or French troops. I hope that today's debate and the spirit in which it has been conducted may mark an end to the habit, which has become far too common, of denigrating both the Commonwealth and this country. [ Interruption. ] It is a habit which I regard as rather juvenile and rather myopic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-06a.1461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-07", "file": "debates1964-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "99e58fbd99d79f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-07a.1570.3", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "It is said they vote Conservative. But if the farmers compare Labour's agricultural policy, and the record of the Labour Party based on the 1947 Act, with the policies of the last 12 years, and then vote Tory, then they are not as shrewd as they are reputed to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-07a.1570.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-10", "file": "debates1964-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "74587089d3ab1a12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-10a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "JAMAICA, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO (GIFT OF A SPEAKER'S CHAIR, A BOOKCASE AND A GAVEL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "In accordance with what I am sure are the wishes of the whole House, I shall cause the two Resolutions to be recorded in the Journal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-10a.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-10", "file": "debates1964-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "74587089d3ab1a12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-10a.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "TRAFFIC IN TOWNS (BUCHANAN AND CROWTHER REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Frightening.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "preceding_text": "hey were down by 6 per cent. in 1962 compared with 1959. This is because the regular flow of traffic in our towns means that pedestrians can cross only at controlled places. It means, therefore, that they have to have more discipline. For example, in Tottenham Court Road, on the one-way system, the flow has increased by 17 per cent. at peak hours and the journey speed has increased by 60 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-10a.32.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-10", "file": "debates1964-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "74587089d3ab1a12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-10a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "TRAFFIC IN TOWNS (BUCHANAN AND CROWTHER REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ar says that it costs him 6s. a working day whether he uses the car or not and he is, therefore, tempted by the structure of the tax to take his car into the cities. He is encouraged by the structure of the tax and the insurance payments. The cost of the petrol is purely marginal. As we are discussing this subject so frankly and nobody is committing himself even to the views he is putting forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-10a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-10", "file": "debates1964-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "74587089d3ab1a12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-10a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "TRAFFIC IN TOWNS (BUCHANAN AND CROWTHER REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": " priorities. That has a familiar ring, because \"Nye\" Bevan said that priorities were the language of Socialism. Of course they are. The Minister should be in a position to determine his transport priorities. But he cannot do so when he has very little control over major sectors of transport. The other point that we must realise is that the purpose of transport undertakings is not to make a profit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-10a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-11", "file": "debates1964-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9fecc710c4bad416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-11a.192.0", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "That is a much wider question. I appeal to you, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-11a.192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-11", "file": "debates1964-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9fecc710c4bad416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-11a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": " other country at this time. If hon. Members opposite were sitting on this side of the House they would not be able to do any more to help these countries than we as a Conservative Government and party are doing. Simply to publish an annual report about what we are doing would not help anyone. What the country wants to know is can we do more? Are we doing more, or are we doing less than we can do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-11a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-11", "file": "debates1964-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9fecc710c4bad416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-11a.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "o look a little beyond the terms of the Motion before the Committee at this time. For all the fine phrases which have come from the Opposition tonight, which are simply designed to indicate to the country what we are doing, the purpose of this new Clause is to show to the country that we are not doing so much as hon. Members opposite would like us to do. That is the sole purpose of the new Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-11a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-12", "file": "debates1964-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "77abdee168aee795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.457.5", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And anti-Socialism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "end acted with absolute propriety in withdrawing it. I do not want to weary the House endlessly with answering the speech of the hon. Member for Barnsley—he and I have our differences—but I feel that I must challenge some of the things that he said about the enormous expenditure by what he called, I think, Tory front organisations. Surely the essence of all this propaganda is anti-nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.457.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-12", "file": "debates1964-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "77abdee168aee795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.457.5", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "id about the enormous expenditure by what he called, I think, Tory front organisations. Surely the essence of all this propaganda is anti-nationalisation. [An HON. MEMBER: \"And anti-Socialism.\"] Anti-Socialism as well, as an hon. Member says. Nationalisation and Socialism are the same thing; nobody can escape from that. There are other aspects of the Socialist creed, other symptoms of the disease—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.457.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-12", "file": "debates1964-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "77abdee168aee795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.457.5", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "in the scope of the short speech which I hope to make. Let me return to the charge which the hon. Member made that Tory front organisations were indulging in vast expenditure on anti-Nationalisation propaganda. Surely they are entitled to do that. They are protecting the interests of their shareholders. I expected a derisive laugh at that remark. They are protecting the interests of their workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.457.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-12", "file": "debates1964-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "77abdee168aee795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.457.5", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "received an increase recently. How can the hon. Member reconcile his claim that the Post Office workers are not getting enough money with his opposition to a service which may bring in more money and make it possible for the workers to be paid more? If they are to get overtime for working this service as well, there will be great opportunity here for earning a little extra. It is incomprehensible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.457.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-12", "file": "debates1964-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "77abdee168aee795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.470.5", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "I understand that all the regulations are under discussion and that if hon. Members opposite had their way and managed to carry the vote against these regulations this evening we would be as we were without these regulations, except that we would not have the new service proposed by my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.470.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-12", "file": "debates1964-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "77abdee168aee795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.471.5", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "hought that there has been a lot of silly fuss about this really rather small, trifling matter. But Parliament often takes a long time to deal with trifling matters. This is an example of the way in which in this House we always do our best to do justice to the smallest problem, even though on some occasions we are accused of tedium by so doing. But it has some merit in that it fills an idle hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.471.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-12", "file": "debates1964-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "77abdee168aee795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.473.5", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "Mr. Robert Cooke rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-12", "file": "debates1964-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "77abdee168aee795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. McAdden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. McAdden", "preceding_text": "hy over-sensitivity. I hope that hon. Members opposite will in future recognise that the objection of postmen themselves is that this service is degrading their status. I cannot for the life of me understand how it should degrade one's status to put an item of correspondence through the letterbox of every house in a road rather than through the letterbox of every other house or every fourth house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-12", "file": "debates1964-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "77abdee168aee795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. McAdden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. McAdden", "preceding_text": "trong exception to birth control literature being circulated to them in stamped mail. If this s already being done by stamped mail, I would not wish literature which offended against people's sense of morality to be inflicted upon them. I am sure that the Regulations which the Postmaster-General has made, properly interpreted, as I am sure that they will be, by him and by those who work under him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-12", "file": "debates1964-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "77abdee168aee795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is quite entitled to defend his own union—I would expect him to do that—but I repeat that it would have been at least desirable had the union taken more steps to ascertain its members' views, or, if it failed to do that, had taken the usual steps to manage the conference when it was convened", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-12", "file": "debates1964-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "77abdee168aee795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.488.2", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I can appreciate the difficulties with which hon. Members opposite are faced. After listening to the hon. Member for Cheadle (Mr. Shepherd), I have great sympathy with him, because the speech which he has made was certainly not up to his usual standard. I appreciate that when an hon. Member is doing a filibuster of this kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.488.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-12", "file": "debates1964-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "77abdee168aee795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the hon. Member asked the postmen to see him, or whether they asked him to see them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.489.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-12", "file": "debates1964-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "77abdee168aee795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.494.3", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (HOUSEHOLD DELIVERY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": " am asked to put them into envelopes and address them to the right hon. Gentleman I might just as well send them back to those who infringed my privacy. Sending them back to the right hon. Gentleman will simply mean their going into the waste paper basket. If I return them to the senders unstamped, they will go through the Post Office services, producing the biggest possible blockage of the works.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-12a.494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-13", "file": "debates1964-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "9f1f1ff7edfd43b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-13a.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "s and other British nationals in Cyprus. I am sure that he will not delay beyond the time that he considers necessary. On the other hand, it must be realised that to take these families away—to separate wives from husbands, and so on—and either to crowd them up in the base areas or to send them home, possibly with no particular arrangements for receiving them, is not something that should be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-13a.553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-13", "file": "debates1964-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "9f1f1ff7edfd43b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-13a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman not agree that his statement, in which he thought it important not only to remind the Commander-in-Chief but to announce to the whole world that he had had to remind a Commander-in-Chief of his powers, cannot make the Commander-in-Chief's position very much more easy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-13a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-13", "file": "debates1964-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "9f1f1ff7edfd43b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-13a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT (TREATMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "I support my hon. Friends in questioning this Statutory Instrument. The House may recall that it was in answer to a Question of mine last December that these Regulations were imposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-13a.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-14", "file": "debates1964-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b12baf7895bb9e86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-14a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REDUNDANT WORKERS (SEVERANCE PAY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "preceding_text": " get, but these words would have to be more exactly defined. In my constituency, for instance, and I am sure that the same applies in the constituencies of other hon. Members, there are haulage contractors who—I think quite wrongly—may be expecting a victory by the Opposition in the coming General Election, and are getting very anxious about whether or not they will have to close down their firms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-14a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-14", "file": "debates1964-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b12baf7895bb9e86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-14a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REDUNDANT WORKERS (SEVERANCE PAY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are thinking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "e of operations, gave his blessing to my hon. Friend's endeavours to introduce severance pay, and assured him and both sides of that Standing Committee that he himself would do something far better. Now the Minister has had 10 months to do it and today his aide-de-camp, the Parliamentary Secretary, is here to tell us what has been achieved in those 10 months. I suspect that as usual it is nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-14a.720.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-14", "file": "debates1964-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b12baf7895bb9e86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-14a.796.10", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT 1949 (AMEND MENT) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "the fact that the practice has been growing up for a long time of certain hon. Members. unidentified, calling out the word \"Object\" when the Second Reading is formally moved of Bills such as the Representation of the People Act 1949 (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill and the Racial Discrimination and Incitement Bill. Some of us feel that it is very undesirable, when we have relatively uncontroversial Bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-14a.796.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "most of the Governments concerned, although at least one Commonwealth Government would have been prepared to take part in the scheme which we originally proposed on a N.A.T.O, basis, or on a basis of N.A.T.O. with some additions. The right hon. Gentleman asked, finally, why we had waited so long before taking the matter to the United Nations. I thought that I had explained that fully in my answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I consider this to be a very serious matter. While we are trying to keep the peace in Cyprus, there is no doubt that a very considerable flow of arms into the island is taking place all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "We are discussing one that is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "We are discussing one that is. [ Interruption. ] I am saying that if one can do it a great many others can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.859.0", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "ction aircraft would enter service in mid-1971. That could be as over-optimistic as the right hon. Gentleman was two years ago, but if either France or ourselves were forced to go it alone the problem of the time factor would then be very serious indeed. I wonder what date the right hon. Gentleman would give for production of the Concord under our own steam. I am not trying to \"knock\" the Concord.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "I am sure that it would be wrong to allow myself to be drawn into a detailed discussion today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.873.7", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "I have been trying to get on with my speech in spite of these interruptions, but the whole point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.873.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.876.2", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The hon. Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) should be named.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "on the ground of public interest cannot be raised as a matter of privilege. I hope that the House will accept from me that so far nothing disorderly has occurred. That being so, it is my duty to see that the debate continues. If hon. Members want to argue against what the Minister has said they will have an opportunity during the course of the debate, but they cannot argue with the Chair about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.876.3", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member wishes me to be named he should get up and say so. The point at issue is not the point which the hon. Gentleman has made; it is not whether the Minister refuses to reply. That is a matter I accept. What is in issue is that the Parliamentary Secretary has challenged the right of the House to consider this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.876.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.877.5", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "He is guilty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.877.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The range.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "If we do increase the speed of Concord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.878.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.878.3", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "preceding_text": "On the increase in range, can the hon. Gentleman say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.878.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "nly be provisional. We are also criticised because the Treasury did not fulfil its obligation to the public revenue and the suggestion is that the Treasury should join with the French Ministry of Finance and exercise joint control over the Concord project. I believe that the Treasury has played a perfectly correct part in all of this and that its evidence to the Estimates Committee bears this out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) will be called. He always is. Britain and France lead the world in the supersonic business. We could not have got into this business without taking risks. We had to be prepared to stake a lot of money for an uncertain reward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.881.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I have not interrupted the Minister before. I must do so now because only a few minutes ago I was reading the speech made by my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) in the last debate on this project. For the fifth successive t me the Minister has made the comment that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.882.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.882.7", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. On a point of order. The Minister is asserting that we have just been looking at this agreement for the first time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.882.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I have stung the Opposition into this, because, clearly, they have been asleep on this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.883.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.884.14", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I am rising to reply to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.884.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.900.5", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thirty thousand?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "ity of the Prime Minister, that a committee of inquiry should be set up\". What does the right hon. Gentleman do? He sets up a committee, composed of three civil servants, to judge him. This is not right. Not only that, but there happens to be £2,700,000 of public money involved. Do hon. Members opposite ever stop to recollect the \"hoohah\" that they created about £30,000 over the groundnuts scheme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.900.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.905.2", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "y, 1964. The article is called \"World-gram\", from the capitals of the world, London, Washington, Paris and Bonn: It reads: At the rate things are going, Britain will soon be out of the running altogether as a world power. Its power is eroding much faster than expected. The United States is being called to pick up the pieces in one danger spot after another. This was not written by Transport House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.905.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "en showing the true value of its assets. The Minister in that debate expressed criticism of B.O.A.C. and yet, as a result of perhaps a lapse on the part of the noble Lord the Parliamentary Secretary, we subsequently learned that B.O.A.C. had failed to show the correct value of its assets, because it had been told by the Government not to do so. It had been told by the Government to cook the books.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "e, and that is why the decision is that there should be no divorce without consent. I do not think that a break clause would be possible in an interdependent project of this kind. It is interesting that there is no break clause in the E.L.D.O. contract. Hon. Members opposite feared that the French might back out. I had a message from Paris today. My opposite number, my colleague, Monsieur Jacquet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The Treasury comes in, as it does in all operations under the Whitehall system, in that it co-operates with the Executive at every step, but nearly always behind the scenes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-17", "file": "debates1964-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d3c41ded453586b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "aft industry in the next Parliament, but when one of my hon. Friends put the point to the Leader of the Opposition we got what the hon. Gentleman the Member for Dudley calls a dodgy answer. Quite frankly, I think we have got to judge the Government's policies towards the aircraft industry against the perspective of the results they have achieved. And I can give those results in a very few seconds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-17a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-18", "file": "debates1964-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1fd2354b47b80c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-18a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "preceding_text": "In which case will the hon. Gentleman ask his right hon. and learned Friend to give this his consideration? Is he aware that some people, particularly some of the young girl secretaries, would prefer to go for treatment to someone other than the police, good as the police are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-18a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-18", "file": "debates1964-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1fd2354b47b80c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-18a.1021.5", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERS' SPEECHES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the Lord President of the Council, Minister for Science, Minister for Sport and Minister for Education has begun—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-18a.1021.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-18", "file": "debates1964-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1fd2354b47b80c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-18a.1028.6", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT JOHNSON (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "entry, North (Mr. Edelman) and Penistone (Mr. Mendelson), since they were asking not about the unofficial boycott of Triumph Herald cars, and so on, but about the blacklisting of British ships which have been to Cuba or of British ships owned by companies who have had ships going to Cuba? Since the right hon. Gentleman took a great deal of credit for what he said about trade, and we supported him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-18a.1028.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-18", "file": "debates1964-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1fd2354b47b80c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-18a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT JOHNSON (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am not quite sure whether I should ask for your guidance when the Prime Minister deliberately evades answering a question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-18a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-18", "file": "debates1964-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1fd2354b47b80c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-18a.1032.4", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "g officer is appearing before that Committee tomorrow.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th February, 1964; Vol. 689, c. 970.] That part of Eskine May which deals with this subject leaves the House in no doubt on the matter. I will not weary the House by reading out in full the relevant passage, but only the first and last sentences on page 119. It deals with the premature publication of Committee proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-18a.1032.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-18", "file": "debates1964-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1fd2354b47b80c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-18a.1130.5", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE PURCHASE (No. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "I do not answer for what goes in the Gracious Speech as the hon. Member will know. In any case, the Government do not have to refer in the Gracious Speech to everything which they propose to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-18a.1130.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-19", "file": "debates1964-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f03ae4e98a1f217b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-19a.1196.2", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By Aims of Industry, for instance?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "or, possibly, changes of mind, and the records would have to be checked by the postman each delivery, to make sure that these notices were not mixed up with redirection notices affecting ordinary mail. These are important points. Moreover, it is wrong to assume that all the material sent out by this service will be unwanted. In fact there are many items which we have already been asked to deliver.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-19a.1196.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-19", "file": "debates1964-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f03ae4e98a1f217b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-19a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUCCESSION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": " hear the typewriter going while the Government reply was being delivered, so I presume that the brief was prepared in advance. If we have got to the stage when Ministers cannot rise and answer arguments—or, if the arguments are sufficiently persuasive, have the power to accept Amendments—we will need all the time to call for the presence of the absentee laird, the Secretary of State for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-19a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-19", "file": "debates1964-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f03ae4e98a1f217b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-19a.1321.1", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "RATING (INTERIM RELIEF) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Temple", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"One, not two.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Temple", "preceding_text": "ef or can expect it to have it taken away from him under unexpected circumstances. My right hon. Friend said, as reported in column 177 of the OFFICIAL REPORT for the same day that, in fact, this happening was most unlikely. During the course of that discussion he said that it may well be that some local authority would gain a nuclear power station or two and, therefore, the rates would come down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-19a.1321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-20", "file": "debates1964-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "b9708c231072298c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-20a.1382.3", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "Is it not a tragic reflection on our language that probably not one Member of Parliament could win a spelling bee in his own language?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-20a.1382.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-20", "file": "debates1964-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "b9708c231072298c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-20a.1395.4", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. WINSTON FIELD (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly take note of nothing of the kind. My right hon. Friend said nothing of the sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-20a.1395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-20", "file": "debates1964-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "b9708c231072298c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-20a.1400.1", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "ZANZIBAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "The American Government know exactly what I have told the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-20a.1400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-20", "file": "debates1964-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "b9708c231072298c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-20a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "ve. I only believe that if we are to amend the emergency powers in this way it is right to get them as useful as possible for as long as possible, and it may be that some of the war-time regulations want bringing more up to date than they were brought up to date in the Schedule to the 1959 Act. I do not believe that my right hon. Friend would have brought the Bill forward unless it were necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-20a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-20", "file": "debates1964-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "b9708c231072298c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-20a.1493.1", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION EXAMINATION BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "I understand they have a very large membership within the E.I.S.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-20a.1493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-20", "file": "debates1964-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "b9708c231072298c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-20a.1494.3", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION EXAMINATION BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "lude representatives of commerce or professional bodies not already represented on the Board, but a final decision on these four Secretary of State members cannot be taken until the other members of the Board have been finally selected. Early in January, therefore, the bodies listed in Regulation 6 were asked to submit names from among whom the Secretary of State would select members of the Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-20a.1494.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-24", "file": "debates1964-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "3931ab3eab5995be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-24a.15.5", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "As a medical man, it is time that the hon. Gentleman directed his attention to the great achievements and great improvements of the hospital service which are in train. If his interest is genuine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-24a.15.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-24", "file": "debates1964-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "3931ab3eab5995be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-24a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Thompson", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is no suggestion of excessive profits being made on other items—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-24a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-24", "file": "debates1964-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "3931ab3eab5995be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-24a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "In my view, they have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-24a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-24", "file": "debates1964-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "3931ab3eab5995be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-24a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Boyden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Boyden", "preceding_text": " of a professor's time is taken up in dealing with petty administrative questions and both the efficiency of departmental administration and the amenities of professional life could be greatly improved if scientists could be provided with the secretarial assistance and office machinery which the average businessman regards as essential. That is not from Robbins, but from the Barlow Report of 1946.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-24a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-24", "file": "debates1964-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "3931ab3eab5995be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-24a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": " this is that they have good facilities, exciting projects of work, and a fine and varied career in which merit can reap its proper reward. I suggest that, taken as a whole, these arrangements are to be preferred to any suggestion that the Opposition may bring forward for a solitary scientific overlord. My hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, North brought out the dangers inherent in that situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-24a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-24", "file": "debates1964-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "3931ab3eab5995be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-24a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "but not upon control, the direct central control, that is fundamental to Socialist proposals. I suggest that the hon. Member reads C. P. Snow on Science and Government. He is very good on the dangers of the solitary scientific overlord. But no doubt a Ministry of Research and Technology appeals to an Opposition that is led by a man who says quite definitely, \"We must harness science to Socialism\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-24a.176.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-24", "file": "debates1964-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "3931ab3eab5995be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-24a.196.2", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "We are not interested in what it would not be used for but what it could be used for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-24a.196.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-25", "file": "debates1964-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0550c343954789ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-25a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNICAL CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "Is it not time that the right hon. Gentleman altered his attitude to this problem? Is it not wrong to wait for requests to arise? Should it not be his policy to assess the need and go out to meet it and organise within industry and administration here the facilities to enable these countries to tackle their problems?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-25a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-25", "file": "debates1964-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0550c343954789ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-25a.234.4", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will do me the honour of reading the speech I made last night, which corresponded very closely with that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which I gave the evidence on which we conclude that it is likely that expansion will continue. We said, both of us in our speeches, that should there be undue pressure on the economy, then the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-25a.234.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-25", "file": "debates1964-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0550c343954789ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-25a.234.6", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that this arises out of the Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-25a.234.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-25", "file": "debates1964-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0550c343954789ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-25a.235.2", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "t aware when asking for my help in talking to the unions that last July at the conference on the Transport and General Workers' Union I made an appeal for an incomes policy? Is he further aware that at the Labour Party conference this was passed by an overwhelming majority, involving all the unions? Will the right hon. Gentleman agree that it is impossible for his Government to make these appeals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-25a.235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-25", "file": "debates1964-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0550c343954789ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-25a.235.2", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "lving all the unions? Will the right hon. Gentleman agree that it is impossible for his Government to make these appeals? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us how he feels that his Government, of which he has been a prominent member for many years, can make this appeal in view of the pay pause, the interference with collective bargaining and arbitration awards two years ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-25a.235.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-25", "file": "debates1964-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0550c343954789ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-25a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": ". Member on the Government side, because there was not a single Scottish Tory back bencher on that Committee—although they, in the main, represent Scottish agricultural interests. The Secretary of State for Scotland was not on the Committee, and the Under-Secretary had managed to say four sentences in the 22 sittings we needed to reach Clause 22. On this vital matter he did not have a word to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-25a.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-25", "file": "debates1964-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0550c343954789ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-25a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Northern Ireland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": ". Orders specifying commodities are of interest and of very considerable concern to Scotland, and so are the levels of the import prices. The machinery is equally important. Scottish farmers may well have far more interest in some commodities than have English agriculturists or horticulturists. What surprises me, therefore, is that the Government should, in the first place, have left Scotland out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-25a.249.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-25", "file": "debates1964-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0550c343954789ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-25a.371.3", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "h Standing Committee that was meeting. His second mistake is in the number of hon. Members who attended the Standing Committee on this Bill from this side of the House. My hon. Friend the Member for Lanark (Mrs. Hart) and I were members. I had preoccupations also with other Bills, but the Secretary of State for Scotland has not appeared during the Committee stage of any Scottish Bill this Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-25a.371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-26", "file": "debates1964-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "01056385934ad85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.410.6", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "Once again the hon. Member has informed the House that it is the postman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.410.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-26", "file": "debates1964-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "01056385934ad85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.414.5", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman was in his place earlier when, in answer to other Questions, I outlined the stamp Policy of the Post Office. I pointed out that we must keep a proper balance. As to the issuing of a commemorative stamp for Robert Burns, I said earlier, and I repeat, that if there are the sort of celebrations for Burns that there now are for Shakespeare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.414.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-26", "file": "debates1964-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "01056385934ad85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.414.7", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "As I said earlier, we celebrate only postal and Royal anniversaries, although we do celebrate important events.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.414.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-26", "file": "debates1964-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "01056385934ad85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "Every hon. Member is happy to have his speeches quoted on any occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-26", "file": "debates1964-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "01056385934ad85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.453.3", "colnum": "453", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "The airframe will be an American Phantom airframe powered by a Rolls-Royce Spey engine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-26", "file": "debates1964-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "01056385934ad85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is very good at smoke-screens himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-26", "file": "debates1964-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "01056385934ad85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.480.3", "colnum": "480", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not answered.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry, but I will not give way. I put the question to the Minister of Defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-26", "file": "debates1964-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "01056385934ad85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.481.2", "colnum": "481", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "There is no question and no proposal whatsoever that the United Kingdom should in any circumstances forgo the five Polaris submarines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.481.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-26", "file": "debates1964-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "01056385934ad85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " what the Prime Minister believes when he is talking to our allies. It is only when the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence are wrapping the Union Jack round themselves to make election propaganda that they take a different view. Will the right hon. Gentleman answer my question? Does he agree with the Prime Minister or not? I will give way to the right hon. Gentleman to enable him to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-26", "file": "debates1964-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "01056385934ad85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.482.2", "colnum": "482", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I do not want to take too much of the time of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-26", "file": "debates1964-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "01056385934ad85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "preceding_text": "r power in favour of the United States, is a direct encouragement not only to France, not only to Israel and to Egypt, not only to Sweden and to Indonesia, but also to China to develop her own gigantic nuclear force. Indeed, we now have our Prime Minister, in order to prove his case for retaining a British nuclear deterrent, actually egging on France and China to develop their own nuclear weapons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-26", "file": "debates1964-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "01056385934ad85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "or example, £500 million of this £2,000 million a year were spent on relieving their poverty and teaching them birth control, our defence would be a great deal better. If out of this money we gave them tractors, fertilisers, ploughs, and, if I may add, contraceptive pills also, as well as providing ourselves with rockets, guns and planes, they would get fatter and I believe that we would be safer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-26", "file": "debates1964-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "01056385934ad85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "at sympathy for Short Harland—particularly as they badly need the order not only in the public interest from the point of view of Northern Ireland but also from the point of the well-being of the Army. The Bell helicopter would have been produced under licence. It would have given Short Bros. and Harland the opportunity to produce a weapon which, we are told right, left and centre, the Army wants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-26", "file": "debates1964-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "01056385934ad85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Captain John Litchfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain John Litchfield", "preceding_text": "ote that that is an opinion which is shared by hon. Members on both sides of the House. He wants more transport aircraft, more men and more and better equipment. The hon. Gentleman also suggested that the multilateral force should be borne on the Foreign Office Vote. I think that an admirable suggestion. I would go further, however, and suggest that it should be manned by Foreign Office officials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-26a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.608.5", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodhouse", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is qiute right in saying that in such circumstances the State has to look after the matter. This is precisely what the suggestion in my hon. Friend's Question amounted to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.608.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.627.3", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Certain procedures have to be gone through. One is the Transport Users'—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.628.0", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No one has ever said that that was Government policy. What we have said is that every case will be considered on its merits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "BANK RATE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the great majority of thinking people in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "That is the precise point I am making; that N.A.T.O., unfortunately, is not a political entity. It is not a sovereign Power. It is the best and most efficient form of treaty organisation we have ever seen, and to it we are absolutely loyal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "s even more important that they be absolutely assured of the defence of their base. When British troops are engaged in far-flung theatres of war, it is vital that they do not have constantly to look over their shoulder, being concerned about the security of the defences of these islands. This is why, most importantly, we need to continue an effective nuclear deterrent, for it is the possession of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "In the Cuba situation, as the hor. Gentleman should know, the United States was extremely grateful for the presence and alertness of the V-bomber force and for the contribution —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.717.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about peace?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "preceding_text": " right hon. Friends have done in this debate, a very sorry picture is revealed behind it. When we deal with the facts of defence instead of the fantasies we find a completely different story to that told by the right hon. Gentleman, because the hard fact is that this Government, during the last 12 years, have spent more than£20,000 million and are not able to produce the defence the country needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "Although hon. Members opposite shout \"what about peace\", it seems that, for internal debating purposes, they do not consider that we belong to the N.A.T.O. Alliance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malley", "preceding_text": "deration of priorities and a reallocation of some of these expenses. Before dealing with our manpower situation, I want to deal with a few points made by the right hon. Gentleman about the proposals for new aircraft. As we are sometimes asked what a Labour Government will do in various situations, one thing that I can categorically promise is that a future Labour Government will not make decisions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malley", "preceding_text": "to do in his opening speech; he must bear responsibility for the whole of this sad story. Despite this expenditure, through procrastination, incompetence and political prejudice the Government, in the words of the Amendment, have failed to produce an adequate defence policy and provide forces to meet the nation's needs\". The Government seem also determined to sabotage the Geneva disarmament talks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "preceding_text": "I should like, by leave of the House, to reply to the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Member will forgive me, if he did not say it that is what his leader said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "The Foreign Secretary was supporting the proposal of President Johnson on the explicit assurance that America would preserve the supply—which they are obligated to give—of the Polaris missile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.756.3", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He never said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "em. It is not the way to treat our Services. If we have weapons they must be kept up to date, and extended into the future. The right hon. Gentleman said that he would open negotiations to see how, in the light of existing circumstances, he could share the control with others. Whatever else he believes or disbelieves, he surely cannot believe that to announce that he will give up British missiles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ciating him from some of his supporters. My hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Sir A. V. Harvey)—I thank him for his commendation of my own remarks— asked a very pertinent question. He said that if the Opposition believe in reliance upon the American deterrent may we have an absolute assurance that the party opposite is solid in its support of the American Polaris base? Now, can we have it?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ure to answer this question. It is one thing to say that one is a loyal member of an alliance and that what is wanted is absolute faith in one's allies, but it is another thing to flinch from allowing them to have bases from which that defence would have to be conducted on one's soil. I shall not press hon. Members opposite for anything more. It is an embarrassment which is too painful, too acute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ance and that what is wanted is absolute faith in one's allies, but it is another thing to flinch from allowing them to have bases from which that defence would have to be conducted on one's soil. I shall not press hon. Members opposite for anything more. It is an embarrassment which is too painful, too acute. [ Interruption .] The right hon. Member for Belper begs me to move on to something else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-02-27", "file": "debates1964-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b334015d87b63303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Member think that it is possible, at this moment in time—I do not say what may be possible, but at this time—so to reorganise that alliance that we can get people together and have the sort of single centre which my right hon. Friend the Member for Hall Green spoke about? That would not be facing the realities of the situation as it is today. I have sought to cover as much of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-27a.760.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-28", "file": "debates1964-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "18d80c1116bf2c3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-28a.874.8", "colnum": "874", "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/1964-02-28a.874.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-28", "file": "debates1964-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "18d80c1116bf2c3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-28a.874.12", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 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 [ 14th February ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-28a.874.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-28", "file": "debates1964-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "18d80c1116bf2c3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-28a.874.16", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAYS (STRAYING ANIMALS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-28a.874.15"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-02-28", "file": "debates1964-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "18d80c1116bf2c3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-28a.874.20", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-02-28a.874.19"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Browne", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As it is unlikely that my right hon. Friend will be answering questions again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": " specifically designed for the rapid transport and landing of Marine commandos, will come into service, and before long Royal Marines will be embarked in the two new assault ships, about which I would like to say something a little later. All I need add, I think, is that I am confident that the next 300 years will see as distinguished a record for the Royal Marines as the past 300 years have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": " we have every confidence in being able to maintain the high standard for which the Royal Navy and Royal Marines are famed. This is the last occasion on which Navy Estimates will be introduced to the House of Commons by a Civil Lord of the Admiralty or by a First Lord of the Admiralty. These ancient titles will disappear on 1st April, as will the Admiralty itself as a separate Department of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": " has been that \"Blake\" was in permanent reserve, that \"Tiger\" was little more than an office because of the lack of manpower. This is what was actually said by one correspondent—\"little more than an office\", and that \"Lion\", too, was badly undermanned. Why is it that both of them have been brought home? Let me quote from The Times , which is not a newspaper that is given to making rash statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "Tiger\" was little more than an office because of the lack of manpower. This is what was actually said by one correspondent—\"little more than an office\", and that \"Lion\", too, was badly undermanned. Why is it that both of them have been brought home? Let me quote from The Times , which is not a newspaper that is given to making rash statements—[ Laughter .] I apologise, I meant the Glasgow Herald .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "f senior skilled electrical ratings.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 26th February, 1964; Vol. 690, c. 78.] According to my calculations, that means that about 60 ships are to some extent short of senior skilled electrical ratings. The hon. Gentleman went on to say that a number of junior ratings on the ships were doing the job of senior men. What does he think will be the effect of this upon a junior rating?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Captain Litchfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Litchfield", "preceding_text": "I am trying to develop an argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS. \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "preceding_text": "I should find it difficult to follow the hon. and gallant Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Commander Pursey) even if I tried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1004.6", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the two hon. Members opposite will sort it out between them. Last week, I had the previlege of of going round Portsmouth Dockyard with the Admiral Superintendent. I always try to make a visit just before the Navy Estimates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1004.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "That is as may be. I am glad of the information. I will Hass that on. But it seems to me she is a naval widow and that she regards the Civil Lord as both her father and mother.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1012.0", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "I am trying to fellow the hon. and learned Gentleman's argument. Surely, if a country which has inadequate resources to enable it to match a bigger country in conventional weapons is threatened or attacked by that country, is not that the best possible argument for the smaller country having its nuclear deterrent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1012.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "the deepest sympathy for the hon. Lady the Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Miss Vickers). It is very rough luck, a few weeks before a General Election, to be faced with a crisis in her own constituency, because of 12 years' mismanagement of the country's defences. I wonder where she has been when some hon. Members on this side, including myself, have made effort after effort. on a non-party basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "eal interest in the subject. I will go further. I do not think that he has any real knowledge of the subject. So, at the end of the day, he asked my right hon. and hon. Friends a question, and it was a trick question. He has had some legal training so he knew the way to do it. The right hon. Gentleman asked whether the party on these benches was unanimous on the issue of support for Polaris bases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1027.2", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "absence for two days. We all know the cheers that a Minister who is out for a cheap gibe can get. But this is not all. The right hon. Gentleman, if he is competent, or has any claims to competence, must be fully aware of the declared policy of hon. Members on this side of the House in relation to Polaris. He must have been perfectly aware, because his public relations officers would have told him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1027.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "llenge the right hon Gentleman on this—that it was his public relations department which informed the Press of those \"phoney\" figures about troops strength, and if a Government will go as far as informing the Press and giving it \"phoney\" strengths, not to deceive our enemies, not even to deceive our friends, but to conceal the truth from the British public, there is not much that they will not do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1038.7", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "But that was cancelled by the Conservative Government. The hon. Member for Exeter (Mr. Dudley Williams) cannot have it both ways. I am prepared to agree that to make a catalogue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1038.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "But that was cancelled by the Conservative Government. The hon. Member for Exeter (Mr. Dudley Williams) cannot have it both ways. I am prepared to agree that to make a catalogue—[ Interruption .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1038.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1039.2", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "dering our obligations. The speech of the Minister of Defence last week was a classic example of an abuse of the procedure of the House of Commons. He has thrown in the melting pot—at least until the election is over—any possibility of defence problems being regarded objectively. I assure hon. Members—although they may not like it—that I came here tonight with great reluctance to make this speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1043.2", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I do not want to detain the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1043.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-02", "file": "debates1964-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "48da4245840399fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "wer and the Board of Admiralty is satisfied that this is a task which we can carry without difficulty. I do not accept as being accurate the rather fanciful version of recent events which the hon. Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) gave the Committee in a most amusing and interesting speech. The problem with the Phantom aircraft, as I explained earlier, was to see whether we could get a common aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-02a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1109.5", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMITTEE ON THE STAFFING OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": " Is it not unfortunate that today even a young woman who marries someone over 21 in a society with an egalitarian family system is unable either to hold a vested interest in the house or jointly to share in the mortgage? Is it not high time that the Minister took some initiative? Does not his legalistic reply reveal the vapidity of the promises made by the Prime Minister yesterday to young people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1109.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1115.2", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman tell me why it was that this wretched landlord, who decided to evict two women and their children, who had lived in the house for 24 years, for no other reason than that their mother, the previous tenant, had died—and he did that within a very short period of days indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1115.2", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " period of days indeed—[ Interruption .] The landlord, after I had spoken to his solicitor, agreed that the tenants could stay in the house provided they paid almost double rent, and as this was the only alternative way of keeping a roof over their heads, this was agreed to. There was also a condition that 13 weeks' rent should be paid in advance. The solicitor and I agreed on the monstrous terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1115.2", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "was also a condition that 13 weeks' rent should be paid in advance. The solicitor and I agreed on the monstrous terms—[HON. MEMBERS:\"Speech.\"]—I am taking a long time over this. If hon. Members opposite were being evicted, they would want some time taken over it. After that solemn agrement had been reached with the landlord's solicitor, the Minister with whom I communicated must have got in touch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1115.4", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member is not allowed to do that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I will, Mr. Speaker. I am doing my best to state the facts on which I want to base my question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1115.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1124.6", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The last part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question has nothing to do with the original Question. I do not know that any member of the Government, certainly not the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has ever talked about a Tory free-for-all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1124.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1133.2", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "EUROPEAN FISHERIES CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "s usual for copies to be made available to the Opposition of statements of that length, but they have not been supplied on this occasion. The hon. Gentleman will understand, therefore, if I put some questions to him arising from his statement, but, at the same time, reserve the right to ask for a debate on the whole matter in the near future. First, may I say to the hon. Gentleman that we welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1133.2", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "EUROPEAN FISHERIES CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "are, for instance, that the Scottish middle-water fleet, which derives an income of £2 million from this area, will experience a cut of at least half of that amount as a result of this agreement? Is he aware that this decision does not meet with the approvea1 of the trade or of the trade unions concerned? Is he aware that they have made a decision to introduce a quota for landings from the Faroes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1169.3", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman want to answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "preceding_text": "ated. The operations of the three Services in the Far East recently are a good illustration of what I have in mind, but more information on the subject would be welcome. I should like to comment on some of the things which the hon. Member for Sheffield, Park said about Bomber Command. I should have thought that the rôle of Bomber Command was made perfectly clear in the Statement on Defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "preceding_text": "opposite. They seem to be most anxious to belittle the strategic and strike capacity of Bomber Command. They always pooh-pooh that suggestion and say, \"No, no\" and that they never said anything of the kind; but time after time, whenever they have the opportunity, they question every figure and every detail of performance, in order to achieve what? In order to get a more efficient fighting service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1185.3", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I paid the hon. Gentleman the courtesy of giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1186.5", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "e or indeed approve anything an hon. Member says. I never seek the protection of the Chair. If you, Sir William, feel that you have discharged your duty on the one hand in deprecating something I said and on the other in allowing an hon. Member opposite to characterise it as a lie, I must congratulate you on this occasion on your impartiality. I trust that I shall never rise to such levels myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "me Minister and after a sordid intrigue—I am sure the Foreign Secretary will agree—they got another Prime Minister. Why anyone should worry about a sordid intrigue after what happened in connection with the selection of the present Prime Minister is beyond me. I thought that in Tory circles the expression \"sordid intrigue\" was a compliment and that the hon. Member was on the way to a Cabinet post—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is making my point for me, but we have not quite got there yet. He tells me that he does not know what this document is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "ts to reply. It appears that he does not. A hen I asked that question of his hon. Friends last night the only reply I received was from the hon. Lady the Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Miss Vickers). She said, \"Nassau\". That one answer from that one hon. Member opposite gave the lie to the whole of the Tory case. We see that their policy is one of expediency. I do not wish to detain the Committee", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "With respect, Sir William, the Minister's salary is borne on these Votes. I am challenging his competence. I am challenging his personal integrity. When he spoke last week, anything would do to attack us. He did not even stop to think. It was the aristocrat talking to what he regards as his social inferiors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1196.1", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman last week made great play with the fact that when they first took office 12 years ago they found that my hon. and right hon. Friends had left them in a mess. He stressed the inability, undesirability and unworthiness of my right hon. Friends to take responsibility because of what they found. I am exposing the right hon. Gentleman for what he is; a cheap skate and a \"phoney\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "That is the nub of the question. But clearly if we are to deter we must carry to the mind of our opponent the faint possibility that we may use the weapon. If it is certain that our weapon is no good—and I have tried to deal with that point—or that we will never use it, it is a complete loss and there is no point in having it. There must be this doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-03", "file": "debates1964-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "afcd43e33acc5d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "uadron of aeroplanes without their being given all the necessary preliminary training, briefing and working over the routes which is necessary? Are we going through the process of continuously planning and training for an independent rôle? If we are not, as I understand we are not, then all the talk about the independent deterrent is just political baloney designed to delude the electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-03a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-04", "file": "debates1964-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fe30c6e0174801f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1312.4", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "STAGGERED HOLIDAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gough", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gough", "preceding_text": "While congratulating my right hon. Friend on this very interesting experiment, may I ask whether he is aware that it will cause a large additional expense to the diary trade? Does he agree that his predecessor informed those who make diaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1312.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-04", "file": "debates1964-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fe30c6e0174801f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1343.1", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARBOURS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dr. Beeching.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": ", another four years would be suitable. As I was saying, I have found during my four years or so at the Ministry of Transport that it is not easy to attract to the nationalised industries men of the right quality. There are many reasons for this. The first is that, generally speaking, we cannot offer them the financial attraction and inducement which private enterprise gives to its top management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-04", "file": "debates1964-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fe30c6e0174801f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1449.7", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "to Her Majesty the Queen and most of the main powers of the Admiralty, certainly in respect of major policy, will be conferred on the Secretary of State and the Defence Council. What will be left will be the sub-committee or subordinate Board of the Defence Council. The question with which we are concerned is what name should be accorded to it. In the Commons the name preferred was the Navy Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1449.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-04", "file": "debates1964-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fe30c6e0174801f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1453.0", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "re all these distinguished admirals and ex-admirals at each other's throats for hours over this point ; I apologise.\" But that is not his attitude. He has come here with a story about Henry VIII. This procedure has continued since the time of Henry VIII. I know what Henry VIII would have done with a Minister who had shown such weakness. He would have done the same as he did with some of his wives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-04", "file": "debates1964-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fe30c6e0174801f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1459.1", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Chair—but that has a very important connotation. If the expression is to be \"Navy Board\", then the most rabid \"blue water\" man on the other side of the Chamber will have to think that in terms of the Navy the Admiralty is something wider and more embracing. As it is, I believe that the take-over bid by the Navy has already happened and that the other two Services have now become subordinate to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-04", "file": "debates1964-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fe30c6e0174801f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1459.1", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "and more embracing. As it is, I believe that the take-over bid by the Navy has already happened and that the other two Services have now become subordinate to it—[HON. MEMBERS : \"Rubbish.\"] Hon. Members opposite say \"Rubbish,\" but they do not get up and say it. Where have they been during our debates? Yesterday and the day before there were not ten of them present at any time during those debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1459.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-04", "file": "debates1964-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fe30c6e0174801f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1460.2", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-04", "file": "debates1964-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fe30c6e0174801f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1468.2", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I gave notice last week, Mr. Speaker, first that I objected to one man bands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-04", "file": "debates1964-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fe30c6e0174801f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " the Act, consisting of a few words which were quite out of character with present-day circumstances. But Samuel Pepys had put them there in the first place, they were familiar to the Navy, and eventually they were allowed to stay. The Government must have realised that that kind of reaction would be only natural in this case, but they decided to make the change and also had the Estimates printed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-04", "file": "debates1964-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fe30c6e0174801f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "had put them there in the first place, they were familiar to the Navy, and eventually they were allowed to stay. The Government must have realised that that kind of reaction would be only natural in this case, but they decided to make the change and also had the Estimates printed—[ Interruption. ] If the hon. Member for Worcester, South (Sir P. Agnew) wishes to interrupt me I shall gladly give way", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-04", "file": "debates1964-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fe30c6e0174801f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "nted on the paper which is now sitting on his knee. Or is it that the rest of them cannot read\" We should have had the Prime Minister here. We know that he can read. This is a serious point. I hope that we shall have some explanation from somebody on the Government Bench. I see no reason why we should accept this Amendment and get ourselves into this muddle with no explanation from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-04", "file": "debates1964-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fe30c6e0174801f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "r up this muddle of the Estimate having been printed in the wrong form, since I believe we have to deal with a further stage of the Estimates next week. On the other hand, if we decide to reject the Amendment, the Estimates are in the proper form. There is quite a considerable attraction to anyone who has a desire to see the proceedings of the House conducted properly to keep the Government right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-04", "file": "debates1964-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fe30c6e0174801f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1472.1", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-04", "file": "debates1964-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fe30c6e0174801f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1472.6", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1472.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-04", "file": "debates1964-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fe30c6e0174801f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1472.10", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "by some of us—the discourtesies of the Minister in the defence debate—refused leave. As several of my hon. Friends have pointed out, this does not mean that questions ought to be begged. It is quite clear that the Minister of Defence cannot speak and the other Minister present representing the Admiralty refuses to speak. The Leader of the House, in the midst of this discussion, leaves the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1472.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-04", "file": "debates1964-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fe30c6e0174801f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1476.0", "colnum": "1476", "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 : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. John Hay)", "preceding_text": "dley (Mr. Wigg)—and the hon. Member now appears, as far as I can see, to be in charge of the Opposition—he was prevented from answering the questions My right hon. Friend took what I think to be the perfectly correct view, namely, that as long as the House refused him leave to speak again, as long as one hon. Member refused him that leave, he should not seek to put up some other Minister to reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-04a.1476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-05", "file": "debates1964-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5cba7d5e62fb4d4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1516.2", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — URBAN DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We must certainly try to do better than we have in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1516.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-05", "file": "debates1964-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5cba7d5e62fb4d4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1518.4", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH VIET-NAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheating. Dirty politics.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since the right hon. Gentleman seems to think it becoming in a Prime Minister to repeat a completely false statement and to add some of his own to it, and since outside this House I intend to ask him to produce chapter and verse and timing for the allegation which he made this morning or withdraw his allegation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1518.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-05", "file": "debates1964-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5cba7d5e62fb4d4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1518.4", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH VIET-NAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since the right hon. Gentleman seems to think it becoming in a Prime Minister to repeat a completely false statement and to add some of his own to it, and since outside this House I intend to ask him to produce chapter and verse and timing for the allegation which he made this morning or withdraw his allegation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheating. Dirty politics.\"]—we can deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1518.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-05", "file": "debates1964-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5cba7d5e62fb4d4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1518.7", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH VIET-NAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not know who the people are in Washington who —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1518.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-05", "file": "debates1964-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5cba7d5e62fb4d4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH VIET-NAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps to save the right hon. Gentleman the trouble of any—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-05", "file": "debates1964-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5cba7d5e62fb4d4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1519.2", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH VIET-NAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Would the Prime Minister ask his officers in the Embassy, who were present at all the statements which I made in Washington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1519.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-05", "file": "debates1964-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5cba7d5e62fb4d4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1519.3", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH VIET-NAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman says that he did not say these things in a speech and I have insinuated that he did, of course I withdraw it, naturally. That is the thing to do. But we still have to have explained these extraordinary headlines which came to us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-05", "file": "debates1964-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5cba7d5e62fb4d4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1519.4", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH VIET-NAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1519.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-05", "file": "debates1964-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5cba7d5e62fb4d4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1525.3", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "about the working of the Transport Users' Consultative Committee, will he give time for a debate upon its work? If he decides to give time, will the right hon. and learned Gentleman ensure that the Prime Minister takes part in the debate, since he is very much involved in these matters in Scotland, or will the Prime Minister be so engaged grovelling in the gutter that he cannot find time to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1525.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-05", "file": "debates1964-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5cba7d5e62fb4d4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1541.0", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is enough for you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "Is that all that the right hon. Gentleman has to say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1541.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-05", "file": "debates1964-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5cba7d5e62fb4d4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1543.2", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-05", "file": "debates1964-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5cba7d5e62fb4d4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1606.1", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too cold.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": " congratulated his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland when the one became two, but after the two in 1963 the figure in 1964 was nil. One cannot have any argument about that. I do not know how the percentage calculation would go on a nil. Yesterday, I suggested some reasons for this situation, but I should like to have some explanation why, in Argyllshire, nobody joined the Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-05", "file": "debates1964-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5cba7d5e62fb4d4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1618.2", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "an merely concentrate on the Army's use of one particular training centre. I very much hope that this will come about in due course. I propose to say no more, because many other hon. Members wish to intervene. One of the great problems of the Committee and of the House of Commons generally in recent months has been that, far from getting shorter, our speeches have become longer, longer and longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1618.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-05", "file": "debates1964-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5cba7d5e62fb4d4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " the ink had faded from them in under 12 months. Every right hon. and hon. Member opposite and every Labour Party candidate who fought the last General Election fought it on that policy, laying it before the country as a pledge. Much has been said today about pledges. A lot of it was directed against hon. Members on this side of the Committee. The less I say about it the better, for it is painful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-05", "file": "debates1964-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5cba7d5e62fb4d4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1657.1", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Kershaw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Kershaw", "preceding_text": "n what we hope are short trips, so to speak, to Cyprus and elsewhere. They probably leave the band behind. They leave behind various other people such as the regimental boxing team because the championship is coming along, and so on. In that sort of way, a battalion which is pretty well up to strength or, perhaps, full may actually go abroad with quite a few—one must not call them \"odds and sods\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-05a.1657.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-09", "file": "debates1964-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "dad887e5f9ab5e68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-09a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "ent and Monarch—controversy that now has no validity. We have to look at it in the light of control by the House of Commons and the needs of the Armed Forces—and we may find ourselves forced to face up to them, not because of forward-thinking, but because events will overtake us. That marks the difference between my right hon. Friend and myself. He says that I am over-enthusiastic. and rebukes me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-09a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-09", "file": "debates1964-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "dad887e5f9ab5e68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-09a.135.6", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "conflict behind the scenes, a conflict between the Navy and the Air Force of which we see only the signs. We are told—and I hope that this will prove to be right—that the Ministry of Defence will harmonise this and that next year we will have Estimates which are realistic and in which we can have confidence. However, I wonder whether the new Minister will consider what we get. The McNamara report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-09a.135.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.247.4", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH-EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister deliberately evaded the second part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.247.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.247.11", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH-EAST", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I ask for your guidance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.247.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.249.5", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has succeeded in introducing me by the back door—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.249.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.250.5", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has the wrong month and the wrong facts. Perhaps I may give him the general position. About 15 per cent. of our total imports are manufactured goods, but imports of industrial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.250.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.250.5", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has the wrong month and the wrong facts. Perhaps I may give him the general position. About 15 per cent. of our total imports are manufactured goods, but imports of industrial—[ Interruption .]—I am giving the general position. I was going to say that the general position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.250.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We had better wait for the next balance of payments —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.251.4", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Yes, but when the right hon. Gentleman said that we must wait for the next month's figures I had just asked about the balance of payment figures, and assuming that the right hon. Gentleman does appreciate the difference between balance of payments and balance of trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.251.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "lain. This, of course, is quite different from the question of the prices which a manufacturer may himself charge for his products when he himself sells them. The price at which the manufacturer sells his goods is something quite separate and we are not, in this legislation, attempting to determine this in any way. That must be left to the forces of competition and the manufacturer's own judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "which the genuine supporters of resale price maintenance had feared, did not follow. Experience shows that consumers in those countries have welcomed greater freedom to \"shop around\" for the combination of service, quality and price which they want. As between two countries, or one country at different times, it is virtually impossible to say that this or that change is due to a particular factor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why say it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "nd that these proposals should be judged. Very well. The truth is that the Bill will make no difference for quite a time, and very little difference even in the long run, to the cost of living. The right hon. Gentleman quoted from other countries. Incidentally, since a Bill rather like this was passed in France the cost of living has risen by 60 per cent. I know that that was not cause and effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. R. Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. R. Wise", "preceding_text": "le prices for goods bearing his brand. To say that circumstances have changed since that recommendation was made is not a valid enough argument. On this side of the House we cannot use that argument at all, because what we were saying about the state of our economy in 1955, just before the introduction of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act, and what we are saying now are very much the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "at has been or is being done in other countries in this matter. I doubt how far it helps us very much to know what people have been doing in other countries. The facts and circumstances are very different and we have to solve our own problem as we meet it. If, however, we are to consider at all what is done in other countries, we must be careful to see that we have the facts right. I have with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "or they deal with the people who are involved in the implications of the Bill. My right hon. Friend the Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay) said that we should be attacking manufacturers' prices and this is the basis of what I want to say. I have a friend who is in a one-man business. Actually, he employs two assistants, but, technically, it is a one-man business. It is a small ironmongery shop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "e price of a quart tin must go up 6d., of which he and the manufacturer would get 3d. each. Within three months the price was again increased by 3d., this time the manufacturer taking 2d. and leaving ld. to the retailer. Thus, my friend had to accept an increase of 4d. within a short time. But he told me, \"I was already getting 4s. 3d. profit on each quart tin and I was perfectly happy with that.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.338.4", "colnum": "338", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Milne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Milne", "preceding_text": "rofit. \"Loss-leaders\" is in some respects a misleading term, because any retailer who wants to stay in business, and who indulges in the practice of loss-leading in its true sense, will find himself out of business. Loss-leading really means the shopkeeper selling a number of commodities, a fraction of the lines he sells, at cost or even below. He then proceeds to mark up the rest of the articles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.338.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.354.3", "colnum": "354", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir Frank Markham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir Frank Markham", "preceding_text": " very meek and mild and more or less indicating that it was worth while continuing with it. Into this stream we suddenly got a decision by the Secretary of State that a Bill would be introduced to abolish resale price maintenance, and this—and I put it down as a charge against him—without any consultation with any of the usual bodies like the 1922 Committee of the Conservative Party in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "nt. The present Minister of Defence, who is not here now—no doubt out of a sense of self-preservation—put himself on record when he was President of the Board of Trade as saying: There have been some criticisms that the new legal right of suppliers\"— that is, the right to defend themselves under the present Act\"— goes too far… I see that the right hon. Gentleman has now entered the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "No, there are no rivals on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read your brief.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": ", but it is not that. There is no integrated attack upon inefficiency in industry, upon the power of monopoly in industry, upon the restrictive parts of industry. It is not part of that at all. What have we had over some years now? We have had a period of dallying by the Government. They themselves, in 1956, weakened the Measures we left behind us to deal with monopolies and restrictive practices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In the Sunday Times .\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "nopolies Commission or the Restrictive Practices Court have made on these restrictions. They failed to follow up and deal with them. There has been no encouragement to industry to make itself more efficient. There have been no penal arrangements on those parts of industry which did not make themselves efficient. The House saw last week in the Observer an article about the \"Half-Stretched Country\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.362.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get on with it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "mes .\"] Clearly, the House has seen it. There has been no effort by the Government to deal with this. The Bill, which is an attempt to deal with prices, could be a part of an entire attack on the whole field. If it were part of an attack on the whole field, of an attack on prices, inefficiency, restrictive practices and monopoly, it would have a part to play, but on its own it has no part to play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Speaking in the House at this hour is always a problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And unions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " inefficiency in industry, the monopoly power of industry, and if it were really serious business. However, the Bill stands by itself, fits into no pattern and is rather a small business which leads us nowhere at all. The reason why it does not get us anywhere is that the Conservative Party has its own paymasters on the benches opposite. We should be going after monopolies, take-overs and mergers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman say that if we are prepared to deal across the board with these matters he will be prepared to advise——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.365.3", "colnum": "365", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are becoming tired.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "in industry, of an attempt to modernise industry and distribution, it would have its part to play, but it would have to be amended to do it. We shall, therefore, table Amendments in Committee. I cannot say that we will vote against the Bill. On the other hand, it is not big enough to mean anything by itself. The Government put it forward just by itself. It is not part of a big attack on the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "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": " the point of unanimous abstention on something its Front Bench supports. The right hon. Gentleman described the Bill in the elegant phrase of its being a little tiddler, asked how much effect it would have on prices, and thought that the effect would take too long to be achieved. I take it, therefore, that the party opposite would like a far more vigorous Bill coming into effect far more quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "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": "the elegant phrase of its being a little tiddler, asked how much effect it would have on prices, and thought that the effect would take too long to be achieved. I take it, therefore, that the party opposite would like a far more vigorous Bill coming into effect far more quickly. [ Interruption .] Turning to the case for the Bill, I would say that it is an integral part of our whole economic policy", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "d thing. This is precisely the principle we are following in regard to resale price maintenance. People ask, \"Why are you now dealing with the retailers? Why do not you deal with the manufacturers?\" The answer is that we dealt with them eight years ago. In the 1956 Act, we dealt with the restrictive practices of manufacturers. At this stage, we are dealing similarly with restrictions in retailing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He will have to do it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": ". Surely, the point of the Bill is that we should not enshrine particular profit margins. We should try to bring pressure to bear upon profit margins by competition in the interests of efficiency wherever we can. I appreciate the difficulty here, and I am sure that it will be discussed. I warn my hon. Friend that if he tries to go beyond the definition in the Bill, it will be very difficult to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-10", "file": "debates1964-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8de2109b659ab05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "it tending more and more to give economic benefits which should not be lost to the nation, but where these economic benefits to the nation should not completely override the genuine social position of the small man. This really is the balance we are trying to hold under the Bill and which I believe we are establishing at the right point. Of course, many points remain to be considered in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-10a.374.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.425.3", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Why cannot they be separated? It is only a question of simple arithmetic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.425.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.438.5", "colnum": "438", "heading": "HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (BIRTH OF A SON)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Alec Douglas-Home)", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House would like to have an opportunity of conveying its congratulations to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on the birth of a son yesterday. I therefore give notice that tomorrow I will move a Motion for a humble Address.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "at they make a profit of about 12⅔ per cent. to finance the future. The domestic consumers in the South-West who will pay another 18 per cent. on 1st April can say that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is expecting us to finance not only the Government's past mistakes, but the future, too. We have to provide now the finance for the future building of the nuclear power stations, and the rest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "r cent., and motor vehicles 16 per cent.; 16 per cent. represents the proportion of wages in the total bill. What is the excuse? What possible justification have these people got? What a brass neck they have, when wages go up by 5 per cent., to say \"We are going to put 5 per cent. on our prices.\" It is absolute effrontery. Does the Chancellor of the Exchequer have any words of condemnation for it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "people to pretend that a wage increase of 5 per cent. in the engineering industry means that prices should go up by 5 per cent. At the most, they should go up by half that amount, and that is being jolly generous to the engineering employers. I believe that many industrialists do not agree with the Chancellor at all. They agree with the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "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": "The hon. Member for Cardiff, South East (Mr. Callaghan) made a speech which was racy and vigorous. I am sorry that he had also to be both selective and, at times, offensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.465.3", "colnum": "465", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Korean war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " more effective debater. Listening to the hon. Gentleman's speech, it struck me that no one would have thought that he was representing a party in whose few years of government the value of the £ fell by 26 per cent., the average level of retail prices rose by over 5 per cent. a year, culminating, in their last year of office, in an increase of 12 per cent. in the level of prices in a single year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.465.3", "colnum": "465", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twelve years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman did not mention that import prices were up 5½ per cent. on a year ago and that imported food prices were up by 18 per cent. on 1961. We have had difficulties, too, but right hon. and hon. Members opposite did precious little about them. Throughout the months of 1951, as the problems grew, they did nothing to deal with the impending crisis and they passed the burden on to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "A tinge of offensiveness seems to be appropriate this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.467.2", "colnum": "467", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1959.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "aly, they have risen by 7·5 per cent.; in France, 6·4 per cent.; Holland, 3·9 per cent.; Belgium, 3·5 per cent.; Germany, 3·4 per cent.; Sweden, 3 per cent., and in the United Kingdom, 2·2 per cent. On this occasion, we have been doing very much better than the continental countries. That is why we did not hear about it from the hon. Member this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "l, but the pressure on prices in the other nationalised industries comes not by any means solely from Government policy, but from wage increases in those industries. It is bound to do so. In view of the enormous proportion of the national investment which is done by the nationalised industries, it would be economic folly not to insist upon their showing a proper economic return on that investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "This is an important point. If the Chancellor really means what he says, that it is the job of manufacturers to maximise their prices, which is what his right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) was saying—the Chancellor agreed that he went a long way with him —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "y of the Western industrial countries. All these are measures designed and calculated, and certain to produce results, to promote greater efficiency and production. It is along the line of greater efficiency and production that we are most likely to achieve a proper holding of the level of prices. We are also trying to encourage in every way competition. I will not go over the debate of yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.475.2", "colnum": "475", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ster than the long-term growth of the national income, and this is putting an increasingly heavy burden on the economy, from which we do not shrink. I have made it quite clear that we shall not try to disguise the effect of the level of growth of Government expenditure on the economy. But what about the party opposite. It has a programme which it claims is much bigger than ours. It is more houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.475.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.476.2", "colnum": "476", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "we are going to have a figure of 400,000 houses and that he has been told that the construction industry will not be able to meet such a target. We have never committed ourselves to a figure in excess of that because it would be irresponsible so to do. Before the right hon. Gentleman continues, will he particularise and say in relation to what fields the programmes which he has taken over from us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "This is extremely interesting. The Opposition now accept our roads, schools, hospital and housing programmes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.478.4", "colnum": "478", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "of prices, then it is relevant to know. Other factors are also relevant to the level of prices. For instance, the level of savings has increased many times under this Government and nothing makes a greater contribution to the level of prices than the level of savings. I do not believe that we shall see, under a Labour Government, the level of savings the country has seen during the last few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.478.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Harriet Slater", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Harriet Slater", "preceding_text": "We have just had a fairly good economic lecture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.486.3", "colnum": "486", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Marsh", "preceding_text": "t the independent nuclear deterrent. In the Gallup poll conducted by Aims of Industry, which is not sympathetic to the Labour Party on the whole, the independent nuclear deterrent was at the bottom of the list in the public mind. The other campaign which they are pursuing is on nationalisation. In the Aims of Industry survey, this comes, I think, seventh in the list of 10 items in the public mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.486.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.499.5", "colnum": "499", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did he say 'savage'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Please allow me to make my speech. The right hon. Gentleman will impose extra taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.499.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.503.6", "colnum": "503", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ort added: … the 2,000 laid off because of the strike by 450 Amalgamated Engineering Union members over the redundancy of 25 men … The Leader of the Opposition made his appeal at the Labour Party's conference. The trade union leaders came to the rostrum and agreed with him, but what can right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite do about the sort of events I am describing? It is obvious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.503.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.505.2", "colnum": "505", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " has resigned from the Cabinet. The Daily Herald's carefully considered opinion of the gentleman about whom it was writing—the right hon. Gentleman who hopes to be the next Prime Minister—was this, and I hope that the electorate will bear these words in mind: The curious thing about Mr. Wilson's attitude is its lack of perspective\". What a recommendation for a fellow who wants to be Prime Minister", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.505.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.506.4", "colnum": "506", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Sir Stafford Cripps spoke the truth fearlessly as he saw it, and it nay be that he was expelled from the Labour Party for doing so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.506.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether it is worth while taking up the points made by the hon. Member for Louth (Sir C. Osborne).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "But will the hon. Lady not agree that on more than one occasion at that time I defended Sir Stafford Cripps in the House against hon. Members of his own party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.514.5", "colnum": "514", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Roberts", "preceding_text": "ed, is conclusive. I shall not go into the percentages, but I think that we all agree that the value has increased. On both sides of the Committee, we want to do more for the less fortunate, and I hope that hon. and right hon. Members opposite will accept our sincerity if we accept theirs. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that the Conservative record in this matter is better than the Labour record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.514.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.514.5", "colnum": "514", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Roberts", "preceding_text": " the debate if they want to justify their Amendment to reduce the salary of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East and other hon. Members opposite tried to attach considerable blame to the Government for rising prices. What the hon. Gentleman overlooked was pointed out by my hon. Friend the Member for Louth (Sir C. Osborne), who, I see, is leaving us for a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.514.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The yield.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. and gallant Gentleman can see a number of illuminating figures here. Purchase Tax has risen from 100 to 165 between 1951 and 1963.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. and gallant Gentleman can see a number of illuminating figures here. Purchase Tax has risen from 100 to 165 between 1951 and 1963. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The yield.\"] No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister without Portfolio (Mr. W. F. Deedes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the difficulties?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister without Portfolio (Mr. W. F. Deedes)", "preceding_text": "for all the difficulties of their years, which were referred to by the hon. Member for West Ham, North (Mr. A. Lewis) and carefully reiterated by the hon. Member for Hillsborough. I accept all that, but, even accepting it, the plain fact is—since a number of facts have gone on the record today, this really must be added—that in those years prices rose, on average, by 6½ per cent. per annum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.553.3", "colnum": "553", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "rds under Socialist austerity. I do not do that. Rather, I remind the party opposite that this increase surely accords with the ideals which have been expressed by the party opposite since its earliest years. Much that the predecessors of hon. Members opposite have fought for over the years has now come to pass. I do not expect right hon. and hon. Members opposite to applaud this in election year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.553.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.559.2", "colnum": "559", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "uence conditions of growth with the appropriate weapons, and these do not include a pool of unemployment, which, in the past, some have not been above suggesting might be the solution of some Tory Governments. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has exerted such influence and has used such weapons, and has called in new weapons to his aid. Beyond this, a Government really have two choices. One is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.559.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.559.2", "colnum": "559", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "pons, and these do not include a pool of unemployment, which, in the past, some have not been above suggesting might be the solution of some Tory Governments. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has exerted such influence and has used such weapons, and has called in new weapons to his aid. Beyond this, a Government really have two choices. One is—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"] One is statutory control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.559.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-11", "file": "debates1964-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce64f9dde604623f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EDUCATION AND SCIENCE ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacPherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacPherson", "preceding_text": "—and there is a serious difficulty, a difficulty which, I think, is minimised by the right hon. Gentleman talking of the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-11a.587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.635.2", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EAST AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Does not the Secretary of State agree that what is wanted now is assistance from Commonwealth countries which are not facing immediate difficulties? Why cannot the right hon. Gentleman now go round to Commonwealth countries who could be encouraged to give this help? What has been done in East Africa could have been done through normal diplomatic channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.635.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EAST AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not know himself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the right hon. Gentleman is asking me to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.635.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.638.4", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PAKISTAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "preceding_text": "sion payments in this country from the Pakistan State Bank. She then becomes chargeable to the National Assistance Fund. Despite the overtures which I have made—and they have been consistent and steady over a long period—the Pakistan Government will not release this money. This is a simple book-keeping arrangement. All we have to do is to block the corresponding amount of sterling in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.638.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "r 5 per cent., and has been for a long time. Does the hon. Member's right hon. Friend recollect that when he assumed his present high office, it was described for the first time as being the office of Secretary of State for Industry, Trade and Regional Development? My constituents are getting \"browned-off\" at this constant refusal to provide them with work, which is the function of his Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.657.5", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH AFRICA (SUPPLY OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We use our licensing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.657.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.658.3", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH AFRICA (SUPPLY OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I should like notice of that question about helicopters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.661.2", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — S. G. BROWN LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is it not the case that the Table, under your guidance, Mr. Speaker, decides which Questions are in order? Since I have a trade union interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.661.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.661.8", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONERS (NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I do not think that, but if the hon. Gentleman has any knowledge of any real hardship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.661.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.663.5", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "Whilst we are on this question, may I ask whether the Prime Minister has taken any special action to improve the detection and verification of underground explosions in his own party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.663.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.667.2", "colnum": "667", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "preceding_text": "Referring to Thursday's business, can my right hon. and learned Friend say whether there will be the chance of discussing Her Majesty's Government's more positive policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.667.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.672.3", "colnum": "672", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which Opposition?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ll the Daily Telegraph prophesied the exact date, and that the paper has now said that the Bill will be three days and nights in Committee, will the right hon. and learned Gentleman at least give an assurance that before coming to any decision on the Committee stage he will ascertain through the usual channels the view of the Opposition on the question of keeping us up at night to debate the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.672.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.672.6", "colnum": "672", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House give an assurance that he will tell the House when he takes a decision before he tells the editor of the Daily Telegraph ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.672.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.673.2", "colnum": "673", "heading": "HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (BIRTH OF A SON)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Alec Douglas-Home)", "preceding_text": " duties and private joys are no less important. The happiness of the birth of a child we have all experienced in our families and those of our relations and friends, and we share the joy of the Queen and of the Duke of Edinburgh and the sister and brothers of the new prince, to whom we would wish a very long and a very happy life, and we humbly send to Her Majesty our affectionate congratulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.710.5", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is a National Liberal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "y well—that is why he does not like me putting it in this way—that such a proposition would be fantastically untrue. Many people are elected magistrates because they are Marty politicians. It is quite right that that should be so. Many hon. Members of this House are magisrates. The right hon. and learned Member may be one he was a recorder. I know of no more loyal member of the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.710.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Cordeaux", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Cordeaux", "preceding_text": "To get down to figures, all hon. Members opposite who have spoken have done so in favour of the Amendments and on this side the score is 4 to 1 in favour of them. I shall now make it 5 to 1. I am sure that it will be said that the only reason why I do so is that I represent a borough constituency and my local people have been getting at me. That is true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "It could be—I accept that. My answer is, \"Why not?\" What is so serious about that? I am sure that she and all hon. Members will agree that watch committees have done their job without bias—and, certainly, without political bias. If that is so, the addition of a number of other members, whether or not they are politicians, will not affect the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-12", "file": "debates1964-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d8fc983c1b3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "ven to their argument, the onus is on them to explain why these dreadful things have never happened in the counties hitherto, because there has been none of this blurring. There has been no confusion in the minds of people appearing before the courts outside boroughs. The truth is that the system has worked very well in the counties—the system of having magistrates on the standing joint committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-12a.732.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-17", "file": "debates1964-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eef807748656b858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1168.0", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I deeply regret that it should have been the hon. and learned Gentleman who was inconvenienced in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1168.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-17", "file": "debates1964-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eef807748656b858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1184.2", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry. There must have been some misunderstanding. It communicated itself to me in the form of the appropriate squiggles that cross it out. The only way that I can get round to the Question now is to ask leave of the House to go back to the hon. Lady's Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-17", "file": "debates1964-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eef807748656b858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1208.0", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "On 14th November, he went to address the Churchill Tea Club.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-17", "file": "debates1964-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eef807748656b858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1209.2", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "that his job is to explain as best he can what the Government are doing. I regard it as something that this House should question when, in a Cabinet of 23, we have two Ministers one of whom is responsible for party organisation and the other of whom is responsible for party propaganda, costing us salaries and costing the taxpayer his money. This is unprecedented. It is only the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-17", "file": "debates1964-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eef807748656b858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "The Minister without Portfolio (Mr. W. F. Deedes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister without Portfolio (Mr. W. F. Deedes)", "preceding_text": "I feel that I should not begin without acknowledging the remarks which have just been made by the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale), who has been in his best vein. Only one joke in the whole course of his speech had a familiar ring to me. I very much hope that the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) will accept me as the Minister to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1220.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-17", "file": "debates1964-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eef807748656b858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1230.3", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "In conclusion, may I say that I have endeavoured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-17", "file": "debates1964-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eef807748656b858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "I told the hon. Gentleman that what I would try to do was to prove that the Minister holding my office and drawing my salary justified his existence in terms of the way Governments have worked now since 1945. That is the case I have sought to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-17", "file": "debates1964-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eef807748656b858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1231.6", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "May I very quickly conclude this speech by saying that the point which the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East required me to establish was that the holder of my office justified his time and salary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1231.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-17", "file": "debates1964-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eef807748656b858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1236.3", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I will not detain the House very long, but what we are discussing this afternoon is jobs for the boys, and particularly the Eton boys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-17", "file": "debates1964-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eef807748656b858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1237.5", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1963–64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "in the middle of the night to draft a statement for another Minister, Mr. Profumo. He was called to that meeting to work for his money on that occasion, but one would hardly call that a justification for putting him on the public payroll. The right hon. Gentleman has also made speeches about the Scottish economy and has chastised hon. Members on this side if the House for being Jeremiahs about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1237.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-17", "file": "debates1964-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eef807748656b858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "As I pointed out earlier, I am referring specifically to craftsmen and to people who, in an age of full employment, can go to factories as maintenance men and earn good money. I am speaking about making the industry more attractive. While on this subject it would not do any harm to mention coalmining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-17a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1378.0", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (LIGHT HELICOPTER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman is aware that no one on this side of the House would ever want to compete with him in calculated inaccuracies, but is he aware that this decision will be regretted by the British aircraft industry because, once again, they have had lip-service from the Government who, nevertheless, in their actions have perpetuated a monopoly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1377.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1390.3", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "I well understand that, Mr. Speaker, but it is a difficult situation. The whole of the announcement today was certainly in one of the national newspapers two days ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " Wales of 2·7 million dwellings, after allowing for houses which have merely served to replace houses that have been demolished. Consequently, during the last 12 years about 1 million dwellings have been available to reduce the intensely large shortage that existed when the Tories came to power. I am not, of course, charging hon. Members opposite with total responsibility for that shortage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "by the hon. Gentleman that the local authorities should have the confidence to plan ahead on the necessary large scale. I do not believe, on the evidence before me, that cheap money would produce a single extra house. It would increase the demand without increasing the supply, and that is the classic way in which to put up prices very fast. Nor do I think that land prices are restricting building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1425.0", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " old age and the pace of increased household formation have made the pressure in the towns and, particularly, in the big cities very much greater than could have been foreseen from the Registrar General's projections for 1956. This cannot be denied. Against this background, the Opposition have said formally that if returned to power they would reintroduce indiscriminate and universal rent control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1425.4", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "e controlled in conditions of far greater shortage than now. I should point out a few implications of such a policy. Such a policy would be bound to keep people in the cities whether they needed to be there or not. It would encourage decay. It would almost certainly cause a landlord, whenever a vacancy occurred, to sell the dwellings and thus to reduce the amount of rented accommodation available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1425.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1427.3", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "dlord obtained possession he would sell and nobody would have a chance of obtaining a flat or house to rent. But in the light of the increased pressure on housing in the cities due to increased household formation, younger marriages and greater survival and longer life, the Government do not intend, if returned to power, to propose during the next Parliament any further measure of block decontrol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1465.3", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Butcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Butcher", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not going to push me quite as far as that. What I said was that if a subsidy is paid to someone there is someone else paying it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1496.4", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "s overcrowded when the local authority cannot do anything about it? This is where the argument about immigrants comes in, and I agree that in many instances they are one of the biggest problems that we have to face today. About 4 million dwellings will be 100 years old by 1980 according to the N.E.D.C. Report, but the right hon. Gentleman said that by 1973 we shall have solved the housing problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1496.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1496.4", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it tomorrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "bout it? This is where the argument about immigrants comes in, and I agree that in many instances they are one of the biggest problems that we have to face today. About 4 million dwellings will be 100 years old by 1980 according to the N.E.D.C. Report, but the right hon. Gentleman said that by 1973 we shall have solved the housing problem. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] What was the 1973 remark about then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1496.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Public Building and Works (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Public Building and Works (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "preceding_text": "o step up the rate towards 200,000 houses a year. There has been some suggestion that the construction industry is already too overloaded. I do not accept all these pessimistic views, but there is a limit to the rate at which this work can be carried out. We have heard a great deal about rent control this afternoon. This is a problem predominantly again for London and some of the other big cities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Public Building and Works (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Public Building and Works (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "preceding_text": "year. There has been some suggestion that the construction industry is already too overloaded. I do not accept all these pessimistic views, but there is a limit to the rate at which this work can be carried out. We have heard a great deal about rent control this afternoon. This is a problem predominantly again for London and some of the other big cities. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I said predominantly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Public Building and Works (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Public Building and Works (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "preceding_text": " has shown only too clearly that if rents are kept unreasonably low by control nothing comes on to the market to rent. It is true to say that the repeal of the Rent Act, 1957, would mean fewer and not more houses for rent. As the hon. Member for Bermondsey said, there is certainly a real need for more houses to let, and this will be met partly by the growing activities of the housing associations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "Certainly, the position would be better still but for the Socialist threats to repeal the Rent Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "r settlement of rents as between landlord and tenant. We would like to know a little more about this measure and the principles upon which the tribunals which are to be set up would operate. I am sure that my hon. Friend the Member for Holland with Boston (Sir H. Butcher) was quite right in saying that rent control is the wrong approach. There may be other ways in which we can help people in need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1505.3", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "One of our difficulties has been that rent control operated for so long that it wholly distorted the situation and created grave difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1505.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1512.1", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Smith.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "sumably be on a commercial basis, whereas if it is for housing or some other socially approved purpose, we are told that the Opposition will not strike a purely commercial bargain. That means special treatment for some developers and therefore a system of allocation among them all. It involves the discriminatory treatment of lessees. If the land is for housing development and is sold to Mr. Jones—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1512.1", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Smith.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "at means special treatment for some developers and therefore a system of allocation among them all. It involves the discriminatory treatment of lessees. If the land is for housing development and is sold to Mr. Jones—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Smith.\"]because the price of land is below the market price, one would control the price of the house, and so presumably the price of the house if Mr. Jones sells—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-18", "file": "debates1964-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "911b0dfdebcf3d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1514.0", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "on of land nationalisation on what the country must understand would be a massive scale. The Opposition have produced this Land Commission all because a relatively small number of people receive high prices in a free market—prices which purchasers are prepared to pay and on which the vendor pays tax in many forms. For the rest, all the Opposition can say is, \"Anything you can do we can do better\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-18a.1514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-19", "file": "debates1964-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "289f3ae525c3d944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1577.5", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Minister will have another look at this and at the real problems involved. He should be aware that the Minister of State and the Scottish Council made a special visit to Scandinavia to build up trade. One of the things brought to their notice was the establishment of a link between Scandinavia and Scotland via Prestwick.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1577.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-19", "file": "debates1964-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "289f3ae525c3d944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1592.0", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "There is not a lot of variety in next week's business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-19", "file": "debates1964-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "289f3ae525c3d944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1608.9", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "We dislike the Amendment—this Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1608.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-19", "file": "debates1964-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "289f3ae525c3d944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "nd will be able to deal with the subject more adequately. I return to the subject of Cyprus. I understand that a contingent of 7,000 troops is to be formed by the United Nations and that half of them are to come from the United Kingdom. I am not at all happy about this. What worries me considerably is that they are to be under United Nations control. I am not at all sure that that is satisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-19", "file": "debates1964-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "289f3ae525c3d944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1616.3", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " quite mistaken. I say what I want to say I sometimes say it imperfectly, but I do my best. I am not very much concerned with what the Press says and, frankly, sometimes I am not very much concerned about what the public think. Sometimes, one has to speak as one feels, and that is what I am doing this afternoon. I do not want to detain the House. As I say, I want to facilitate Government business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-19", "file": "debates1964-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "289f3ae525c3d944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1616.3", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He does not know, either.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ide in the Leader of the House? If it is customary for a Prime Minister to confide in the Leader of the House—or, for example, the Patronage Secretary—does he know? Does he profess ignorance about the date of the next election? Is there anybody on the Government side who knows? Is there anybody in the Press or among the public who knows? Does anybody at all know? Does only the Prime Minister know?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-19", "file": "debates1964-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "289f3ae525c3d944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1616.3", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e House—or, for example, the Patronage Secretary—does he know? Does he profess ignorance about the date of the next election? Is there anybody on the Government side who knows? Is there anybody in the Press or among the public who knows? Does anybody at all know? Does only the Prime Minister know? [HON. MEMBERS: \"He does not know, either.\"] Why this concealment? I have got to make my arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-19", "file": "debates1964-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "289f3ae525c3d944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1618.1", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ch we ought to be debating. There is quite a collection of hon. Members now who have joined together for the purpose of promoting the short speeches idea—five minutes. Of course, some of them never speak at all. They take their pensions and leave it at that. But why the five-minute speech? Why limit the time of speeches? Some of them want to get at Privy Councillors and prevent them from speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-19", "file": "debates1964-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "289f3ae525c3d944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1621.2", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"One.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Presumably the hon. Member represented the employers. I do not recognise the authority of the Members on the benches opposite—who have they who is in the trade union movement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1621.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-19", "file": "debates1964-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "289f3ae525c3d944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1627.3", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Member for Easington\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "ves to their duties. If it is suggested that people in that sort of state only need four days' break at Easter I must dissent. Right hon. and hon. Members opposite need a very much longer holiday. In all the circumstances, the other course proposed—that this Parliament should end altogether, so that a new House can be elected—would be far better. We should have younger men, perhaps full of energy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1627.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-19", "file": "debates1964-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "289f3ae525c3d944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1657.1", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ry of State for Industry and Trade would have been under even greater attack. One cannot conduct a serious discussion on this aspect of policy, because the Government are hopelessly split. There is more to it than that. Take unemployment. This Government, it is true, have had certain achievements. They have achieved a higher rate of unemployment than any other Government in the preceding 25 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-19", "file": "debates1964-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "289f3ae525c3d944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1680.6", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "preceding_text": "There has not yet been very much chance for me to get a word in edgeways. I might point out that I have been waiting hopefully since three o'clock, while hon. Members opposite have engaged in an unrivalled display of filibustering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1680.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-19", "file": "debates1964-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "289f3ae525c3d944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1766.1", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "ot mention them now. The questions I was asked about growth areas seemed to indicate a view that these areas are not a wise or a sensible conception, but that seems not to be the general economic opinion. Begging the pardon of certain hon. Members who may be here tonight—although I cannot see all round the place—I am not too sure that one should always accept everything told one by the economists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-19", "file": "debates1964-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "289f3ae525c3d944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1786.1", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL ORDNANCE FACTORY, SWYNNERTON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "which will, on a sale or lease, or whatever method of disposal be chosen, repay so far as possible some of the immense investment which the hon. Gentleman mentioned. I have no doubt that the matter will not pose insuperable difficulties for the local planning authority. I do not for a moment deny that, if I lived close to an area like this, I might well feel a degree of frustration and impatience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-19a.1786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-20", "file": "debates1964-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "1b0278e683c3a188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-20a.1884.2", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDI TURE (RATING SYSTEM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "Modesty prevents my answering that question. I can think of a lot of other councillors who would not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-20a.1884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-20", "file": "debates1964-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "1b0278e683c3a188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-20a.1914.1", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDI TURE (RATING SYSTEM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "n never enter a public library. I do not believe that it would be beyond the capacity of an efficient library staff to administer a selective free library service if a local authority wished in certain cases to make a charge. This would be one small blow for the ratepayer which the Government could make immediately. I have no intention of making a party speech. Today few hon. Members have done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-20a.1914.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask the Communists.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "Is war without end to be the only prospect for the long-suffering people of Vietnam?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.23.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "eared in The Times and, for greater accuracy, I have obtained a copy of it from the Conservative Central Office. I have, of course, given the right hon. and learned Gentleman notice of my intention to raise this matter. It may be of help if I first read the words about which I complain. They are: No honest person since we came into power can accuse us of pursuing a reactionary or illiberal policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.35.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Minister for Science (Mr. Quintin Hogg)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Minister for Science (Mr. Quintin Hogg)", "preceding_text": "rdance with the facts. It is a challenge to his right to say what he said, whether or not he believed it or whether or not it be correct. I submit that in coming to a conclusion about whether or not a prima facie case has been made out, you will, Mr. Speaker, reflect that if the hon. Gentleman's contention be the correct one there would be a very serious infringement of the liberty of the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.38.5", "colnum": "38", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I was, by way of explanation, Sir, simply saying that I was mounting a frontal attack on the Labour movement. I was not attacking the Parliamentary Labour Party as such, or any member of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.38.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.40.4", "colnum": "40", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, I think that it does arise, Mr. Speaker. I have always understood that when a matter of privilege is under discussion the said matter had to be raised at the earliest possible moment. I just want you to consider that for the last 12 years I have been making speeches similar to that of my right hon. and learned Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.40.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "tations from many retail trade organisations which were concerned about the then implications of the Bill. I studied the Bill. I read the Explanatory Memorandum, and I collected the Amendments at 3.30 on Friday afternoon, with the intention of working through them. I was then informed by certain Sabbath organs of information that the Committee stage was already taking place upstairs in my absence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.46.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.51.6", "colnum": "51", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Whips.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order. May I underline it? Because we may reach the stage today which my hon. Friend the Member for Jarrow (Mr. Fernyhough) referred to, because of the decision taken by the Government side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.51.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The reasons why my hon. Friends did not vote on that occasion were clearly explained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.83.5", "colnum": "83", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Profumo.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": "we have made to our constituents. I do not know how. Has he had access to my postbag? If so, how? I have made no public statement on this except on Second Reading and I should be interested to know how the hon. and learned Member came by this information. After the iniquity of the hon. and learned Member's conduct on Second Reading we are prepared to take our notions of honour from somewhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.83.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.86.3", "colnum": "86", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wile", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wile", "preceding_text": "Really, I cannot—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I cannot do that without giving the hon. and learned Gentleman a lesson in the English language. To return to the point reasonably made by the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.86.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.87.3", "colnum": "87", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman was referring to the Secretary of State as the iron curtain, so this is a dent in the right hon. Gentleman. It makes it all the more confusing. The procedure is becoming increasingly complicated, but I hope that we shall be told in reply what is the net effect of the Amendment, As I understand it, it will not alter the onus of proof. The onus of proof will still rest on the retailer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.87.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "Upstairs, downstairs, or in my Lady's chamber—I do not care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"suspicion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "It may be done either by manufacturers or through their trade associations. It can be in either way. I think that the other point which my hon. Friend the Member for Crosby put to me was this. He thought that this would lead to a state of—I think he said—suspended animation. My hon. Friend the Member for Burton-on-Trent (Mr. Jennings), on the other hand, envisaged a state of suspended optimism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cole", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cole", "preceding_text": "her hon. Members are able to do the same and we shall not be worried about that. Both the hon. Member and the right hon. Member for Battersea, North, instead of dealing with the merits or demerits of this set of Amendments, had as the them of their speeches a sort of disappointment or despair because there appeared to be some kind of reasonable compromise which had been reached between some of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.161.6", "colnum": "161", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "howing that these practices in particular cases are harmful to the public. Do they intend to do so? If they do they have a simple answer. They can reassure the hon. Member for Middleton and Prestwich and my hon. Friends who have put their names to his Amendment and who intend, I understand, to stand by it whatever else may happen. May I say a final word—it will save my doing so on other occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.161.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.188.2", "colnum": "188", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "endments has already borne fruit because this one, in my submission, was not put down with any deliberate intent of having a debate or forcing a Division. I wholly dissent from the very charitable viewpoint held of hon. Members opposite by my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. M. Foot). I do not hold hon. Gentlemen opposite in as high regard as he does. For me, they are persons on the make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.190.2", "colnum": "190", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "I should be much happier about the speeches made by the three hon. Gentlemen opposite if I knew exactly what their motives and intentions were.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "hing that they have always said they wanted, the hon. Baronet seeks to withdraw his Amendment and is actively and enthusiastically encouraged to do so by all his colleagues who had been backing him up and advocating the same principles ever since the Second Reading debate? I hope that the hon. Baronet will stick to his guns He does not even appear to have been convinced by the Government's answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-23", "file": "debates1964-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "63244f359a489048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.204.3", "colnum": "204", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "nded to make his own speech. I am trying to explain the reasons why I want certain goods exempted from the Bill. I do not want to take a long time over it. The things I was referring to—tobacco and associated goods—are sold largely in small shops whose owners scratch a very slender living. They are usually very good and worthy people and also, I am glad to say, mostly supporters of the Tory Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-23a.204.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.238.4", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT JOHNSON (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "While there is much mischief in this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.238.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.239.2", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT JOHNSON (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since the right hon. Gentleman referred to my predecessor, he knows perfectly well that there has been no change in this party's defence policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.239.2", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT JOHNSON (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since the right hon. Gentleman referred to my predecessor, he knows perfectly well that there has been no change in this party's defence policy—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—the right hon. Gentleman, at any rate, knows perfectly well that there has been no change in this party's defence policy since this policy was commended to the Blackpool Conference by my predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT JOHNSON (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There are many reasons for and against keeping the deterrent, which we can argue in debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.239.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.241.3", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE AND DISARMAMENT POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the Foreign Secretary and the First Lord of the Admiralty clearly see eye to eye, would it not be better if the First Lord were appointed to take the place of the present Minister of Defence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.242.3", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PATRONAGE SECRETARY (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since the right hon. Gentleman likes making speeches without the facts, would it help him if he were told that in 1962–63—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.242.3", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PATRONAGE SECRETARY (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since the right hon. Gentleman likes making speeches without the facts, would it help him if he were told that in 1962–63—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—I am asking if it would help him, I do not know whether it would help him or not. Would it help the right hon. Gentleman to know?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.242.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PATRONAGE SECRETARY (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am asking the right hon. Gentleman whether he is aware—if that will help—that the only month in 1962–63 when the visible trade gap on the traditional basis was £68 million was in December, 1963, which is exactly the same figure as his much vaunted February figure for 1964. Would the right hon. Gentleman recognise that in the two crisis years of 1957 and 1961—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.242.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY (PUBLIC OWNERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister tell us what plans he has to prevent any take-overs of private enterprise and increasing monopolisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ORGANO-CHLORINE PESTICIDES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "t hon. Members on both sides feel that legislation should be brought in now and that we should have consolidation? There are the three schemes, the Pesticides Safety Precautions Scheme, the Veterinary Products Safety Precautions Scheme, and the Agricultural Chemicals Approval Scheme, and there is the Agriculture (Poisonous Substances) Act, 1952. All these could now be out of date. Apart from that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": " a very good exhibition when I read the terms of the complaint. I will read them again. The right hon. and learned Gentleman said: No honest person since we came into power can accuse us of pursuing a reactionary or illiberal policy. That caused tremendous hilarity on the benches opposite. If hon. Gentlemen opposite really believe that, as they did, I have only to say one word, and that is \"Suez\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was Captain Ramsay.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "of raising a point of order, managed to bring great satisfaction to the party opposite by saying that she had been attacking hon. Members on this side of the House on the ground that they had been subversive. But it was not any hon. Gentlemen on this side of the House, but the hon. Lady and her right hon. Friends who were the friends of Captain McEwen who was interned under Defence Regulation 18B.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "could not be identified. What he set out to do, and what he thought that he had succeeded in doing, was to generalise in such a way his complaint that the Labour Party as a whole and hon. Gentlemen on this side of the House could be smeared by the charge that they are being subversive when, in fact, any subversion is over there and not here. He is doing what he rejected in the Garry Allighan case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Member', not 'man'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "guilty, or as a prima facie case has been made out against him of gross contempt, he shall be suspended from the service of the House. In excluding him from the service of the House I do not want to exclude him from the precincts. He is a member of the Cabinet and if the Prime Minister wants to see him we will not have any objection to that. This man has now to answer to a Committee of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "tter which raises the question of the standards of the House as well as the particular question of the speech made by the right hon. and learned Gentleman, whose position we are currently discussing. It would be foolish of me not to say that I find myself having a great deal of sympathy with the motives that lay behind the feelings of my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) to some extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "icine. However, having listened to my hon. Friend's remarks, and having heard the Leader of the House, I am bound to say to the House that my own feeling is that it would be better that the matter should now go to the Committee of Privileges. My hon. Friend the Member for Dudley has made his point abundantly plain and in the honest and open way in which the House is accustomed to hearing from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.259.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": " there will be less variety because shopkeepers will not be able to afford to keep the slow moving lines—the things which do not sell well—and the quality of his goods must suffer. I do not see how that can be avoided. Shopkeepers will simply go for the things which can be quickly cleared. There will be no after-sales service, no guarantees and no help given to customers in buying their materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.344.3", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, he has gone too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "tain extent that we are speaking in vacuo. It is sad that, as far as I can remember, we have not had the assistance today of more than one or two of the 40 who were staging a tremendous political battle a day or two ago. Where are they now? In the words of the lament of Francois Villon Mais où sont les neiges d'antan? All gone, all dead, all disappeared. And here is the Patronage Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " intention which he has in mind. My hon. Friend the Member for Greenock (Dr. Dickson Mabon) made a brilliant speech which was later supported by my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, North (Mrs. Slater). We must get clear of the fact that we are protecting the manufacturers of Yadil or the people who tomorrow will produce purple hearts in a slightly amended form and call them restoratives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "make money. I do not attack the desire to make money; I have made a little myself. But, if hon. Members refer to the Notice Paper, they will see that I have tabled a new Clause in defence of Tory principles to ensure that the mere desire to make money is not regarded as reprehensible in the interpretation of the Bill when it becomes an act. That is supported by my hon. Friends on both sides of me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A sweetener.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "In the case of these rather cosy types of goods it has been difficult to sustain the mark-up. In many cases the mark-up is due to the fact that the trader is used as a form of advertisement. Instead of advertising in the Press the manufacturers allowed the trader a very big mark-up, as a kind of douceur. I am sorry to use a French term, but thank goodness we have no English word for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unfair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "t these will be breached. They will not be breached in the least, and that, therefore, is not an argument for settling the question here tonight as to whether there should be exemptions. He also claimed that r.p.m. should be maintained in order that manufacturers could do research. But research comes out of the manufacturers' price and not out of r.p.m., which is the retailers' benefit from price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "preceding_text": "I must apologise to the Committee at the end of a long debate if I say a very few words about the kindness of my right hon. Friend in going into so moth detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "preceding_text": "I admit immediately, is the strongest part of my right hon. Friend's argument. The only answer I can give to that is that neither he nor anyone else can clearly indicate how the Restrictive Practices Court is going to operate or on what principles its decisions are going to be based. The final point is that owing to the procedure of this House it is not possible to take a vote on Amendment No. 17—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.405.0", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "The Committee ought not to part with this Motion without noting a rather extraordinary situation. Here we have a Bill, important as my right hon. Friend the Member for Belper (Mr. G. Brown) said, which was dissented from from the first by a large number of right hon. and hon. Members opposite. They put down dozens of Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.405.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "t he does. The right hon. Gentleman will lose nothing; his own stature will grow, and the opportunities in his party for reconsideration and for regroupment will be greater if he recognises what has happened. With a majority of the size that he started with behind him, to have got down to a nominal majority of one is, in effect, a defeat, and a defeat on this Bill is, in effect, a vote of censure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "tance, even in Committee—with a majority of that size behind it—has, in fact, forfeited the support of the majority of the Committee. 11.30 p.m. I appeal to the right hon. Gentleman not to force this issue to a Division but, in fact, to do what will cost him, and his Government, nothing at all—that is, to accept the Motion. Let us finish at this stage tonight and consider the situation thereafter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.409.0", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "I spent a lot of time in this Chamber during the closing stages of this debate, and I can say that the hon. Lady the Member for Tyne-mouth (Dame Irene Ward) was not in her place—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Where was she?\"]—I do not know, but the fact remains that, wherever she was, this is now a constitutional position of some importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.409.0", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "involving a matter of high principle. The question of high principle was whether this sort of matter should be referred to the Restrictive Practices Court, by a legalistic approach, with all the evidence put to the Court and a legal decision reached, or whether, as some of us believe passionately, it should be, as the whole question of medicines and drugs should be, a matter for executive decision", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "Sit down—the hon. Member has had his turn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.411.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.411.7", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member for Greenwich (Mr. Marsh) makes an accusation against me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.411.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.411.7", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member for Greenwich (Mr. Marsh) makes an accusation against me—[ Interruption. ]—perhaps hon. Members opposite will have the good manners to allow me to answer, when I rather hope that the hon. Member will be willing to withdraw the accusation. I spent part of the afternoon with him at a television studio—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.411.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.412.5", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Sir Robert—I was not sure that I had any constitutional right to give way to the hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe). The only point I would make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.412.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.412.5", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "site very noisy. I travelled here with the hon. Member for Reading (Mr. Peter Emery), and both of us arrived in the House, not having been present throughout the whole of the debate. I am not making any accusation against the hon. Member for Reading other than to say that his statement that he had been here throughout the debate was, as I know, or can gather, untrue. The hon. Member may well have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.412.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.412.5", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": " and both of us arrived in the House, not having been present throughout the whole of the debate. I am not making any accusation against the hon. Member for Reading other than to say that his statement that he had been here throughout the debate was, as I know, or can gather, untrue. The hon. Member may well have—[ Interruption. ]—they really are a noisy lot. The hon. Member may well have reached—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.412.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member for Greenwich has not the good manners to apologise to me we must accept his attitude. Let us realise in the perspective of the whole of this matter that this vote, which is treated as of great importance by many of my hon. Friends, is a matter of one point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A moral defeat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Member for Greenock (Dr. Dickson Mabon) has said about the Government suffering a mortal defeat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "re in the same Lobby just now but, unlike the hon. Member, I supported the Government on Second Reading. Unlike the hon. Member, I am anxious that this Committee should get back—I say this with respect—to the job that we are supposed to do as a Committee, and that is to make progress with the Bill. I do not see why there should be such great excitement and alarm and exaggerated references to 1940.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "reat excitement and alarm and exaggerated references to 1940. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Member for Belper (Mr. G. Brown) compared this situation with 1940. Had it been so serious, why was not he here? If it was a great political crisis, if it was a question of the whole nation, the country and the Government being at stake, why was not he here? Why was not the Leader of the Opposition here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Member for Belper (Mr. G. Brown) compared this situation with 1940. Had it been so serious, why was not he here? If it was a great political crisis, if it was a question of the whole nation, the country and the Government being at stake, why was not he here? Why was not the Leader of the Opposition here? [ Interruption. ] Why is not the Leader of the House here? Why should he be here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-24", "file": "debates1964-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5aa94d4324314b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"His own.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Foot", "preceding_text": "g was the opposition inside his own party to the proposition. Today, therefore, the right hon. Gentleman exerted himself to the full limit of his powers to try to persuade his party to support him on what he regarded as an essential Clause in a Bill which he and the Chancellor of the Exchequer have described as an integral part of the Government's policy. When he has carried that by only one vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-24a.418.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-25", "file": "debates1964-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9e446dfa95bbcd3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.444.7", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member's figures are quite wrong. The sum spent so far on the project is nothing like as much as £30 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.444.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-25", "file": "debates1964-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9e446dfa95bbcd3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.459.6", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "This is another typical example of the hon. Gentleman's characteristic tendency to misrepresent the facts. We have not cancelled T188. All we have done is to terminate the programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.459.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-25", "file": "debates1964-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9e446dfa95bbcd3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.485.3", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the wrong number.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Lipton", "preceding_text": "cate, when Amendment No. 7 was before the Committee yesterday, that Amendments Nos. 14, 17 and 27 and new Clause 10 were also before the Committee. You were good enough to indicate that if it were the wish of hon. Members a Division could be taken on Amendments Nos. 14 and 17. It seems that the Committee, inadvertently perhaps, is being denied an opportunity of voting on Amendments Nos. 14 and 17—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.485.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-25", "file": "debates1964-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9e446dfa95bbcd3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cole", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cole", "preceding_text": "Would it help my hon. Friend—if it does not, he will not do it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.545.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-25", "file": "debates1964-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9e446dfa95bbcd3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.549.3", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "What is the objective? As I understand it, the objective of the hon. Member for Crosby (Mr. Graham Page) is simply that suppliers should not be compelled to grant credit unless they want to; whatever their reasons for demanding cash they should be entitled to demand it unconditionally. That being the objective of the hon. Member for Crosby, is it the objective of the right hon. Gentleman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.549.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-25", "file": "debates1964-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9e446dfa95bbcd3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.554.3", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "I accept entirely my right hon. Friend's statement that he believes that our objectives are the same. On that basis, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.554.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-25", "file": "debates1964-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9e446dfa95bbcd3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.590.0", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the hon. Gentleman's giving way. He is always extremely courteous in the House. A lot of us are worried about this, but I think that he has got the position wrong. If I have never supplied you, then I am not affected by this Bill. It is only when I have supplied you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-25", "file": "debates1964-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9e446dfa95bbcd3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "The trouble with the Bill, which is very complicated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-25", "file": "debates1964-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9e446dfa95bbcd3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A novel doctrine\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "s of destroying price maintenance, but the method chosen is obnoxious to anyone who has any respect for the subtle and flexible arrangements of all kinds mentioned by hon. Members who are concerned in trade. It must not have occurred to the Secretary of State and his muscular trade supporters, like the hon. Member for Cheadle, that some manufacturers and suppliers do not like to deal with crooks.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-25", "file": "debates1964-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9e446dfa95bbcd3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Parson Brown.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "This just shows that one's faith, as an Anglican, ought never really to be disregarded. One can always save a sinner if one tries hard enough. Last night I was a little cast down, because I thought that the right hon. Gentleman was beyond redemption. Clearly that was not so. He can be saved, and tonight he is proving himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-25", "file": "debates1964-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9e446dfa95bbcd3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "This just shows that one's faith, as an Anglican, ought never really to be disregarded. One can always save a sinner if one tries hard enough. Last night I was a little cast down, because I thought that the right hon. Gentleman was beyond redemption. Clearly that was not so. He can be saved, and tonight he is proving himself—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Parson Brown.\"]—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-25", "file": "debates1964-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9e446dfa95bbcd3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "]—[ Laughter. ] If what is reported to me as having been said is in fact what was said, it does not seem to justify that amount of hilarity. Anyway, it seems that we can now take a certain amount of humble pride in having impressed on the right hon. Gentleman last night that he should not be quite so rough and tough. He has learned his lesson and has come to us tonight in a much more humble mood.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-25", "file": "debates1964-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9e446dfa95bbcd3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.615.0", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Touchy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I said last night that the right hon. Gentleman had joined the select band of Ministers who had obstructed their own Bill, and he is doing the same thing again. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to play it this way, very well. We will play it this way", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-25", "file": "debates1964-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9e446dfa95bbcd3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.615.0", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Monday, 13th April, let us make it quite plain that nothing has been done on this side of the Committee to justify it. If he wants to defer the debate until the next sitting day, it is all right as far as we are concerned, but it is for the right hon. Gentleman's convenience. The Leader of the House, who so seldom troubles us with his attendance, should not enter into hiccups the moment he arrives", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-25a.615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-26", "file": "debates1964-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "3e1bd04aaa406fc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-26a.654.5", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMON WEALTH IMMIGRANTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think I should ignore the last part of that supplementary question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-26a.654.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-03-26", "file": "debates1964-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "3e1bd04aaa406fc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-26a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY (STAFF REMUNERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Government did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I could not, without notice, say what relationship the findings of the Commission have to the 1962 figures. I am not even sure that the 1962 figures have ever been published. As regards the teaching profession, I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would not expect me to go behind the Burnham machinery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-26a.659.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-26", "file": "debates1964-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "3e1bd04aaa406fc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-26a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "RAILWAY WORKSHOPS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith)", "preceding_text": "ave a comparatively clear and unbiased mind on the issues involved. My right hon. Friend is certainly not afraid of his record or anything else. He is certainly not afraid of defending his record, which is a good one. He has only recently approved the Board's proposals involving the expenditure of £1½ million on modernising the St. Rollox Works, which is close to my constituency in Glasgow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-26a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-26", "file": "debates1964-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "3e1bd04aaa406fc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-26a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "RAILWAY WORKSHOPS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I am pointing out that this situation existed under the Socialists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-26a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-26", "file": "debates1964-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "3e1bd04aaa406fc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-26a.721.3", "colnum": "721", "heading": "RAILWAY WORKSHOPS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "t they were not satisfied when my right hon. Friend said that he had been assured by the Board that it makes this allocation quite fairly. This is so, and he is so assured, but because of the inevitable difference between a nationalised industry and a private industry he thought it proper, as he told the House, to reserve his right at any time to examine thy: validity of the costings of the Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-26a.721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-03-26", "file": "debates1964-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "3e1bd04aaa406fc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-26a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "EMIGRATION TO COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why regret it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "The question which I hope we shall discuss frankly and openly today is whether the British Government should discourage emigration or discourage it, or simply let it take its course according to their individual initiative and subject to inducements which Commonwealth Governments may wish to extend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-03-26a.743.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-07", "file": "debates1964-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "b7c47924bf8b0abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-07a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-07a.797.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-07", "file": "debates1964-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "b7c47924bf8b0abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-07a.798.8", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "How can you judge, Mr. Speaker, that this is not a point of order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-07a.798.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-07", "file": "debates1964-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "b7c47924bf8b0abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-07a.861.2", "colnum": "861", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend the Member for South Shield (Mr. Ede) was not with us this evening for the Third Reading of the Bill, on which he played such a notable part in Committee. It so happens that this evening some of my right hon. and hon. Friends are honouring my right hon. Friend the Member for South Shields at a dinner downstairs to mark his long and distinguished membership of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-07a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-08", "file": "debates1964-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "fece9934e3250342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.988.4", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that I am disappointed with the date, although grateful at long last for the sanction of this improvement? As the Question says, this is a lane. It has now become a bus route. Developments are taking place in the area. There is great danger, particularly to small children. When I raised this matter in 1961 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.988.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-08", "file": "debates1964-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "fece9934e3250342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.995.6", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pounder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pounder", "preceding_text": "While thanking my hon. Friend for that reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.995.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-08", "file": "debates1964-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "fece9934e3250342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "If the new town is developed in such a way that it needs railway services or facilities, then those facilities can be restarted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-08", "file": "debates1964-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "fece9934e3250342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1013.2", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Marsh", "preceding_text": "e hands of the Royalist forces in the Yemen by way of Saudi Arabia. Because a British firm of arms dealers had been involved in the matter, I asked the Board of Trade for details of the exports of surplus military weapons to various foreign countries. I then received a very short answer from the Board of Trade, refusing any information whatsoever on the private export of military weapons overseas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-08", "file": "debates1964-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "fece9934e3250342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1022.2", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " The hon. and gallant Member for Buckingham (Sir F. Markham) dealt with this matter effectively on Second Reading. He said that this Clause was meaningless, ineffective and could not be enforced, because if we tell a man that he cannot withhold goods if he states a ground he will not state a ground. He could still withhold goods on any other ground or by saying, \"Your last cheque was a week late.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-08", "file": "debates1964-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "fece9934e3250342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Doig", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Doig", "preceding_text": " others. Not so long ago Nescafé was sold all over the country at 3s. 6d. per 2 oz. tin. One day, out of the blue, one multiple store sold that article at 2s. 3d. I have no doubt that everybody jumped to the conclusion that it was a loss leader, but it is still being sold at 2s. 3d. At one stage it was as low as 2s. Id. The quality has not been reduced, because it is guaranteed pure coffee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-08", "file": "debates1964-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "fece9934e3250342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "preceding_text": "they are likely to sell. Being optimists, they think it will be a great day; they think that the weather will be good over Easter. They decide to make a fairly substantial amount. In the event, it pours with rain for the two days of the Easter weekend and nobody wants to go out. Nobody wants to roll his egg. The bakers are left with thousands and thousands of hot cross buns which they cannot sell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-08", "file": "debates1964-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "fece9934e3250342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "ce. The purchaser can no longer buy this commodity together with the other goods which are normally purchased from the same place. We arrive back at the conclusion that loss leadership has a number of characteristics, of which loss is only one. The primary characteristic is the intention of persuading the intending purchaser to buy something that he or she did not intend to buy in the first place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-08", "file": "debates1964-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "fece9934e3250342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1065.3", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that I have made an attack on any reputable trader. The whole point is that what I have been describing is not characteristic of reputable traders, but of disreputable traders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1065.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-08", "file": "debates1964-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "fece9934e3250342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1065.4", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Member aware that this morning I bought the tie I am now wearing from a shop which is only half a minute's walk from this building? When I asked for a half-guinea tie, the shopkeeper showed it to me, and then sought to persuade me to buy a better tie, asking, \"Would you not like to see ties at 15s. or 1 guinea?\" But I bought this one at 10s. 6d. There is nothing disreputable about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1065.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-08", "file": "debates1964-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "fece9934e3250342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wolf.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "preceding_text": "ablishments, such as self-raising flour, pepper, and tea Incidentally, I have analysed the pricing of Typhoo tea and have found that, to the manufacturers, there are no general variations in the prices of this tea or of Nescafé throughout the country. Thus, the argument concerning the manufacturer is quite right. I will now, however, return to what I was saying. There came along a very big—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-08", "file": "debates1964-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "fece9934e3250342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "y difficulties, the hon. Member for Tiverton (Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop) intervened. He is about as full of accurate information as a coconut is of pasteurised milk. Out of the earnestness of his desire to contribute to the debate, and his undiverse and not very accurate knowledge, he managed to make the limited confusion worse confounded. We are dealing with the question of the definition of \"seasonal\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-08", "file": "debates1964-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "fece9934e3250342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "gross profit and we got as far as asking whether he meant the net or gross profit on the number of articles which a retailer was disposing of as loss leaders, or alleged loss leaders out of a much larger number which he may have bought and passed through his accounts and on which he had already made a profit, we got no information. The first Amendment in the names of myself and of my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-08", "file": "debates1964-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "fece9934e3250342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "it was at the beginning of the proceedings. Therefore, what we are also doing in the Amendment is to make much clearer what the Bill intends to do. I should have thought that whatever view hon. Members may take about the Amendment and about the Bill as a whole, those who are in favour of resale price maintenance and those who are in favour of abolishing it could all unite to support our Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-08", "file": "debates1964-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "fece9934e3250342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "s perfectly in order. It is nothing new, nothing original; the manufacturer has always had that say. But there are certain dangers in continuing down the distributive chain where the supplier thinks the manufacturer has given that permission. Under the provisions of the Clause at the moment the manufacturer may not withhold supplies from the wholesaler or supplier who has sold to a chain of shops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-08a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-09", "file": "debates1964-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "aee80954e6c27651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-09a.1190.2", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNIVERSITIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "With great respect to the hon. Member, that form of supplementary question emphasises the difficulties here Universities are autonomous institutions. Figures of student successes for individual universities would be liable to misinterpretation and misleading comparison and would not be a suitable subject for controversial supplementary questions and answers in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-09a.1190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-09", "file": "debates1964-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "aee80954e6c27651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-09a.1205.4", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT (SPEECHES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister agrees with the Minister, could he, in view of the current disintegration of the Conservative Party, explain this statement which the Minister made: \"We are going into the General Election\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-09a.1205.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-09", "file": "debates1964-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "aee80954e6c27651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-09a.1208.2", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS STAND-BY FORCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We know as a Government the directive under which the British forces in Cyprus operate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-09a.1208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-09", "file": "debates1964-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "aee80954e6c27651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-09a.1208.2", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS STAND-BY FORCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We know as a Government the directive under which the British forces in Cyprus operate. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman says,\" What about the House of Commons?\" We promised to see if the Secretary-General of the United Nations would allow these directives to be published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-09a.1208.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-09", "file": "debates1964-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "aee80954e6c27651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-09a.1216.3", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "MR. JOHN WILLIAMS AND FAMILY (ENTRY PERMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is not a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am on a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-09a.1216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-09", "file": "debates1964-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "aee80954e6c27651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-09a.1216.6", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "MR. JOHN WILLIAMS AND FAMILY (ENTRY PERMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order. I recognise the difficulty of the Chair in these matters. No one in the House wants to take your time, Mr. Speaker, or the time of the House, when we have urgent business before us, but in cases of this kind—and we have been put into this situation not by any general wish of the House, but by decisions of the Government, decisions which have been announced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-09a.1216.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-13", "file": "debates1964-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "02f98d87b9863de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-13a.80.2", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "What is happening is very clear. The Minister is fighting a rearguard action to keep the Rent Act. That is really what is behind all this. The right hon. Gentleman spoke on Thursday about the need to increase compulsory purchase orders. Now we have what he describes as the most drastic intervention in the rights of private property owners since the dissolution of the monasteries.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-13a.80.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-13", "file": "debates1964-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "02f98d87b9863de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-13a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "an do what one likes. For these reasons, we ought to look at the Government's proposals very carefully before we accept them. I would rather accept my hon. Friend's Amendment and oppose the retention of subsection (2). I have no constituency interest in this matter, but it seems that many people are involved. 9.45 p.m. I do not intend to occupy the time of the House for long at this time of night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-13a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-13", "file": "debates1964-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "02f98d87b9863de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-13a.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "I wish to make one or two points in relation to what the hon. Member for Fulham has said. Once we give a grant to anyone we imply, or are taken to imply, that there is, so to speak, a guarantee that the fuel will be there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-13a.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-14", "file": "debates1964-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "bee026f457086c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.211.2", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Box", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Box", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that his reply will be received with great relief by trustees, executors, and legal advisers throughout England, and not least by those Welsh investors who do not relish the thought of having their savings in the hands of a country like Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-14", "file": "debates1964-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "bee026f457086c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.225.4", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that doubts are being expressed about the truthfulness of the statement which he made in the House last week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.225.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-14", "file": "debates1964-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "bee026f457086c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPS (NUCLEAR PROPULSION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-14", "file": "debates1964-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "bee026f457086c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.237.4", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS' AND MINISTERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "But other undesirable things have happened since that time. When the statement was made by the right hon. Gentleman with, as he said, the agreement of all parties, no one imagined—of all I am sure, the right hon. Gentleman—that the election was to be deferred a further six months. Therefore, in view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.237.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-14", "file": "debates1964-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "bee026f457086c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "are complex and full of emotion and often of prejudice. Most of the other Western democracies are trying to find their way forward towards incomes policy as we are and they are encountering the same difficulties. The main problem, of course, is how to translate unexceptionable general principles into effective practice. I am glad that that is accepted, because it is the basis of Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-14", "file": "debates1964-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "bee026f457086c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.270.5", "colnum": "270", "heading": "BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "g, the choice is between an increase spread across the board and increases at a rather higher rate concentrated in certain sectors. The use of the Regulator, as the Committee is aware, at 10 per cent. brings in about £200 million. It would be possible to bring in about £100 million by a 5 per cent. increase across the board. I have decided, however, that this would not be the right way to proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.270.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-14", "file": "debates1964-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "bee026f457086c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " sympathy which we feel for him—is the schizophrenic character of the Administration of which he is a member. For example, we have the Chancellor's quite serious speech today, and we have the Prime Minister's economic pronouncements from time to time. While the Chancellor is struggling with the incubus of 12 drifting years and the worsening balance of payments situation, which he frankly admitted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-14", "file": "debates1964-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "bee026f457086c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear the hon. Member say so. It must follow that what we have to do is to provide the opportunities and facilities by which industry can prosper and in which we can have competitive facilities to sell our goods abroad. But simply to have a consumer boom in this country in no way helps us to sell our goods abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-14", "file": "debates1964-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "bee026f457086c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "preceding_text": "e first evening of the Budget debate. I gather that years ago it was the practice for the Committee to adjourn shortly after the conclusion of the Chancellor's speech. It is now a good thing that the fairly good natured amateurs, amongst whom I count myself, get a chance to speak on the first evening before the professionals, who in any case read all about it in tomorrow's papers, take their turn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-14", "file": "debates1964-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "bee026f457086c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "We will make do with the proprietor on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.320.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-14", "file": "debates1964-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "bee026f457086c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "There was a war on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "wns to which we were subject when the Labour Party was in power. It happened in 1947, again when the Labour Government had to increase taxation, and when the had to be devalued. That did not happen under the Tory Party. In the last Budget produced by the Labour Government every form of taxation was inceased. None of it did any good. The Labour Gcvernment got into a worse and worse mess every time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.357.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-14", "file": "debates1964-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "bee026f457086c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.358.2", "colnum": "358", "heading": "BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the Korean wax?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "There was not a war on for most of the time when the Labour Party was in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-14", "file": "debates1964-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "bee026f457086c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": " houses which are flourishing in every large town. That would be an extremely difficult thing to do, but I hope that a way will be found. I know that the hon. Member for West Ham, North and I are on common ground in welcoming the reduction in the tax on dog racing. I have always felt that that is long overdue. I wish it could have been reduced even further, but perhaps that can come in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-14", "file": "debates1964-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "bee026f457086c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bingham", "preceding_text": "I only said that the hon. Member did not refer to it and that if he had he would no doubt have referred to some form of nationalisation of land. All hon. Members recognise that the problem of land prices is intractable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-14", "file": "debates1964-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "bee026f457086c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.367.10", "colnum": "367", "heading": "BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bingham", "preceding_text": " by the party in power. The point of the Budget, the really dominant, overshadowing factor, is the constantly rising trend of public expenditure. There is no doubt about that. This Budget, as my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Blackley (Mr. E. Johnson) said, puts into balance the essential economic fact that, if we increase public expenditure, the money has to be found. Here is the dilemma.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-14a.367.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-15", "file": "debates1964-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "06dce588677ac576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-15a.396.2", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "iculture, which is not a very popular idea in some quarters? Is he also aware that this area is central to all the Border counties both in England and Wales? Should not an inquiry be set up by the Minister of Aviation and by the Secretary of State for Industry and Trade—[HON.. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"]—with respect, my supplementary question is much shorter than some we have to put up with in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-15a.396.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-15", "file": "debates1964-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "06dce588677ac576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-15a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON.. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "major industries appear to be insufficient to achieve a satisfactory balance of payments. Does the Chancellor disagree with that view, or does he believe that exports are going ahead sufficiently fast to take care of any balance of payments situation? Exports have risen by 8 per cent. in the last year. They have done better than I expected they would. I am very glad to acknowledge that this is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-15a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-15", "file": "debates1964-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "06dce588677ac576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-15a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ave done a little better by now if it had been. There are a number of ways in which we could establish industries in this country to compete with imports. The Chancellor may have objections to it, but he has never argued the case. We have never had the privilege of hearing what his conclusions are on these matters. For example, we should take the view that we could set up publicly-owned factories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-15a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-15", "file": "debates1964-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "06dce588677ac576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-15a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "se I shall read the speech. I also listened to it with tremendous interest. The other question to which we ought to have an answer is: what is the Opposition's attitude on imports at this moment? Is it the view of hon. Member's opposite that the level of imports is dangerous and ought to be controlled now? There is no point in talking in hypothetical terms and saying that there may be a situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-15a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-15", "file": "debates1964-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "06dce588677ac576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-15a.459.7", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "uch easier to secure a large proportionate increase in a small figure than in a big one. This, of course, is the trick used in the statistics which the right hon. Gentleman quoted. The absolute increase in exports was one-third higher than the absolute increase in imports, that is, £1,300 million as against £900 million. I want now to spend a few moments in putting the import bill into proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-15a.459.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-15", "file": "debates1964-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "06dce588677ac576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-15a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " presumably, tax those which make smaller profits more than those which make larger profits. This is the situation that the hon. Gentleman gets himself into as soon as he says that he believes in a purposeful industrial policy without defining what it means. We have had suggestions for export incentives, but we must remain within our international obligations There was not a single new suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-15a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-15", "file": "debates1964-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "06dce588677ac576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-15a.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has expressed his views clearly on every occasion that he has spoken since the statement was made. From the right hon. Gentleman we have had absolutely nothing. His has been one of the most shoddy and reprehensible performances by any Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-15a.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-15", "file": "debates1964-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "06dce588677ac576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-15a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Leather", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Leather", "preceding_text": " both risen by 5 per cent. There is another good factual example which the hon. Member for Sowerby (Mr. Houghton) might like to mull over. It concerns my catching a train. If the train leaves at 6 o'clock and I get there at 5.50 I catch it in comfort. If I get there at 6.2 I have missed it—but statistically I arrived on average at four minutes to 6 o'clock both days and caught the train both days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-15a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-16", "file": "debates1964-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "44fdbdc4263ec707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.587.6", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "That was a very important announcement, because in that speech the Lord Privy Seal referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.587.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-16", "file": "debates1964-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "44fdbdc4263ec707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.590.8", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First of all, I hope this thing will not happen again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.590.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-16", "file": "debates1964-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "44fdbdc4263ec707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.606.7", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Alan Green)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Alan Green)", "preceding_text": "example, my right hon. Friend had to consider whether the existing rates of taxation, coupled with the experience and the reasonable expectation of savings, would suffice to cover the expected outlays of public expenditure, themselves substantially increased. My right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) raised this matter in what I thought was a very eloquent passage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.606.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-16", "file": "debates1964-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "44fdbdc4263ec707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.615.3", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "urden of taxation from profits taxation to consumer taxation and the National Insurance contribution. The fallacy in the Financial Secretary's figures this afternoon was that he quoted indirect taxation and omitted the National Insurance contribution. This has had two effects. One must look, on the one hand, at taxation and, on the other, at benefits, and this afternoon we are looking at taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.615.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-16", "file": "debates1964-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "44fdbdc4263ec707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.630.3", "colnum": "630", "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": "The hon. and learned Gentleman should stick to things that he understands. That was a foolish intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-16", "file": "debates1964-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "44fdbdc4263ec707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.630.3", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "rstands. That was a foolish intervention. [HON. MEMBERS: \"oh.\"] I withdraw that. As I am challenged, I will read what the Daily Telegraph on 17th March said: Dr. Crossman said.… Unless he became a professor he could not get more than £100 or so above his present salary of £2,400 a year. At Berkeley he would get about 17,000 dollars (over £6,000) with prospects of more. This is what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-16", "file": "debates1964-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "44fdbdc4263ec707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "First, that increase would be subject to heavy taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-16", "file": "debates1964-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "44fdbdc4263ec707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.631.5", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am answering for myself. Let me come nearer to the bone of the case of hon. Members opposite. The very basis of the Labour Party's philosophy is embodied in Clause 4 of its constitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.631.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-16", "file": "debates1964-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "44fdbdc4263ec707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.631.5", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "d exchange should be nationalised. That is their alternative to the Conservative capitalist philosophy which I am trying to defend. I am asking hon. Members opposite how full-blooded a Socialist Government would be. How much would they nationalise and what effect would that have on trade? I remind hon. Members that already six great industries have been nationalised and their total capital assets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.631.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-16", "file": "debates1964-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "44fdbdc4263ec707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.633.3", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I hope to be in Moscow on 1st May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.633.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-16", "file": "debates1964-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "44fdbdc4263ec707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.636.9", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should it be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I would have got through this long ago if I had been given a courteous hearing. I am not prepared to be shouted down from the other side. The article in the Sunday Express went on to say—and this has not been repudiated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.636.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-16", "file": "debates1964-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "44fdbdc4263ec707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.639.0", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "That is an irrelevant interruption, because I did not say that it was successful compared with other countries. I did not mention other countries. That intervention was unfair and irrelevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.639.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-16", "file": "debates1964-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "44fdbdc4263ec707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": " a bonus. Was he happy about profits? My word, he was happy about profits! I asked whether he thought his boss was a good fellow because he managed to get a low profit schedule agreed to by Gosplan. He thought his boss was wonderful. We went to lunch, at which the hon. Member for Louth was hobnobbing with the Communist leaders. He was not having a sherry either. The hon. Gentleman likes vodka too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-16a.657.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-20", "file": "debates1964-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff13f28ce500a6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.885.7", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "vinced. If there were any point in arguing the matter at this late stage, I should be prepared to do so. But we are talking about little more than half of 1 per cent. of the tax bill. Yet some hon. Members have ventured the opinion that this is about right. I venture the opinion that it is about wrong, and I leave it there. After all, the Chancellor's judgment is the one that counts, and not mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.885.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-20", "file": "debates1964-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff13f28ce500a6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": " more curious. If the hon. Gentleman will recollect, this tax, which my right hon. and learned friend the Leader of the House introduced in 1962, came into operation some time in the financial year 1962–63. In the nature of things, no yield would accrue to it as far as Stock Exchange transactions were concerned for six months and, as far as land transactions were concerned, for three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-20", "file": "debates1964-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff13f28ce500a6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.900.7", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"But not original.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "werby, regards as necessary, should have been raised by Profits Tax and not by increasing taxation on alcohol and tobacco. On the first point, I am sure that the Committee will agree that in a matter of such serious importance to the working of our national economy it is much more important to be right than to be original. My right hon. Friend was plainly right in his budgetary judgment last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.900.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-20", "file": "debates1964-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff13f28ce500a6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.905.4", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mainly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I cannot give a complete reply to that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Oddly enough, we are discussing the Budget and not the legislative programme of the next Labour Government. It would be quite absurd to give a complete reply to that. But I can say, because there is no reason why we should not, that it is our intention and expectation that this scheme will be at least mainly self-financing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.905.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-20", "file": "debates1964-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff13f28ce500a6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.905.4", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ugh, we are discussing the Budget and not the legislative programme of the next Labour Government. It would be quite absurd to give a complete reply to that. But I can say, because there is no reason why we should not, that it is our intention and expectation that this scheme will be at least mainly self-financing—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Mainly?\"] How can anybody say that it will be wholly self-financing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.905.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-20", "file": "debates1964-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff13f28ce500a6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.909.5", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot get away with it by saying \"No\" while adopting a sedentary posture. The hon. Gentleman referred to various weapons of war whose development had been halted at one stage or another. Both he and the Committee know that when one is indulging in research in advanced weapons of war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.909.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-20", "file": "debates1964-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff13f28ce500a6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.913.1", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor is the Prime Minister\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it is, nor, in his heart of hearts, does the hon. Gentleman think so, or he would not have shown such temper about having to wait until the autumn for the General Election. I am dealing with—I am sorry that he is not here—the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-20", "file": "debates1964-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff13f28ce500a6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.925.3", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Spearman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What happened to W. J. Brown?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Spearman", "preceding_text": "appily and comfortably. After a while, one of them thought that he was not getting a fair share. He believed in cutting off his nose to spite his face, so he kicked up a huge ditch right across the field. The other donkey was so angry that he kicked up another ditch. Thy first one kicked up another, and so it went on. Finally, the whole field was kicked up, and both the donkeys died of starvation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.925.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-20", "file": "debates1964-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff13f28ce500a6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "he cuff. The reason we have lost our percentage of world trade—we must accept this—is that while between 1945 and 1951 Germany and Japan, which were only just becoming really industrialised after the devastation of the last war, and this country then had an opportunity, we lost a golden opportunity, between 1945 and 1951, of capturing export markets previously held by the Japanese and the Germans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-20", "file": "debates1964-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff13f28ce500a6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.961.2", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "for a long time. There is only one possible fear about my right hon. Friend's proposals. I am not quite sure, unfortunately, that they take adequate account of the fears which exist throughout the world at present—and right hon. Members opposite know that it is true, however much they jeer—the widespread fear in Western countries and overseas lest the Labour Party is returned at the next election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.961.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-20", "file": "debates1964-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff13f28ce500a6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Again, that is an absolutely different point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-20", "file": "debates1964-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff13f28ce500a6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "preceding_text": "lear that this Budget is not to be taken seriously. It is something used as a stop-gap in order to make a speech. On such proposals as are before us anyone who could make a challenging speech would be a better orator than I am. We are faced with the conclusion that nothing can be done. It is not surprising that the question all over the country is, \"When are you going to stop dawdling, Maudling?\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-20", "file": "debates1964-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff13f28ce500a6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.1005.5", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "have ever heard. There was no serious effort to oppose the Budget. Despite the brave words of the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) about a full explanation of the Opposition's alternative policies, there was a singular coyness about them. As to the basic point of the Budget judgment, is this enough to raise in revenue, or is it too much or too little? That is the basic judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.1005.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-20", "file": "debates1964-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff13f28ce500a6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "company profits would have a dampening effect on the determination of companies to invest in new and more modem equipment, and particularly if it were the case, as I have shown from what I have said, that the purpose would not be to effect the economy, because it could not, for a year or 18 months, but merely to exercise the ill-feelings of the party opposite towards industrial profits in general—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-20", "file": "debates1964-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff13f28ce500a6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I fight a certain number of battles, but I tend to win them when it comes to Government expenditure. The Opposition promise the abolition of health charges, lower rates of interest for local authorities, the abolition of the earnings rule—and heaven knows how much that would cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-20", "file": "debates1964-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff13f28ce500a6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman has had his day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not think the Chancellor means that offensively, and I do not take it so. If, in the course of a heated ejaculation, I say something which is not complete, I take the next opportunity of making it clear, and I am quite ready to do so. But as the Chancellor is throwing out so many challenges to the Opposition, perhaps I may return the compliment by throwing out one to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-20a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "preceding_text": "Is it not most astounding that after all the time that has elapsed since the publication of this Question or the Order Paper the Minister has found fit to tell the House that he has not got this information? Is not this a shocking indictment of the Minister and of the failure of his duty to the House of Commons? There are hundreds of thousands of people living in diremisery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1070.2", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I am anxious to extend to all hon. Gentlemen the courtesy that I show to any, but the point is that what I did in one case would be a waste of administrative resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1070.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1070.4", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "It is my job to defend the officials both of the Ministry and of Local Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1070.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1073.6", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Race distinction.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman think it is quite wicked that a white landlord should seek the liberty to foment racial ill-will for the purpose of dispossessing white controlled tenants by introducing coloured tenants into his property?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1073.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1076.0", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that in almost every town I visit I see these ugly, unsightly and offensive heaps of scrap caused by people who have discarded their cars? Is he aware that I am not blaming the car owners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1083.2", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "proposed by the South-East Study to be housed in places which are identified and where, therefore, speculation could occur. The remaining two-thirds are left to the local planning authorities with discretion, subject to the Minister's overall final word, to place them in any part of their county which makes sense. Therefore, the speculator, if there be large numbers of such people, and I doubt it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1083.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1085.6", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Box", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Non-sense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Box", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Socialist-controlled Cardiff City Council has recently refused to extend a civic welcome to a visiting team of South African bowlers? Without condoning apartheid in any way, would not my right hon. Friend agree that this brings Wales into ridicule and disrepute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1085.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1086.7", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is not a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, since you were almost bound to allow, and did allow, the hon. Member for Cardiff, North (Mr. Box) to make some very serious statements about my friends on the Cardiff City Council, which has a Labour majority, would it not be fair if we were allowed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1086.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, I think, knows the terms of the Factories Act. He talks about noise, dust and general cleanliness, but the Factories Act provides—and there are inspectors to make sure that it is carried out—that the factory has to preserve adequate standards of working conditions affecting health, including noise, heat, dust and general cleanliness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ld prove the wrong. The retailer is entitled to supplies so long as he pays on the normal credit terms, and he is entitled to continue to receive supplies unless it is alleged against him that he has committed a breach of statutory duty. If supplies are withheld from the retailer on the basis that he has done something wrong, the man who takes the action is the man who should establish the, facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Health", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1145.2", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " have legislation and may have to have litigation and asked what we should do about it. The hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. M. Foot) was right when he said that his hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, West came to my aid and supported the Bill, but that happened because he picked up the Notice Paper and read Amendment No. 52 in the belief that that was in the Bill, and promptly decided to attack it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1232.0", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I remember years ago when Oscar Wilde, faced by Carson in cross-examination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1232.0", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": " cross-examination—[Laughter.]—there are some hon. Members who remember things they have read and do not physically have to seek things in order to remember them. Wilde told Carson, \"You will cross-examine with all the bitterness of a former friend.\" The Minister of State speaks with all the bitterness of the son of an unsuccessful Liberal candidate and I can sympathise with him in his predicament", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1232.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1232.2", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "ood reasons which I can particularise if the hon. Gentleman wishes, many years ago. My father stood as a Conservative Parliamentary candidate. He has been a member of the Conservative Party for many years and is now, although well over 70, a Conservative councillor. He is also a former Conservative mayor. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will not take the matter too far. He is quite wrong, as usual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1232.3", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ers. That, coming from the hon. Gentleman, is like Satan rebuking sin. It is a new departure to see a formidable and closely knit Conservative—Labour coalition on this matter. It is hardly the first time that the Liberals have found themselves opposed by both the major parties in this House, although usually, after a time-lag of a year or 18 months, we find one of them coming to our point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1254.2", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e debate. That is absolutely improper because, if it is true, it makes a farce of these proceedings and every hon. Member knows it. If what The Times political correspondent says, that the right hon. Gentleman, the night before this debate, went to his back benchers and completely rejected the Amendment which is before the Committee, he behaved most improperly and he should apologise to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1254.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1254.2", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "nd completely rejected the Amendment which is before the Committee, he behaved most improperly and he should apologise to the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, certainly. If, on the other hand, the right hon. Gentleman will say that the report in The Times is completely inaccurate, I will accept it and I am sure the rest of the Committee will accept it, but the right hon. Gentleman must answer it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1254.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1254.2", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman had made an extremely formidable speech, but what is the use of his making a formidable speech if the night before he had said he completely rejected the Amendment anyhow? Are we going through a great charade? Is it all fixed and do hon. Members opposite all know what is to happen? Quite a number of hon. Members opposite were at the meeting last night, at this hugger-mugger affair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1254.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1254.2", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who was there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "eech if the night before he had said he completely rejected the Amendment anyhow? Are we going through a great charade? Is it all fixed and do hon. Members opposite all know what is to happen? Quite a number of hon. Members opposite were at the meeting last night, at this hugger-mugger affair. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member who interrupted may not have been there, but quite a number were there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1254.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "No, I do not say that. What I say I have said earlier today. I remember very well when we had a Labour Government in power, but I cannot recall any instance during that period when Ministers went to their back benchers and said to them which Amendments they would accept or reject in the debate the next day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-21", "file": "debates1964-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce9974f5ce0f2d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Non-sense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " today. I remember very well when we had a Labour Government in power, but I cannot recall any instance during that period when Ministers went to their back benchers and said to them which Amendments they would accept or reject in the debate the next day. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members think this is a laughing matter, but what they do by their laughter and derision is to laugh at the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-21a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-22", "file": "debates1964-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "c94cce2134674838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1284.5", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1284.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-22", "file": "debates1964-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "c94cce2134674838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1296.4", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why do not you do it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that this question will be drawn to the attention of my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1296.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-22", "file": "debates1964-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "c94cce2134674838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1313.2", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What if the Amendment to the Amendment is carried?", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I can reassure the hon. and learned Member that nobody will be prejudiced. When a decision has been taken on the Amendment to the Amendment, we shall revert to a full debate on the main Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-22", "file": "debates1964-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "c94cce2134674838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " of a case in this respect which would not be covered by \"consumer\" and user\". I understand that the question of public libraries has been raised but that, too, would be covered by \"the public use\". Incidentally, the question of baby food has been mentioned, but it may be that the baby consumes the food whereas the user is. the parent who obtains it and uses it for the purpose of feeding the baby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-22", "file": "debates1964-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "c94cce2134674838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1399.0", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Upstairs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "own views are that this is most unlikely, but we have had one case which has been described very fully. I feel that we ought to give full consideration to the question of including an item about prices among the criteria. I do not find anything on the Notice Paper the wording of which is in a form which we could accept for Clause 5, but this is a matter that can be arranged between row and Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-22", "file": "debates1964-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "c94cce2134674838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "pressure to increase export prices. This would mean that the home prices which the manufacturer charges to the retailers were being used to subsidise export prices. There are two points about this. The first question is whether it is justifiable, if indeed it is happening. Secondly, if it is happening these are circumstances in which the manufacturer might be accused of dumping by people overseas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-22", "file": "debates1964-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "c94cce2134674838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1432.3", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Roberts", "preceding_text": "acturer's price if resale price maintenance were abolished. My right hon. Friend has given an answer which satisfies me. I am aware that the general run of industry also accepts this view. I thought that it was my duty to put this particular Sheffield point to my right hon. Friend in order to get a specific answer. This we have had, and I am satisfied. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-22", "file": "debates1964-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "c94cce2134674838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1439.2", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A bad choice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": " it is included, let him say so. If he says that it is not, it seems to us that there are many cases in which a consumer cannot judge whether an article will work merely by making a casual inspection in the shop. The first example of this that comes to my mind is the ordinary ball-point pen. It may appear to write very nicely on a piece of paper in the shop, but an hour later it may cease to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-22", "file": "debates1964-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "c94cce2134674838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1439.3", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Padley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Padley", "preceding_text": "ainty among them whether the word \"quality\" covers the question of durability. It is known on both sides of the Committee that my view, and the view of my union, is a little heretical, not only about the Government's view and the Opposition's view, but even the Liberal Party view—perhaps because I have spent most of my working life in the distributive trade. In the Gallery tonight are my advisers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1439.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-22", "file": "debates1964-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "c94cce2134674838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1439.3", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Padley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBER: \"Still out of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Padley", "preceding_text": " union, is a little heretical, not only about the Government's view and the Opposition's view, but even the Liberal Party view—perhaps because I have spent most of my working life in the distributive trade. In the Gallery tonight are my advisers—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] Very well—in the precincts of the House there are my advisers, the leaders of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-22a.1439.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-23", "file": "debates1964-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "aadb42594dbf8e65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-23a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH AFRICA (POLITICAL TRIAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—is it not a fact, first, that the statement now made by he Prime Minister is totally different from what all his Ministers were saying?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-23a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-23", "file": "debates1964-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "aadb42594dbf8e65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-23a.1504.2", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMPANIES (CONTRIBUTIONS TO PARTY POLITICAL FUNDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "categorically deny that where there is any public money invested in companies for which Ministers are responsible to the House any contributions are being made by those companies to party political funds? Secondly, is the Prime Minister saying that it is desirable that when Ministers have a responsibility for trust funds invested in firms such as that recently mentioned, Allied Iron Founders Ltd.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-23a.1504.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-28", "file": "debates1964-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad0642b2c777a04d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.201.6", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The sentence that caught my eye in my right hon. Friend's speech was that it would need Solomon himself to judge issues of this kind and that Mr. Wilson…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.201.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-28", "file": "debates1964-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad0642b2c777a04d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONERS (CONCESSIONARY FARES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. But all sorts of old people have all sorts of different needs, and our opinion, therefore, is that the best way is to supplement their pension with cash.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-28", "file": "debates1964-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad0642b2c777a04d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONERS (CONCESSIONARY FARES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One man band.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "But does the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-28", "file": "debates1964-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad0642b2c777a04d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Vice-Admiral John Hughes Hallett)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Vice-Admiral John Hughes Hallett)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. Willey) made some play about the optimism of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport, and also of myself, about a year ago. Of course, my right hon. Friend is a great enthusiast for getting things done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-28", "file": "debates1964-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad0642b2c777a04d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.229.4", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A risk.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": "Because at that time they were considered to be the best two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.229.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-28", "file": "debates1964-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad0642b2c777a04d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.232.3", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": " produced on a line of production. As one goes on, one tries to foresee at what stage it would be reasonable to cut one's losses in the event of failure, how much would have been spent by then and how much might have been gained as a by-product of the work. These things are hard to assess at the best of times, as the Opposition must be well aware from their own experience when they were in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-28", "file": "debates1964-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad0642b2c777a04d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Quintin Hogg)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Quintin Hogg)", "preceding_text": "would have been wrong to do that. The reactor, to begin with, which we would have used would have been of a type which offered no further chance of development. It would have been an obsolete type and when the ultimate form of commercial type is found, if it is, much of the experience we would have gained, even on the two marginal points to which I have referred, would have been completely wasted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-28", "file": "debates1964-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad0642b2c777a04d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (IMPORTED PRODUCTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "preceding_text": "tribute to the men who deal with this matter—to be enlarged? Is this hard-working group of men who have helped to frame the policy to have additional staff? How will it operate? This will be a major job in the Ministry. Those in the business, the practical businessmen, take a contrary view to the Government, as the Minister knows. I have here a memorandum which has been given to most hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-28", "file": "debates1964-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad0642b2c777a04d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (IMPORTED PRODUCTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "to be implemented. That, as the Minister said of one of the Orders, is the crux of Government policy. These two Orders cannot be separated from a third Order, which will come in due course and which will be debated, to provide what the Minister called the necessary arrangements and the type of machinery which is required. Is it not time that the Government made up their mind? When will they do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-28a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.400.6", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. Galpern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. Galpern", "preceding_text": "n assure the right hon. Gentleman, if he is not already aware of the fact, that the development of this aspect of our educational system is not restricted through lack of demand, but purely because the financial resources are not available. I wonder that the right hon. Gentleman is not shamefaced through having to admit this afternoon that for the whole of Scotland he has contributed only £13,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.400.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "960, the firm knew that it would make a very large profit. The contract, after all, was two-thirds of the way through. In those circumstances, where the element of risk was at least very much diminished, I think that it would have been commercially more prudent for a firm of Ferranti's standing to have dealt differently with an important customer. I do not want to say more than that at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the right hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "medial measures that may be needed. I turn now to the Amendment standing in the name of the Leader of the Opposition and the names of some of his hon. Friends. This invites the House to censure the Government for their laxity in permitting excessive profits. I can only interpret this as a censure on the administration of my Department and more particularly of the branches connected with contracts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": " I know that these are overall figures, but, frankly, any suggestion that the industry had been financing private ventures out of excessive profits on Government account would be met with a hollow laugh by the Society of British Aerospace Companies. The Amendment censures us for allowing excessive profits. Does this imply that we should be congratulated where we inflict excessive loss on industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "preceding_text": "The Minister quoted one particular case of losses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "preceding_text": "The Minister quoted one particular case of losses—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Four.\"] He quoted one particular case by name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.420.3", "colnum": "420", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "s to these studies, and I hope in due course to report on them to the House. Before I sit down, I should like to return to the Amendment. I have criticised its terms, but I am more seriously concerned with what lies behind it. We all know that there are several right hon. and hon. Members of the party opposite who would like to see the aircraft industry taken into public ownership or nationalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.420.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.422.4", "colnum": "422", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Blue Streak, Blue Water.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "He said: In the interests of the taxpayer there is in my view an unanswerable case for the public ownership or nationalisation of the defence industries in this country. If you do not do that there is no way of protecting you as taxpayers from hundreds of millions pounds more going down the drain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman added: That is only my view\". Is that still the right hon. Gentleman's view? We want to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.423.5", "colnum": "423", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Straight answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I have three times asked the right hon. Gentleman to read the whole quotation. He has read a selected part, but not the whole quotation, or he would have got it better in context. However, we do not expect more than that from him. The phrase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.423.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, at the end of the Question to add: and censures Her Majesty's Government for their laxity in permitting excessive profits to be made at the taxpayer's expense on private contracts\". The Minister has a curious air of smooth blandness which, this afternoon at least, did not carry conviction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e Question to add: and censures Her Majesty's Government for their laxity in permitting excessive profits to be made at the taxpayer's expense on private contracts\". The Minister has a curious air of smooth blandness which, this afternoon at least, did not carry conviction. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It did.\"] Certainly, I was not convinced by his theological distaste for anything to do with nationalization.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.425.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is not your hon. Friend.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.428.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is the wrong way round.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " despite Ministerial promises to reform and alter and improve the system. Once again, the estimates are not related to the actual cost. I am bound to admit that the unusual feature this time is that, unlike most occasions, the cost was less than the estimate. It could have provided a bonus for the hard-pressed taxpayer, but the basis on which we seem to work is, \"Heads you lose and tails you win.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.429.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.430.0", "colnum": "430", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Still wrong!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "All right. \"Heads they lose, tails we win.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.430.2", "colnum": "430", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Hawker Siddeley?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "In any case, whichever way it is, the taxpayer never wins. Either we have to pay up because the estimates are grossly exceeded, or we pay up because the profits are excessive. Either way it comes to the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the risk?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that for a moment. I have carefully studied all the Ferranti balance sheets for the last seven years since 1958 and I am ready to swap figures with the hon. Member if he has the details as well. It has paid 6 per cent. every year, but that does not reflect profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "me if I am wrong, but I believe that there was a stage when development had reached 90 per cent. of finality. There certainly was a continuing element of development after the production contract had been entered into, but there was a time when one could draw the line and say that it was in production. This point would be met if we had the preliminary runs, as I believe the Ministry has suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.439.4", "colnum": "439", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I must remind hon. Gentlemen opposite that this is my speech, and that it is still my property at the moment. I must be allowed to say a sentence or two in reply to the Minister before I give way to anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.439.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "Yes, it would.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "put some figures in its Report, on page IV, of the costs and what was allowed in prices. It established the costs incurred by the firm in this contract at £6·8 million. That, the Committee said, represented a profit of 72 per cent. of costs. The firm disputes this, and says that the Ministry undercharged for materials and that another £273,000 ought to be added for materials. I accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " straight question to the Secretary of State for Defence. Is he going to start out, as I believe he should, on the basis that £4 million out of this £4½ million profit should be repaid to the State on the basis of 7 per cent., or is he going to argue—and I would not differ with this—that there ought to be a slightly higher ratio of profit than 7 per cent.? I can see reasons why it might be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "id not mean to misrepresent the facts, or to deceive the House, but inadvertently he did so. As a \"Shadow\" Chancellor—and I think that he will remain so for a very long time—the hon. Gentleman missed a point which I should have thought, in all fairness, he should have brought out. Of all the profits he quoted as made year after year by Ferranti, rather over half goes straight back to the taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "ked if we were to rake back £4 million. He seemed to have forgotten that £2½ million have already been taken back by the Inland Revenue. He also did less than justice in putting the matter in perspective. The Government of the day, whatever Government there is, place contracts with industry worth £3,000 million over a year. My right hon. Friend the Minister, in his admirable opening speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "preceding_text": "nts to challenge this, that the whole of British industry pays less than that. If he wants to go further and ask Ferranti what it pays, I can tell him that Ferranti's borrow millions of pounds on preference shares. The three Ferranti brothers organise the firm on the basis that they own all the ordinary share capital and borrow on preference. On that preference capital they pay 5½ per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.466.2", "colnum": "466", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Slippery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "alf the story and that the full excess profit was double that figure? Was it not up to the Minister to put to the House of Commons, \"You are all uninformed, because I must let you know that the figure you are talking about—and we are satisfied about it because we are giving the evidence to the P.A.C. tomorrow—is double that amount\"? Is that the way a Minister should behave to the House of Commons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Barlow", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Barlow", "preceding_text": "The rest was ploughed back for the benefit of research and development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Barlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Barlow", "preceding_text": " in the world. They have come to Ferranti for a variety of good reasons, and they have made no complaint. Already export orders amount to over £40 million on which, as the Minister told us, the Government get a royalty of 10 per cent., amounting to about £4 million. Although these foreign Governments are keen buyers, there have been no complaints whatever. Do we want to pare down to the last mite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.477.6", "colnum": "477", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": " It has nothing to do with development. I challenge the Minister to say how much was spent on development, because neither the House nor the Committee has been given a figure. If I have worked it out with any accuracy, the development cost came to between £5 million and £6 million. Let it also be well understood that on this money Ferranti received interest at the rate of approximately 5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.477.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ekco.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": " should not have delivered the speech he made this afternoon. I do not know who his script writer is, but the hon. Gentleman should tell him what it is all about. I do not believe that the hon. Member wrote that speech. He is not as bad as all that. What we do know is that Ferranti was glad to relieve itself of the production of wireless and television. I will not mention the firm which took over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "Ferranti. It is not very good for the Minister this afternoon to say that Mr. de Ferranti has now agreed to make available to the Lang Committee the books that he denied to a Select Committee of the House of Commons. Why should he? It is rather insulting that he should deny to a Select Committee of the House what he is prepared to give to a \"stooge\" committee served up by the Minister of Aviation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "g but financial geniuses. This is what happened from one generation to the other. The old boy knew his stuff and they are celebrating. Good luck to them. The grandsons have come and they are all multi-millionaires. This firm was in fact \"broke\" before the war. It was saved, not by the gong, but by the war. It was nearly \"broke\" a second time and while others went out and served they stayed behind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.496.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Basil de Ferranti", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member might at least allow me to reply that my father went out and fought in the 1939–45 war while we were too young to do so, although we would have gladly fought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.506.5", "colnum": "506", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "in which have kept to their delivery dates. If we must be defended properly and if value is to be obtained for the taxpayers' money, deliveries must be made on time because in many cases if they are delayed the equipment frequently becomes useless. Hon. Members opposite may like to be made aware of some other facts, because I am told—I was told this not at last night's party meeting but elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.506.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.506.5", "colnum": "506", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "frequently becomes useless. Hon. Members opposite may like to be made aware of some other facts, because I am told—I was told this not at last night's party meeting but elsewhere—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I do not know why hon. Members opposite should make sounds of surprise, since they had every opportunity of approaching, Mr. de Ferranti and, if they wished, of asking him to attend a Labour meeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.506.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "xpansion of an industry which, in the national interest, we need to expand, and it would help break the semi-monopoly position which at present forces the Ministry to grant all contracts of a certain type to one or two firms. It would also enable the Government to share the \"know-how\" for development work, which is most difficult to assess. In Signpost for the Sixties we have enlarged quite a lot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-29", "file": "debates1964-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "ac5aaf916085baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "GUIDE WEAPONS CONTRACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ecambe and Lonsdale. All I would say is that there is not the slightest stain of dishonour upon him whatever. The hon. Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) asked me a number of questions, including one about the \"Eagle\". I made an inquiry about this immediately. I am assured that the Royal Navy has absolutely no complaint about either the delivery or the cost of this equipment. It is completely satisfied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-29a.540.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-30", "file": "debates1964-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "90e5e0656525aace", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-30a.587.4", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NASSAU AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir; we have no doubt that the British-made warhead is perfectly adequate for all the purposes, and the hon. Gentleman's assumptions in the earlier part of his supplementary question are wrong. As to when or, indeed, if, any tests are necessary, I do not think that I should answer that now. I think that there is no reason to believe that this warhead would have to be tested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-30a.587.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-30", "file": "debates1964-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "90e5e0656525aace", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-30a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Yates", "preceding_text": "Has the Leader of the House noticed the Motion on the Order Paper standing in my name? In view of his assurance last week that he thought that a debate on foreign affairs would be necessary, will he bear in mind that it appears that both Her Majesty's Government and the Arab world are on a form of collision policy? If they are spoiling for another Suez crisis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-30a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-04-30", "file": "debates1964-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "90e5e0656525aace", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-30a.598.0", "colnum": "598", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Humbug.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. Speaker, in view of what you say, I will naturally withdraw that word, which I had thought to be the less unflattering of the two words which I might have used. If you instruct me, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-04-30a.598.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-01", "file": "debates1964-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "5149c745fadcbbd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-01a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Eton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "he party opposite has its way. I should like to hear from the hon. Lady the Member for Flint, East what will happen to denominational schools and the direct grant grammar schools if great progress is made with the comprehensive schools. We have never been told. The Church and grammar schools, particularly, want to know what will be their future if we are to move towards an all-comprehensive basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-01a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-01", "file": "debates1964-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "5149c745fadcbbd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-01a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Comprehensive.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "om the hon. Lady the Member for Flint, East what will happen to denominational schools and the direct grant grammar schools if great progress is made with the comprehensive schools. We have never been told. The Church and grammar schools, particularly, want to know what will be their future if we are to move towards an all-comprehensive basis. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Eton.\"] I am not talking about Eton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-01a.790.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-04", "file": "debates1964-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "dd66b13222ad4658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-04a.934.0", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member has stopped his history short somewhere in the last century. In the latter part of the last century and the early years of this one it was the Conservative Party which became emphatically laissez-faire —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-04a.934.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-12", "file": "debates1964-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "21d6e2f581254620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor aware that, quite apart from the first quarter, 235 companies declared their results in April, and this week the Economist reported that their profits show an increase of over 15 per cent. on last year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-12", "file": "debates1964-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "21d6e2f581254620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Is there any case known in history of a Scotsman destroying a bank note?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-12", "file": "debates1964-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "21d6e2f581254620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE WITH CUBA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that we on this side fully support that proposition about British policy in relation to trade with Cuba and other countries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-12", "file": "debates1964-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "21d6e2f581254620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.221.4", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN OFFICE, COMMON- WEALTH RELATIONS OFFICE AND MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that I made this quite clear yesterday—that our troops were in need of air cover, and I am going to see that they get the air cover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.221.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-12", "file": "debates1964-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "21d6e2f581254620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "TOLL BRIDGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Robbing whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Bryan", "preceding_text": "esent owners. My complaint, of course, as the Member for the constituency, is that the Government have taken too long to do this owing to their underestimate of the amount of traffic which the new bridge would take. The hon. Member for Fife, West, on the other hand, says let the State take the bridge from its owners without compensation. But once States or Governments start robbing their citizens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-12", "file": "debates1964-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "21d6e2f581254620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.231.2", "colnum": "231", "heading": "TOLL BRIDGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak about toll bridges.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "ownership in any industry, we mean take over, nationalise. In order not to mislead the House, I must admit that this was way back in 1961, before the right hon. Gentleman was blinding the electorate with science. Since then he has only just about once mentioned this subject. In an unguarded moment when the right hon. Gentleman had just became Leader of the Opposition, he said: Clause Four is the\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.231.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-12", "file": "debates1964-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "21d6e2f581254620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "TOLL BRIDGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak about toll bridges.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "One would think that the Leader of the Opposition, perhaps in a week-end speech, would have devoted some attention to these things, instead of which his Left wing has to be content with bellicose speeches about Cyprus and his brand new ideas about the tactical handling of heavy tanks in non-tank country. In his pre-leadership days the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.233.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-05-12", "file": "debates1964-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "21d6e2f581254620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.233.4", "colnum": "233", "heading": "TOLL BRIDGES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Member is reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": " heavy tanks in non-tank country. In his pre-leadership days the Leader of the Opposition—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak about toll bridges.\"] I shall be coming back on the bridge at any moment. In those days the Leader of the Opposition complained that his party, in its presentation of nationalisation, was combining the minimum intention with the maximum of provocation. He said: Instead of our previous\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-12", "file": "debates1964-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "21d6e2f581254620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.235.2", "colnum": "235", "heading": "TOLL BRIDGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not understand the hon. Member's conception of a point of order and how he can suppose that it is the duty of the occupant of the Chair to express an opinion on a matter such as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.235.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-05-12", "file": "debates1964-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "21d6e2f581254620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "TOLL BRIDGES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Shut up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not understand the hon. Member's conception of a point of order and how he can suppose that it is the duty of the occupant of the Chair to express an opinion on a matter such as that. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-12", "file": "debates1964-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "21d6e2f581254620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "TOLL BRIDGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Tiley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Tiley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Would it be in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-12", "file": "debates1964-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "21d6e2f581254620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.323.2", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "preceding_text": "ontract because he was short of the goods that would be a reasonable excuse. But there is nothing in the Amendment or in the Bill which makes that a reasonable excuse and which incorporates a means of escape for the supplier who has not the goods to supply to a man who might come to him out of the blue, and say, \"I want the goods from you. Here is the money for them and by law you must supply me.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.323.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-05-12", "file": "debates1964-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "21d6e2f581254620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "If he could satisfy the Court that, in the words of the Amendment, it led him to withhold those supplies why not? He used that reason. There are other commercial reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-12", "file": "debates1964-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "21d6e2f581254620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "It is becoming exceedingly difficult for me to put forward an argument in this debate. Earlier today I was told that I had no business to speak because I had not spoken before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-12", "file": "debates1964-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "21d6e2f581254620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "d which, standing alone, would be held to justify him in not supplying him now. This seems to me might very well be so. If this is so, and it is covered by the Amendment which the House has just passed, I think that our fears will be set at rest; but we should like a real reassurance. My hon. Friend said he did not think there was any justification for a belief that suppliers could be blackmailed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-12a.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-13", "file": "debates1964-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "038419e9c93f2027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-13a.452.7", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "I have such respect for the right hon. Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay) that I will certainly consider any proposals that he makes in respect of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-13a.452.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-13", "file": "debates1964-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "038419e9c93f2027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-13a.493.3", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "s asseverations which I have received and read. How many trades in Britain really depend for their profits upon goods covered by r.p.m. and how much of it is the sham that the Minister obviously believes it to be? Yet the Bill will be passed and the burden, for better or worse, of its longterm effects will be on the shoulders of those who have for the most part passed it in ignorance of the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-13a.493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-13", "file": "debates1964-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "038419e9c93f2027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-13a.494.3", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Angus Maude", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not always right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Angus Maude", "preceding_text": " now during the earlier proceedings on the Bill, not only would he have been hard put to it to prevent a flood of facts deluging him from all quarters but it is quite impossible that he could have remained ignorant of the things that he was seeking to know. The trouble during the proceedings on the Bill is not that there has been a lack of information, but a plethora of information from all sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-13a.494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-13", "file": "debates1964-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "038419e9c93f2027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-13a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "The House must seldom have heard a more nauseating exhibition than the rebels in this matter recanting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-13a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-13", "file": "debates1964-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "038419e9c93f2027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-13a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "The House must seldom have heard a more nauseating exhibition than the rebels in this matter recanting. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] They are deceiving nobody. There is not a newspaper which has followed and analysed the Bill that has not said, and said with justice, that the right hon. Gentleman has not made a single concession of any importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-13a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-13", "file": "debates1964-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "038419e9c93f2027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-13a.560.3", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESALE PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Part of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " not find a means of doing it, because his Bill was defective in its drafting, as I think he realised at the end of the debate, and he was therefore not able to achieve his ends. These have all been very moving tributes, which I have received with gratitude, as has my hon. Friend the Minister of State. The right hon. Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay), who has led for his own party on the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-13a.560.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that whatever the age of these young people, he ought to be concerned about protecting them from the evils of drink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.587.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.600.3", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ CAMPAIGN AND ASWAN DAM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Is not there a strong case for putting on historical record all the facts, not only with regard to the military operations which took place, but also with regard to the political events which led up to the opening of the campaign? Is not this essential in view of the doubts and suspicions which undoubtedly exist on this question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.603.0", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ CAMPAIGN AND ASWAN DAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman remember that, contrary to what the right hon. Gentleman said earlier—in reply to a supplementary question from behind him—the then Prime Minister told us that certain discussions and conversations took place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.603.0", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ CAMPAIGN AND ASWAN DAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then why refer to it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman remember that, contrary to what the right hon. Gentleman said earlier—in reply to a supplementary question from behind him—the then Prime Minister told us that certain discussions and conversations took place? [ Interruption. ] This is on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.603.0", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ CAMPAIGN AND ASWAN DAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman remember that, contrary to what the right hon. Gentleman said earlier—in reply to a supplementary question from behind him—the then Prime Minister told us that certain discussions and conversations took place? [ Interruption. ] This is on the record. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Then why refer to it?\"] Because it has been denied. Is it not now time that we should be told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "B.B.C. (FILM, \"THE OPEN GRAVE\")", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "Naturally I appreciate my hon. Friend's anxiety and I agree with him that the B.B.C. is responsible for what appears in the Radio Times . But on the main question which I know is in the minds of so many hon. Members on both sides of the House, I think that it would be better to see this programme before making a firm judgment upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIAN FEDERATION (CONSTITUTIONAL CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monslow", "preceding_text": "tary of State for Defence said that the prerequisite was military control before a political solution could be found. He repeated that statement in by-election speeches. I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations on arranging a political conference which, I hope, will be successful. I also congratulate him on the work which he has done, but I suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.614.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.616.2", "colnum": "616", "heading": "NORWEGIAN CONSTITUTION (150th ANNIVERSARY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "titution. In view of the cordial relations which have always existed between this House and the Storting, I feel that I should be carrying out the wishes of my fellow Members were I, without seeking formal authority from the House, to send on that occasion a message of congratulations and good wishes to the President of the Storting. That I will do if the proposal has the approval of hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The 24th.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "rse, because I said exactly the opposite. I said that they were not important. The dates produced by Professor Finer and produced in subsequent commentaries are quite useless. The book, in my judgment, is worthless. What is important is not the date of the meeting. Indeed, I can tell the Leader of the House what he did on the 23rd October, on the date when he was supposed to have had that meeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tedious repetition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I have had some rehearsals of this, Sir. I made a similar speech on 20th December, 1956.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.621.2", "colnum": "621", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, the Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "t was carried on. I did not go into the details of the Suez operation. Hon. Members can read the details themselves, but I pointed out that the dispatches were never debated. I am now going into the situation which confronts the whole country, and not only the Con- servative Party, and everybody knows about it except us. We are the only ones who have our heads in the sands about what is happening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.621.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "as made that a considerable number of 1,000-1b. bombs had been used. Then we had the Prime Minister making a speech that night all round the Scottish constituencies, and my view about that is that the purpose of these bombs, or the release of the information a week later, had got nothing to do with the military situation but had got the hell of a lot to do with the political situation in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Again, an hon. Member tries to draw me into a discussion of the facts. You have allowed the question, Mr. Speaker, but if I attempt to answer it, and discuss the details, I shall be out of order. Therefore, only for that reason, I do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.624.3", "colnum": "624", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I am only exercising common sense about it, Mr. Speaker, but I took the precaution of reading the previous debates. When this one is over, I shall study with enjoyment and mental refreshment the scope which was allowed to the Prime Minister on 20th December, 1956. But, of course, I understand that there have been changes, there is a new Speaker, and, of course, it depends on the attitude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.624.3", "colnum": "624", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "t fairly well. I have known it through the hard way, in the humblest of rôles. I have been going back and forth for 40 years. I was back there recently. One of the things that astonishes me, after all that has happened, is the tremendous friendship there is for the British people. I have walked round parts of Cairo which were out of bounds during all the years of service that I spent there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has that got to do with the Question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "for partisan political purposes, but basically to conceal the truth. Hon. Members opposite have no contribution to make. They have no part to play. If they remain in power, Britain will certainly be excluded once and for all from the affairs of the Middle East. Even if there was no other reason, I am confident for this reason that one thing that this country needs urgently is a new Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "le East. Even if there was no other reason, I am confident for this reason that one thing that this country needs urgently is a new Administration. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What has that got to do with the Question?\"] An inquiry is necessary to understand the facts—not the details, but the broad outline of the facts. It should be understood that we on this side of the House—and I include the Liberal Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.626.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.629.3", "colnum": "629", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.629.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "ng asked to undertake, for political reasons, a degree of Arabisation. Being an honourable and straightforward man, he refused to accept responsibility for what he found and came home. As a result, therefore, British troops, for whom hon Members opposite are so concerned, are forced to go in to do the dirty work which the incompetence of Ministers on the Government Front Bench has imposed on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.634.5", "colnum": "634", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I am rather surprised, because I was trying to state my case moderately, that the Opposition should be so touchy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.634.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.639.0", "colnum": "639", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. What the hon. Member is dealing with now must surely be out of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.639.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.640.0", "colnum": "640", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " better than just sitting playing poker in the club. The Leader of the Opposition, on more than one occasion, has described death duties as a voluntary tax. To some extent, that is true. I remind the House that the rate already goes up to 80 per cent. Therefore, if the Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer wants to get more money from death duties, he must impose heavier rates in the lower ranges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman indicated to the Leader of the Opposition that he intended to raise these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.643.3", "colnum": "643", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Brandy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I bow to your Ruling, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, but it is not the fact that the brandy was good and the cigars excellent that I am on; it is the consequences that follow. It is the political hang-over. This is germane to whether we should adjourn. I do not want to adjourn. I want to argue the political hang-over from that champagne and those cigars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Leader of the Opposition now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " I want to read it to the House, because it is germane to the problem. It states in the City columns: Harold Wilson has told Colonel Charles Clark—chairman of Alfred Herbert, Britain's biggest machine-tool group—that a Labour Government would aim to build up majority shareholdings in several big machine-tool companies. Colonel Clark tells me: 'I sat next to him at lunch and he came out with this.'", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At lunch.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " problem. It states in the City columns: Harold Wilson has told Colonel Charles Clark—chairman of Alfred Herbert, Britain's biggest machine-tool group—that a Labour Government would aim to build up majority shareholdings in several big machine-tool companies. Colonel Clark tells me: 'I sat next to him at lunch and he came out with this.' [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Leader of the Opposition now?\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.645.2", "colnum": "645", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is Leader of the Opposition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The hon. Member for Louth (Sir C. Osborne) is putting over a statement when he knows that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition denies that this meeting or luncheon took place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.645.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.651.2", "colnum": "651", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "—if I may be allowed to say this publicly—I have not said it before, and it touches my honour—I have been offered orders in the Soviet Union and I have always refused them—because of accusations like that that might come from hon. Members. I deeply resent them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.651.3", "colnum": "651", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monslow", "preceding_text": "I will withdraw that, and on the point the hon. Member is making, I accept his word, but there is one point I shall not withdraw. The hon. Member has referred to Members of this House dining with members of I.C.I. I simply ask the hon. Member a bald question—how did he dine with Mr. Khrushchev in the Kremlin? Did he drink his vodka?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-05-14", "file": "debates1964-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4aafb797d941a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ing them down. The hon. Gentleman's case for this was, first, that these issues are not being adequately and properly discussed in the House at the moment. That is patently clear. The responsibility for that is that of the Government. The second part of the hon. Gentleman's case was that the country is interested in what we have to say about it rather than what the Government have to say about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-05-14a.677.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-02", "file": "debates1964-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "33ff6f0fef00aaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-02a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "But is not the whole case one of inefficiency and misrepresentation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-02a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-02", "file": "debates1964-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "33ff6f0fef00aaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-02a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "recent months has been the fact that we pursue here a free market from which the people of this country have drawn enormous benefit over the years. What the hon. Gentleman means by \"rationing by the purse\" is that the price of beef has risen because of the alteration in the balance of supply and demand. We look forward to the opportunity when he will tell the House and the country what he will do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-02a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-02", "file": "debates1964-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "33ff6f0fef00aaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-02a.915.3", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH ARABIAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman reconsider his decision to limit representation at this conference to representatives of Governments? Would it not be possible to bring to the conference representatives of the very popular People's Socialist Party in Aden?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-02a.915.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-02", "file": "debates1964-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "33ff6f0fef00aaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-02a.915.3", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH ARABIAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman reconsider his decision to limit representation at this conference to representatives of Governments? Would it not be possible to bring to the conference representatives of the very popular People's Socialist Party in Aden? [ Interruption. ] Yes, the dominant party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-02a.915.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-02", "file": "debates1964-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "33ff6f0fef00aaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-02a.915.7", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH ARABIAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "The position is that while the state of emergency is on political meetings are not permitted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-02a.915.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-02", "file": "debates1964-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "33ff6f0fef00aaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-02a.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the Secretary of State for Defence, during his speech in the Ruther-glen by-election, charged the Labour Party with wanting to return to conscription? Is the Prime Minister aware that there is no justification for any such charge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-02a.919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-02", "file": "debates1964-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "33ff6f0fef00aaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-02a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ibility, very much for the reason which the hon. Member has suggested. Having raised duties on alcohol and tobacco, it might be desirable at some stage to operate the regulator and yet difficult to operate the regulator if it involved a second increase in duties already increased in the Financial Bill. Therefore, I am asking the Committee to give the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whoever he may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-02a.1020.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-03", "file": "debates1964-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "b7bab412bbefa54f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-03a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman tell the House what is the difference between rationalising competition and eliminating it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-03a.1080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-03", "file": "debates1964-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "b7bab412bbefa54f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-03a.1087.3", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Amery", "preceding_text": "to force on 29th February, 1964, but since November 1961 an agreed programme of work has been in progress in member countries. A first attempt to fire the Blue Streak was made on Monday last week but was frustrated by weather. A second attempt on the Thursday had to be postponed because of a minor defect in an electronic component. By the time this was repaired, the weather had again deteriorated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-03a.1087.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-03", "file": "debates1964-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "b7bab412bbefa54f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-03a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (RE-ENACTMENTS AND REPEALS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": " opposite or from this side of the House, to consider what they wanted to do about the 1959 Act before the end of the year. But with the postponement of the General Election until the autumn, I am charitable enough to assume that Her Majesty's Government thought that it would be unfair to do nothing before the General Election and leave an incoming Government, almost certainly a Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-03a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-03", "file": "debates1964-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "b7bab412bbefa54f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-03a.1177.4", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A conspiracy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "own has its own censorship and, having operated it, careful note of the position is taken by the chief constable. I believe that this is a very good system. First, the producer knows where he stands. Secondly, the local authority knows what the local people want and do not want. Thirdly, there is the assistance, by taking note, of the chief constable who is able to take into account local factors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-03a.1177.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-03", "file": "debates1964-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "b7bab412bbefa54f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-03a.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Epsom.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "preceding_text": " way to go about the business. We have been making sly innuendoes this evening about Epsom and where the Home Secretary may or may not be. It is perhaps typical of the hypocritical atmosphere in which the Bill is enveloped that it comes before the House at a time when a large proportion of hon. Members are away indulging in what my chapel-going constituents would say was a veritable orgy at Ascot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-03a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-04", "file": "debates1964-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "e74e9ff4d7f62581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "d satisfied that the powers under the Children Act, 1958, are being fully employed, for is he not aware that in the last few weeks the Daily Mail has produced a series of articles giving the most appalling examples of baby farming? Surely my right hon. Friend should have this stopped and, once again, surely he will admit that this is another aspect of Commonwealth immigration which we must regret?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-04", "file": "debates1964-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "e74e9ff4d7f62581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1230.5", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "While realising that the Home Secretary has no interest in civil liberty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1230.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-04", "file": "debates1964-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "e74e9ff4d7f62581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1230.5", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "While realising that the Home Secretary has no interest in civil liberty—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—is it not, nevertheless, an extraordinary departure to refuse a political refugee a visa to come to this country simply because the dictator of Burma has asked the Foreign Office for the man to be refused one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1230.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-04", "file": "debates1964-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "e74e9ff4d7f62581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1243.4", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ASSOCIATION OF SUPERVISORY STAFFS, EXECUTIVES AND TECHNICIANS (LETTER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He said it yesterday.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I should like to hear what the hon. Gentleman says on the introduction of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-04", "file": "debates1964-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "e74e9ff4d7f62581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I would give this information to the hon. Member. He knows quite well that we said at the last election that we would ensure that pensioners continued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1246.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-04", "file": "debates1964-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "e74e9ff4d7f62581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1247.2", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not in the least reluctant to answer. The whole of our economic policy is directed to accumulating wealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-04", "file": "debates1964-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "e74e9ff4d7f62581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1247.4", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am glad to see the right hon. Gentleman back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1247.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-04", "file": "debates1964-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "e74e9ff4d7f62581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1257.1", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "RAILWAYS (ACCIDENT, BRADFORD EXCHANGE STATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "used Bradford Exchange Station for many years and I do not remember any other serious accident there, because our railways are normally so safe. May I associate myself with my right hon. Friend in the expression of sympathy for what has occurred, and also say how much we admire the driver of the train who stayed at his post and was killed, and thus prevented a greater number of injuries and panic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-04", "file": "debates1964-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "e74e9ff4d7f62581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1261.6", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I recognise that the right hon. and learned Gentleman, on this issue, is wearing two hats. I am not quite certain which hat I should attack. But, as Chairman of the Committee, how can he be assured that it will take cognisance of the contents of this article? Has it discussed the matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1261.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-04", "file": "debates1964-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "e74e9ff4d7f62581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I would not have asked that question, Mr. Speaker, but for the obvious and inescapable fact that the right hon. and learned Gentleman assured the House that the Committee will take this matter into consideration. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It is surely within the recollection of the House that the right hon. and learned Gentleman assured us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-04", "file": "debates1964-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "e74e9ff4d7f62581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "nescapable fact that the right hon. and learned Gentleman assured the House that the Committee will take this matter into consideration. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It is surely within the recollection of the House that the right hon. and learned Gentleman assured us—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—that this matter was within the cognisance of the Committee and that he was assured that it would take notice of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-04", "file": "debates1964-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "e74e9ff4d7f62581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-04", "file": "debates1964-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "e74e9ff4d7f62581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1276.2", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Scarborough and Whitby (Sir A. Spearman) is repeating the error of so many of his hon. Friends by trying to compare the painful recovery of our economy from the devastation of war and the higher level of production—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-04", "file": "debates1964-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "e74e9ff4d7f62581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1286.0", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "o the hon. Member, he himself succeeded in talking political drivel inside the Committee this afternoon. It cannot escape the notice of anyone that the standard rate of tax in Clause 12 is 7s. 9d. as compared with the standard rate in 1951, under the Government of his party, of 9s. 6d. It cannot have escaped the notice of anybody that since 1951 millions have been relieved of Income Tax altogether", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1286.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-04", "file": "debates1964-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "e74e9ff4d7f62581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1388.1", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": " taken into consideration before we reach Report. If they are not taken into consideration, and if there should be a division of opinion in this House on the Clause as at present drafted, with all the ramifications to which my hon. Friends the Members for Garston and Stratford-on-Avon have referred, I shall find it very difficult to support the Government on the implementation of this legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-04a.1388.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-05", "file": "debates1964-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4eedebde8601e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-05a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "COST OF LAND", "cue_speaker": "Dame Edith Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Edith Pitt", "preceding_text": "icipal registers again, and would ignore the changed social pattern which has arisen from the prosperity of our people, and which is expressed in a desire for home ownership. Although \"Signposts for the Sixties\" refers to \"public ownership of building land\", and although the hon. Member used the same expression in his speech, we know that that is a polite euphemism for the nationalisation of land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-05a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-05", "file": "debates1964-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4eedebde8601e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-05a.1438.5", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "COST OF LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "I refer the hon. Member to the Command Paper of 1952. I agree that in the Lea Valley it might be necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-05a.1438.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-05", "file": "debates1964-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4eedebde8601e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-05a.1441.2", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "COST OF LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": " land? If not, someone will be given a privileged position to sell at a profit. Or will there be a covenant against resale? In that case, the person will be tied to the house. I see that there is to be power to alter the ground rent from time to time. In any case, it puts an end to the owner-occupier, because the first thing that the owner-occupier must own is the land on which his house is built.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-05a.1441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-05", "file": "debates1964-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4eedebde8601e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-05a.1492.1", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "COST OF LAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I was leading up to the present position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-05a.1492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-05", "file": "debates1964-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4eedebde8601e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-05a.1499.1", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "COST OF LAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Faversham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "een disowned officially by the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) in his letter of 7th April, 1964, to the Chairman of the Building Societies Association. It cannot be long before the land commission, too, is withdrawn as unworkable. This is a cricketing week. The score card for the opening batsmen in the Labour Party's housing team should, I believe, read like this: cheap interest rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-05a.1499.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-08", "file": "debates1964-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "87447577e57e39da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-08a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "ROOTES GROUP", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Laundries?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "When considering this matter will my right hon. Friend take into account that only a few weeks ago Mr. Clore's group invested £5 million in the United States and got control of Consolidated Laundries, the largest company of its kind?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-08a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-08", "file": "debates1964-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "87447577e57e39da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-08a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "TYPHOID OUTBREAK, ABERDEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"WHY?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "It was stopped on the high seas as soon as it was known that this plant was not carrying out the proper process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-08a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-08", "file": "debates1964-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "87447577e57e39da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-08a.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. Willey) has raised a most important constitutional point. The theory of the constitution is that there is one Secretary of State. In my day, he was liable to be split into seven or eight separate persons. I do not know how many Secretaries of State there are now, but one of the anomalies is that no matter how many there are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-08a.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-08", "file": "debates1964-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "87447577e57e39da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-08a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Harper", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Harper", "preceding_text": "s. It is said that a county borough must have 250,000 population before it works properly and that an urban district council cannot be worked with a population of under 50,000. This is all wrong. The hon. Member for Rutland and Stamford (Mr. K. Lewis) said that some of the smaller library authorities are better than the larger ones, but somebody has got it into his head that the larger the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-08a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-09", "file": "debates1964-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "264bf71b593af8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.212.2", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's figures are probably right, but I have no means of checking them", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.212.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-09", "file": "debates1964-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "264bf71b593af8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DECEASED WORLD STATESMEN (MOTIONS OF CONDOLENCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The House had ways and means of making such feelings known. Last week, as far as I know, nobody took advantage of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-09", "file": "debates1964-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "264bf71b593af8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": " of them has been under consideration by the Government recently, namely gambling. There are other fields in which there is a considerable amount of disposable income being spent, not on luxuries or on necessities, which might provide a source of revenue to the Exchequer. Certainly, in indirect taxation there is an element of choice as to how we pay our taxes which there is not in direct taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-09", "file": "debates1964-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "264bf71b593af8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was a reference to the hon. Member's haircut.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "ing the first priority. Admitedly, they cover a wide range of items of everyday expenditure, but so does the 25 per cent. Purchase Tax rate. In all these matters, as the hon. Member for Nottingham, South has pointed out, there is the question of consumer choice. I happen to buy a new suit only once every three years, although I once had the honour of being called well-groomed by the Daily Herald .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.276.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-09", "file": "debates1964-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "264bf71b593af8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "ean that we are trying to upset the shape of the Budget—although it is not the Opposition's job to reshape the Budget; that is the job of the Government. If the Committee expresses itself in any particular direction as dissenting from this or that item of taxation in general, what it will be doing is registering an opinion on a matter of great public interest. 6.45 p.m. That is not electioneering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.304.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-09", "file": "debates1964-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "264bf71b593af8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "It is much worse on the other side of the Committee. Let us face it. This side has been able to keep the economy reasonably sound. [ Laughter .] Oh, yes. I well remember 1951.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-09", "file": "debates1964-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "264bf71b593af8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.361.7", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": " that one would be driven inexorably to the argument that widows' pensions, as such, should be exempt from tax. I am quite certain that one would continue to find case after case left out under the new Clause which would be bound to demand strong sympathy as soundly and worthily based on sentiment as is the present argument. One would be driven to exempt all widows' pensions from liability to tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.361.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-09", "file": "debates1964-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "264bf71b593af8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is Faversham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "process of preparing the Budget starts in October. What is the magic in the period between 14th April and today which leads him to say that, in the light of the Opposition's new Clause, he will now consider whether he has got the structure and relationship right between the exemption limits and the marginal reliefs for old people? I am delighted that my hon. Friends' pressure has resulted in this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.366.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-09", "file": "debates1964-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "264bf71b593af8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "I do not suppose anybody can listen to or take part in a debate on a Clause designed to bring relief to totally disabled people and remain unmoved, but the Opposition, although quite rightly doing their job, have really put down this Clause knowing that it has not been very well thought out.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-09", "file": "debates1964-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "264bf71b593af8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "ublic conscience and the conscience of Parliament. This Clause deals with relief to totally disabled persons. I do not disagree with that sentiment at all, but I think that Parliament would be less than proficient if it did not take into account, if we are going to provide relief for totally disabled persons, that there is an equally strong case for providing relief for partially disabled persons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-09a.394.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-10", "file": "debates1964-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf2d3cb3621e3199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-10a.435.2", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hilton", "preceding_text": "We have had similar replies to this on a number of occasions and have been told that an announcement will shortly be made about the further use of this important site.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-10a.435.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-10", "file": "debates1964-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf2d3cb3621e3199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-10a.554.3", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "uoted £70,000 a year tax-free for the Selby bridge. However, I have simply repeated that figure, but in an article in the Yorkshire Post on 28th April this year, entitled \"Selby's Bridge of Sighs\"—it should be the Golden Gate—Commander James Percy, the chairman of the Selby Bridge Company, said that after paying wages, running costs and repairs the annual net tax-free income is well below £35,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-10a.554.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-10", "file": "debates1964-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf2d3cb3621e3199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-10a.560.0", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "preceding_text": "o go back on a promise made by this very distinguished Parliament of so long ago—but what about post-war credits? Have the Government kept their promises about them? Of course they have not. There are many other ways in which the Government have not kept their promises. What sort of compensation do the Government think might be payable? Perhaps a solution would be found in building another bridge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-10a.560.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-10", "file": "debates1964-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf2d3cb3621e3199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-10a.568.3", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "I am glad the hon. and learned Gentleman has noticed the fact. But this does not alter the fact—and hon. Members on both sides of the Committee have been accepting it throughout the debate—that the underlying problem here is compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-10a.568.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-10", "file": "debates1964-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf2d3cb3621e3199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-10a.569.0", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "That is not really relevant to what I was saying. It is proposed here, according to the intention of the Clause as it has been explained, to impose a tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-10a.569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I placed two Questions on the Order Paper today to the Prime Minister. I have had a communication from the right hon. Gentleman saying that he will not be present and I understand that he is attending a political conference of his own party outside the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.625.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.625.8", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "he duty of the Prime Minister to be here and not at a political conference, and since the Standing Order provides that there shall be an interruption of our ordinary procedure of Questions at 3.15 p.m. for Answers by the Prime Minister and not by the Lord Privy Seal, the Assistant Postmaster-General or anybody else, would it not be in accordance with that Standing Order, which is a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.625.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.626.6", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.626.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.626.7", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. With great respect to the right hon. and learned Gentleman, and there is nothing personal in the matter so far as he is concerned—of course there is not; and we have great respect for him—he has not used the proper formula in his reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.626.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that some degree of indulgence is permissible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.629.4", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "It is a question of judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.629.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.638.7", "colnum": "638", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "? There are six men whose lives are at stake. Does he recollect that last October Her Majesty's Government voted among the 109 nations calling for the abandonment of this trial and the release of political prisoners? Will he bear in mind that one of the accused, Mr. Goldberg, is in possession of a British passport? On those two grounds, Her Majesty's Government have a close interest in this trial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.638.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "s promised in ten, and at a far greater cost. Nor is; there any evidence that this process of attenuation is yet finished—at least as long as the party opposite is in control of the hospital services. This is what happens when a Government which do not believe in planning—and if it is true of this Government it was doubly true of the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West—purport to plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "6 million on hospital building. The picture is that from Wick in the north all the way down to West Cornwall a great variety of hospital projects is under way, and some of them have already been completed. Since 1951, the Government have spent more than £300 million on hospital building and there are now very few hospitals indeed at which there have not been some improvements in the last 13 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Edith Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Edith Pitt", "preceding_text": " from Scottish hon. Members who hope to take part in this debate. I do understand what a task it is to make one's first speech in this Chamber. I have been thinking today of my own maiden speech, because I spoke, among other things, on the Health Service. I wish to assure the hon. Member that we all felt he acquitted himself very well, and we shall look forward to hearing him on a future occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Edith Pitt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Edith Pitt", "preceding_text": " for St. Pancras, North, what, did I find?—not a hint; well, perhaps just a hint, because it referred to the fact that the Service had ceased to be a free Service. Since then some members of the Party opposite have said that they will review the health charges. If they do, I hope that they will tell the public how they propose to raise the extra £200 million which will be needed for the programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "That is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": " his place there was a clerk getting £750 a year for doing a job which an old man of over 70 had done for 35 years for nothing. That is the type of work which hon. Members opposite stopped. Seventy-five per cent. of hon. Members opposite gave a promise in writing to day-to-day working people, largely members of their party, who were helping to run the approved societies and link up the collection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.702.3", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "ainly cannot put it over in this Committee. One of my hon. Friends has been to the Library and obtained the OFFICIAL REPORT of the Second Reading debate on 2nd May, 1946. The hon. Member, who was not a Member of the House at the time, has at least been long enough in the House to know that if one votes as a party against the Second Reading of any Measure, one is voting against the principle of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.702.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.721.6", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "I should like to know that myself, because I strenuously resisted it and was advised that we were compelled to give way under pressure from the consultants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.721.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.721.6", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": " That is the patient's need. This should be the only test applied and it should be applied for amenity wards and amenity beds. But for the lack of time available, I would have raised the matter of charges imposed by the party opposite on the use of amenity beds and things of that kind and how the Government raised £300 million allegedly to build more hospitals, but in fact used it to reduce Surtax", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.721.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": " any degree of responsibility. Three weeks later the hon. Member for St. Pancras, North says that these are paper plans. I should like to invite the hon. Member for St. Pancras, North and many other hon. Members opposite to my constituency to see what these \"paper\" plans are, to see the new hospital built within the boundaries of Welwyn Garden City, the first of the new district general hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "roduct arrived with no certificate with it, and it was turned back at the port even though we were told that a certificate would follow and even though there was no reason to think that there was any health hazard of any kind. It was nevertheless turned back on those grounds. As for the suggested calculated risk, serious though the outbreak in Aberdeen has been, we must keep a sense of proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "has been, we must keep a sense of proportion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I will explain what I mean. I am not being discourteous. It is quite impossible to take steps to ensure that 100 per cent. canned food or indeed any other food is not contaminated in any way. Of course, it would be possible to go to inordinate lengths, but the consequence would be that there would be virtually nothing left to eat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "This is a serious matter, and I think that the difficulty arises from the fact that the right hon. Gentleman is making what is virtually a Government statement at a time when he cannot be properly questioned by the Committee and without the usual courtesy of a copy of that statement made to the other Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " Greenock about the Western Region. I thought that he was indicating that we were not even reaching the Montgomery standards of maternity provision. I am told that the returns from the medical officers of health in the Western Region showed that the institutional confinement rate in the region as a whole in 1963 was over 76 per cent. The hon. Member will be particularly pleased to hear about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.764.5", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "onservative Governments anything like the special priorities which were accorded to it by the Labour Government that set it up.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 19th December, 1963; Vol. 686. 1467. Hon. Members opposite have today chosen to debate the Hospital Service. Let us consider, therefore, what the hon. Gentleman was saying in relation to that Service. In those halcyon days of Socialist public affluence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.764.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.765.4", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I wonder, Sir William, whether you can help me in a difficult situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.765.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-11", "file": "debates1964-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3c85bb30e1504c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.765.6", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I offer my humble apologies to the hon. Lady and will write to her immediately. If she would like to put down a Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-11a.765.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-15", "file": "debates1964-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "114e262d26846813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-15a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (RIVONIA TRIAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "on the resolution when it came before the Security Council although our delegate voted in favour of the resolution in October when trials were also sub judice? Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us what pressure was exerted on the Government to abstain on this occasion? Will he now press for the release of these prisoners, including Mr. Goldberg—whose wife is listening to this Question and Answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-15a.935.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-16", "file": "debates1964-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a1b0a63d678aa1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-16a.1112.0", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FIJI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have been through all that before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-16a.1112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-16", "file": "debates1964-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a1b0a63d678aa1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-16a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "upon the allies whether they want it or not. I think that it is high time that the Government gave us an answer on this matter. They have had access to all the facts. They have had a very long time to consider the matter. The suspicion is inevitable that the reason they are not giving an answer is that they are frightened that they might split their own party because of the answer which they give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-16a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-16", "file": "debates1964-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a1b0a63d678aa1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-16a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "by the Government. I say in all seriousness that we would be much wiser if we dropped this kind of argument between us, but if we are attacked we will counter-attack and we will not do either ourselves or the country much good and we will get involved in an American election. But, of course, if we are attacked, we will counter-attack. It would be much wiser if we kept out of this kind of argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-16a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-16", "file": "debates1964-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a1b0a63d678aa1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-16a.1147.1", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The freeze, or both?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": " most promising line of advance to get the momentum going again. We, like the Foreign Secretary, support, and strongly argued in favour of, President Johnson's proposal for a freeze of nuclear delivery systems and a bonfire of bombers, but I must regretfully tell the House that the impression we both came back with was that the Soviet Union is not prepared to agree or even to negotiate about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-16a.1147.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1309.2", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about equipment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "wer which keeps the peace. I say that because hon. Gentlemen opposite so often give the impression that they want to change the balance between the nuclear and the conventional. Let us say—and I think that this is what they would do—that they would add to our conventional forces. I do not know how they would do it without conscription, but, having added to our conventional forces, other countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1311.0", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Security.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "This is a very interesting argument. Would the right hon. Gentleman say how many tactical nuclear weapons we control in Europe that are not controlled by the Americans owing to their control of the warhead? Will he give us the number?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1311.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "approve might do well to ponder. As the Russian people get more, they will want more. What is more, they will be less ready to risk what they have. Therefore, on the evidence before me, I have persisted in my view, put rather crudely, perhaps, that a fat Communist is to be preferred to a thin Communist. These arguments seem at long last to be making some impression on the United States of America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ronto not long ago and invited the Russians to explore the possibility whether they could not join with the United States and the United Kingdom in joint action to assist the developing countries of the world. I made this suggestion because they are neither members of the International Bank—I am not sure whether the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition knew this when he was in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "annual contribution of the United Kingdom to the United Nations runs at around £24 million a year. In the one case on which the right hon. Gentleman picked, I agree that our percentage is 5·2, but when his party was in power the contribution which it gave in 1949–50 under this head was nil. It rose to £100,000 in 1950–51, and then it was reduced to nil again in 1951–52.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1316.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1318.0", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "49–50 under this head was nil. It rose to £100,000 in 1950–51, and then it was reduced to nil again in 1951–52. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] Right hon. and hon. Members opposite cannot possibly fling in our teeth that we are ungenerous to the United Nations, and the most charitable thing that I can say about the right hon. Member for Derby, South is that he had a very bad off-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1319.0", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the policy of apartheid under arbitrary laws. But when we come to ask what in addition to what we are doing in protest we can do, I find myself very largely in agreement with the right hon. and learned Member for Rowley Regis and Tipton (Mr. A. Henderson). I do not believe that we should employ sanctions, and for the reasons which he gave. I hope that his Front Bench will be as explicit as he was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We do not export arms to South Africa, as the right hon. Gentleman knows, which we think will be used in any way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"South Africa.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "er, will play this card ruthlessly and cause total confusion in Asia, and perhaps in Africa. But the danger of this is, perhaps, not quite so much nationalism as this total confusion which will result in a racial division of the world. I think that there are plenty of people abroad who would delight to see such a division and would do a great deal to promote it. I have been thinking in particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "omething about this, when all the world was looking for a new lead, and most of it was looking to the Labour Party in this country to give that lead. We did not give it. Between 1945 and 1950 the Labour Government, so far as their domestic policies were concerned, were a remarkable Government. They were constructive, progressive, and far and away the best Government that this country had ever had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "for Leeds, East. My appeal is not to this Government, it is not to those hon. Members ranged behind the Government, some of whom will be back in the next Parliament but who will be sitting on the benches on this side of the House. They have nothing to do with it any more. They have had 12 years in which to do something with the situation, but everything that they have touched they have made worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": " I want to do is to stop them from making those robust speeches on foreign affairs which have aroused such enthusiasm below the Gangway. All these remarks, particularly some of those by the Leader of the Opposition, pay a double dividend; they are useful abroad and they madden at least 50 per cent. of the Labour Party. I see. that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition has returned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1353.0", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I was out. The right hon. Gentleman has had his fun. As for the suggestion being contrary to the United Nations directive, I said that we should immediately raise with the United Nations the need for a new directive to enable these things to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1363.1", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fitzroy Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fitzroy Maclean", "preceding_text": "e very fact of that choice, have acquired a certain, though limited, independence. Polycentrism, instead of being a rather obscure theory of the Kremlinologists, has become a reality, and what has been happening in Rumania in the last few days is an illustration. No wonder that the right hon. Member for Smethwick (Mr. Gordon Walker) was greeted, in his own words, as some kind of Rumanian \"Beatle\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1363.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.0", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "as the emphasis on the multi-racial character of the Commonwealth which was the main theme of Hugh Gaitskell's historic speech at Brighton in 1962, although that speech did not secure very much acceptance by a Government who, at that time, were hell-bent on getting into the Common Market on terms which would have virtually destroyed our relations with the Commonwealth, certainly in economic terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ghana.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "n some time ago, and again very recently, by the Prime Minister of Trinidad. Tonight, I would make this suggestion to the Government. They should put this on the agenda of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference. They should propose that a high-level Commonwealth mission, consisting of, let us say, representatives of Canada, Trinidad, Jamaica, India, and a West African State, should go there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "e would not raise the wider issues of why the troops were there and what were the wider foreign policy aspects at stake. But, committed as they were, I felt it right to say that the Government were right to back them with air power. I said that. This did not express support for the bombing of Harib, which we have condemned, as has the whole of world opinion as expressed through the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "eign policy aspects at stake. But, committed as they were, I felt it right to say that the Government were right to back them with air power. I said that. This did not express support for the bombing of Harib, which we have condemned, as has the whole of world opinion as expressed through the United Nations. [ Interruption. ] That is a very different thing. That was an entirely separate operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where would you stop?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ave condemned, as has the whole of world opinion as expressed through the United Nations. [ Interruption. ] That is a very different thing. That was an entirely separate operation—[ Interruption. ] It was crossing the frontier, and bombing another country. The support I gave in that statement was for the use of air power to back up our troops fighting in the Radfan mountains within the Federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "t many of our allies in the Commonwealth, and the United States, are coming round to a view I have heard expressed at the highest level, and no doubt the Prime Minister has, that, at the margin, another 1,000 troops deployed east of Suez is a bigger contribution to world peace than another 1,000 in Germany. This means bases where we can get them, not by force but by agreement, and in my statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "he security of a base depends on the willingness with which it is accepted by the local population. Surely we have learned our lesson over the years—that a base held against the wishes of the local Government and the local population is not only morally indefensible but militarily indefensible as well. Which bases do we need? Frankly, until an Opposition becomes the Government it does not possess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "d the local population is not only morally indefensible but militarily indefensible as well. Which bases do we need? Frankly, until an Opposition becomes the Government it does not possess—[ Interruption. ] Well, this Opposition is trying to become the Government in October, but until then the Opposition does not possess the secret military information required, nor do back bench Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " obviously secret. So, in opposition, as I have said frequently, one cannot take a final line on which bases we shall need and, even when the Government, one has to be flexible and adaptable about it. I therefore stick to what I said in my statement—that on all the information available to us, and subject to what may be found on the issues that I have just mentioned, I reckon that we do need Aden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "y earlier statement concerns our relations with the Yemen. Our recognition of the Yemen is a matter of who is in control. This has always been our traditional test, but, pending recognition, we are asking for trouble in an already disturbed area by our conduct of Anglo-Yemen relations. We do not any longer supply arms to the Imam, we are told, but it would be interesting to know when that stopped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "the Prime Minister, has seldom, if ever, been stronger sell drawings and details of frigates to a Fascist country for a few million pounds? It is not even creating much employment in British shipyards. We are building up the Spanish Navy at the very time when right hon. Gentlemen have allowed the Royal Navy, in terms of effectiveness and number of vessels in commission, to sink to an all-time low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "four small wooden coastal minesweepers, two submarines, used for anti-submarine training, six more minesweepers and an antisubmarine frigate in reserve—all these and the commander-in-chief's yacht. So low have we sunk as a result of Ministers' nuclear posturings that all we can do now is to try to get money by an arms deal with Spain. I ask the Foreign Secretary one last question before he speaks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ix more minesweepers and an antisubmarine frigate in reserve—all these and the commander-in-chief's yacht. So low have we sunk as a result of Ministers' nuclear posturings that all we can do now is to try to get money by an arms deal with Spain. I ask the Foreign Secretary one last question before he speaks. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] We agreed the time between us. Let the right hon. Gentleman tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " is to try to get money by an arms deal with Spain. I ask the Foreign Secretary one last question before he speaks. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] We agreed the time between us. Let the right hon. Gentleman tell us—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] Hon. Members opposite are taking time out of the Foreign Secretary's speech. I am prepared to stay here until I have finished. I want to ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "he Franco Government a withdrawal of their claim on Gibraltar? Has he made that a condition of the arms deal? The House is entitled to an answer to that. Now I yield to the Foreign Secretary, so that he can make his speech. I hope that we shall have from the right hon. Gentleman an answer to that question and an answer to the questions on South Africa, the mixed-manned force and the Common Market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ouse is entitled to an answer to that. Now I yield to the Foreign Secretary, so that he can make his speech. I hope that we shall have from the right hon. Gentleman an answer to that question and an answer to the questions on South Africa, the mixed-manned force and the Common Market. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members opposite are taking the Foreign Secretary's time, not me. We should like an answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-17", "file": "debates1964-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e2a48bbd7693d49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1419.1", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-17a.1419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1466.5", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milne", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that it is not important only to provide jobs in the North-East but also to provide them quickly; that many orders for building steel are holding up the development of factories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1466.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1480.6", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONOURS (POLITICAL SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman imagine that he has defined in that Answer what is meant by \"political services\"? Will he explain to the House how from time to time honours are awarded to Members of the Tory Party who have performed no particular service except to keep their mouths shut?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1480.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that none of them would have been on holiday if the Prime Minister had had the courage to face the electorate earlier?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1486.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1494.3", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oram", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1494.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1494.7", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": "I was merely indicating that I was hoping that by the time I sit down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1494.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1495.7", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": "It is the speakers' notes, published in March by the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1495.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1497.2", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ferranti.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The second set of circumstances dealt with in \"Signposts for the Sixties\" that I want to mention is the aircraft industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1498.4", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "None at all, but in the general interest we have to listen to quite a lot of things with which we do not severally agree, and time is fairly achieved for counter-expressions and we do better at getting on if there is not quite so much noise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1498.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1501.4", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": " some indication of what he intends to do? Then, what about C licences? In 1947, C licences were vigorously supported by the co-operative societies, and it will be interesting to note what proposals the Opposition have about those licences today. The next item is land, but as we spent a whole day on this subject less than a fortnight ago, I do not think that we need deal with it any further today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1501.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": "on which new building or redevelopment is planned. A moment ago I heard the right hon. Gentleman ask, from a reclining position, \"What about water?\" He was chairman of the committee that dealt with this policy statement in \"Signposts\". Having made the suggestion that some hon. Members on this side of the Chamber may not be able to read, I assume that he means that he is able to read quite happily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1502.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1506.0", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Karl Marx.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "tionalisation was fairly simple. In my view The Socialist remedy should be accepted in regard to industries and services where it is obvious that private enterprise has exhausted its social usefulness or where the general welfare of the economy requires that certain basic industries and services need now to be conducted in the light of broader social considerations than the profit motive provides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1505.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "t they do not know what Labour Party policies are on public ownership. I am sure that they will not mind if I spend the next couple of minutes explaining the policies to them, and I and a number of my hon. Friends will be available in the Tea Room after the debate to answer questions. The policy of the Labour Party remains quite unchanged. It is the policy laid down in \"Signposts for the Sixties\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Explain it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "ices. We propose to end the transport muddle by having an integrated service on road and rail. \"Signposts\" makes it quite clear that we intend to achieve this more by taking artificial restrictions off the existing and profitable British Road Services and allowing it to expand and compete than by a mass statutory transfer of private road undertakings to public ownership. This is the crucial point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1508.0", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "there. One of the troubles here is that there is more space devoted in some of the Press to asking the questions than to publishing the answers. I come back to the point about constant denigration of the public industries. Right hon. and hon. Members opposite ought to make up their own minds on exactly where they stand. Do they intend to denationalise any of the existing publicly-owned industries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1510.1", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "That is the latest figure. The one I quoted was somewhat earlier. Another point which needs to be made is that one does not judge the ability of publicly-owned industry purely on the counting of profits. Whereas the private entrepreneur is primarily concerned with maximising the profit to his shareholders, a public industry must be primarily concerned with the social benefit of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1510.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1511.2", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is too generous. It is not ignorance at all. They do it for no other reason than having to please the faceless men behind them who pay their election expenses. Some of them—I make this point deliberately—do it to such an extent that they degrade themselves to the level of political pimps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1511.3", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "Then there is the question of steel. If ever there was a classic case for public ownership, it is to be found in the British steel industry. It is one of the basic industries on which every other industry in this country depends", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1511.5", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "hile the Steel Company of Wales and English Steel all have a director in common as does English Steel and R.T.B. There never was a clearer case of industrial incest than that which is provided by steel. Look at the performance. Its capacity was inadequate almost every year right up to last year and it is only adequate now because of its miserable export performance. If one looks at its development", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1511.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1511.5", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "million tons of steel from one State-owned steel plant. The French are now building a new plant at Dunkirk which will produce 10 million tons a year. The Russians are having an argument about whether their new plant will produce 12 million or 24 million tons of steel a year. There are 30 scattered plants in this country and not one of them has an output of more than 3 million tons of steel a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1511.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1511.5", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": " There are 30 scattered plants in this country and not one of them has an output of more than 3 million tons of steel a year. [ Interruption ] There are a number of hon. Members who want to take part in this debate, but as the hon. Member for Peterborough (Sir H. Nicholls) interrupts I shall mention the other interesting example of broadcasting. I would say that, here again, is another clear case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1511.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1513.9", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Declare your interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Roberts", "preceding_text": "I want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1513.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1521.6", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1521.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1528.0", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Morris", "preceding_text": "ajor measures, which at the end of the day will be financed by public money, that when the issue was debated in the House the Minister of Power did not come down to listen to the debate. That illustrates the supervisory powers of the Minister and of the Iron and Steel Board over this industry. I am taking up far too much time, and I propose to sit down shortly to allow other hon. Members to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. M. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. M. Bennett", "preceding_text": "ion. If right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite are right in all that they say on behalf of nationalisation, that may be a useful argument for it, but its only relevance to the Motion is for them to say that it is also their intention to nationalise the lot. All their arguments are in favour of nationalisation, and all that we are asking them to do is to say so clearly and to give specific details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. M. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. M. Bennett", "preceding_text": "ince the French bowmen damped their bowstrings at Agincourt and lost the battle It says: Every Tory M.P. who makes wild allegations about Labour's plans for industry or who demands to know whether company X or Y is going to be nationalised should be prepared to answer these questions: First, what firms are contributing to his local Tory association? I think that that is a rather personal question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1532.1", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us about the Tory women.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "r manufacture, and building societies, and the municipalisation of housing. Is all that coming into \"Signposts\" as part of the Labour programme? It may be said that all these do not bind a future Labour Government, and do not represent policy making. All I can say is that these unions very much help to pay the piper. I wonder what will happen when the time comes for them to start calling the tune.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1538.5", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "is, unfortunately, unreliable in these matters. He is not doctrinally sound. He has deviationist tendencies on Clause Four. He was the first to call nationalisation a dirty word. No wonder he is not taking part tonight and is not even on the Opposition Front Bench. We might have expected the Leader of the Opposition to reply to this debate because he has attached so much importance to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1538.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1541.1", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "It is not what is being debated today. What is being debated is the future of the Labour Party on nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1541.1", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dr. Beeching.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "tionalisation. [ Interruption .] If hon. Members will listen for a moment, what this Government have done to the nationalised industries is to change the means of operation and the concept behind them in order to achieve a more efficient industry where it has been nationalised. This has been done in a number of ways. It has been done by a decentralisation of the decision making inside an industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1543.2", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will do me the courtesy of reading what I said, he will see that I was referring to an economy based on purposiveness and industrial production, and not, as under this present Government, on the predominance of speculative finance. It was a reference not to the control of nationalised industries but—he will find the words if he looks it up—to the fact that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1543.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " doubt about it. The right hon. Gentleman raised this question in the Rootes case. He raised the whole question of investment of this kind. These industrialists are not going round with a begging-bowl. Most of them would far rather expand in their present locations. What is happening is that the inducements are there to offset the disadvantages, economically speaking, of going to another district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1546.1", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " often, of management and control which the other side so obviously want. Then there is the question of seizing the commanding heights of power. That has always been at the bottom of so many of the arguments of the right hon. Gentleman. Today this is an old-fashioned idea, for this reason. It can be dealt with in two ways. One is by monopoly legislation such as we are proposing in the White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1546.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1547.2", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1547.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1547.6", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1547.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1547.8", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I seek your advice, Mr. Speaker, on the comment that the right hon. Gentleman just made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1547.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1548.0", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "g asked to speak before me, since, obviously, the speech which he wanted to make had nothing whatever to do with the Motion. He only just remembered to mention the word \"nationalisation\" in passing. This debate was opened by the hon. Member for Rye (Mr. Godman Irvine), who, in a few days' time, on the Adjournment, will protest against the closure of railway stations around Bexhill by Dr. Beeching.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1548.0", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "' time, on the Adjournment, will protest against the closure of railway stations around Bexhill by Dr. Beeching. [ Interruption .] He will, then, be having an opportunity which he would not have had under private enterprise. Today's debate has shown the total cant and humbug with which the party opposite approaches this question of public ownership. The Tories have been nationalising for 50 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1548.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.0", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "r what they call the achievements of the nationalised institutions. The Chancellor of the Exchequer did it in his Budget speech, when there was not a word about nationalisation being a bad thing. The Prime Minister remembered to do it, although on another occasion he called the nationalised institutions \"a junk yard\", just as the Chief Secretary once called the people who served in them Quislings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "So the right hon. Gentleman did say it, although now he tries to justify it. His intervention was not up to his usual standard. Despite the insults which hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite throw—and they thought that throwing them would gain them political dividends—at the men who are prepared to serve the nation rather than their own private profit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " office for 13 years—have been restricting, limiting and inhibiting both of them. If our people have had to pay heavily for these services, the responsibility, after 13 years of Tory interference, lies with the Conservative Party, not with us. I am asked—and if the Minister had not taken my time I could have replied at length—what will we do, since we are about to become Her Majesty's Government.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "leader in the Evening Standard last Monday, headed \"Racket in Land\". The fact is that they are the only people in the country who believe that the land racket can stay as it is. They are the people who created the racket in land, their friends are the people who benefit by the racket in land; and we shall deal with it in the way we have said. We shall take into public ownership the steel industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " done. It is quite unnecessary to do that, but I do say that this industry is basic to our economy. Its record, in some respects, has not fitted what the economy as planned by the nation would have required of it. If we are to have a planned economy, if we are to have our basic industries answering that economy, there is every case for the steel industry being responsible to the plan that we make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ng—just as hon. Members opposite will—and then we shall consider what happens there in the light of that committee's report. But anybody on that side of the House who believes that we can have an integrated transport service without having a wider area of publicly-owned road services to integrate with the railways is living in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land. We shall have a publicly-owned national water supply", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ed transport service without having a wider area of publicly-owned road services to integrate with the railways is living in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land. We shall have a publicly-owned national water supply [ Laughter ]. Hon. Members opposite set out to ask the questions and they are going to hear the answers. I have given them a list of our specific commitments for public enterprise in the next Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What else? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ly-owned road services to integrate with the railways is living in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land. We shall have a publicly-owned national water supply [ Laughter ]. Hon. Members opposite set out to ask the questions and they are going to hear the answers. I have given them a list of our specific commitments for public enterprise in the next Parliament—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Now I will tell them something else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " questions and they are going to hear the answers. I have given them a list of our specific commitments for public enterprise in the next Parliament—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Now I will tell them something else. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What else? \"] No more commitments for take-overs in that sense, but do not let us be totally illiterate and immature on this matter. There are other areas for public enterprise", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " over-monopolised and competition does not exist, publicly-owned industry and public enterprise should go in. These are not areas of take-over; these are the obvious areas for purposeful national expansion in the interests of our people, either in partnership, or in extension, or in place of private enterprise. There is no difficulty about this, but since the Minister has not left me my full time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Six.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "The orders are that a Member of the House must endeavour to be here within seven minutes of the Division bells going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e is a firm of advertising practitioners which supports an hon. Member opposite. I have not given him notice and, therefore, I do not propose to mention his name. The firm has written to a number of other companies asking for support for the hon. Member. It says in its letter that he has been very active in the Lobbies and in Committee in getting amendments made to the Television Advertising Levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1588.0", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you a shareholder?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. You will note, Sir Robert, that the new Clause deals specifically with notice to be served by an inspector of taxes about details of political contributions. The hon. Member is now advancing an argument, which would be a suitable argument for a Companies Bill or a Representation of the People Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1595.0", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Angus Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Angus Maude", "preceding_text": "urely political exercise, two things should clearly prove it. First, the hon. Member admitted that there was no need for this Clause at all. He said that power already exists and that the inspector of taxes is already able to ask for this information if he needs it. If this is so, why does the hon. Gentleman, backed by a considerable and well organised campaign of muck-raking and trouble stirring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1595.0", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Angus Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Angus Maude", "preceding_text": "licy on the part of the Opposition. It is one of a long series of gimmicks and stunts which we have come to expect from them. I now turn to one or two points in the hon. Member's speech—one of, I thought, considerable seriousness, because at one point he said that this was not simply a matter of contributions or, indeed, of Income Tax laws; he said that it was coming perilously near to corruption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1597.1", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "I was dealing with the allegation of the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East that what he had been describing came, I think he said, close to corruption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1597.3", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "id that he was concerned only with industrial companies, but that is not what the Clause says. The words are: Every person carrying on a trade or business … The hon. Member and his hon. Friends might reflect a little carefully about the implications of those words because they are extraordinarily dangerous and suggestive. \"Every person carrying on trade or business\" is the small shopkeeper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1598.3", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "pposition to a political party or candidates for a parliamentary election … This is the most extraordinary piece of definition that I have ever heard. I imagine that it would bring within the purview of the Clause anybody who made a subscription to a campaign for abolishing capital punishment, to a campaign for education, to the A.A. or the R.A.C. or anything that one would like to mention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1598.3", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go back to Australia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " it would bring within the purview of the Clause anybody who made a subscription to a campaign for abolishing capital punishment, to a campaign for education, to the A.A. or the R.A.C. or anything that one would like to mention. [An HON. MEMBER: \"So what?\"] I will tell the hon. Member so what. It is because this is a deliberate first wedge driven into the whole democratic principle of our society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1600.2", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course he does. He said so explicitly at one point, and he implied it over and over again throughout his speech. I have said already, and it cannot be denied, that shareholders can, in the last resort, force their directors to disclose what shareholders want them to disclose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1600.2", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course he does. He said so explicitly at one point, and he implied it over and over again throughout his speech. I have said already, and it cannot be denied, that shareholders can, in the last resort, force their directors to disclose what shareholders want them to disclose. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] They can get rid of their directors, if they do not like what is done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1600.2", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ening from that Dispatch Box, it must be more obvious than ever. Plainly, it is in the interest of companies in many industries to do everything they can to ensure that the Government of this country does not fall into the hands of right hon. and hon. Members opposite, not merely because they are asking for something very like a blank cheque to nationalise any industry which falls under their eye—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1602.2", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ds of a political party. That is quite different. I know that the excuse is made by Lord Netherthorpe and others that their companies are opposed to nationalisation and that the Conservative Party can be relied upon to resist further measures of nationalisation. The fallacy of that argument is that nationalisation is only one political issue among many. It is not one of the major political issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1608.1", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ber for Belfast, North (Mr. Stratton Mills) said, it means that if there is prestige advertising by a public company, a shareholder will be able to kick up a fuss and question the directors on the matter. What hon. Gentlemen opposite forget is that a shareholder has many rights. If he is prepared to go to the annual general meeting of his company, he can kick up a fuss about any conceivable thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1609.3", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "nd with about £3½ million invested in equities. This Socialist-controlled Cor poration decided to write to the stockbroker to the Corporation asking which of the 1,500 companies whose shares were involved subscribed to political funds. This is something else we have to think about more deeply. We have to remember that the Birmingham Corporation superannuation fund is voluntary to employees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1609.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1614.4", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "The result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1614.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1617.0", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) which leaves one in very little doubt about his motives for making it in the House of Commons this evening. The motives were nothing else than to raise a scare campaign and indulge in political intimidation. That was the purpose of his speech. 10.0 p.m. This is well demonstrated by two points. First, there is the question of making it three years' retrospective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1617.0", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "emonstrated by two points. First, there is the question of making it three years' retrospective. [ Interruption .] Secondly, throughout this discussion there has been the underlying threat that if the names were given of firms which contributed directly or indirectly to the Conservative Party, if the Labour Party gained office those firms would be at some disadvantage in State and public contacts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1617.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1620.4", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the Ulster Unionists?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "I cannot help feeling slightly irritated at being called childish by the hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock), but if the point made by the party opposite, that details should be given, is valid, £20,592 for a party of the size of the Liberal Party is quite a lot of money. Indeed, if it were divided amongst the number of Liberal Members they would have over £4,000 each.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1621.3", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "lternative and he can replace the directors if they are not doing a satisfactory job. If we accept the arguments of the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East there are many other kinds of questions which inquisitive shareholders would feel justified in having written into a Statute by the House of Commons. People might feel entitled to have a list of all the charities to which a company sub scribes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "The subscriptions of a company could give rise to a complaint. A religious organisation, for example, might disagree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "where they sent their goods. There is no end to the possible inquisitiveness of shareholders and the consequences cannot always be seen. There is also the point, which is a real one, that a company in a constituency in an area which returned a Labour Member to the House with a 40,000 majority might be contributing to Tory Party funds, as it is perfectly entitled to do, as the hon. Member accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1626.0", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Maddan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the Clause.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Maddan", "preceding_text": "How does one define the recipients of these funds which one has to declare?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1630.1", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A monopoly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "een able to obtain no information from whatsoever. The first is Dorman Long. I suppose that one could justifiably suppose that they have been making subscriptions of this kind. Another two companies in the steel industry are United Steel Companies Ltd. and Guest, Keen and Nettle-fold. Both of these refuse to say. The Distillers Company has refused to say, and finally Wallpaper Manufacturers Ltd.,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1630.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1638.4", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "rst speech. On that occasion I asked the right hon. Gentleman a question, which I repeat; are these subscriptions paid to British United Industrialists, which go as to 95 per cent. to the Conservative Party, allowed by the inspectors of taxes as a deduction? If the Chief Secretary will answer this question I will then reply to his question about whether or not some of these people are evading tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1638.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1639.0", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, having disclosed that he knows nothing to support any charge of tax evasion against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1639.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1639.3", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "e circumstances of particular subscriptions. As he knows, in the Tate and Lyle case the payment was made by Tate and Lyle to Aims of Industry to conduct a campaign to protect the interests of that company. Unless I know the circumstances of each and every subscription made in each case and by every body to which the hon. Gentleman referred, it would be very wrong of me to seek to lay down the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1639.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1645.1", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " those who take the other view. I do not criticize wealthy men who support the party opposite. I have not even so far asked about their contributions—Mr. Sidney Bernstein, Mr. Jack Hylton, Mr. Lewis Cohen and other wealthy, distinguished and eminent people who publicly support the party opposite and, I am sure, as generous people, subscribe to it. We have not been told what their subscriptions are", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-18", "file": "debates1964-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "498fe71a25e4630b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member, in that rather lengthy intervention, has only confirmed what I was saying: that the Labour Party is in no position to vaunt itself because its headquarters accounts are published without admitting that by far the largest sums which go to support it are not covered by those accounts. This debate has been characteristic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-18a.1647.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-23", "file": "debates1964-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ed14496c3a6216cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-23a.229.2", "colnum": "229", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL INDEMNITY (NATIONALISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil McLean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil McLean", "preceding_text": "stries and would like an extension of public ownership for its own sake. I do not accuse the Labour Party of being idiots. Where this approach is impossible, the Labour Party will come to terms with private industry. But by and large, and where-ever it can, it will extend public ownership and State control. That is its attitude, and there is nothing in this attitude about which it need be ashamed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-23a.229.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-24", "file": "debates1964-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b61e730d09406319", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-24a.543.2", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE-PURCHASE (No. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "ure by means of four alterations of the original drafting. This shows the hurried way in which this Measure was considered, how the Scottish Office did not study it and how that Department was anxious to brighten up its rather tarnished image in Scotland by trying to get involved with something which promised it a little popularity. I will not weary the House by reading the rest of the new Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-24a.543.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-25", "file": "debates1964-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "02a4b69350577c42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-25a.615.8", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-MINISTERS (PEERAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "While thanking the Prime Minister for that reply, may I ask him whether he is aware of the present unsatisfactory position whereby Ministers, with one or two honourable exceptions, appear to hold office and then either resign or are dismissed and then refrain for about six month from ever putting in an appearance in the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-25a.615.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-25", "file": "debates1964-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "02a4b69350577c42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-25a.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "EXPORT CREDIT GUARANTEE (PAKISTAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stick to the point and answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is making it appear as though Her Majesty's Government are doing nothing to encourage trade with Pakistan and are not interested in trade with Pakistan. Nothing could be further from the truth. Since 1959, we have committed loans amounting to over £43 million to Pakistan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-25a.625.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-29", "file": "debates1964-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "c5c49484a4b26f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.942.11", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "preceding_text": "f the then Minister of Agriculture: However, I want my right hon. Friend to realise that my farming constituents and people in agriculture generally are worried, not because of the prices which he has imposed, but because, unlike the Budget, his White Paper contained no clear policy and no reassurance for the future.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th May, 1960; Vol. 623, c. 975.] That was on 16th May, 1916.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.942.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-29", "file": "debates1964-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "c5c49484a4b26f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "one and how far it has benefited the industry. As I have shown, many small producers have faced hardships. Many of them have not benefited from the increased Exchequer support. We have the example of our small milk producers. Whether the Minister likes it or not, there could well be a milk crisis this year if we have unfavourable weather conditions. We have seen a pattern emerging in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-29", "file": "debates1964-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "c5c49484a4b26f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Noble)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Look behind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Noble)", "preceding_text": "ovide the best basis for the continuing prosperity of the industry\". I am very grateful—I am more grateful than I expected to be at this moment—to hon. Members opposite for giving us the opportunity to have a debate on agricultural policy. I should like to congratulate the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. T. Fraser) on being the only Scot visible on the Opposition benches for this important occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-29", "file": "debates1964-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "c5c49484a4b26f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.967.2", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "National Farmers' Union, as the representative of the farmers, is perfectly entitled to have extra time to consider this, and it has asked for that from the Government. There has been a considerable growth in the contract system which has been growing up recently and which, we think, is a useful step. But do we need perhaps some even more positive steps than the Verdon Smith Committee recommended?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-29", "file": "debates1964-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "c5c49484a4b26f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.967.2", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "take over the functions which the trade performs. It is now 17 years since the Lucas Committee put forward the idea of commodity commissions. That was at a time when food supplies were short and a great many people expected the shortages to continue indefinitely. The situation today is totally different in every respect; yet it appears that the Opposition have not advanced their thinking one iota.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-29", "file": "debates1964-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "c5c49484a4b26f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.968.3", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "ontrolling imports and making long-term contracts. Would the commissions tie up the whole of our imports under long-term contracts? How could they forecast exactly what we should need five or 10 years ahead? If the contracts covered only part of our imports, they obviously would not prevent supplies which were not under contract from being attracted to our markets if they proved more remunerative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.968.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-29", "file": "debates1964-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "c5c49484a4b26f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. Turton", "preceding_text": "ber for Faversham (Mr. Boston). He made a clear and engaging speech and I thought that he well fulfilled our tradition of avoiding controversy. We all remember with affection his predecessor, Mr. Percy Wells, and the way in which he looked after his constituency. I thought that the hon. Gentleman's references to the problems of his constituency fully lived up to the example set by his predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-29", "file": "debates1964-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "c5c49484a4b26f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "policy. But that was about four years ago when I was complaining that the Government's policy on guaranteed prices, good as it was, was bound to be incomplete unless it dealt with imports. The hon. Member no doubt had forgotten that last year the Government dealt with that. I do not say that they accepted my advice, but we now have a policy for more production at home with some control of imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-29", "file": "debates1964-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "c5c49484a4b26f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ed in practice, What we and the British farmer want to know is where the party opposite stands at the General Election on the Common Market and whether that party will put into its election manifesto its aim to get into the Common Market. We are entitled to know. My accusation against the party opposite, who are turning out pamphlets down Victoria Street—there is one yammering pamphlet, ululating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-29", "file": "debates1964-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "c5c49484a4b26f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Duncan", "preceding_text": "erything he gets—perhaps I should say that I hope that he will get everything he deserves. Normally, this is taken into account in the Price Review. By an increase in efficiency farmers can manage to pay better wages as arranged by the agricultural wages board. But two wage awards in a year is a bit \"hot\". It is very difficult to absorb two wage awards in one year. The second will be in September.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.1000.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-29", "file": "debates1964-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "c5c49484a4b26f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.1075.3", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CEREALS (GUARANTEE PAYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "preceding_text": "d as follows: For 1964–65 the standard quantities will be 3·3 million tons for wheat and 6·5 million tons for barley, together totalling 9·8 million tons. We do not oppose these quantities. We have accepted standards of quantities in principle in view of the quid pro quo relating to the control of cereal imports. I am sure that some of my hon. Friends would like to ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-29a.1075.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-30", "file": "debates1964-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cc8215ade5630931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You will be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "As there is practically no Customs inspection in any part of Europe now, is it not rather old-fashioned to keep a Customs officer for outgoing passengers at Victoria Station? I have never been selected for Customs inspection on outgoing journeys at London Airport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-30", "file": "debates1964-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cc8215ade5630931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1130.4", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "The Question asked for a whole table of figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1130.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-30", "file": "debates1964-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cc8215ade5630931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD PRIVY SEAL (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman is in error. First, my right hon. and learned Friend was making the point that it was wrong to stop trade except on strategic grounds. I think that that would be accepted. Secondly, there is no question of a British firm giving aid to or abetting the Indonesians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-30", "file": "debates1964-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cc8215ade5630931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1137.5", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH AND HYGIENE (WASHING FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is already done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1137.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-30", "file": "debates1964-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cc8215ade5630931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1239.2", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "on. Members opposite may well be concerned with other matters under Scottish law, but what we are concerned with in the Clause is the question whether it is right to exempt from the provisions of Section 15 of the 1963 Act feu duty, in particular when it has been classed with ground rent, from which, for all practical purposes, it is indistinguishable. It has in fact been classed as a ground rent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-30", "file": "debates1964-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cc8215ade5630931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1240.11", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. The point which I think we had reached—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1240.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-30", "file": "debates1964-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cc8215ade5630931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1267.0", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ubject to tax in this country those who have always been in this category. That would create very serious anomalies. When we discussed this matter in Committee I suggested that the right thing to do in the circumstances, if the position was as my hon. Friend and his constituent maintained—that this gentleman was in the wrong category—would be to seek to persuade the German Government of that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1267.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-06-30", "file": "debates1964-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cc8215ade5630931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1271.2", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I have never had the opportunity to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-30", "file": "debates1964-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cc8215ade5630931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1271.4", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong, as he so often is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1271.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-06-30", "file": "debates1964-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cc8215ade5630931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1284.5", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "e company is absolutely out of his mind. Before the term of the loan has run out if he wants to move to another house what alternative has he with the endowment insurance policy he has taken out? There are many ways in which we could increase small savings without using the gimmick suggested by the hon. Member. The whole matter has to be treated more seriously without any of the politics involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-06-30a.1284.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-01", "file": "debates1964-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "282abeb02bdbc95f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-01a.1322.7", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "We do not accept that three-lane roads are inherently dangerous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-01a.1322.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-01", "file": "debates1964-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "282abeb02bdbc95f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-01a.1356.3", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "PRIVATE MEMBER'S BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will be aware that for over a week there has been on the Order Paper a notice that a Bill would be presented today. Some of my hon. Friends from the North had arranged important meetings in their constituences, which they cancelled. Last night, many of them came back by sleeper train only to find, at the last moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-01a.1356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-01", "file": "debates1964-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "282abeb02bdbc95f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-01a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "rl by a shake of the hand in the embassy yesterday. The is my 31st wife and I claim privilege against this criminal charge\". I should be the last to say anything which might be thought to be derogatory about some of my friends in other countries who have their own views on marriage, and who are entitled to have them. What about a mother-in-law under this legislation? Is she a member of the family?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-01a.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-01", "file": "debates1964-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "282abeb02bdbc95f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-01a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "the part of the reason why the debate went on so long. My hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Scotstoun (Mr. Small) was there. My hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell (Mr. Lawson) had moved it in the absence of my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Mary- hill (Mr. Hannan). My hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, East (Mr. Willis) was there, and spoke, and I managed to get a few words in myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-01a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-02", "file": "debates1964-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "138e95adad0ab027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-02a.1541.7", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS MILITARY OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it matters what the result of the military campaign was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-02a.1541.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-02", "file": "debates1964-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "138e95adad0ab027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-02a.1552.5", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DETECTIVE-SERGEANT CHALLENOR (CASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-02a.1552.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-02", "file": "debates1964-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "138e95adad0ab027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-02a.1559.4", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Are we not discussing the business for next week? How far are hon. Members of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-02a.1559.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-02", "file": "debates1964-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "138e95adad0ab027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-02a.1560.1", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "When can we expect a statement from the Government on concessionary fares for pensioners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-02a.1560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-02", "file": "debates1964-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "138e95adad0ab027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-02a.1560.5", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Clark", "preceding_text": "May I again press the question of an urgent debate on trade with Spain? Has my right hon. and learned Friend noticed various Motions on the Order Paper signed by many hon. Members? Does he not agree that it is essential for this matter to be debated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-02a.1560.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-02", "file": "debates1964-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "138e95adad0ab027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-02a.1588.1", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (EDUCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "ich the raising of the leaving age will create—in terms of pupil numbers, accommodation, staffing and, perhaps most important of all, the kind and quality of education to be provided in the extra year. My officers will help Directors of Education with these problems in any way we can. And we shall, of course, also, at all times keep in touch with the teachers' associations in our forward planning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-02a.1588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-02", "file": "debates1964-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "138e95adad0ab027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-02a.1673.1", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (EDUCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "I realise that the hon. Gentleman himself is anxious about the situation, and that is exactly why I went to some length to explain it. However, I would very much like to pass on, as I have just under a quarter of an hour in which to deal with the rest of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-02a.1673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-02", "file": "debates1964-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "138e95adad0ab027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-02a.1693.1", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AIRCRAFT (SUPERSONIC BOOM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get it on record.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "I will write to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-02a.1693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-03", "file": "debates1964-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "63c10ac545489240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-03a.1700.1", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "e of Pakistan—about which I asked a Question last week—through their misguided refusal to grant export credits on the same terms as our competitors. I heard an hon. Member used the word \"Spain\". The Prime Minister is now talking a lot of partisan nonsense about the loss of military export orders to Spain, when those orders, of course, involve scarcely any manufacture or employment in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-03a.1700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.6.4", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, and I entirely agree with my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.6.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.8.1", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The reason why I do not think that general legislation would be appropriate is because requirements differ, for example as to the persons for whom the facilities should be provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.8.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.17.4", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "If I heard him aright, the hon. Gentleman has referred to beds, in which case he is quite correct, but the question refers to wards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.17.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.23.4", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "All I can say is that the height and the position of this chimney on the site were determined only after tests of the model of the hospital had been carried out at the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.23.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " hon. Members opposite, that the \"shadow\" Chancellor, the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan), has made perfectly clear that the present hospital programme, as he put it, could not be exceeded by any party with any degree of responsibility.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 11th March, 1964; Vol. 691, c. 477.] In face of that statement, to go round the country, as some Labour spokesmen are doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "rities change. The hon. Gentleman talks about the dishonesty of this year's revision. He knows very well that in this year's revision there are pages of new schemes which are brought into the plan for the first time. This very year we are starting projects which will provide enough maternity beds for an additional 45,000 confinements a year. If the hon. Gentleman considers that a larger programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "MONOPOLIES, MERGERS AND RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "in broad outline the developments of present policy and the new initiatives which are set out in the White Paper are right, and that legislation on those lines is necessary if the law in this field is to be effective. I think that these proposals are clear and firm. They will be given, as I have told the House, a high priority by the present Government in the first Session of the next Parliament.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "MONOPOLIES, MERGERS AND RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "reatest efficiency in an. expanding economy. What are the alternatives to pursuing a policy of this kind? Either to allow restrictive arrangements to continue and to develop further—and I think that now there is little support in the country for doing this; or to extend State ownership through nationalisation. But nationalisation by its nature creates still further monopoly. It solves no problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.46.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "MONOPOLIES, MERGERS AND RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "Mr. Duffy rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.50.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.50.5", "colnum": "50", "heading": "MONOPOLIES, MERGERS AND RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I think that I have been interrupted quite enough lately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.50.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.112.3", "colnum": "112", "heading": "MONOPOLIES, MERGERS AND RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": " effects would be—just as they would be in this country, I hope—to protect their own people, to cushion the recession and stimulate their own products as against those of subsidiary industries. The right hon. Gentleman asked me to give a concrete example of this kind of interference. I have given him a concrete example. He suggests that I am not dealing with the point. I repeat it for his benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.131.1", "colnum": "131", "heading": "MONOPOLIES, MERGERS AND RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "at we do not require the same degree of severity. My belief is that the differing conditions demand the greatest severity. There is in American society, because of its newness, a great desire for expansion and competition. This is accepted as a way of life. In this country, unhappily, this is not so. We have large and vicious protective practices, but in the United States this is not generally so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.146.3", "colnum": "146", "heading": "MONOPOLIES, MERGERS AND RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "of them also. As he himself has said, there is hardly anything original in the White Paper in the sense that nothing has been done before. In fact, every single proposal is a proposal to amend existing legislation. I take back my personal attack on the right hon. Gentleman if he assures me that his predecessors had done nothing on the investigations; if he says that they are to be blamed, not him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "MONOPOLIES, MERGERS AND RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not Cheadle?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": " believe that one is not in wonderland. This debate is an accusation that the Government are not strong or firm enough in dealing with monopoly—an Alice in Wonderland situation. The monopolists in this House are on the benches opposite. They are the ones who would make it an almost criminal offence to compete. The most unsatisfactory monopoly of all, as my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, North—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "MONOPOLIES, MERGERS AND RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "e Government are not strong or firm enough in dealing with monopoly—an Alice in Wonderland situation. The monopolists in this House are on the benches opposite. They are the ones who would make it an almost criminal offence to compete. The most unsatisfactory monopoly of all, as my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, North—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Not Cheadle?\"]—and as my hon. Friend the Member for Cheadle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "MONOPOLIES, MERGERS AND RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "Not Cheadle?\"]—and as my hon. Friend the Member for Cheadle—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—said, is a monopoly State buying enterprise, set up by hon. Members opposite. The truth of the matter is simply this, that the Government are making good progress, have made good progress, and will continue to make it. I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition is not here, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-06", "file": "debates1964-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "03b20d04614058c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "MONOPOLIES, MERGERS AND RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "knows when a member of the Opposition will make an intervention which will lose this country valuable orders abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-06a.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-07", "file": "debates1964-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f06f30507c4cbd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-07a.199.7", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The law.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is making rather heavy weather of a small thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-07a.199.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-07", "file": "debates1964-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f06f30507c4cbd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-07a.206.4", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: ''Oh.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I think that there is something in what my hon. Friend says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-07a.206.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-07", "file": "debates1964-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f06f30507c4cbd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-07a.222.4", "colnum": "222", "heading": "FEDERATION OF SOUTH ARABIA (NEW CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "My point of order is very clear, Mr. Speaker. Where a Minister, at the Dispatch Box, by innuendo invites hon. Members to believe that an ambassador or embassy staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-07a.222.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-07", "file": "debates1964-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f06f30507c4cbd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-07a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS (NOTICE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Minister might wish to give some information to the House at shorter notice. What is posted up in the Members' Lobby can, therefore, be regarded as informal guidance for the assistance of hon. Members and not as an intimation of \"notice\" in any formal sense. With this warning I should like to commend the proposal to the House and if it meets with the House's approval I will introduce it forthwith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-07a.222.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-07", "file": "debates1964-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f06f30507c4cbd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-07a.350.3", "colnum": "350", "heading": "OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "me hon. Members about the Bill. That does not mean that we want to see the country flooded with this kind of material. We have suggested—and there is a great deal of evidence to support our view; it has not been contested by anybody with real evidence or facts—that sometimes the best way to flood the country with this kind of material is to censor it, because that makes it all the more attractive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-07a.350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE (COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for displaying an interest in this very important matter, but does he realise that in these days, when there is so much talk about modernisation in industry, it is time that we began to modernise this assembly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": " over, also a share of accountability. The balance of our Constitution, I believe, lies in this, that in public matters everyone is accountable to someone else. Many are accountable to Ministers of the Crown. The Ministers are accountable to this House. This House, as we all have good cause to know at the moment, is accountable to the people. Employers are accountable to the Monopolies Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "t that they should be more accountable. They are also accountable to the Restrictive Practices Court, the scope of which we have been busy enlarging through the Resale Prices Bill. By virtue of their size, their cohesion, their accumulated funds and immunity from legal action over a wide sphere trade unions now exercise more real power than any association of employers does or can ever hope to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the lawyers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "y proposal is that there should be a commission—not a Royal Commission which would brood over the whole issue for two or three years—and then produce a general report on trade unions. That might be a perfectly good thing, but what I am proposing is a permanent commission, analagous to the Monopolies Commission, which was itself created by Statute to consider the working of employers' combinations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "oductivity had declined significantly since before the war and was continuing to decline, and that some of the restrictive practices were 40 years old. The Commission also said: Inefficiency is not turned into efficiency because the parties have agreed to it … The truth is that the very organisation of industrial relations in this industry contributes to inefficiency. I have seen it stated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "preceding_text": "In my view, and I do not say this arrogantly, the hon. Member for Southward (Mr. Gunter) has made a reasonable, constructive speech and it gave me a glimmer of hope that we may take this subject of transport away from the acrimony which surronds it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "Surely these costs are relevant to what the licensing system should be. I have great respect for the right hon. Gentleman, but on this occasion he is wrong. If there is to be a licensing system it must necessarily take into account the true costs, otherwise it is irrelevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Nugent", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Nugent", "preceding_text": "It falls to me to have the pleasure and privilege of congratulating the hon. Member for Liverpool, Scotland (Mr. Alldritt) on the admirable maiden speech that he has just made to the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Nugent", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Nugent", "preceding_text": "opular and unpleasant when they occur. But one cannot justify retaining branch lines which are scarcely used. After all, even if only one person uses a line he can claim that it should not be closed. One can always, indeed, claim that people might want to use it. But there are safeguards against hardship when a closure is proposed. I am quite sure that road transport is adequate to meet the needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I must have been so boring at the beginning of my speech that the hon. Member does not recall that I said clearly that my right hon. Friend is entering into negotiations with the local authorities concerned to try to find a way to allow local authorities to keep the power to give concessionary fares—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "ecall that I said clearly that my right hon. Friend is entering into negotiations with the local authorities concerned to try to find a way to allow local authorities to keep the power to give concessionary fares—[HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"]. I also explained that I have had to change the content of my speech drastically. Originally, I had intended to attack my right hon. Friend for not doing anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.486.3", "colnum": "486", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": "I understood that when the right hon. Gentleman was interrupted by the Minister earlier on the Minister made it quite clear that these workshops could produce any vehicle which is necessary for railways. What we object to is that they should produce articles for sale overseas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.486.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "preceding_text": "I am quoting from a document issued by the British Road Federation, and I assume that its figures ought to be nearer the mark than what the Parliamentary Secretary has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who pays?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "es from an examination of a whole series of different instances. Hon. Members opposite want endless delay till they get the whole picture, leading on from general principles. I think that that is the quite wrong way to do it. Our transport policy, I think, is effective. Many of us here have seen a great number of transport services in Europe and some of us will be going to see some more next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that point a little later. I must be allowed to make my speech in my own way, without the assistance of hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "This is not a question of shackles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "The people in the industry fear a Labour Government taking things over and putting on distance limits, as they did before, taking licensing restrictions off the B.R.S. and bringing about a gradual withering away of the private road haulage system. That is what they are planning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "We hear veiled threats about the C licensee and about the restrictions that will be placed on him—and the hon. Member for Southwark has on many occasions said things of this kind. We are given to understand that the right hon. Member for Batter-sea, North would restrict their activities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.517.5", "colnum": "517", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "preceding_text": "their own estimates and figures. Certainly the problems of the transport industry—the relationship of road to rail, the extent to which the railways should be a service to the public and industry and not just a commercial enterprise—are formidable. But the trouble with the Government is that, by philosophy and temperament, their approach to these problems is all wrong. They believe in competition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.517.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.543.2", "colnum": "543", "heading": "POLICE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": " Police Pensions Regulations, 1962, and they fall into three main categories which I will describe in turn. To the best of my knowledge, there is no controversy about the desirability of doing all the things that the new Regulations will do. The only controversy is not about anything that is in them, but about something that is not in them, and which the Police Federation would like to be in them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.543.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.543.2", "colnum": "543", "heading": "POLICE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "ys that it is opposed to a Regulation that discriminates between the widows of policemen who lose their lives at the hands of a dangerous criminal and the widows of policemen who lose their lives, for example, by falling from the roof of a building whilst attempting to arrest a criminal. In fact, the Police Pensions Regulations have for many years differentiated between these two classes of widow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.543.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.546.3", "colnum": "546", "heading": "POLICE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "Immediately, as soon as all concerned are ready to co-operate.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.546.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.549.3", "colnum": "549", "heading": "POLICE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who with?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "For three years the Police Council has been seeking, and failing, to reach agreement on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.549.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "POLICE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "r Bermondsey (Mr. Mellish), not for his kind personal references about me but, much more important, for his observations about the police. This House of Commons can give enormous help to the police and to the cause of law and order if we will make it perfectly clear that we do not allow our opinion of the police service as a whole to be prejudiced by the failings of a tiny percentage of policemen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-08", "file": "debates1964-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "28bb11102ad23588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "POLICE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "moment's notice for the official side, on which, as I said, the Home Office is in the minority. What I would like to suggest is that, in giving my pledge that this definition must be widened, the House could, as I think I could reasonably ask, pass these Regulations tonight, because there is nothing in them which anybody wishes to take away from. I am giving a firm pledge that as soon as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-08a.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-09", "file": "debates1964-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a34602b471b2428", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-09a.626.3", "colnum": "626", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The last time ever.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. This is on another question. You will recall that yesterday I sought to ask a Private Notice Question of the Home Secretary with reference to his apology to the Court of Criminal Appeal on the de Courcy affair. Two things will be noted. The first is that today is probably the last time on which the Home Secretary will be answering Oral Questions in this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-09a.626.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-09", "file": "debates1964-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a34602b471b2428", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-09a.637.4", "colnum": "637", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Foot", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. and learned Gentleman is talking with Ministers about the statements they are to make next week, will he arrange for us to have at least one direct leak to this House and also arrange for us to have one apology from the Home Secretary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-09a.637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-09", "file": "debates1964-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a34602b471b2428", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-09a.637.7", "colnum": "637", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Lewis", "preceding_text": "spondents one finds that they can invariably give information about things 24 hours before details of them appear in the Press, or are given on the Floor of the House? Is he aware that we have been told that there is to be an announcement made about an increase in old-age pensions? Will he give an assurance that neither next week nor at any time during this Session any such statement will be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-09a.637.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-09", "file": "debates1964-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a34602b471b2428", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-09a.640.7", "colnum": "640", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "In view of what the hon. Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) says, he should persuade his right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-09a.640.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-09", "file": "debates1964-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a34602b471b2428", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-09a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "A Clause.—(COMPENSATION FOR LAND COMPULSORILY ACQUIRED.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "ore him, and it is a view commonly held among professional people who have had experience in dealing with district valuers and with the London County Council valuers, too. These people do not complain in public because they fear that the London County Council—they have often told me this when I have discussed it with them—would take it out on them in various ways and their livelihood would suffer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-09a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-09", "file": "debates1964-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a34602b471b2428", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-09a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "WORLD HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "When contemplating the conditions under which earlier research was conducted, we must pay tribute to the imagination, ability and persistence of those who did it. There is no doubt that Edinburgh has gained greatly in the reflected glory of the doctors, surgeons and medical men who trained and worked there and gave their ability, not only to the people of Edinburgh, but to the people of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-09a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-13", "file": "debates1964-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "c8bb33e80fd14a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-13a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "This was shot down in flames, as we saw by the Report of the Verdon Smith Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-13a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-13", "file": "debates1964-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "c8bb33e80fd14a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-13a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "I have one or two figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-13a.827.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-13", "file": "debates1964-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "c8bb33e80fd14a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-13a.837.4", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Is it not within the Minister's knowledge that under the 1958 Agricultural Marketing Act he has the power to request this information, and does he not think that he has a duty to furnish it? Does he not further think that the sooner second quality eggs can be freely bought and sold on the market the sooner we can end this commercial nonsense the Board is perpetrating at the moment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-13a.837.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-13", "file": "debates1964-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "c8bb33e80fd14a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-13a.840.6", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "As to the first part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question, all I am prepared to tell him, or can tell him at the moment, is that I am not ready to make any proposals today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-13a.840.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-13", "file": "debates1964-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "c8bb33e80fd14a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-13a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "PALACE OF WESTMINSTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "lature needs a life apart from the Executive. One of the great threats to democracy is the growing power of the Executive, buttressed by a ruthless bureaucracy by which everybody else is pushed aside. The small voice is not heard. We intend to appoint an Ombudsman, we are told, if we get back in power. Hon. Members opposite may say that the country would need an Ombudsman more if we were in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-13a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-13", "file": "debates1964-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "c8bb33e80fd14a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-13a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "PALACE OF WESTMINSTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, Maxton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "preceding_text": " his waistline would have no difficulty at all. But if there was a difficulty why not have what the American senators have—a perfectly good little underground trolley railway to get about by? Those who are lucky enough to have Division bells are very happy to get out. I think that it was A. P. Herbert who said that the House of Commons was a place where it was impossible either to work or to rest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-13a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-13", "file": "debates1964-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "c8bb33e80fd14a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-13a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "PALACE OF WESTMINSTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": " my hon. Friend the Member for South Angus assumed that an average of 140 sq. ft. would be needed for an hon. Member and his secretary. On this basis, and with, say, 60,000 to 70,000 sq. ft., we would be able to house about 480 hon. Members and their secretaries. A large proportion of the hon. Members at present accommodated in the House are, however, sharing rooms with three or more hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-13a.972.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1001.3", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColI", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColI", "preceding_text": "When discussing this matter with the ecclesiastical authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1001.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1011.3", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady must have been absent for the greater part of this Session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1011.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1011.5", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I ask the Parliamentary Secretary to withdraw that remark, because if any hon. Member has a record of attending this House and Standing Committees and taking part in our deliberations, I should have pride of place on the list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1011.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1021.4", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN (ECONOMIC, DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The question of Soviet Union ships must depend upon an order coming from the Soviet Union. No order has come. In reply to the first supplementary question that the right hon. Gentleman asked me, I do not say that the whole of our future depends upon one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1021.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN (ECONOMIC, DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman really telling us that General Franco has decided the outcome of the election, even if the right hon. Gentleman has not? Secondly, does the right hon. Gentleman deny that his Government vetoed the sale of merchant ships to Russia and more recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN (ECONOMIC, DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is doing his best but he has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1024.7", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN SECRETARY (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "oyed the deal over the Spanish frigates, will not the Prime Minister agree that what really happened was that because of the premature disclosure in the British Press, authorised by the Ministry of Defence, that negotiations were going on, the Spanish took umbrage and went back on the negotiations? Even the Ministry of Defence spokesman said that the announcement was supposed to be made in Madrid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1024.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN SECRETARY (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "These were commercial deals. Whatever hon. Members opposite suspect, they were deals between our shipbuilding and engineering industries and the Spanish Navy. It is not for me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN SECRETARY (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I want to straighten this. There is a state of some confusion. The last operation was that I called the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Mr. Swingler) to ask a supplementary question on Question No. Q6. He did so, and the Prime Minister answered it. There can be no question of answering Question No. Q8—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1028.2", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE AND FOREIGN OFFICE (DOCUMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I said that earlier. My hon. Friend is quite right. All of us thought that the agreement was about to be concluded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1028.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1028.3", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE AND FOREIGN OFFICE (DOCUMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "able matter? Is the Prime Minister aware that on Monday the Secretary of State for Defence told the House, in response to a question from me, that no agreement was reached and that negotiations were going on with several other Governments besides the British Government? Is it not absolutely clear that in this case the Government caused one of their officials to make a false statement to the Press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1028.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Further to your reply, Mr. Speaker, which seemed to include a rebuke to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1030.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1037.4", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Dudley Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Object.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Dudley Williams", "preceding_text": "That was only the preface of my remarks. I was going on to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1037.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1037.5", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Dudley Williams", "preceding_text": "That was only the preface of my remarks. I was going on to say—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Object.\"] I thought that I would get the House in the right mood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1037.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1039.2", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS PROTECTION (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forbes Hendry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forbes Hendry", "preceding_text": "traditions, I should not have believed it. We in Scotland have always been proud of our educational traditions. We have always felt, possibly with too much conceit, that where we led England followed. It is for that reason, and that reason only, that I feel confident in appealing to my colleagues from England and Wales and Northern Ireland for support in the predicament in which we find ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "DISABLED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS (VEHICLES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Miscampbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Miscampbell", "preceding_text": "rial accidents are not necessarily those who end up the worst off. It is perhaps not a sympathetic argument, but it is worth remembering that most paraplegics ex-industry have probably hurt their backs either by falling or through something falling on them. I know that I am generalising, but these people can normally satisfy the courts that there has been negligence on the part of their employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "DISABLED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS (VEHICLES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miscampbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miscampbell", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of that. I add to my Parliamentary salary by trying to convince the courts of just what the hon. Gentleman has told me. I do not want to take this too far, but I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will agree that in most cases—not in all cases, as I know only too well—when something has fallen on a man or when he has fallen he can get compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "DISABLED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS (VEHICLES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miscampbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miscampbell", "preceding_text": "One knows very well that that is not a fair question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "DISABLED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS (VEHICLES)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two-seaters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "preceding_text": "ed policy both by the Labour Government and by successive Conservative Governments that the Industrial Injuries Scheme should be limited to the provision of cash benefits. I am sure that is right. Let us consider for a moment the merits of the proposal. Of course, I can see the great attraction of providing four-seater motor cars for all National Health Service patients who are seriously disabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1087.3", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "DISABLED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS (VEHICLES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "It was open to the hon. Gentleman to put down a Motion asking us to supply motor cars for all those entitled to invalid tricycles. He did not do so, but limited it to this category.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1087.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-14", "file": "debates1964-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "59d79ad097b78f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1087.5", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "DISABLED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS (VEHICLES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "out the cost of providing motor cars for all National Health Service patients. The Government obviously looked into this in our review and we found that, over the lifetime of the cars, the additional cost would probably be in excess of £37 million. Whatever may be our ultimate goal, I am quite sure that there are other claims on our finances and resources which, at this time, should have priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-14a.1087.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-15", "file": "debates1964-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d17467c887a1b909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Embarrassing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I think that this whole subject is a very—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-15", "file": "debates1964-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d17467c887a1b909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1202.2", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister tell us why his Department first put out a false statement about this contract and then failed to deny it? This is the essence of the question put to him by my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-15", "file": "debates1964-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d17467c887a1b909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1202.3", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has explained the circumstances in which this statement was made. I appreciate that the right hon. Gentleman wants to get his right hon. Friend out of a mess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-15", "file": "debates1964-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d17467c887a1b909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1202.4", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. M. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. M. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend clarify one other point? I thought the whole point of view of the Opposition was that they disapproved of this deal and wanted to stop it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1202.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-15", "file": "debates1964-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d17467c887a1b909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1204.6", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I unreservedly withdraw this allegation if it proves to be untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1204.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-15", "file": "debates1964-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d17467c887a1b909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1204.8", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The Spanish naval mission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1204.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-15", "file": "debates1964-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d17467c887a1b909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1204.12", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With draw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1204.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-15", "file": "debates1964-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d17467c887a1b909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "What he said to me was that he did not make the allegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-15", "file": "debates1964-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d17467c887a1b909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1205.2", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman to confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1205.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-15", "file": "debates1964-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d17467c887a1b909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1205.6", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Speaker, you will discover on consulting HANSARD that what I said was that the hon. Member opposite had been raising a point of order in order to prevent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1205.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-15", "file": "debates1964-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d17467c887a1b909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1206.0", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I do not see the slightest distinction—not the slightest distinction—between what I said and what was said by the Prime Minister. All I said was that I did not complain about the journalist. I have no complaint even about the right hon. Gentleman, so far as that goes, and what happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1206.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-15", "file": "debates1964-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d17467c887a1b909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1208.9", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "May I explain that my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) asked me, because he could not write and speak at the same time —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1208.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-15", "file": "debates1964-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d17467c887a1b909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1208.10", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "n, there is, unfortunately, a little discrepancy from the written wording, and I will try again: \"To call attention to a matter of definite and urgent public importance, namely, the question whether or not there was a contract for frigates for the Spanish Government and how a false impression came to be\"—I am not quite sure of the last word, it is \"created\" or \"given\". I cannot accept that Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1208.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-15", "file": "debates1964-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d17467c887a1b909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPPING CONTRACTS AND COMMERCIAL DOCUMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "he last thing that he wanted to do was to be offensive. That surprised me, because we have some experience of the right hon. Gentleman. I have never observed any reluctance on his part to be offensive to hon. Members on this side of the House, even to a right hon. Gentleman like myself; but occasionally we can indulge in the riposte, as he well knows. The right hon. Gentleman is a bit of a rascal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-15a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend resist this ridiculous suggestion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1410.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1411.5", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Is this the industry which the Prime Minister was referring to when he talked about \"the junk yard of nationalisation\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1411.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1411.9", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, who says that he supports his right hon. Friend, is, in fact, making a vicious attack upon the National Coal Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1411.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "preceding_text": "t there are varying statements about this and that some firms have been making a 13½ yard roll? Is he aware that I have here a letter from two manufacturers saying that this method of reducing the amount of wallpaper in a roll was merely a subterfuge for increasing the price and that in some cases it has meant an increase in price of 4 per cent. to 5 per cent. a roll, which is considerable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "preceding_text": " and that some firms have been making a 13½ yard roll? Is he aware that I have here a letter from two manufacturers saying that this method of reducing the amount of wallpaper in a roll was merely a subterfuge for increasing the price and that in some cases it has meant an increase in price of 4 per cent. to 5 per cent. a roll, which is considerable? [ Laughter .] I see nothing to laugh at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1419.0", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Member wants a specific answer about a specific deal he must ask for it from my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1420.11", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was very interested in this Question and of course I want to serve the House, so I have been comparing my performance with that of my predecessors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1420.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH PRIME MINISTERS' MEETING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the whole House will be gratified that in the event the conference did discuss Southern Rhodesia, despite the Prime Minister's repeated assurances that it would not do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1426.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1427.2", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH PRIME MINISTERS' MEETING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about trade?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Mr. Brockway rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1430.2", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH PRIME MINISTERS' MEETING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": " per cent.? Does he still agree with the views expressed by his colleagues that Commonwealth trade must inevitably decline? Did he make any concrete proposals within the Commonwealth for increasing Commonwealth trade? Did the right hon. Gentleman, as was suggested to him, give an undertaking that no future Government in this country would enter into negotiations to enter the Common Market without—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1430.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1450.0", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "nd categorical statement on 2nd July, HANSARD cols. 1673–4, by the hon. Lady the Member for Aberdeen, South (Lady Tweedsmuir) concerning the location of the Scottish University, that it would be announced by 16th July \"at the latest\", will the right hon. and learned Gentleman also make time for a personal statement by the hon. Lady so that she can say why she has not fulfilled this promise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1449.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1451.6", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "May I make a constructive suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1451.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1476.3", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Boyden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Boyden", "preceding_text": "n. Bishop Auckland is the commercial capital and transport centre of a fairly considerable area. The anomaly is that Aycliffe is in the growth zone, yet a good deal of its commerce and shopping and a great deal of transport is centred on Bishop Auckland, which is out of the growth zone. Much of the labour force is compelled to travel from Shildon to Aycliffe, but Shildon is not in the growth zone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1476.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": " to vote for the Government because we felt they were not doing sufficient for the North-East. Now I believe that the Government are doing a great deal. Having criticised them in the past, I think that now it is up to me to congratulate the Government on the work which they are doing in the North-East. If hon. Members opposite had any sort of courtesy at all they would adopt exactly the same line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1497.0", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proudfoot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proudfoot", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is referring to training. Surely he would identify some of the restrictive practices of the trade unions as imposing a restriction on apprentices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1499.0", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "oint of order. My point of order is that at the time that we had a visit from the other place I and other hon. Members made a protest. At that time the Serjeant at Arms, who I understand normally stands at the Bar of the House, came and stood between two hon. Members of this House. It seemed to me—I am asking for your guidance, Mr. Speaker—that there was an attempt at intimidation of hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": " any other body in the North-East. There is a growing feeling in the area that this group of public servants, excellent men though they are, should be answerable to some body of people which is representative of all major aspects of life in the region. I repeat that bringing them together is a good idea. I am merely pointing out that the group appears to be developing in a rather unwholesome: way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "ment affairs, yet is answerable to no one there and is unknown even to hon. Members who represent the area. This is a departure from the best principles of local government. The development of the North-East will succeed only if all the organisations and bodies in the area associate in its development. The activities of this group has led to a feeling that things are being organised in such a way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "all the organisations and bodies in the area associate in its development. The activities of this group has led to a feeling that things are being organised in such a way—[ Interruption .]—that local authorities and even individuals are becoming more and more divorced from developments taking place in the area and planning for the future. The Labour Government, which will take office next October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1508.3", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Nevertheless, the whole Committee has heard what the hon. Gentleman said. The whole atmosphere of his speech was that of a challenge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1508.3", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " to meet that challenge. I could not understand why the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends wanted to raise this subject on a Supply Day. Having been often to the North-East and knowing what the people are saying there and what views they hold, I could not understand it, except that now I see that hon. Members opposite are still trying to perpetuate this myth of the declining, decadent North-East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1508.3", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "me.\"] It is true. Hon. Members opposite pretend to say that they welcome the developments going on there, that they welcome industrialists going to the area, and so on, but then they pick on every single example where something is not already perfect and complain about it. That is exactly what the hon. Member for Sunderland, North did. There was not a word about the achievements of the North-East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1509.2", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I challenge the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1509.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1509.4", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " friends also bear in mind the number of jobs that have been lost because of structural change in the economy, and the decline of the coal industry, and of ship repairing and ship building. If we look at the figures for coal mining alone, we find that manpower in four years has fallen by 23,000. That one simple fact means that 23,000 new jobs, from new industries, from new plants have to be found.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1509.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1528.1", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Compton Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Compton Carr", "preceding_text": "It is always a pleasure to take part in a debate after a speech by the hon. Member for Bermondsey (Mr. Mellish). Although he has not been able in the time available to him to put forward the whole picture, the facts which he has put forward have been unbiased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1536.7", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "preceding_text": "I will give way to the hon. Member in a second. As long as we have the largest housing authority in Greater London, the London County Council, refusing to put first things first, refusing to have a rent rebate scheme which will enable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1536.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1538.1", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "preceding_text": " situation, one has to develop what land one can, and the London County Council has had this land for years. Many local authorities in London and the London County Council are not making the best use of the housing that they have. No hon. Member opposite can deny that there is a very large number of local authority houses in the Greater London area among which there is under-occupation at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1552.0", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "tter that has not yet been mentioned greatly concerns me. The Milner Holland Committee is looking at the problem of London housing. I know that we all intend to approach this matter most seriously, and I hope that when the Committee reports, Her Majesty's Government will be prepared quite fearlessly to put before the House at the first opportunity whatever legislation is necessary to implement it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1557.3", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "der-estimate the intelligence of the electors. People are entitled to reasonable and decent conditions. What is the argument of the hon. Member for Clapham? We have, he said, to recognise the fact that houses will fetch market values. What has sent up the price of houses? The Minister, by instituting the 1957 Rent Act and decontrol, has said to the landlords, who subscribe to the Tory Party funds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1557.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1574.2", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Stewart", "preceding_text": "cipal housing. That is the first point. In so far as that can be achieved by generally low interest rates, well and good. If one could not get them sufficiently low by that alone, one would have to have a specially favourable rate for local authority building. That is what I said. That is what the advertisement said. That is confirmed by what my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1574.2", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ive some help to intending owner-occupiers, one should not do so in a way which discriminates against the building societies. That was the point. One would therefore have to provide, either by arrangements in taxation or by other means, something which would make sure that the help given for house purchase through local authorities was balanced by similar help given through the building societies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1576.0", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "explaining that we should not discriminate against the building societies. That does not preclude the giving of help as I proposed through both channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1576.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1576.2", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-16", "file": "debates1964-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1bcd5e822e20360c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1576.3", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "The fact is that the Labour Party advertising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-16a.1576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.3.6", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Probert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Probert", "preceding_text": "sheltered workshops? Furthermore, is he not aware also of the possible anomaly in the existing legislation whereby firms and other undertakings with 25 or more employees have to employ 3 per cent. disabled persons? Is he aware that under the present legislation firms in returning their register of disabled persons include the whole of the areas in which the firm or undertaking works? Consequently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.3.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.3.6", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Probert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Probert", "preceding_text": " cent. disabled persons? Is he aware that under the present legislation firms in returning their register of disabled persons include the whole of the areas in which the firm or undertaking works? Consequently—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—in areas of high incidence of disabled persons where there is a plethora of male labour available disabled persons have no possible chance of employment? Therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.3.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.27.5", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "This means, of course, that the position, from the point of view of both the nation and Scotland, is worse than it was; that we are right back to where we were, even worse, than 1961, with 70,000 people unemployed in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.27.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "BRITISH NATIONAL EXPORT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "B.O.A.C. (VC10 AIRCRAFT)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Aviation (Mr. Julian Amery)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Aviation (Mr. Julian Amery)", "preceding_text": "ish to replace the Boeing 707s as they age with Super VC10s. It may be that some new features can with advantage be incorporated in the Super VC10s, and it may be that B.O.A.C.'s requirements after 1968 will exceed present forecasts. It does not, therefore, appear to be sensible now to decide to cancel the order for these 10. As I have said, work on them will remain in suspense for the time being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "B.O.A.C. (VC10 AIRCRAFT)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Aviation (Mr. Julian Amery)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Aviation (Mr. Julian Amery)", "preceding_text": "t forecasts. It does not, therefore, appear to be sensible now to decide to cancel the order for these 10. As I have said, work on them will remain in suspense for the time being. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"] I have assured Sir Giles Guthrie that it is the Government's intention to take whatever action may be necessary to reorganise the Corporation's capital and financial structure so as to enable it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.48.4", "colnum": "48", "heading": "B.O.A.C. (VC10 AIRCRAFT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "There will be a provision with regard to the three aircraft for Strategic Command. There will be ultimately an element to be included in the capital reconstruction of B.O.A.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.48.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.57.11", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was very good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "rean War of 1950–51—but without the same cause. Over the whole period of Conservative Government, prices have gone up by approximately 50 per cent. This is astonishing, because the Conservative Party won the 1951 General Election on an entirely different prospectus. Older Members of the House, but probably not the younger ones, will certainly remember the document \"Britain Strong and Free\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.57.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give the base figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I am not giving way to anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I am not giving way to anybody. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Give the base figures.\"] Hon. Members will not put me off this way", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "rs will not put me off this way [ Interruption .] When the base figure is asked for, I take it that what is meant is where we start the table from. We start it from 1951. This is the increase which has taken place since 1951, taking 1951 as 100. Of course, it is true that Italy started off much lower, but the United States started off much higher. It does not make any difference to the end figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.69.3", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, Southwest (Mr. Powell).\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "h them and so I do not envy the Chancellor his present difficulties with his colleagues. Indeed, we are in a difficult position because the expansionists among those in the country who want to see us moving ahead are terrified about telling the truth about the serious nature of the problem because they are afraid that they will wake the Lord Privy Seal and alert the Minister of Defence once again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.69.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.69.3", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "measures are open to him to do that. What we need above all are improved liquidity arrangements especially for the developing countries and in order to take the strain of the two major reserve currencies of the dollar and the £. In Tokio we can expect little progress represented as we shall be by a Government with no authority and a Government that are expected shortly to be defeated at the polls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.69.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Reginald Maudlin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was 13 years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Reginald Maudlin)", "preceding_text": ". Gentlemen opposite did not do that in 1951. I made clear that if I think that any further measures are required to maintain the position of sterling or the health of the balance of payments. I will take them, and take them as soon as I think they are necessary, whatever the political consequences. It does not lie in the mouth of the hon. Gentleman to accuse me of what his colleagues did in 1951.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Reginald Maudlin)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Reginald Maudlin)", "preceding_text": " Labour Government. They were in office for over six years and we have been in office for over 12. In their six years of office, prices were rising at 6½ per cent. a year. In the first six years of Conservative Government, the rise was 4½ per cent. per year, while in the last six years it has been 2½ per cent. The further we get from the policies of Socialism the better we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.76.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.79.3", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.79.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You did not give way to the Chancellor.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the Chancellor. I shall not interrupt again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.79.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.84.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.85.0", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "400,000.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "at is so, the only practical way of getting housing prices down is by building more houses and so generally increasing the supply. This is where I can make some interesting figures available to the House. I will start by recalling that in our last debate on the cost of living the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East said that it would be irresponsible to aim at a target of more than 800,000 houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.84.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.88.0", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Poor stuff.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "eived the coup de grâce the other night on television from the Leader of the Opposition who talked about the first 100 days and the great immediate drive. Incidentally, we heard this afternoon that nothing more could be done until they got production up to 5 per cent. or to 6 per cent. but on television last week it was the first 100 days, an immediate drive on pensions, housing, education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.88.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "preceding_text": " the editor of the Financial Times , or of one of the Sunday newspapers, who said that they have not mended it but keep making the hole bigger. That was not one of the Labour Party's newspapers. It was neither the Sunday Citizen nor the Daily Herald . The Government are making the hole bigger all the time. The latest poster of the Tories is, \"Trust the Tories and have a better standard of living\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Every week?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " trade unions do a wonderful job. I can tell hon. Gentlemen opposite the sort of thing that happens, when an engineer, a bricklayer, a carpenter, or a postman goes home and gives his wage to his wife. She says, \"The rent has gone up another 5s.,\" or, \"The price of beef has gone up another 3s.,\" or the price of something else has gone up another 1d., or 2d., or 3d. And this is happening every week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "preceding_text": "at present in his place, because he accused this present Government of having done nothing about reducing taxation over the last 12 or 13 years. He recounted increases in fuel tax, wine tax, and the rest, but he did not for one moment suggest a reduction in taxation. Hon. Members opposite should remember that if the same rate of taxation operated today as operated in 1951 when they were in office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "No—time is getting on. And I would remind the hon. Gentleman that unlike my right hon. Friend the Chancellor, who gave way four or five times, the hon. Gentleman, when I sought to interrupt him on two or three occasions, said, \"No, we have already lost an hour. I will not give way.\" I appreciate that the House listens with bated breath to anything the hon. Gentleman says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "ledge to mend the hole in the housewife's purse, to stop the drain away of money and to stop the rise in prices. Ministers can spend a lot of time, as no doubt, the Chief Secretary will, as his right hon. Friend the Chancellor did, in trying to prove, or proving if they can, that there was a rise in prices under the Labour Government, to which we answer that it happened because of special reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "ant to establish about the past is that, having been elected to put it right, the Government have totally failed. Prices, internally, have risen more under them than they did under us, whereas in our time prices externally rose more and in the Government's time prices have externally risen less. So that what we have had is a net loss under them, whereas what the public had under us was a net loss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "—and life for them is getting very much more difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "They arranged it so. The cost of travel is going up. Any young couple living in a suburban commuter area just outside London has to pay inflated prices for food, rents and mortgages, rates, and travel. Let us face it: every single one of these things has happened because the Government arranged it so. I asked a question of the Chancellor, and he thought it better to answer it simply by being rude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ed a question of the Chancellor, and he thought it better to answer it simply by being rude. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"] Oh, yes. It is now becoming a regular pattern of behaviour for hon. Members opposite. I asked, \"Are you saying that prices should go up because the reasons are good, or that prices are going up and we cannot stop them? Which is your argument?\" He stood on both legs this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ngs have made it extremely difficult for responsible union leaders, who know what the problem is and that the solution of it is the biggest issue facing us, to be able to lead their people the way they should go. It may be true that no Government have yet succeeded in this. I will not bandy words on it. I care not what was said about us in 1945 to 1951. Queen Anne is dead and so is 1945–51.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ght first\". That is the tragedy and that is what makes things so difficult for those of us who know that an answer to the problem must be found. I say not merely to the Government but to the country that the incoming Government will have to work very hard indeed to restore the good will of organised salary and wage earners that this Administration have so wantonly destroyed. Now, what is involved?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are our people, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " a person to live. Do not let anyone imagine that restricting the pay of postmen to about £11 a week is an incomes policy. An incomes policy means dealing with correlated issues. It means dealing with land prices, and land speculation. It means dealing with rents, with profits, and with all correlated issues. If that is done, we can speak to our people about an incomes policy and their part in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "S: \"They are our people, too.\"] All right, but if hon. Gentlemen opposite claim that they are their people, too, why do they treat them like they are treating them now? If we deal with correlated issues we can produce an incomes policy. All I say is that this is the third leg of the problem. It is the third area in which the Government have totally failed. The fourth leg—and I must finish quickly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "hey treat them like they are treating them now? If we deal with correlated issues we can produce an incomes policy. All I say is that this is the third leg of the problem. It is the third area in which the Government have totally failed. The fourth leg—and I must finish quickly—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"] If hon. Members say that, I will not. We have put up with this rudeness over and over again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "our Government, for this reason: the lady in King Street, Belper, and about 32 million other people will this autumn—with due respect to the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond)—have to make their choice between a Labour and a Conservative Government. I believe that just as any thinking person judges not only by what people say but by what they did when they had the opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": " things would have to happen before such an incomes policy would be acceptable; in particular, he said that there would have to be some form of planning, about which he had apparently said something at the weekend but, unfortunately, did not have time to describe it to the House tonight. It sounded to me as though he was expounding precious like what was attempted and failed between 1945 and 1951—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "n did not bring out, no doubt inadvertently, was this. Is this overall planning to which he referred to be on a voluntary basis, as in N.E.D.C., or compulsory? Is his choosing of industries for growth to be done by the Government? Is it to be imposed, compulsorily, on the community—or is it to be done in cooperation, as in N.E.D.C.? Apparently the right hon. Gentleman did not have time to tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ceeds. The first is that there has been an increase in the cost of living, the second that this has endangered our overseas trade, and the third that it has caused hardship to all sections of the community. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor dealt fully, clearly, and effectively with the first part. It is plain to all that the cost of living is not completely within the control of any Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1951.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": ". That is the right test. The hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East said that he had produced all the international league tables. He had not, because although he made a very long speech it was not as long as that. But it is important in this connection to take the comparisons with foreign countries in recent years—during the periods, that is, when the policy of this Government has come to fruition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPRAY IRRIGATION (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman referred will not create hardship. The person concerned will know what he is buying when he buys the farm. It is a pity that we have not had more time in which to discuss transfers, and so on. I do not think that this discretionary power is worth arguing about to that extent. We are going out of our way to make it easy for the river purification boards to make these variations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.181.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.186.2", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPRAY IRRIGATION (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir William. I wonder whether you would direct that the meeting of scrap metal dealers be held outside, or on the other side of the Bar of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPRAY IRRIGATION (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "It certainly does not reassure me. It is a silly provision bearing in mind the time that it takes, the cumbrous procedure, and the fact that this is only a yearly licence. The Under-Secretary brings to our mind the one safeguard \"may\". In other words, there is no obligation upon the board to grant a licence, but how will it be done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.192.0", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPRAY IRRIGATION (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "which the failure continues after conviction therefor. Here is another serious offence, and Clause 2(1) will equally apply, and they would apply where someone obstructs an officer of a board in the exercise of his duties. Why was it the board was limited to revocation only in respect of this one type of offence? Is it that this might be a technical offence, to quote the hon. Gentleman's own words?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPRAY IRRIGATION (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " are circumstances in which a board says that for a period water can be abstracted without a licence, it has now to tell every licence holder. I am suggesting that it should be obliged to tell the public, everyone who wants to abstract water but who may not have a licence. Such people would be the most affected, because they could then abstract water without a licence and without breaking the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.223.2", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPRAY IRRIGATION (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Commander Donaldson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Donaldson", "preceding_text": "I have no desire to move the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-20", "file": "debates1964-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9b16a2f6f0afbdf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPRAY IRRIGATION (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did rise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "All the hon. and gallant Gentleman has to do is to rise and make a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-20a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Silly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "If the Secretary of State will not agree to the suggestion contained in the Question, will he find some other way of getting rid of the word \"Colonies\" from his administration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.251.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.257.7", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The Government are creating another Cuba.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "That is a monstrous suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.257.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.257.9", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Minister did not answer it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member asked exactly the same supplementary question on Question No. 6 and I answered it then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.257.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are your suggestions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I explained fully my policy and my views about how we should deal with the situation when we had a half day's debate on the subject. Nobody from the benches opposite suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.269.4", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": " aware that very few people in this country and in the Commonwealth will have much faith in the Government's belated conversion to the idea of knitting the Commonwealth more closely together, especially after the statement made yesterday by the Secretary of State for Industry, Trade and Regional Development and the frequent displays of adolescent arrogance by the Prime Minister and his colleagues?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.269.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.269.4", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": " have much faith in the Government's belated conversion to the idea of knitting the Commonwealth more closely together, especially after the statement made yesterday by the Secretary of State for Industry, Trade and Regional Development and the frequent displays of adolescent arrogance by the Prime Minister and his colleagues? [ Interruption .] Will the Prime Minister now be honest with the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.269.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " down a Question addressed to the Prime Minister which related to representation made directly to the Prime Minister and that it was transferred to another Minister, whereas this Question, which obviously is intended for the Minister of Transport, is now to be answered by the Prime Minister? Is this action not completely arbitrary, and is the Prime Minister not treating hon. Members with contempt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister now give the accurate facts to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.273.4", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If this is the right hon. Gentleman's idea of straight talk, I should like to have some from him. Is he aware that by going back to 1951 I followed the Question? Is he aware that the embargo on merchant ships—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.273.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows quite well that the Cocom embargo is a matter for the N.A.T.O. allies, and we leave, in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows quite well that the Cocom embargo is a matter for the N.A.T.O. allies, and we leave, in this matter—[ Interruption .] If right hon. and hon. Members opposite really do not take any notice of the opinions of our allies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.274.2", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. And I should take the representations of right hon. and hon. Gentlemen on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.274.2", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. And I should take the representations of right hon. and hon. Gentlemen on this matter—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the Question.\"]—much more seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.274.2", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. And I should take the representations of right hon. and hon. Gentlemen on this matter—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the Question.\"]—much more seriously—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—if they had not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.274.3", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it not possible in some way to enable my right hon. Friend to give the answer for which he has been asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.274.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am not concerned with the precise location from which the noise comes, but there is too much noise. The Prime Minister must be allowed to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.274.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ere on the Cocom embargo list. That has been common knowledge for years. Now, if the right hon. Gentleman will allow me to answer the second part of his supplementary question, I would say that I would take the representations of hon. and right hon. Members opposite much more seriously if they had not turned down an order for ships which was in our pockets as far as Spanish frigates are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.275.4", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker. Since the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister has widened the question from Russia to Spain, would it be in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.275.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.275.6", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Then could I ask the Prime Minister, since his geography is so elastic, whether he will explain to the House why, after all these protestations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.275.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Gentleman might put that question down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.276.4", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I heard the Prime Minister say words to the effect that he would desire that question to be put down. I have already—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.276.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.276.4", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I heard the Prime Minister say words to the effect that he would desire that question to be put down. I have already—[ Interruption .]—intimated that I think we should move on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.276.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.276.11", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "I wanted to ask, further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.276.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.279.4", "colnum": "279", "heading": "MALTA (INDEPENDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The Apostolic.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Roman Catholic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.282.4", "colnum": "282", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that he had no right to make a suggestion of this kind to the House? It is intolerable that he should ask the House to discuss this important matter, involving human rights and the rights of minorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.282.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS III", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fitzroy Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fitzroy Maclean", "preceding_text": " also surprised by the way in which the Opposition manage to get through these debates without once making, as my right hon. Friend pointed out, any constructive proposals or suggestions whatever. It is quite true that my right hon. Friends are the Government, but even so considering the confidence with which right hon. and hon. Members opposite have about the outcome of the next General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS III", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fitzroy Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fitzroy Maclean", "preceding_text": "ish Industries shows that more Scottish firms are now working at full capacity than at any time in the past five years. It also shows that 84 per cent. of the firms covered by the inquiry have maintained or increased the numbers employed in them. Let hon. members also consider the state of the tourist industry, in which I declare a small personal interest. The report of the Scottish Tourist Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS III", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "preceding_text": "Tito has his own ideas and, on the whole, he makes them work a good deal better than hon. Members opposite would, and he has a much more realistic approach than they have. Both at home and abroad, hon. Members opposite are persistently out of date. They are still the slaves of a nineteenth century Marxist Socialist ideology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS III", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "preceding_text": "roach than they have. Both at home and abroad, hon. Members opposite are persistently out of date. They are still the slaves of a nineteenth century Marxist Socialist ideology. [ Laughter .] The hon. Gentleman mentioned Tito. When Tito starts introducing things like commercial television, it is high time for hon. Members opposite to start pulling up their socks. They are the slaves of Clause Four.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS III", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MacLeod", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MacLeod", "preceding_text": "I think there is a greater chance. My right hon. Friend has done, as a farmer, a great deal for the farming community. I hope that he will follow this up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.383.2", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS III", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "hat I have not enough time to make the speech which I could make. Indeed, I feel that I have hardly got started. I turn now to the speech of the Secretary of State for Industry and Trade, who waxed eloquent about the plans for Central Scotland and the North-East, saying that the Government were seeking to rehabilitate the growth areas. This, he said, was the industrial content of the White Papers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.383.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.386.2", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS III", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": " month ago, when he told me that between mid-1951 and mid-1963 the estimated number of men and boys in employment in Scotland decreased by 33,000 and increased in Britain by 929,000. Will the Secretary of State tell us whether he knows of another industrial country with such a miserable record? Does the Secretary of State for Industry and Trade know of another country with such a miserable record?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS III", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "e size of the grants which are made available to industrialists either in Scotland or who are coming to Scotland. So long as London and the South-East have the lion's share of all the com- mercial and office employment and, at the same time, has more—I repeat and emphasise, constantly more—than its population's share of the country's industrial building, just so long will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-21", "file": "debates1964-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c185f1b3d6e94a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS III", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ts would be, that even now Slough can talk about 30 acres of land which are set aside for factory building and that the Minister of State, Board of Trade, says that, inasmuch as this land was scheduled for industry in the first place, there cannot be any complaint about it. And so this goes on and on. As soon, however, as the electors get a chance, the Tory Government will not be allowed to go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-21a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-22", "file": "debates1964-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a5c55e94b221d14e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-22a.481.4", "colnum": "481", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Janner", "preceding_text": " Question No. 49, which refers to the examination of heavy lorries? In view of the fact that the Minister of Transport has made throughout the country alarming statements about the condition of such lorries, and that there is an immediate cause for alarm because of deaths and injuries resulting from them? May I ask whether you will ask the Minister of Transport that he should answer this Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-22a.481.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-22", "file": "debates1964-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a5c55e94b221d14e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-22a.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": ".C.'s affairs, and, secondly, because the Minister was preparing his White Paper. I submit to the House that it is a little rough to be accused afterwards by the same Minister of weakness in control, and I believe that I should be justified in asking the Minister whether he now intends to withdraw the charge and clear the names of those whose professional capacity was brought into question by him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-22a.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-22", "file": "debates1964-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a5c55e94b221d14e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-22a.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": " such as at Shorts and at Weybridge, where they are merely doing work which is not exercising them to the full capacity in design, research and development. This is the kind of thing for which, I think, we can use the industry. I will finish on the note of the 10 aircraft which are under discussion this afternoon. The Minister quite unfairly has quoted letters which he has not placed on the Table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-22a.526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-22", "file": "debates1964-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a5c55e94b221d14e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-22a.588.1", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For Godot? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "im—and, my goodness, that is saying something. He has reached the almost impossible achievement of keeping every possible problem in the air. He is like a man in the control tower who, when told that there is a plane coming in to land, decides that it is much too difficult to take the necessary steps and keeps it circling round. Problem after problem is still circling round in the air waiting for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-22a.588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-22", "file": "debates1964-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a5c55e94b221d14e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-22a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Robson Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Robson Brown", "preceding_text": "st in this debate on a constituency matter is obvious to hon. Members and I have no need to enlarge upon it. I live in the village in which this factory is situated and I see the men who work in it, and sometimes the executive, every day of my life. My interest in (heir welfare and future is intense. My interest goes beyond that. I have an interest also in the British aircraft industry as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-22a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-22", "file": "debates1964-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a5c55e94b221d14e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-22a.612.2", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I said categorically that pressure was not applied. But, if it had been, would it have been such a bad thing? I take the other example of what is regarded as pressure on B.O.A.C, the suggestion that the Corporation was put in the position of having to choose British aircraft \"or else\". I suppose that, in a sense, that was a form of pressure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-22a.612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-22", "file": "debates1964-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a5c55e94b221d14e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-22a.619.1", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " the Boeings, which is the other alternative, would cost something like £20 million to £30 million more over the next few years. This, I think, is a very formidable figure indeed. We are facing, as the House is aware, over the next few years a very large total of Government expenditure to which we are committed, and to add this on top of it would, I think, have been a very large item to undertake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-22a.619.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.685.4", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ments on a bilateral basis between Britain and each Commonwealth country for the granting of preferences in the award of contracts by Commonwealth countries to Britain and for us to have given some assured and guaranteed markets for Commonwealth primary produce here? Could we not have had a little time devoted to that either at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference or at a trade conference?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.685.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.686.2", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir; that is true. This is what I meant when I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.686.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.688.3", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wants to hand over the whole of the nuclear defence of our island to another country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.688.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that, while I have no desire to embroil him in current religious controversies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.689.4", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY, TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Freeth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not going to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Freeth", "preceding_text": "Before my right hon. Friend does consider appointing a Royal Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.689.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.719.3", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Agnew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In three years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Agnew", "preceding_text": "The new constitution, when it comes fully into force, contains provisions which, to some extent—but with the full approval of the Vatican authorities—go some way towards diminishing the absolutely overall and above-the-law position that the Catholic Church has seemed to have under the present Constitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.719.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not on the Church.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "The difference is that, while these people say rather beastly things about each other, they do not kill or burn one another every night. It is unfair to Malta to compare it in any way whatsoever with the situation that is obtaining in British Guiana. The hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Duffy) made a very virulent attack on the Catholic Church.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.787.2", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman consults HANSARD he will find no evidence whatsoever of a virulent attack on the Catholic Church.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Yates", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Yates", "preceding_text": "ted in occupying Malta or worrying about Malta's strategic position. Therefore, in discussing the whole problem of an election first, the Opposition in this case have got it right. I myself would say, having discussed this problem with the Maltese politicians in the past, that if it is pressed to a vote I would be bound to abstain, because I do not think that it is either strategic ally necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.806.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.811.6", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.811.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "I beg the Chair's pardon. I rose to ask a question of the hon. Member for Wednesbury, who gave way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I know that there are the three minority parties which still do not want independence, but, as I have said, I really think that we have got to the point where we have to take it that we have decided that Malta is to be independent; and I do not think that that is an issue which could usefully be put to an election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.815.2", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "No. This is the second time that the right hon. Gentleman has quite deliberately misrepresented me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.815.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.815.2", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "No. This is the second time that the right hon. Gentleman has quite deliberately misrepresented me. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If it is not deliberate, then the right hon. Gentleman is not fit for his high office and cannot understand English.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.815.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "It does not involve that at all, but the right hon. Gentleman says that he made a bargain. He said that he made an agreement with the Prime Minister of Malta that the whole thing would go through in the way he agreed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " responsibly, he should have warned the Prime Minister of Malta, particularly in view of the whole background of the matter and the position in the House of Commons, and particularly in view of his own flimsy flimsy authority—although I do not expect him to have expressed it in those terms—that when he submitted the matter to the House of Commons, the House would have the right to make Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.824.5", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I have not had time to read them all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.824.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-23", "file": "debates1964-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8bb77ec4edc6483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "tion about discrimination in jobs in the public services. I hope that he will take an opportunity in the future to correct that answer, although I have no doubt that it will make no difference to the unfortunate people in Malta who are discriminated against as a result of his inclusion of that section in the Constitution. Of course, we all share in the expressions of good will which have gone out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-23a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-24", "file": "debates1964-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "43ee1067521e4449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-24a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Boyden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Boyden", "preceding_text": "teachers of most of the clerical work. Although local authorities are conscious of this need, I believe that more publicity on what the comprehensive schools are doing will be extremely useful as a guide to teachers on how to use a clerical service and to local authorities on how to develop it. There are great things about sixth forms in comprehensive schools—a wide range, a greater proliferation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-24a.910.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-27", "file": "debates1964-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b18bd2f9ff200747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.981.2", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS (BASES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are not sovereign bases.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend like to comment on whether he thinks that the American bases in the United Kingdom are an \"untenable anachronism\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-27", "file": "debates1964-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b18bd2f9ff200747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1055.3", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY DOCTOR SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "Prescription charges were first imposed by a Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1055.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-27", "file": "debates1964-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b18bd2f9ff200747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1057.3", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY DOCTOR SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "ell said, the hon. Gentleman decided to find out what Lord Attlee had to say about the matter. Whatever Lord Attlee or Mr. Hugh Gaitskell said on the subject, even bearing in mind the quotation just read by the hon. Member about the suggestion of a 1s. prescription charge, the fact is that the Labour Government, under Mr. Attlee, did not impose a 1s. prescription charge or any prescription charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1057.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-27", "file": "debates1964-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b18bd2f9ff200747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY DOCTOR SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "and they were not stopped by the Joint Parliamentary Secretary. He obviously feels that it is all right for Tories to talk about prescription charges but it is morally indefensible for Socialists to talk about them. The short point is that 1949, the very time mentioned by the hon. Member for Bristol, West, was the year when the Korean War broke out, and that was what brought this matter to a head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-27", "file": "debates1964-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b18bd2f9ff200747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY DOCTOR SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " this is the only sensible policy that should be pursued. The hon. Member for St. Pancras, North said that this debate is a timely one. I hope that I shall not be thought to be ungenerous when I say that, having heard that the Opposition had decided to have this debate within the last fortnight of the Session, it occurred to me that they might conceivably have had in mind some electoral advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-27", "file": "debates1964-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b18bd2f9ff200747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1092.3", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY DOCTOR SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Lastly, the one positive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1092.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-27", "file": "debates1964-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b18bd2f9ff200747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1092.3", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY DOCTOR SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Lastly, the one positive—[ Interruption .]—and immediate proposal of the Labour Party is to abolish prescription charges, which the B.M.A. decided only last week would be against the interests of the overworked family doctor. The subject of this debate was chosen by hon. Members opposite for party political advantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1092.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-27", "file": "debates1964-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b18bd2f9ff200747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCESSIONARY FARES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "ng a satisfactory agreement on these lines with the local authorities concerned it is our intention to introduce the necessary legislation next Session.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th July, 1964; Vol. 698, c. 116 .] The first big snag is that the Government will not be in office next Session. But a Labour Government will introduce a general enabling Measure as one of its first Measures after the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-27", "file": "debates1964-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b18bd2f9ff200747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCESSIONARY FARES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "hich is required. If the clever little formula in the Government's reply means what it says, if their words have the normal English meaning, it is completely inadequate and we reject it as nothing more than an electoral subterfuge. It is a subterfuge by a discredited Government who have their back to the wall. Of course, the discussions with the local authorities are limited to preventing erosion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-27", "file": "debates1964-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b18bd2f9ff200747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1109.3", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCESSIONARY FARES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "d in 1947 remained exactly the same for the rest of the term of office of the Labour Government. I am not mistaking their promises, which are very vague, with their actual achievement. The pension remained the same until immediately before the General Election. During that period, the cost of living went up very much higher than the 4s. rise in the pension given on the eve of the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-27", "file": "debates1964-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b18bd2f9ff200747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCESSIONARY FARES", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Thomas", "preceding_text": "re to give a concession to retirement pensioners, it must be equitable for everyone in that section of the community. There was once a concession for tobacco which had to be redeemed, but never once have hon. Members opposite attempted to reintroduce it. There are two things of prime importance to elderly people, and it is elderly people whom we are discussing. One is food and the other is warmth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-27", "file": "debates1964-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b18bd2f9ff200747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1121.7", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCESSIONARY FARES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "stle-upon-Tyne, Central was rather cynical about my right hon. Friend's reply on 8th July. I believe that he was wrong. He and I have seen eye to eye on a great deal of this issue. Since I was elected I have consistently fought for this idea of concessionary fares. I think that great care has to be taken to ensure that whatever legislation is brought in is completely fair. It would be a bad thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1121.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-27", "file": "debates1964-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b18bd2f9ff200747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCESSIONARY FARES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "The electors will decide that. I hope that my hon. Friend will give answers to the questions I have asked. On the answers will depend whether or not I vote for the Government Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-27", "file": "debates1964-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "b18bd2f9ff200747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCESSIONARY FARES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "hich the Government refused to allow to proceed. Steps were taken to ensure that it did not reach its final stages. I have signed four or five Private Members' Bills and Private Members' Motions on this matter within the last few years, and each one has been out-worded or outvoted or stopped by hon. Members opposite who, I believe, do not understand, or did not understand, exactly what they meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-27a.1135.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-28", "file": "debates1964-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d6b05a0eab4f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1207.2", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFAMATION PROCEEDINGS (LEGAL AID)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What a hope.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the reply, I give notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-28", "file": "debates1964-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d6b05a0eab4f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1210.0", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOMOSEXUAL OFFENCES", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend appreciate that many hon. Members, and a vast number of people outside, are eagerly awaiting the implementation of the Wolfenden recommendations of homosexual reform?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1210.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-28", "file": "debates1964-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d6b05a0eab4f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1210.1", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOMOSEXUAL OFFENCES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "rs, and a vast number of people outside, are eagerly awaiting the implementation of the Wolfenden recommendations of homosexual reform? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Following on what was said by the hon. Member for Pontypool (Mr. Abse), does my right hon. and learned Friend appreciate that this step which has been taken by the Director of Public Prosecutions in our view marks a very hopeful step forward?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-28", "file": "debates1964-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d6b05a0eab4f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have not made up our minds and are unlikely to make up our minds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-28", "file": "debates1964-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d6b05a0eab4f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "While welcoming the Government's acceptance of our proposal for lend-lease aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-28", "file": "debates1964-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d6b05a0eab4f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "While welcoming the Government's acceptance of our proposal for lend-lease aid—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—our proposal for lend-lease aid which the Government all the time rejected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-28", "file": "debates1964-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d6b05a0eab4f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1230.3", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "In view of the haste which the right hon. Gentleman has shown in supplying frigates to non-Commonwealth countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-28", "file": "debates1964-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d6b05a0eab4f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND RENTS", "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": "demand for houses. As I have indicated, the building industry is working at full stretch. It is the Government's intention to secure not just more houses but better houses. I am glad to say that the houses being built now are, in general, better houses, larger houses and better equipped houses, although I must agree that the figures which I have relate almost entirely to local authority dwellings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1269.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-28", "file": "debates1964-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d6b05a0eab4f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1310.4", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND RENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hocking", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hocking", "preceding_text": "I know this land fairly well. I looked at it at the time of the sale. In the course of his remarks, the hon. Member said that the small parcel of land was incapable of development. The then owners were told that it was incapable of development. It is true that this land was incapable of development on its own. It could be developed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1310.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-28", "file": "debates1964-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d6b05a0eab4f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1348.1", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND RENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "id the people have about the programme of the new Conservative Government when they dismantled the 1947 Act? They had none, because the Government did not know themselves. They worked it out by degrees over the years with improvisation from Act to Act as they went along. The Joint Parliamentary Secretary knows this, because he played a rather discreditable part in a political sense in the process,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-28", "file": "debates1964-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d6b05a0eab4f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1356.0", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND RENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "—as has also to be borne in mind that this value was largely controlled by the fact that it became an access to this development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-28", "file": "debates1964-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d6b05a0eab4f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1356.6", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND RENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have an inquiry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "I do not think it is for me to comment on a matter of that sort. Quite apart from anything else, I do not know the full details or the information which was before either Rovers or the vendors at the time of the sale. I am certainly not going to misuse Parliamentary privilege to condemn a firm without studying the details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1356.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-28", "file": "debates1964-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d6b05a0eab4f7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1357.3", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND RENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Offices.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "speech of the hon. Member for Widnes and I wished to run briefly through some of the points he made. He said that after the target of 300,000 houses was reached there was a certain levelling off, indeed a slight running down. But this was because it was necessary, and I believe right, to deploy a proportion of the building construction industry on other things such as schools, roads and hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-28a.1357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-29", "file": "debates1964-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "34c25c263d14c88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1400.4", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the last part of the hon. Member's statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1400.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-29", "file": "debates1964-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "34c25c263d14c88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1401.0", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "The problem of remand homes is a separate question. If the right hon. Member puts down a Question about it I shall be delighted to answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-29", "file": "debates1964-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "34c25c263d14c88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1423.2", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "MALTA (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "It is not an unusual thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-29", "file": "debates1964-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "34c25c263d14c88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1424.7", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE SYSTEM (AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "and needs Parliamentary sanction. I submit, firstly, that the agreements will impose a pecuniary burden upon the people if it is signed by the Government, as is their declared intention, because we are required, under the terms of the agreements, to transmit sums of money from this country to a corporation or a committee which will be the owners and controllers of this system of global satellites.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1424.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-29", "file": "debates1964-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "34c25c263d14c88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1425.3", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE SYSTEM (AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "that the agreements will lay a pecuniary burden on people in the country and also that they will affect the laws of this country and the operations of private citizens. The B.B.C. and the I.T.A., under the provisions of these agreements, will be required to enter into agreements with this committee dominated by external interests for the provision of worldwide television relays. I now come to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1425.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-29", "file": "debates1964-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "34c25c263d14c88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1428.3", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE SYSTEM (AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "Further to my original point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-29", "file": "debates1964-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "34c25c263d14c88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1429.1", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE SYSTEM (AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1429.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-29", "file": "debates1964-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "34c25c263d14c88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1429.5", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Alec Douglas-Home)", "preceding_text": " House that it should see fit to honour its servant in this outstanding way. Among the many different aspects and chapters of my public life, it is my tenure as a Member of Parliament that I value most highly. Now, at the time of my departure, this Resolution has set the seal on the many kindnesses which the House has done me. It will always be remembered and cherished by myself and my descendants", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1429.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-29", "file": "debates1964-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "34c25c263d14c88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1432.4", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will the right hon. Gentleman be here?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House may recall that, on a previous occasion when the Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill was before the House, the House was most brusquely closured at a very early hour—six o'clock in the morning, I think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1432.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-29", "file": "debates1964-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "34c25c263d14c88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1444.4", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": " of living. I had a reply to a Question, which appears in HANSARD this morning, from the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food stating that in one month, from May to June, the cost of food alone rose by another 2 per cent. This is happening almost month after month. What will happen now? We are in July. Then we shall have August, September and October—2 per cent., 2 per cent. and 2 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1444.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-29", "file": "debates1964-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "34c25c263d14c88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "I must say that I am astonished at the right hon. and learned Gentleman. He started off by talking about harmony after he had tried to run away from his obligations to the House on a procedural device.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-29", "file": "debates1964-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "34c25c263d14c88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1481.1", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "REPRESENTATIONAL SERVICES OVERSEAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Far too many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": ". At any rate, I know that it is untrue. One only has to take this last couple of months, when the Secretary of State has had on his plate at one and the same time the Aden and South Arabian Conference, the Malta Conference, the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, all very difficult and time-taking indeed, quite apart from British Guiana, Southern Rhodesia, Cyprus and all the other problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-29", "file": "debates1964-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "34c25c263d14c88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1751.4", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "COMMON SEAL (PROTECTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for King's Lynn (Mr. Bullard) and I saw my hon. Friend the Joint Parliamentary Secretary yesterday afternoon. He was very kind to us and we discussed the situation that has arisen with him. As far as I can gather, unfortunately only two types of seal are protected in this country—the grey seal and—in a rather different way—the Lord Privy Seal. I am sorry that he is not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-29a.1751.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1783.2", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "What steps are being taken to ensure that a balance is held between the different factions in the Labour Party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1783.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1796.5", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "NUCLEAR-POWERED SHIP", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have not finished with this one yet. I have more than once indicated, and I do not want to have to do it again, that to rise and cover an observation by the use of the words \"On a point of order\" when there is not one at all is just a form of cheating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1796.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1798.7", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. If it will help the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1798.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1801.4", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Secret?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Gentleman tells us that the leak came from Ferranti, I am sure that the House will accept what he says. What we will not accept is any denial that on issue after issue affecting the Ministry's conduct of affairs, including vital, secret aspects of our national defence, secret information has been systematically and deliberately leaked to the Press—and not to one paper only—by his Ministry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1801.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1801.4", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about a loss?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ase, as we went along. It would be nice to have estimates; before the production of any large unit and not after it had been produced. Mistakes might be made and we all recognise the possibility of mistakes in this kind of job, but the 50 per cent. arrangement would mean automatically that half of any miscalculation would go back to the Ministry. Furthermore, with both sides in on both production—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1801.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1801.4", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "sick humour too far. To suggest bringing in the Prime Minister to get a grip on any situation involving administration, industry and the details of finance is about as relevant as to suggest bringing in the Dalai Lama to the conduct of affairs. In any case, even if he were capable of it, he is too busy shooting round the country ineffectively delivering the same speech to long-suffering audiences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1801.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1813.1", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Aviation (Mr. Julian Amery)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Aviation (Mr. Julian Amery)", "preceding_text": "ed Deputy Director of Contracts in my Department into the recent Ferranti contracts we have let. We have not, of course, got all the information about it, but we have a good deal and the report I have received gives no evidence of excessive profits in any case. All the information we have leads to this conclusion, but I freely agree that the Bloodhound contracts do show the need for some overhaul.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1816.1", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is absurd.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "e no disciplinary action. The investigation is only beginning and we would not hesitate to take disciplinary action if it were proved to be necessary. I come now to the question of ministerial responsibilities. I think that it would be wholly unsuitable in a matter of this kind where the taxpayers' interest, as has been proved, has been adequately defended, to make any charge against any Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1820.1", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "We asked for a repayment. We and we alone are responsible for the statement we have made. We are dealing with a firm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1820.1", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member asked a question. Perhaps other hon. Members will give him a chance to hear the reply. We are dealing with a highly efficient firm with which the Government have every interest in working. We have no interest in discriminating against it. We shall work with it and, what is more, I believe that, in the light of the events which have taken place, this will not prove a difficult task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1821.3", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "rtheless, I freely agree that what has happened shows the need for an overhaul. I have already announced some of the decisions we have taken, and more will follow when we have the second part of Sir John Lang's Report. Meanwhile, the taxpayer, I am glad to say, has suffered no loss. This is a happy conclusion which we owe to the Comptroller and Auditor-General and to the efforts of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1824.3", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "on the subject. Let us see it. The separate study that I have made shows no indication of one leak, let alone 15, during the last year. I think that the right hon. Gentleman seriously underrates the Press and the methods by which it operates. We realise that he is cross and narked with Mr. Chapman Pincher and the Daily Express for what they have done to expose his sabotage of our exports to Spain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1824.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1824.3", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "ously underrates the Press and the methods by which it operates. We realise that he is cross and narked with Mr. Chapman Pincher and the Daily Express for what they have done to expose his sabotage of our exports to Spain. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I might add that I have a little list of other contracts which might have been won but for the ideological eccentricities of members of the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1824.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1826.0", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. It is impossible to hear what the Minister is saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1826.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1826.4", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James H. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Listen to what is being said !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James H. Hoy", "preceding_text": "throughout the whole of his half hour's diatribe about this affair. He said, \"We really cannot take the best men out of industry, because that is where they have to be,\" the whole inference being that second-class people were good enough for the Ministry of Aviation. The way in which he decried his Department was unbelievable. It was an appalling effort by the Minister to shift his responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1826.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1826.4", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James H. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James H. Hoy", "preceding_text": "ny shadow of doubt that nearly 80 per cent. of the contract was completed before the price was fixed. There was no risk. How can he say that there was? It is not possible to have the two things at the same time. The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he does not know what he is talking about. I wish he did—then he would not have made the sort of silly speech that he made this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1826.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1828.1", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "basis on which the contract was drawn up. We all know what the total figure was. It was millions of £s out of which Ferranti's agreed to pay £4,250,000 to the Government. But do not let us forget that even after that is done the firm still has in its pockets £1,522,964 of the taxpayers' money—not a return of 7 per cent., but a return of 21·6 per cent.—even after it has paid this money back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1828.1", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "t do not let us forget that even after that is done the firm still has in its pockets £1,522,964 of the taxpayers' money—not a return of 7 per cent., but a return of 21·6 per cent.—even after it has paid this money back. [ Interruption .] If hon. Members have any doubt about it let them look up the Lang Report and the Report of the Public Accounts Committee, and they will see that it is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1828.1", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "quence of what has happened. I am a little surprised that after the statements made by the Permanent Under-Secretary and the Minister of Aviation, the Permanent Under-Secretary in the concluding sentence of his reply stated: I can assure you that there will be no discrimination against Ferranti Ltd. in the allocation of future contracts. I am not seeking to say that there should be discrimination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1831.2", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "I suppose that as this is the last day of a full House of Commons one must expect a certain amount of fireworks, but I would have expected a more statesmanlike speech from the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1831.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1831.2", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "e must expect a certain amount of fireworks, but I would have expected a more statesmanlike speech from the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—than the very personal attack that he made on my right hon. Friend the Minister. The technique is this. The speaker says that a Minister is responsible and he accuses his ancestry and his marriage and speaks of nepotism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1831.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1831.2", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "ice, so why this personal attack on his integrity and performance? I was hoping that we would make a constructive speech and that we would be told by the Leader of the Opposition, who wishes to be taken seriously by the country, just what the Opposition were going to do in the future. After all, if there has been a mistake in Whitehall it is a mistake among many hundreds of thousands of contracts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1831.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1842.0", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member raised an extremely important point when he talked about the time period. May I turn to paragraph 17 of the Lang Committee's Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1856.1", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "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": "hat investigation did not in any way at all impede the Public Accounts Committee. Indeed, as was said by the hon. Member for Sowerby, the Lang Committee's Report underlined many of the things which his Committee said. I am sorry if the hon. Gentleman thinks that we were discourteous in not informing him before the announcement. I tried personally several times to get in touch with him, but failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1856.1", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "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": "al labour costs as in the case of airframe and aero-engine contracts. It is a great credit to the Comptroller and Auditor General that he should have spotted this. What clearly emerges in the conduct of this contract is that there is no suggestion at all of any impropriety. It is very important that that should be emphasised, as I am sure the whole House would wish to agree. It stands out clearly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1856.1", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": " Gentleman was willing to wound, but afraid to strike. What is more, he produced not a shred of evidence to support it, either to the House or to my right hon. Friend. We have studied with great care all the reports appearing from this particular journalist in the last year and can find no evidence whatever to support the right hon. Gentleman's most serious accusation against my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1856.1", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "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": " to the House or to my right hon. Friend. We have studied with great care all the reports appearing from this particular journalist in the last year and can find no evidence whatever to support the right hon. Gentleman's most serious accusation against my right hon. Friend. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] Nor did his hon. Friend the Member for Dudley do any better. The hon. Member for Dudley referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1862.0", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "and witty, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1862.0", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "FERRANTI LTD. (LANG REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "and witty, but—[ Interruption .]—he displays a streak of bitterness, meanness and viciousness.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1878.2", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "VESTURES OF MINISTERS MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Brief.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "the clothing of the clergy carry any doctrinal significance? Whether or not it does, many thousands of decent people think that it does, and I should have thought that to be one of the tests. If I were to go at too great length into the history of vestments I might again incur the wrath of my hon. Friend, but the Measure is concerned with vestments and perhaps I ought to say a brief word about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1878.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1881.2", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "VESTURES OF MINISTERS MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "e, and I believe that it would have been much wiser to have left well alone and not to have introduced this Measure. I believe that the Church Assembly in bringing forward this matter has been concerning itself to some extent with trivialities, but I think that these are dangerous in that they cause a division and crystallise and pinpoint divisions between people. I do not want to weary the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1881.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1903.1", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "VESTURES OF MINISTERS MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Black", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"As amended.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Black", "preceding_text": "e to read to the House just a few verses from that passage, from the Phillips translation in Modern English. In order that we may appreciate the applicability of it to the subject which we are considering this evening, I want to substitute the words \"wearing of vestments\" for \"the eating of meat\" and I think that the House will see then how entirely relevant this is. This is what the Apostle said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1916.1", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "VESTURES OF MINISTERS MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Those dealing with Holy Communion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "ther one, which was published at the same time and, I think, laid before Parliament at the same time as this one. It would have been much fairer to Parliament and more desirable in the public interest if all these proposals had been gathered together and laid before Parliament in a number of instruments—probably about six or perhaps fewer—so that we could see the whole picture of what is proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1916.1", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "VESTURES OF MINISTERS MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": " The second point is that my hon. Friend said it was right to put this Measure before the House now because otherwise it would become an election issue. I cannot think that when, in his own words, the bishops have been considering this matter for a number of years, it is right that this House tonight, on almost the last working day of this Parliament, should be asked to consider it in a few hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1921.1", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "VESTURES OF MINISTERS MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ance, but not particular significance—whatever that means—to the wearing of these vestments. It goes on to say: And whereas a vesture worn by a Minister in accordance with the provisions of this Measure is not to be understood as implying any doctrines other than those now contained in the formularies of the Church of England \". Then follows the body of the Measure. I ask hon. Members to consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1922.1", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "VESTURES OF MINISTERS MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "on with the Parochial Church Council of the parish that such a change will be acceptable to the Council. The effect of that is that he cannot change the vesture without the consent of the parochial church council. Observe, however, that that change can be only in one direction, because of the mandatory effect of the first Article. All changes can be only towards the wearing of these new vestments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1922.1", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "VESTURES OF MINISTERS MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ithout the consent of the parochial church council. Observe, however, that that change can be only in one direction, because of the mandatory effect of the first Article. All changes can be only towards the wearing of these new vestments. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Yes. In a church where the new vestments are already in use, there can be no change to not wearing them. That is the effect of the Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1924.0", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "VESTURES OF MINISTERS MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has put the matter in a nutshell—this Measure does not permit it. Let us have that clear. If we start with the wearing of these vestments then, in Article 1, we cannot change to the not wearing of them, because the Measure says so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1924.0", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "VESTURES OF MINISTERS MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "it. Let us have that clear. If we start with the wearing of these vestments then, in Article 1, we cannot change to the not wearing of them, because the Measure says so—[ Interruption .] Article I is mandatory. Article 2 says that notwithstanding Article I the Minister may not change without the consent of the parochial church council, but he cannot change in what I will call a downward direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1925.1", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "VESTURES OF MINISTERS MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has entirely confirmed the interpretation which I am giving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-30", "file": "debates1964-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac8588eec9cc6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1926.0", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "VESTURES OF MINISTERS MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": " the Measure is right—and I would be interested to hear anybody saying that it is wrong on the wording of the document—this is a Measure which the House should not pass. On the surface, it is a compromise which leaves liberty to both sides, but when closely read it is the victory of the Church over the Evangelicals. The Evangelicals in ritual matters, in vestment matters, are doomed to extinction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-30a.1926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-07-31", "file": "debates1964-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "a55ca37077bb44fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-31a.1992.2", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "VARIABLE GEOMETRY AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Aviation (Mr. Neil Marten)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Aviation (Mr. Neil Marten)", "preceding_text": "n aviation. I congratulate my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Harrow, East (Commander Courtney) on having had the good fortune to be lucky in the ballot and to have chosen this subject for discussion. The hon. Member for Sheffield, Park (Mr. Mulley) said that the aircraft procurement policy of the Government was in a sorry mess. I should like to take the opportunity to deny that completely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-31a.1992.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-07-31", "file": "debates1964-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "a55ca37077bb44fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-31a.2033.3", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER OF KENYA (MESSAGE OF THANKS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and for the Colonies (Mr. R. P. Hornby)", "preceding_text": "isters' Conference in London. He has requested me to convey his gratitude to the House of Commons and wishes to reciprocate most warmly the expression of lasting good relations between Kenya and the British peoples. I feel sure that the whole House will be grateful to the Prime Minister of Kenya for this generous message and shares his hopes for the future good relations between Kenya and Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-07-31a.2033.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-10-27", "file": "debates1964-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e960ebc2536cfe80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-10-27a.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "liament into a great Parliament. We all hope that it will be a great Parliament, not like the Parliament under Mr. Speaker Popham, in the reign of the first Elizabeth. At that time, the Queen, being dissatisfied with its affairs, sent for Mr. Speaker Popham and said, \"Now, Mr. Speaker, what has passed in the Lower House?\". Mr. Speaker Popham replied, \"If it please your Majesty, exactly 100 days \".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-10-27a.3.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-10-27", "file": "debates1964-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e960ebc2536cfe80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-10-27a.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roderic Bowen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roderic Bowen", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker-Elect, I rise to offer the felicitations of my party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-10-27a.10.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ferranti\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " the promises are coming home to roost. I invite the Prime Minister to say—because the country has a right to know—on which of the Government's promises the Government will have to default, and which of our programmes they will have to cut. There are, apparently, to be cuts in this regard, where—again I invoke the White Paper— money is being spent without social or economic benefit. What are they?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " and because we want to develop opportunities to co-operate with our opposite numbers in Europe in this field. As for stimulating exports, I hope that the measures proposed by the Government will succeed. But while everyone is striving to increase exports, I hope that the Government will not throw them away. I hope that we shall not repeat the experience we had over equipment for the Spanish Navy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "t the measures proposed by the Government will succeed. But while everyone is striving to increase exports, I hope that the Government will not throw them away. I hope that we shall not repeat the experience we had over equipment for the Spanish Navy—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Hon. Members may jeer, but there is coming a day when there will be substantial naval orders from the South African Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.57.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Monslow", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.59.2", "colnum": "59", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "his is not a kind of squib, or a Chinese cracker. The repercussions of this explosion have reverberated already right through South-East Asia. They will affect India and Russia and eventually the United States of America and the West. Even today opinion is being freshly formed across the Atlantic. In these circumstances—if I may and if he will accept it—I will offer the Prime Minister some advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.59.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "ng than government, the right hon. Gentleman was willing to sacrifice the real defence strength of the nation to party politics and electioneering. It happens that we now have the facts, and we will not be slow to give them to the House on the appropriate occasion. When foreign affairs are debated my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary will not, I am sorry to say, be taking part in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "to his bosom? Will the Conservative Whip be extended to him, because if he does accept him as a colleague he will make this clear: he will betray the principles which not only his party but the nation have hitherto had the right to proclaim. And if he does not, if he takes what I think is the right course, and what, I am sure, the country will think is the right course, the Smethwick Conservatives", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "ption. ]—hon. Members opposite will have to listen now—if, as I say, the right hon. Gentleman takes what I am sure the country would regard as the right course, the Smethwick Conservatives can have the satisfaction of having topped the poll, and of having sent here as their Member one who, until a further General Election restores him to oblivion, will serve his term here as a Parliamentary leper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.72.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.73.2", "colnum": "73", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I turn briefly to the legislative proposals of the Gracious Speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.73.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.73.2", "colnum": "73", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I turn briefly to the legislative proposals of the Gracious Speech—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] Only a moment ago hon. Gentlemen were asking me to turn to those proposals, and I am now doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.73.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.73.2", "colnum": "73", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I turn briefly to the legislative proposals of the Gracious Speech—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] Only a moment ago hon. Gentlemen were asking me to turn to those proposals, and I am now doing so. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] The House will have noticed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.73.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.73.4", "colnum": "73", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Kershaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Kershaw", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I ask you to give a considered Ruling on the phrase which the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister used. I know that the phrase is not in the dictionary of abuse, so to speak, but it is out of order in itself. Surely it implies that my hon. Friend the Member for Smethwick will be prevented in some way from carrying out his Parliamentary duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.73.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.74.7", "colnum": "74", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I could be here until 10 o'clock, but I do not want to keep other hon. Members out of the debate. I have referred to the use in the Gracious Speech of the time-honoured formula: Other measures will he laid before you. This formula—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.74.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.74.10", "colnum": "74", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "they will recognise that they were not lightly decided upon. The Government did not face a simple choice between doing this and doing nothing. Whatever we did, we were faced with a choice of evils. One choice was rejected. We decided firmly against going back to stop-go-stop policies. Some of our friends in Europe I think feel that we should have dealt with the situation only by internal measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.74.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.112.3", "colnum": "112", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "but it sunk to incredible depths in the middle, and at the end it was merely turgid. I cannot let go unchallenged some of his snide remarks in the rollicking part about this side of the House, and not only about this side but about the country in general. He found some special merit in the fact that he was unique in that he had no relations of any kind who were in any way fitted for public office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.112.3", "colnum": "112", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Schoolboy stuff.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "i Lama is selected: it involves some special art of astrology. While on the subject of the schools and the public schools, I, as an underprivileged Harrovian in a party which has its quota of Etonians, without whom we could not possibly do, would say how deeply honoured we at Harrow are that the Prime Minister should have chosen the Lord Chancellor from amongst our number from an important school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The first six months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "illion. But if we set against it the balance of payments made up of insurance and freight earnings, we find that the adverse visible trade balance for the first six months of this year is £215 million. I am not suggesting that an adverse figure of that sort is something about which we may be complacent, but I think it worth while to examine the situation which has existed over the last six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg)?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "nvictions and his policy, we do not wish personally to attack the right hon. Gentleman. Indeed, in so far as he is Prime Minister, we wish to strengthen his moral position. I hope that he will think about his whole attitude on this question. One has the feeling that the right hon. Gentleman is inclined sometimes to get rattled and, when rattled, to get a little more nasty than he would like to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": "I have no idea, because I cannot recollect that it said anything of the sort. What I am saying is that the manufacturer knows his own ability and is in a better position to assess markets than is the master planner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": "oments about a subject on which I can claim some specialist knowledge. I need hardly declare my interest, because everyone knows it. However, as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Geoffrey Rippon I was prohibited from speaking in the House about the building industry for two years. I congratulate the new Minister of Public Building and Works on the magnificent organisation which he is taking over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ge was illegal and a contravention of the Stockholm Treaty. I mention this point because two or three days before the surcharge was announced the President of the Board of Trade, speaking in London at the British National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce, said: E.F.T.A. has been an outstanding success and we shall do all we can to ensure that it goes on from strength to strength.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "nd to do so. I am challenging the thesis that there is no undue pressure on resources in the light of evidence, quoted by Major Dibben, Chairman of the Regional Board for Industry in Birmingham, that there is a labour shortage there. In the face of all this evidence, I doubt whether we can carry on with the existing and projected levels of Government expenditure. I am in favour of a little \"stop\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-03", "file": "debates1964-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "50ae7beca55d349b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "ional success. It went on later to say: Many conservative people believe that a resistance to change and reform is the best way to preserve the old values. They are betrayed by their hopes. That ex tract from the Sunday Times characterises not only the defeatism of the hon. Member for Oswestry but the defeatism which was symbolic of the whole policy of the Labour Government—I mean Tory Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-03a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-04", "file": "debates1964-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9e63ee8ebf754c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.214.6", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "preceding_text": "he health of the economy. We had in this respect to act quickly and decisively, the more so because action had already been delayed too long and firm decisions had been too often postponed by the outgoing Administration. Conservative Ministers, aware of the damage that the admission of yet another crisis would have done to their electoral chances tried quite deliberately to mislead the electorate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.214.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-04", "file": "debates1964-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9e63ee8ebf754c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.214.6", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "preceding_text": "ealt with at any time after the first quarter of this year. In contrast to this, we produced after our first 11 days a White Paper in which we set out frankly to the nation the situation as it was reported to us, without doctoring the figures or trying to hide them. We set out the emergency measures which we felt compelled to take to deal with the gigantic economic mess which had been left behind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.214.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-04", "file": "debates1964-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9e63ee8ebf754c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.214.6", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "preceding_text": " a White Paper in which we set out frankly to the nation the situation as it was reported to us, without doctoring the figures or trying to hide them. We set out the emergency measures which we felt compelled to take to deal with the gigantic economic mess which had been left behind. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Hon. Members opposite must make up their minds. Either the situation is serious or it is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.214.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-04", "file": "debates1964-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9e63ee8ebf754c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "tate will be making broadly similar arrangements. I am happy to say that I have already had a preliminary talk with the Minister of Finance of Northern Ireland and that I shall be discussing further with the Northern Ireland Government the arrangements for that hitherto neglected region. Arising out of all this, we have considered what should be done about the control of office building meanwhile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-04", "file": "debates1964-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9e63ee8ebf754c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "res month by month were published within hours of their being available to Ministers. It has never been the practice, as is known—and it is not the right hon. Gentleman's own practice—to publish details of central bank transactions. The right hon. Gentleman said during the election that it is right that that should be so. I have suppressed nothing, and I resent very much that wholly untrue charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-04", "file": "debates1964-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9e63ee8ebf754c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.239.4", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "rganisation and more committees and more officials is not very large in comparison with the enormous progress made in the development districts in the last 18 months or two years—the measures in the 1963 Budget, free depreciation, standard grants, the enormous improvement in public investment for which my right hon. Friend was responsible, the £75 million shipbuilding scheme, surplus capacity aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.239.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-04", "file": "debates1964-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9e63ee8ebf754c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "preceding_text": " for competition and lower tariffs. I have not altered my views since then. In that year, I also stressed the need for careful control of Government expenditure. I must say some of us regard it as a bit rich, to say the least, that the Labour Government should now be complaining about the adverse balance of payments position since they did all they could to press the last Government to spend more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-04", "file": "debates1964-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9e63ee8ebf754c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "preceding_text": " regard it as a bit rich, to say the least, that the Labour Government should now be complaining about the adverse balance of payments position since they did all they could to press the last Government to spend more—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—certainly not to spend less. Indeed, their proposals in the last election were estimated at £1,000 million above the rate of spending of the last Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-04", "file": "debates1964-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9e63ee8ebf754c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "preceding_text": "the Welsh people are a nation apart. We have our distinctive language—a language spoken only in Wales and in Heaven. It might surprise hon. Members to know that at least 90 per cent. of my election campaign meetings were addressed in Welsh. We have our own distinctive traditions and way of life. We have our own distinctive territory—we have our own country. We were never defeated by a foreign foe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-04", "file": "debates1964-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9e63ee8ebf754c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": " get a large increase in their pensions. I want to see better schools, better houses, and I do not want to see supersonic aircraft built at the expense of the old folk in Govan or of people in my division who want new houses. Therefore, I say that if we are to have any decision about the supersonic aircraft, let us not abandon it but suspend it. That is all I say at this moment: Do not give it up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-04", "file": "debates1964-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9e63ee8ebf754c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "preceding_text": "ly, they are to take steps to deal effectively with mergers and monopolies, but not State monopolies. They are going to ask trade unionists and employers to remove restrictive practices. But prior to that they are to give the workers full legal protection against almost any form of industrial action which they like to undertake. This apparently is almost giving them an industrial sabotage charter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-04", "file": "debates1964-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9e63ee8ebf754c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How would the hon. Gentleman deal with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": " solely to discourage imports and not to raise revenue, to find some way of exempting goods already on the high seas and in bond, at any rate, from this surcharge. What the Government are doing is increasing automatically the price of goods which we already have agreed to take, and this will have no effect at all on reducing the import bill. I cannot believe that this is the intention of the levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-04", "file": "debates1964-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9e63ee8ebf754c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "must find a way of stopping the kind of disputes which paralyse the docks of this country and which have a tremendous effect on our exports. All who are engaged in industry know the frustration of sending goods through the London docks; of day after day vehicles returning, having not been unloaded. We cannot allow certain sections of the community, whoever they are, to hold this country to ransom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-04", "file": "debates1964-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9e63ee8ebf754c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": " is no consistency with the trading philosophy of today in allowing quantitative restrictions and not allowing a charge on imports. There is a strong case for the revision of the rules of these bodies to take this into account. The next and more general criticism is that this method on the part of the British Government represents somehow a return to the inward-looking insularity of protectionism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-04", "file": "debates1964-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9e63ee8ebf754c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.349.2", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "ed that four Labour candidates at the last General Election lost their deposits. I expect that at the next General Election there will be more. While I welcome the new hon. Member for Bodmin (Mr. Bessell), I regret that his stay, like that of the hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe), will be only temporary. My third reason is that certain doubts as to continuity of policy have been expressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.349.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-04", "file": "debates1964-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9e63ee8ebf754c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "I am coming on to that. There is no doubt that in large parts of Devon and Cornwall unemployment is high and that the development districts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-04a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "t he has the very greatest of good will from me, at any rate. The right hon. Gentleman's presence on the Front Bench enables me to say one other thing about the Treasury Bench. In his opening speech the Prime Minister took particular pride in the fact that here we had the end of family connection and privilege and the old school tie. Instead of these things, there was a range of men, simple—minded", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "but until in a few years' time they begin to enter the House and sit on both Front Benches, for the Government and for the Opposition. That is a process upon which I think we can all agree. In the meantime, neither party can claim an advantage over the other of the kind which the Prime Minister, with his divisive social philosophy, sought to claim. I turn at once to the main subject of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ology and science of this country. It is not too late for the right hon. Gentleman to turn back. He knows that I am a critic of his, and I have made no bones about it, but I beg him to turn back from the course which he has set himself. Let him realise, first, that much more depends upon personal relations in this matter than public relations. Let him do more consulting and please, less insulting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is very important.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Yes, it seems to me that the difference between \"in one Ministry\" and \"under one Minister\" is not as valid a distinction as all that. At any rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": "ight to submit himself to the verdict of the electors. I blame the Prime Minister for his \"high-handed\" action. That phrase is not mine. It comes from a newspaper which was certainly not entirely unfavourable to the Prime Minister during the election— The Times. . Who was responsible for the way in which the matter was handled with the French? There again, we would like the opportunity to be told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "o. If there had been, the right hon. Gentleman will tell us. But this certainly caused a great deal of alarm in France. I do not know whether the Minister has read a speech of M. Pompidou, the French Prime Minister. It is reported that he said at a lunch today: We are waiting for details on the British Government's decision which looks as if it will hold up and indeed abandon the Concord project —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ch may be important to hon. Members opposite: the Government's good faith during the election campaign is also at stake. I am not going again into the details of the pamphlet which was circulated to aircraft workers, or even of the statement made by the hon. Member for Loughborough (Mr. Cronin). These are questions which perhaps the Prime Minister will have to consider, but I should like to quote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Aviation (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Aviation (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": "th M. Messmer, the French Minister of Defence, and with M. Palewski, Minister of Science. M. Palewski has French responsibility for E.L.D.O. Let me say at once that there was no question of my raising with M. Palewski the question of a British wish to contract out of E.L.D.O. The position indeed—and hon. Members opposite really must not be too eager to decry the British position in these respects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " his hon. Friends speak about Anglo-American relations in the way they have done today. The hon. Member for Macclesfield (Sir A. V. Harvey) and the hon. Member for Mid-Bedfordshire (Mr. Hastings) raised in varying ways the point that there had been some such deal. I can categorically deny that. The hon. Member for Macclesfield, embroidering his imagination I think, said that the Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.505.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.506.9", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " project about which we have legitimate doubts. I certainly expressed that point of view before taking office. In an article which I wrote in the Observer in July of last year, before any thought of taking office in this capacity had entered my head, I concluded by saying this: Neither B.O.A.C. nor the British aircraft industry can afford expensive status symbols. Flag flying is not a substitute\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.506.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.507.4", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I have already given way four or five times. I would gladly give way again, but time is pressing and the hon. Member for Stratford-upon-Avon asked me a number of questions which I want to answer in the course of presenting my argument to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.507.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.507.4", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "h. I was very interested to see him nodding vehemently in support when the hon. Member for Macclesfield earlier this afternoon was making some pretty sharp attacks on the administration of the right hon. Member for Preston, North of my Department. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman was paying off some old scores in Whitehall. There is another reason for urgency beyond this very large deficit indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.507.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "p rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How does the right hon. Gentleman know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Mr. Hogg) set himself broadly these criteria. I got a little befogged by the force of his oratory later on. I did not quite follow it. I propose to try to stick to them. First of all, let me deal with the economic test. The original French estimate was £135 million. Ours was always a little higher—we thought between £150 million and £170 million. We now know that it is to be at least £280 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman said something to the effect that they would certainly go and that this spelt the end of them. This point was certainly not made to me in Paris last week, and I very much hope that it will not be made, because whatever view we eventually take on the Concord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "We are awaiting the French reply and we certainly want to discuss this with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "certainly want to discuss this with them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] The right hon. Member for Preston, North having concluded an agreement without a break clause, and having been harshly criticised by the Select Committee on Estimates for doing so, it does not lie in the mouth of his hon. Friend or anyone else to increase our difficulties in the situation which he has left us. I finish as I began—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Answer.\"] The right hon. Member for Preston, North having concluded an agreement without a break clause, and having been harshly criticised by the Select Committee on Estimates for doing so, it does not lie in the mouth of his hon. Friend or anyone else to increase our difficulties in the situation which he has left us. I finish as I began—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—that no decision has been taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "n, North having concluded an agreement without a break clause, and having been harshly criticised by the Select Committee on Estimates for doing so, it does not lie in the mouth of his hon. Friend or anyone else to increase our difficulties in the situation which he has left us. I finish as I began—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—that no decision has been taken—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I have answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-05", "file": "debates1964-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "685ba039a722dca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.515.4", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not understand the behaviour of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-05a.515.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-06", "file": "debates1964-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "e2b70b7a8f313875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-06a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": " subject has been neglected is most utter nonsense, and it must be seen to be nonsense. I therefore hope that the Minister, in his gracious way, will be able to retract what the Prime Minister said on Tuesday and will acknowledge the undoubted developments which took place in this field in the last Session. The Minister will recall a certain cocktail party which he and I attended a short time ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-06a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-06", "file": "debates1964-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "e2b70b7a8f313875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-06a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": " receive our ready support. Where, however, they are merely following Socialist ideology, they will receive the most sceptical probing. If they are seen to be running away from the reactionaries within their midst, of whom there are many, they will receive resolute and bitter opposition, too. The Government has real opportunities in this field. We have opened up new vistas in the last year or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-06a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-06", "file": "debates1964-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "e2b70b7a8f313875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-06a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr.George Y. Mackie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.George Y. Mackie", "preceding_text": "ad 1,700,000 acres in Caithness and Sutherland. Caithness is reasonably agricultural and Sutherland is pastoral. Here there is some of the most beautiful country in the world. In Sutherland there is country which people declare to be the most beautiful they have ever seen. But it is also some of the saddest country and it is not being used. Most of its owners own it for entirely the wrong reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-06a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-06", "file": "debates1964-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "e2b70b7a8f313875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-06a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "ward to hearing further contributions from the hon. Gentleman in the years to come. I regret that the Gracious Speech says nothing with regard to any intention of stopping the political bias shown so frequently on television, both by the B.B.C. and I.T.V. Perhaps this is understandable because the bias on both these channels appears to be so heavily Left wing. I should like to give a few examples—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-06a.597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-06", "file": "debates1964-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "e2b70b7a8f313875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-06a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "uite clear what was going to happen on television as soon as the campaign started. A still picture of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition was put on the television screen and held there for some considerable time. This photograph was obviously selected because it was very poor in quality. Indeed, it was so bad that it made it appear that my right hon. Friend had suffered some injury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-06a.597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-06", "file": "debates1964-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "e2b70b7a8f313875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-06a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "excellent speeches, but I must say that on some occasions the set-up was designed to kill the effect of what he said, particularly by the positioning of the camera so as to take my right hon. Friend at the worst possible angle. On several occasions his profile was taken from underneath, from what appeared to be ground level. I saw one of these pictures and I did not recognise my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-06a.597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-06", "file": "debates1964-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "e2b70b7a8f313875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-06a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "he party has been putting forward ideas, the T.U.C. doggedly stonewalling them. … What has really happened is that since 1951 the Labour Party has advanced further into the twentieth century than the trade union movement. Thus the next Labour Government will quickly have to force the T.U.C. to make decisions in the social and economic field which the unions have been dodging for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-06a.614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-06", "file": "debates1964-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "e2b70b7a8f313875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-06a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "ntion of such an inquiry, and from early September it has become obvious that the T.U.C. is unable to initiate action on its own behalf to deal with this problem. It seems that the problem can be dealt with only by some initiative from the Government. We in the Conservative Party will not shirk this issue, even if it means the entire reorientation of some of our thinking. What have I tried to say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-06a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.638.2", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "We have some public brickworks. The National Coal Board makes bricks and is expanding production—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.638.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.639.6", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No bricks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman and the hon. Lady the Member for Cannock (Miss Jennie Lee) on assuming their offices. Is it not a fact that, whatever his hon. Friend may say about the previous Government and the difficulties in the industry, there are now 428,000 houses under construction?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.639.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.643.2", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get rid of him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "All these are matters on which I have already started studies, but for the benefit of new Members I should like to make it clear that the custody and the control of the Palace of Westminster is exercised by the Lord Great Chamberlain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.643.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "nder 13 years of Conservative Government, when under successive Leaders of the House we who cared for these things on both sides of the House had little help until the right hon. and learned Member for the Wirral (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd) came along. I want to make it clear that there is no less accommodation available to Members as offices and desk rooms than there was at the end of the last Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.644.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.655.4", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "The question asked was whether I had received a letter from the hon. and gallant Member for Portsmouth, West, dated 12th October, when he himself was not a Member of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.655.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "The answer to that is \"No, Sir\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What schools?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "th most is the President of the British Iron and Steel Federation, Sir Julian Pode. I will tell him how Sir Julian entered the industry. He answered an advertisement in the local newspaper. He is to be succeeded by Mr. Judge, the Chairman of Dorman Long, who, when he was at school, wrote to Dorman Long and asked whether there was any chance of a job going. Therefore, the people who have come from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "ss, the impetus has come not from the General Election, as I have shown—because, clearly, it comes far behind that—but from this judgment of the Restrictive Practices Court. It seems to me that whichever party had won the election a few weeks ago the Minister of Power, be he Tory or be he Labour, would have had to have careful and detailed talks with the Iron and Steel Board and with the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.676.3", "colnum": "676", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "that the whole position into which the steel industry has passed is the result, first, of the 1953 Act, and then the action of the same Government in bringing the Restrictive Practices Court into being in 1956. As I have said, the right hon. Gentleman failed to address himself at all to his own Amendment, and I ask him now: why is it that today we are discussing steel instead of coal, for example?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "ey denationalised the dividends of the steel industry. The 1953 Act stultified any rational reorganisation of the industry. That, in turn, retarded the economic expansion of vital parts of our economy, and has now brought the condemnation of the Restrictive Practices Court of price-fixing arrangements that are against the public interest. The right hon. Gentleman tried to talk his way out of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who wrote it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "pansion of vital parts of our economy, and has now brought the condemnation of the Restrictive Practices Court of price-fixing arrangements that are against the public interest. The right hon. Gentleman tried to talk his way out of this—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] All right, I will quote extracts from the document he has, and challenge him to deny that these are extracts from what was said in the court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "ernment's case is that the attempt may have been unique but that it has not been successful. This is no accident. It is, we believe, an inevitable result of a situation in which the industry lacks both the stimulus of full competition and the responsibility of public ownership. The Leader of the Opposition has said that by nationalisation we will destroy the competitiveness of the steel industry —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about exports?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": " the wrong match box on this occasion. What are the facts? Before the Restrictive Practices Court it was established that the industry operated agreements under which it charged uniform prices, which were the maximum prices fixed by the Iron and Steel Board. In short, there is no competition in prices. Whatever else we may disagree about, we can agree that there is no competition in prices at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Are they nationalised?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "t half that of the United States, that it has recently been passed by Japan and that it appears to be lower than in the steel industries of the Six. Surely that is a state of affairs which none of us can afford to contemplate with equanimity. Moreover, over the past 10 years British steel prices have increased by one-third. By contrast, in Germany and Holland prices have gone up by only one-sixth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "ugh major revolutions in technology and can bring about big improvements in efficiency and productivity. The public sector of the iron and steel industry will bring the same drive to its problems and match the achievement of our most successful public industries. During the past few years we have been seeing competitive private enterprise as such becoming more and more a figment of Tory mythology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.684.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.707.2", "colnum": "707", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "I cannot keep giving way all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": ", whatever Bill the Government bring before the House, the Liberal Party will seek to amend it to provide for employee-elected directors, for model rules on redundancy and fringe benefits, and for rights of consultation. Though the party opposite claims to speak in the name of the working class, it is terrified of having co-responsibility for unions and shareholders on the same board of directors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John H. Osborn", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John H. Osborn", "preceding_text": "e was not enough capacity to meet the demands placed upon it. I have here an extract from the speech which the Prime Minister made in Wales on this subject. He made several speeches on the steel industry—today he indicated that he had made three. I have here the release of a speech which he made in Cardiff, and he also made one in Middlesbrough. There was also a television broadcast which I heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": " nationalisation, demanding that more public money be put into it. Where is the argument about private enterprise in matters of that kind? The difference between the Concord enterprise or big investments in the aviation industry, atomic energy, the railways, coal and the rest and steel is that steel still offers glittering prizes for the private investor. This is the whole story, and nothing else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.753.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodrow Wyatt", "preceding_text": "ritish firms produce only one-fifth of the amount produced by the five largest American firms. So size is a key factor. But anything done by way of legislation to make steel flourish should satisfy five conditions. First, it should seem to be directly and positively designed to improve the efficiency of the industry and, hence, of all the industries of this country which depend so much upon steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.759.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.760.2", "colnum": "760", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": " Liberals could at least abstain from voting against, even if they did not actively support it. Whatever may be thought of the suggestions made by my hon. Friend the Member for Pembroke (Mr. Donnelly) and myself, we may well need the support of the Liberals in this Parliament before it is finished. It is not wise to force something completely unpalatable down the throats of one's potential allies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.760.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "as it went through the House, I am sure that the Labour Party would win any General Election then fought upon the issue. Armed with the kind of approach which I have been talking about, all the talk of a spring election, about which we were reading in the newspapers yesterday, would evaporate. It would be entirely unnecessary. We could pursue our policies uninterfered with for the next four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "d carry through its declared aims without the loss of one particle of its principles. An arrangement of that kind could be a model of how public control and ownership can work with the private sector. It could be followed in other industries as need arose. It would also fulfil all the conditions I have outlined earlier. I believe that it would win the admiration and sympathy of the entire country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They voted Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "and hon. Gentlemen opposite are quite wrong in supposing that those who work in nationalised industries prefer working for nationalised boards rather than for private employers. They had better get that out of their minds straight away, because those who are working under the National Coal Board or the Railways Board are not a bit interested, as individuals, in working for monopolies of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "ns which have taken place about this Amendment I do not think that anybody has really emphasised what is my particular objection to the nationalisation of the steel industry. Nobody, so far as I have heard, has pointed out that the danger to the economy is that all the nationalisation started with the return of the Socialist Government in 1945 and that all the nationalisation has pushed up prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.767.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "preceding_text": "You look it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.768.2", "colnum": "768", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Lady does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "hich said, \"Vote for nationalisation: you will have more coal, better quality coal, and coal at cheaper prices\". I remember that, and so do my constituents, and all I am saying is that this, of course, has been the theory which has been developed. I say \"theory\" because practically no hon. Member opposite has made an informed speech on the steel industry. Most of them do not know a thing about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.768.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "preceding_text": "t an argument. Surely the point is that the onus of proof lies upon the nationaliser. He has to show how he would organise the industry, and how he would overcome the difficulties so that the advantages he claims would accrue to our country. That has not really been attempted, but it is something that should be done. After all, we have not had too happy an experience with existing nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "preceding_text": "naliser. He has to show how he would organise the industry, and how he would overcome the difficulties so that the advantages he claims would accrue to our country. That has not really been attempted, but it is something that should be done. After all, we have not had too happy an experience with existing nationalisation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] Well, what about coal, and what about the railways?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.775.5", "colnum": "775", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Stuff?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "s disputes between unions which have troubled us. Nevertheless, apart from the General Strike, there has been no general stoppage in the industry this century, and that is something of which everyone in the industry should be proud and of which the country as a whole should be proud. I turn to the subject of technology. I thought that we were going to have more stuff today on technology generally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.775.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.775.5", "colnum": "775", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "ht about it already. If they have not, they have not thought about very much. What type of monopoly do they intend to impose? What I mean is, will customers of the steel industry—say, firms in the engineering industry—be forced, whatever the price or quality, to buy from a nationalised industry, or would they be able to import across whatever tariff there may be? That is a very important question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.775.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh dear, drop it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "me Ministers he has not been a respecter of parties. It has been fair shares. I was disappointed in the speech of the right hon. Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain Macleod). The prodigal was returning into a situation that he had expected, and having played his part in the defeat of the Tory Party he was coming to serve the Leader of the Opposition when he said that he could not with honour serve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why muck it up?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "aid, \"And power in this country is steel.\" This is the core and centre of economic power in Britain. This is what hon. Members opposite have been saying and what the steel industry has been saying. They have been saying that the national economy rests upon the industry and have talked about the dependence of our exports on an efficient steel industry. We accept all this on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member is not in the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "en saying and what the steel industry has been saying. They have been saying that the national economy rests upon the industry and have talked about the dependence of our exports on an efficient steel industry. We accept all this on both sides of the House. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why muck it up?\"] I am not mucking it up. I am pointing it out, as the hon. Member should appreciate more than anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "w that we are dealing with an industry which historically has depended upon protection. It has created its restrictive practices within itself and there is not a word from hon. and right hon. Members opposite about them. Restrictive practices at home, monopoly at home, and cartelisation abroad. This is what the propaganda has been about. We did not upset the steel applecart. It was the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Gone 'bust'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I am not flirting. If that industry had been in private hands, would there have been any inquiries or any drawing back from the brink because of electoral considerations? It would have gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is on the grouse moors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ut we cannot run a basic industry in that way. It had to be nationalised. The same is true of coal. Is any right hon. or hon. Member opposite prepared to say that the position of the coal industry would have been as good today if it had not been nationalised? I am looking for the right hon. Gentleman who was Secretary of State for Scotland in the last Government, but I do not see him in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.783.1", "colnum": "783", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "iate exactly the difficulties. When Sir Andrew McCance was asked if he would finance the steel strip in Scotland, he said, \"Do not talk to me about it. I have enough trouble getting finance for my own developments.\" This is true, and it is true of future developments. We talk about our worldwide competitive position. In actual fact, we are not in the top ten in the modern provision of steel mills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.783.1", "colnum": "783", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "s according to political needs, does the House think that this matter will be settled just by putting 51 per cent. of the industry into four companies? That solution is irrelevant to the problems of the industry and its complexity. We must face the facts. If the Liberals are looking for a solution to the problem, they should go back to what was said by Lord Beveridge in his book \"Full Employment\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " in the 1945 Parliament to nationalise the industry was not dogmatic. It arose out of the history of the steel industry itself. The dogmatic approach to it was the approach of the Tory Party in 1953, the same approach which it made to transport, and the Minister of Transport of the last Government knows quite well the difficulties which that has led us into. Let us not make the same mistake twice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.786.3", "colnum": "786", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting that we get a much more refined type of private enterprise in order to be successful. I am pointing out the defects of our own industry and suggesting our own remedies. Our own remedies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.786.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-09", "file": "debates1964-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "31477d0018af08c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ree enterprise steel a greater measure of freedom will produce a solution to the difficulties which it has obviously met in the Restrictive Practices Court. I do not think that by giving it a sort of half-way Liberal house will meet the difficulties. The simpler and cleaner solution is the solution of public ownership. How are we to do it? Hon. Members opposite must make up their minds about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-09a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "May I ask my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.818.4", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Can I ask my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.818.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows the answer to the second part of that Supplementary Question. It is well known—it received much publicity—that we were not able to consult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "From what the hon. Gentleman has said, it would appear that fewer people are to be moved out of London by this Government than were moved by the last Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.825.8", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pike", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pike", "preceding_text": "Does not the Answer which we have just heard indicate that the recent investment programme in telephones is now bearing fruit and that the waiting list has been cut? Should I remind the Postmaster-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.825.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.825.8", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pike", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pike", "preceding_text": "Does not the Answer which we have just heard indicate that the recent investment programme in telephones is now bearing fruit and that the waiting list has been cut? Should I remind the Postmaster-General—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—may I remind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.825.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.825.8", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pike", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pike", "preceding_text": "Does not the Answer which we have just heard indicate that the recent investment programme in telephones is now bearing fruit and that the waiting list has been cut? Should I remind the Postmaster-General—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—may I remind—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—may I ask for an assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.825.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister any evidence that the Chinese Government have modified their view of the inevitability of war between the Capitalist and Communist countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You cannot do that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "In that case may I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he wishes to dispute the accuracy of the Daily Telegraph report of his speech? He said that noise near London Airport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "art to put these deficiencies right. This will call for increased expenditure in certain fields, where the economic and social benefits are clear, and reduced expenditure in others, where money is being spent without social or economic benefit. No Minister has yet told us from where the economies which are to compensate for the increased expenditures referred to in the Gracious Speech are to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.848.3", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " react vigorously to attempted intimidation. I come now to one of the announcements that was made in the course of the debate on the Speech by the First Secretary of State and Minister for Economic Affairs with respect to offices in the south-east of England. That was followed by a White Paper. No one would dispute that the concentration of office work in central London constitutes a real problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.848.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.858.2", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " Gracious Speech, and having, therefore, accepted the consequences of their action in so doing, it is up to them to remedy them as quickly as possible. And the observations which I am addressing to the House are related to that theme, as I think the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Duchy very well understands. If the hon. Gentleman has heard of the worry of tenants as I have heard of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.858.6", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "—I hope that the hon. Gentleman, who has been in the House a good many years, and longer than I have, will accept from me that it is extremely important that the Government should make a clear statement on one or two of those points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.858.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Douglas Houghton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not know the answers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Douglas Houghton)", "preceding_text": "e fact. If we are not exactly the masters now, we are the Government now and we certainly propose to carry out our programme to the best of our ability. Nine-tenths of the right hon. Gentleman's speech was a running interrogatory, asking questions which could be answered only by making Second Reading speeches on half a dozen Government Bills and this is not a suitable occasion on which to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.864.0", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "This is important. Do I follow from what the right hon. Gentleman has said that his right hon. Friend will tomorrow tell us the full additional cost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Impartial?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": "nts of yesterday, but I want to take up one sentence in the speech of the Minister of Power. I gave him notice and I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for being here. Six years ago the Spectator set up an independent inquiry into the steel industry under the very distinguished chairmanship of Warden Chester of Nuffield College. This was a totally impartial body and it produced a long report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Lambton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Lambton", "preceding_text": "s country, and one would have thought that it was above all necessary that our relationships with France should have been kept pleasant at this time, but precisely at the psychological moment when France is telling Europe that we are not to be depended upon we give full proof that that is precisely the case. We then have my right hon. Friend reducing all over the world our apportunities for trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Lambton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Lambton", "preceding_text": "that there will be very great limitation for industry as a whole. What is exciting, what is advancing, what is progressive in all that at this time? Then, at home, we have nothing but nationalisation of everything. There is no suggestion that I hear of a new dynamism. There is no suggestion from any speaker on the Government Front Bench of any great new advantage which will accrue to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.948.3", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "d a copybook campaign—and the Prime Minister now finds himself with the support of fewer votes in the country than any of his precedessors since 1951; there cannot be much consolation for him in that. The right hon. Gentleman finds himself with a majority of four, but we now understand that we are exposed to a new hazard—the Patronage Secretary and the Government Whips are no longer able to count.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "er to the Foreign Secretary. Of course he has always been adviser to the Foreign Secretary arid always able to advise when required. Now he is to advise on technology, but he has always done so. He is a very remarkable man, a distinguished professor of biology. I think that it is appropriate that an expert on tadpoles should be an adviser to the present Administration. Then we have the economists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. It is in the recollection of the House that the right hon. Gentleman referred to a distinguished civil servant, who gave hon. Members opposite very great support through 13 years, to whom he referred by name, Sir Solly Zuckerman, and then referred to him in a contemptuous phrase as a professor of tadpoles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.954.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.955.9", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.955.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.955.10", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "n to the First Secretary of State, if he can regain his sense of humour, what I said. If the right hon. Gentleman will look it up he will find that I said that I admired Professor Sir Solly Zuckerman. Those were my words and I did not sneer at him. I did refer to the Government Front Bench. If the First Secretary of State wants to have my assurance about Sir Solly Zuckerman he can have it in full.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.955.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.955.12", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman can take his time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "d which can give offence to Professor Sir Solly Zuckerman then of course I completely withdraw it, but I do not withdraw anything which has given offence to the First Secretary of State or to the Government Front Bench. Now, perhaps we can turn to the question of economic policy and the way the Government are operating. I was going to say something about the First Secretary, but there is not time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.955.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman and his Government left the problem.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. They said nothing in the White Paper about the rise in costs which would result, the rise in wages, the increased demand on the home market and the effect on exports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "What about the export incentives, which amount to three-quarters of 1 per cent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "as had his opportunity. He spoke for an hour. He did not explain the cost of all this, the £70 million, one of the most expensive ways of dealing with the problem. For the £70 million we get nothing. It will go to everyone who has already exported. It is only when one goes beyond that, when the Chancellor has to find the money, that one gets any benefit at all. How did they get into this position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ntial drawing rights under the International Monetary Fund, to say nothing of other sources which can be mobilised in case of need. The right hon. Gentleman went on: In addition, we should use short-term interest rates to staunch any flow of short-term capital. That was the policy in January—serious, sober economic policy. That was the policy which went on until the middle of the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " sources which can be mobilised in case of need. The right hon. Gentleman went on: In addition, we should use short-term interest rates to staunch any flow of short-term capital. That was the policy in January—serious, sober economic policy. That was the policy which went on until the middle of the General Election. [ Interruption. ] The First Secretary knew the figures; they were being published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did he say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "olicy. That was the policy which went on until the middle of the General Election. [ Interruption. ] The First Secretary knew the figures; they were being published. [ Interruption. ] Of course they were. They were published by the Board of Trade; the First Secretary himself said so. Once we had got into the middle of the General Election, what did the Prime Minister—the absent Prime Minister—say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.959.2", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.959.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Common Market.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "overnment on every occasion is to try to produce a snap statement which only presents half the truth. I want to give the Lord President of the Council whatever time he wants, even though mine has been cut so short, but I want to say a little about the international repercussions of the Government's Measure. When one goes through the Gracious Speech one stumbles across a most astonishing paragraph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.961.5", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of lie Council (Mr. Herbert Bowden)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of lie Council (Mr. Herbert Bowden)", "preceding_text": "tted that during the debate he had learned more about our policy in the Gracious Speech than he did from the speech itself. We, too, should admit that in the 22 days we have been the Government we have learned more about the previous Government's record than we ever dreamed we would learn. We are beginning to ask ourselves what the position is likely to be tomorrow, when we get to the Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.961.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.961.5", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of lie Council (Mr. Herbert Bowden)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of lie Council (Mr. Herbert Bowden)", "preceding_text": "we greatly respected, Mr. Harry Crookshank, was doing what I am doing tonight, namely, winding up the debate on the Queen's Speech. He said—and many hon. Members will remember this—that when the Conservative Government got in in 1951 they found skeletons hanging from the candelabra. What did we find? We found that the candelabra had been swept under the carpet with the balance of payments deficit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.961.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.965.1", "colnum": "", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "and it looks as if the lines have been closed. I am required, as Leader of the House, to say one or two other things in reply to the debate, but time is slipping away from me. I want to say something about a subject to which some of us feel a little hesitant in making reference—the problem of Commonwealth immigrants and what is now, unfortunately, gradually becoming known as the Smethwick problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.965.1", "colnum": "", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Such as? \"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " coloured, but usually when we talk about the problem we are talking about coloured immigrants. This problem will be dealt with only on the basis of its being a social problem, and we must get away from the racial issue, but it is nonsense to pretend that it did not become a racial issue. It did. Many things were said in Smethwick and other Birmingham constituencies which ought not have been said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.965.1", "colnum": "", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "s problem will be dealt with only on the basis of its being a social problem, and we must get away from the racial issue, but it is nonsense to pretend that it did not become a racial issue. It did. Many things were said in Smethwick and other Birmingham constituencies which ought not have been said. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Such as? \"] I have in my hand a leaflet which I particularly do not want to quote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.965.1", "colnum": "", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the imprint?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "way from the racial issue, but it is nonsense to pretend that it did not become a racial issue. It did. Many things were said in Smethwick and other Birmingham constituencies which ought not have been said. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Such as? \"] I have in my hand a leaflet which I particularly do not want to quote. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"] Very well. I have a photostat copy of it and this is what it says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-10", "file": "debates1964-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a944bf507a637f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.977.4", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I have been very generous to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-10a.977.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1018.7", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Thompson", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that he has really said nothing at all, and I had a similar Answer about six months ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1018.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1020.2", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "I quite agree with my hon. Friend; something has got to be done about this problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1020.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Postal charges.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "ive effect as a serious disadvantage. It is not our objective to cushion British industry from competition; if British producers should use the protective effect to raise their prices unwarrantably, then we shall ensure that the Price Review Body which is about to be set up will investigate and adjudicate on their actions. I think that the Committee as a whole would agree that that should be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": " explanatory White Paper and Report from the Government Actuary. All the details will then be before the House. My right hon. Friend will, at the same time, give full information about the war pensions increases. Subject to the timely passage of the legislation, the changes will come into operation in the week beginning 29th March, 1965, which, for practical reasons, is the earliest possible date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I want to say about the machinery, about which I thought there was some tittering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORPORATION TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "es of the Government for toning up the economy to face the future. The taxation proposals which I have made today are the necessary counterpart to the measures which the Government have taken to put our external position right. They also take account of the Government's proposals for additional expenditure on pensions and benefits. They are a direct consequence of the situation which we inherited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORPORATION TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "o take account of the Government's proposals for additional expenditure on pensions and benefits. They are a direct consequence of the situation which we inherited—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If hon. Gentlemen do not think so they really cannot understand how the balance of payments can be as it is. These proposals are proof of our determination to find the money needed for the claims of social welfare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "e financed out of the growing expansion of British industry\". Nor did the Prime Minister correct him. The Prime Minister said: Over the period of a Parliament, in our home programme for expansion we can do all this out of the increment of current production. On television he repeated himself, and said: Over the period of a Parliament I believe we can do it without any general increase in taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Secretary emphasised the other day the importance which they attach to holding prices. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned it again today. I remind him that when the Socialist Government were last in office the proportion of the nation's wealth which was taken in taxation was one-third. We were able in 12 years to reduce it to a quarter. Now the process is being started again, and we are returning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1067.3", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Horner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Horner", "preceding_text": "ple pay their contributions to the trade unions. The boss would always freeze their wages. They have no need to await a wages policy of that kind. The rôle of the employer, it seems to me, was to pay as little as he could possibly get away with. This has been the traditional wages policy in our society for as long as anyone in the Committee can remember. Twenty years ago, Comrade Donaldson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1067.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1084.0", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "se payments are made is not a weakened currency—in other words, that they will meet not only their verbal obligation but their moral obligation to satisfy the feelings which their propaganda has generally stimulated. I want to look at that a little seriously—this is a Budget debate and not a Second Reading debate—to see how likely our currency is to keep its purchasing power in present conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1084.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "rue to suggest that. There was no resistance from this side to improving the pensions which are payable to older people. Indeed, as my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition said this afternoon, this was pledged by the Conservative Party, and I am quite certain that if a Conservative Chancellor had been here this afternoon he would have been introducing improvements in the old-age pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1105.1", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": " That is the same sort of position which we have been experiencing during the last 13 years. Successive Chancellors have clung rigidly to the idea that what was necessary and essential was to strengthen the £. In order to do so they adopted monetary techniques. But with the strengthening of the £, in each case we experienced a stagnated economy. No hon. Member present can challenge that statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": ". Today we are importing manufactured goods which we could manufacture in this country had we planned our economy on more reasonable and rational lines during the last 13 years. As a short-term measure, we believe that the 15 per cent. surcharge will help. It is to be imposed on all imports other than foodstuffs and raw materials. It is not a form of protection, as the Chancellor made quite clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down. The hon. Gentleman has only just come in.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "preceding_text": "rose", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How does the hon. Gentleman know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "The economic situation would have been made use of by a Tory Administration to increase charges of some kind or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Political.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Samuel. I do not know whether you heard the statement by the hon. Member for Ilford, North (Mr. Iremonger) in which he accused my right hon. Friend, during the course of his election campaign, of keeping up the practice of bribes, as I understood him to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1118.3", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "preceding_text": "conomic situation, but I have questioned in my own mind whether the Prime Minister might have taken another course, whether, on the revelation of all that has come to his notice in the past fortnight, he might have gone immediately to the country and given the people the true facts. I am sure that if he had the next election would have depleted the ranks on the benches opposite almost to oblivion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1118.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": " the remedies were. One remedy could be devaluation of the £, but I claimed that that would be disastrous for Britain, E.F.T.A. and the sterling area. Another remedy would be to put up the Bank Rate and to bring in hire-purchase restrictions. But I pointed out that the Labour Party was committed against that. The new Government were committed to continuous full employment and continuous expansion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "tleman may have to drain off demand by making savings more popular. We should look at the idea of a unit trust run by the National Savings Movement. If the Financial Secretary will look into the pigeonholes at the Treasury he will find some Conservative ideas. There was a pamphlet on industrial investment certificates and a paper called \"Every man a Capitalist\" which was published a few years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": " we have been expanding our economy. Everybody in the Committee knows that before one can start exporting the raw materials must be bought to manufacture the goods to send abroad. Stockpiling has been going on. No one can deny that. Coupled with that fact, it was known that there was to be a General Election in October. There was no manoeuvrability about that. We knew that it had to be in October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": " all right to get an overdraft from one's bank provided one does not spend the money. If I get an overdraft of £100 from my bank and then invest the £100 in stock, I am not any worse off than I was before getting the overdraft. The fact that I owe £100 does not mean that I am bankrupt. That is the position in this country. Too much emphasis has been placed on the fact that there has been a crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1140.3", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "oughout the accusations underlying this debate is the fact over the past thirteen years that the Conservative Administration has, to use the words of one hon. Member, been disastrous. I am not going into the merits or demerits. Suffice it to say that after thirteen years of Tory Administration the standard of living has gone up by 40 per cent., the quickest and highest rate of increase in history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "rder or softer. There are many people who, when about to return to this country from a holiday or a business trip, finding that they have a few francs or lira left, spend the money on some cheap souvenir which they do not really want rather than take the trouble to exchanging it here. If they knew that they could get a tax-free return on their money, I am sure that they would take the opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daniel Awdry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daniel Awdry", "preceding_text": " handsome and generous tributes to my right hon. Friend for all that he had done. He is very widely respected. I am profoundly disturbed at the great damage done in the last few days to that good will. It takes many years to build up international good will in foreign affairs and it can take only a matter of hours to wreck it. The recent action of the Government has made me ashamed of our country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-11", "file": "debates1964-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "58ba713b20c45c4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT, 1949", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about England?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "d to hear my hon. Friend say that, of course, there are elderly and disabled persons who are quite competent, indeed more competent than some young and able-bodied people, and on social grounds as long as they are suitable they must be available and must have the chance to be employed. My hon. Friend raised questions about Glasgow. I have no responsibility for Scotland. No Welshman would claim it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-11a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1198.7", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Mandling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Mandling", "preceding_text": "cilities and no approach whatsoever to any European bankers under the Basle arrangement. This was the position for two-thirds of the year, which the Government now describe as their problem. The situation changed in September. I quite agree that the situation changed with the advent of the election. The situation changed. People overseas had some doubt as to the continuation of existing policies.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1198.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "meetings of the National Economic Development Council, to get agreement on an incomes policy, even an agreement of a temporary character, and it is only right to say—because it is the truth and should be known—that all attempts made by the previous Government in the last year to get agreement on an incomes policy were met with and foundered upon the continued resistance of the trade union movement", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "t across to the people who follow us a policy which is so different from our traditional outlook.\" I appreciate their difficulties. But it must be said for the sake of honesty, and for the record, that attempts have been made time and time again to get agreement on an incomes policy, but that our arguments have not been accepted. The proposal put forward, which I still believe to be the right one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "n. The right hon. Gentleman did not even mention the real issue before the Committee today. That issue is this. Do we, or do we not, think it right to raise the old-age pension substantially, help widows and remove the prescription charges? Those who vote against these rises in tax are voting against the increase in old-age pensions, the help for widows and the removal of the prescription charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "that achieved, we can afford the things we want, both at home and abroad. But if we fail in this we are in danger of failing everywhere, as the present crisis again unhappily proves. I do not believe that the export task can possibly be beyond our powers. We are already exporting more than £4,000 million a year and our total exports have been going up by between 4 per cent. and 5 per cent. a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1256.3", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "It will be found that in the last 12 months growth has been substantially better. We were within measurable distance of getting 4 per cent. growth under the Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1293.1", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Wolrige-Gordon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Wolrige-Gordon", "preceding_text": "feel keenly, has been used as an excuse to raise general taxation in order to find money for social benefits. I regard this as absolutely deplorable, first, because the present Government promised that it was exactly what they would not do when they were bidding for people's votes. They said that their increased social expenditure would be financed out of the growing expansion of British industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1305.1", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "preceding_text": "e deficit for next year on capital and current account together will be of the order of £300 million or £400 million. In other words, the economic situation will be distinctly better. I quite appreciate that the Chancellor may not wish to refer to specific figures. I understand that, but it is fair that I should make the point that in our judgment the situation next year will be distinctly rosier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1305.1", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "preceding_text": " Spearman) said, and that its effect, particularly upon our European friends, was probably not fully considered. We all sympathise with the new Administration coming in, but I must make these criticisms. However good the Government may honourably believe their reasons to be, the breaking of any international agreement by Britain is a most serious matter and is in any circumstances to be regretted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1315.1", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "\"Hear, hear\", the hon. Gentleman says. Note it in the country. The Chancellor is a worthy disciple of the late Mr. Gaitskell. I remember very well his Budget of 1951. Income Tax going up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1315.1", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A good speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "ocks, and matters of that sort, but which would be more effective. All right, the rebate will help; but the whole of the Budget seems designed precisely to add to industrial costs, and it cannot assist our competitiveness in any way. I go as far as to say that, overall, the Budget must make it more difficult to sell abroad. The speech of the President of the Board of Trade interested me very much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1315.1", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "rested in particular points which the right hon. Gentleman put forward, and I should like to put two of these to him. First, in his review of E.C.G.D. matters, I hope that he will change his views as they seemed to me before he joined the Government and that we shall export to people who will pay us and not to those who are not prepared to pay. Do not let us have dogma standing in the way of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1315.1", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "living must lead immediately to demands for wage increases. We wish the right hon. Gentleman success with a wages policy, but we believe that he has created new difficulties for himself. As for the question of assistance to modernisation, I spent this morning writing out a list of the ways in which the Budget would assist immediately. I show the Committee the piece of paper—it is completely blank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1317.5", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Diamond)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Diamond)", "preceding_text": "13 years tired may not feel it necessary to take any steps and may prefer to let the position go from bad to worse, especially as polling day is advancing. That may be the case. So far as we are concerned, it was a situation which had to be dealt with immediately. Let me put it in its context. This figure compares reasonably with a deficit of £446 million for 1960. It is nearly double that figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1317.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "lt with it by borrowing.\" I want to say, with the reserve which is implicit in my function—and which the hon. Member for Taunton fully understands—that that course was not open to Her Majesty's Government because of the expected deficit for the following year. As my right hon. Friend has said, the estimated deficit for the following year was likely to be such a figure as to be wholly unacceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1321.1", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": " if one is overspending at a spend-thrift rate is another question. We had to take action and that action has been described. I shall not go over it again. I want to deal with the main criticism from the benches opposite that the action we took was inflationary, as I understood the hon. Member for Taunton to say. I apologise for troubling the Committee with figures, but it is helpful to have them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1325.1", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "ly, it is admitted that as a result of dealing with it in this way the import charges have immediate effect, but it was the policy of Her Majesty's Government that they should have immediate effect. Thirdly, there is such a variation in the times of transit and different methods of transportation that it would be impossible to define any satisfactory method other than the time of arrival. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1325.1", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "st of living and whether steps are being taken to deal with the problem of fares, a point to which the hon. Member for Withington referred. The immediate increase in the cost of living is one-fifth of a point. The final increase in the cost of living resulting from this duty, when it goes right the way througfh the economy to its final stages, is estimated to be, all told, well below half a point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1325.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1338.5", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Outside the House.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1338.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-12", "file": "debates1964-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2f63eccd8ef66f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1338.8", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman the Member for Bexley (Mr. Heath) notice that I would attack him merely notice that I would reply to the attacks which he made upon a distinguished civil servant who is not in a position to defend himself—quite a different matter. It is obvious that the right hon. Gentleman is aware that only three minutes remain for me to reply to the debate. I propose to get on with my reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-12a.1338.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-13", "file": "debates1964-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "8332759cf548a583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-13a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAVEL CONCESSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman used. He said these concessions will be given by local authorities \"to what they regard as specially deserving classes\". The widowed mother will ask, \"Why are pensioners or elderly persons a deserving class when widows are not a deserving class?\" They do not appear in the 1955 Act. People will ask why persons over a particular age are a deserving class when those in receipt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-13a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-13", "file": "debates1964-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "8332759cf548a583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-13a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAVEL CONCESSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "They were laid down by the late Government in order to cover the existing concessions which it was the purpose of that Act to preserve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-13a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-13", "file": "debates1964-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "8332759cf548a583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-13a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAVEL CONCESSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "rpose of the Act, and the categories were so drawn as to ensure that the concessions which happened to exist at that time were preserved. But now, by this Bill, the Government themselves, by making those categories the basis of a new and general provision, espouse the view that these and these only are the deserving categories for the purpose of this particular addition to their purchasing powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-13a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-13", "file": "debates1964-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "8332759cf548a583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-13a.1372.1", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAVEL CONCESSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": "the House will agree was a very forceful and enjoyable maiden speech. If the hon. Gentleman is always as attractive in being controversial as he has been this morning, I am sure that no hon. Member will find fault with him at any time. We shall all look forward to hearing him frequently in this Parliament. I cannot help feeling that there is a certain amount of mixed-up approach by the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-13a.1372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-13", "file": "debates1964-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "8332759cf548a583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-13a.1399.1", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAVEL CONCESSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Bill seeks to allow all local authorities, not just those which historically do so, but all, to grant travel concessions to, among others, old people if those local authorities have municipal transport systems. On the face of it, I agree that this seems sensible and reasonable. There are many old people now living far from the centres of towns, thanks to the success of Conservative housing policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-13a.1399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-13", "file": "debates1964-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "8332759cf548a583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-13a.1399.1", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAVEL CONCESSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "y wish to visit them. To this sort of old person extra cash would be a far greater benefit than a travel concession facility. Old people in this position are not able to use the concession, whereas if they had the cash they could help their relatives, by contributing to the cost of their tickets, to visit them. This might be an inducement to relatives to make long journeys of this sort more often.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-13a.1399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-13", "file": "debates1964-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "8332759cf548a583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-13a.1404.1", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAVEL CONCESSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "amentary Secretary said that generally speaking, it was the responsibility of the Government to ensure that the needs of the aged, the disabled and all other specially deserving classes of the community were met. It was in discharge of this responsibility that the last Conservative Government increased pensions no fewer than five times, so that for every 1s. prices went up pensions went up 2s. 4d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-13a.1404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-16", "file": "debates1964-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35acb96268310e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.8.4", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give an answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "Again, I would put a question to the hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.8.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-16", "file": "debates1964-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35acb96268310e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.8.4", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give an answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "Again, I would put a question to the hon. Lady. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Give an answer.\"] As soon as hon. Members on the back benches opposite stop baying, I shall certainly answer. But I would put this question to the hon. Lady: why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.8.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-16", "file": "debates1964-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35acb96268310e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.13.5", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "I can well understand my hon. Friend's feelings. They were my own feelings. When I arrived at the Ministry my desire was to give the increases as quickly as possible. We must go back over the last 13½ years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.13.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-16", "file": "debates1964-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35acb96268310e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ost needy as quickly as possible, she should consider laying the regulations raising the assistance scales in a matter of weeks. As a matter of record, we did this in eight weeks at the end of 1955. It may well he that, with the increase of modern management methods, it is possible to do it in even less than eight weeks. I hope that the right hon. Lady will not remove all hope from the most needy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-16", "file": "debates1964-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35acb96268310e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-16", "file": "debates1964-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35acb96268310e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Well, she is a friend of mine. Will my right hon. Friend accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.21.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-16", "file": "debates1964-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35acb96268310e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.26.8", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. With great respect, is is not the custom in this House to allow an hon. Member who asks a Question to ask a supplementary question?!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.26.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-16", "file": "debates1964-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35acb96268310e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.35.2", "colnum": "35", "heading": "RAILWAYS (MOTORMEN, SOUTH-EASTERN SECTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monslow", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate the Minister on the steps that he has taken. I am confident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.35.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-16", "file": "debates1964-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35acb96268310e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.36.6", "colnum": "36", "heading": "MINISTERS AND MEMBERS (REMUNERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "If it is not too far out of order, I should like, on behalf of the whole House, to express our deep concern about the illness which has overtaken Mr. Speaker and, on behalf of the whole House, to express our sincere wishes through you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, for his speedy recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.36.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-16", "file": "debates1964-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35acb96268310e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.108.2", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRPORTS AUTHORITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "reatment of passengers and that must be put right. One of the first things the Authority must do is to look into passenger treatment. I wish the Bill well. I only wish that it had been introduced two or three years ago. I asked on many Thursdays for its introduction, but it did not get priority. I suppose that resale price maintenance took its place, but it should have been brought in last summer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-16a.108.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.177.6", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that his statement will arouse considerable interest in Scotland? Is he aware of the possibilities of a considerable amount of money coming from the Scots through this stamp? Does he realise that many hundreds of thousands of Scots overseas, who were driven there during the years of the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.177.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.184.2", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The estimates about the future profitability and financial return of postal services to meet the target of 8 per cent. laid down by the previous Government revealed a shortfall of exactly the kind that I described, of the exact size that I described, last week. Any further questions about what happened last summer should be addressed elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.184.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.189.6", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "—to observe every single piece of programme planning on all three television and all three sound programmes in order to satisfy myself that it did not clash with any other attraction of the kind that my hon. Friend has mentioned. Such a task would be totally impossible and totally unacceptable to Ministers of either party. I hope that hon. Members will not continue to table Questions of this kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.189.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.198.5", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "In view of the new regulation, which was not reported to the House until I put down a Parliamentary Question, may I ask whether the right hon. Gentleman will kindly give me an assurance about any new regulations—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—I am not making any allegation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.198.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS EMBARGO)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said that this statement had far-reaching implications. Not to have made it would have had far-reaching implications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.203.0", "colnum": "203", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS EMBARGO)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "enunciation of the Agreement by either side. But I am bound to say that if he thinks that one consequence of the arms embargo that we have announced would be that the South Africans would or should denounce the Agreement, then I come back to what I said earlier, that it would mean that all the dependence that we have on this communications equipment would be highly vulnerable in conditions of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Bowden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Bowden)", "preceding_text": "eputy-Speaker. I have it in command from Her Majesty to acquaint the House that Her Majesty, having been informed of the subject matter of this Motion empowering a member of the Chairmen's Panel to act as Speaker, gives Her consent thereto. The need for this Motion, as the House will know, is that Mr. Speaker has undergone an operation which we are all glad to see from reports has been successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule.—(ACTS CONTINUED.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": "attack, which is something which, to my knowledge, has never been done before. What an attack it was! It may well be that the right hon. Gentleman has arrogated to himself the right to judge moral and political leprosy, or he may be relying on his two notorious supporters, the Bishop of Southwark and Canon Collins, two churchmen much more noted for their politicsthan for their Christianity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule.—(ACTS CONTINUED.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Sir Samuel. However, I do not apologise for feeling some heat on this question, because my Black Country men are dear to my heart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule.—(ACTS CONTINUED.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": "Yes, certainly. By \"cheap labour\" I do not necessarily mean underpaid labour but labour at a price—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.274.3", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule.—(ACTS CONTINUED.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": " only too terribly true. These people should be admitted to this country because, whether we like it or not, it is our fault that they are in this state and we ought to do our best to find homes for them when they ask us. This is where Government interference and Government direction would be justified. They could be found homes where they would not be overcrowding the existing working population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.274.3", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule.—(ACTS CONTINUED.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Rugby?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": " in this state and we ought to do our best to find homes for them when they ask us. This is where Government interference and Government direction would be justified. They could be found homes where they would not be overcrowding the existing working population. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] These people are mostly craftsmen and there is always room for craftsmen in many different parts of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule.—(ACTS CONTINUED.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " that it is a subject which falls into a class which I am now approaching where remedial action of a tactful kind can be taken and can yield good results. The same thing applies to what was a serious grievance with regard to West Indians in Birmingham, and that was that, according, no doubt, to their customs in their own country, they kept jollifications going until the early hours of the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule.—(ACTS CONTINUED.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Remedial action is beginning and this is a hopeful feature to which we want to fasten on. Again, and one might say that this is a small thing if one is not living in the street, Indians and Pakistanis look upon the occupation of houses in a way different from that of our own people. They do not bother to cut the hedges in the small front gardens. They let the land overgrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule.—(ACTS CONTINUED.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "knowledge the courage of the Prime Minister in making the statement last night, directed as it must be to an extent towards his own supporters. But I feel increasing doubt whether we are wise to approach this problem by what I might call rolling generalisations and ex cathedra condemnations by bell, book and candle directed against particular classes. We are all, of course, against the colour bar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "our cities for tens and hundreds of years, only if we draw on the experience of the past which the working class has accumulated, shall we find a right solution to the problem which is now troubling us. But it calls for a great administrative drive, a drive which we are beginning to associate with this Government. Some of us have had some very agreeable surprises from some very unlikely Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "preceding_text": "hy I opposed the Bill then and why I support the renewal of the Act today. My position is really like that of the Government. Although the Home Secretary gave us an informative speech, however, I did not think that he fully explained the Government's change of mind as from last year's position and the reasons for it. Although I was not present at the debate last year, I have read every word of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.363.2", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "We are dealing with the situation that exists, which we have been asked to do. There is a contrast between the way in which the party leaders have dealt with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.366.2", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " reads a little further on in the same report in The Times he will see what this question has to do with the Conservative Party. The Times correspondent continues: In the creation of this electoral atmosphere the Conservative Party at Smethwick has played a leading role. The evidence is there in black and white in the files of the local newspaper. It is plain and undeniable. That is the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.369.3", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "a £100 fine or three months' imprisonment. The Labour Party has also been learning from Hitler, but we also learned how to kick out dictators. The voters at the General Election will vote to keep out dictators as they did to Smethwick's Labour Council. I do not know whether hon. Gentlemen opposite think that that is stirring up racial hatred or not, or do they think it is promoting racial harmony?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.369.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": "In view of the very constructive suggestions put forward by the Government in this debate, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.391.7", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not so young.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": " supported him—the intense feelings of hatred for someone whom they think congenitally inferior to themselves. Those feelings arise, I think, very largely from psychological insecurity. But there are also, if I may say so to the right hon. Member for Hands-worth, intense feelings on the other side. Maybe we should not feel them. I do not altogether blame the hon. Member for Smethwick. He is young.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.391.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-17", "file": "debates1964-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4ea6ee7f7ed0be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Laurence Pavitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Laurence Pavitt", "preceding_text": "I feel rather diffident in intervening at this late hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-17a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-18", "file": "debates1964-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "8fd054f6c9c0585f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-18a.426.3", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman do something to help the growth of Prestwick, to which he referred, and this very important area of Scotland, by paying more attention to the desires of passengers rather than to the finances of B.O.A.C.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-18a.426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-18", "file": "debates1964-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "8fd054f6c9c0585f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-18a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION FROM EVICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " much more questionable whether furnished lettings should be dealt with in a measure of this kind at all. The essence of furnished letting is very different from that of an unfurnished letting. It is foolish to generalise in these matters, but, broadly speaking, an unfurnished letting is a letting to a family and, equally broadly speaking, a furnished letting is to an individual, to single people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-18a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-18", "file": "debates1964-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "8fd054f6c9c0585f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-18a.512.3", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION FROM EVICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "I think that to have introduced into this that the court may take account of hardship, which is a very vague term—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-18a.512.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-18", "file": "debates1964-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "8fd054f6c9c0585f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-18a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION FROM EVICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "n-Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter), is that in this Bill the agricultural licensee has been singled out for attention. Why is this so? Why is it that the railway worker, the mineworker, and so on, and, indeed, a whole host of other licensee tenants are not mentioned? My hon. Friend suggested, and I should like to suggest to the House as well, that this is a deliberate attack on the tied cottage system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-18a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-18", "file": "debates1964-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "8fd054f6c9c0585f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-18a.552.3", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION FROM EVICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roots", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thank you for the warning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roots", "preceding_text": ", to achieve vacant possession of the remainder and then have the whole premises to sell. While accepting the need for the Bill, it would be foolish simply to live in a sort of golden paradise and not to recognise that this Bill does nothing to prevent Rachmanism but, in fact, because there is no incentive to let, encourages people to try to get control of the whole house so that they can sell it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-18a.552.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-18", "file": "debates1964-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "8fd054f6c9c0585f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-18a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION FROM EVICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "rouble, in my view, has come about, and I seriously warn those who want to defend this position to remember the homeless families so many of whom are evicted from furnished accommodation. It has been suggested that there will be far fewer lettings to university students and other single people as a result of the Bill. I am advised that most lettings of this kind are licences and are not tenancies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-18a.557.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-18", "file": "debates1964-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "8fd054f6c9c0585f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-18a.576.2", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAMBIA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "ition of a survivor because that delegation was led by the late and loved Walter Elliot and the deputy leader of our delegation has already been referred to in this debate from both sides of the House. He was Arthur Creech Jones, and, if I can add my own tribute, I would say that Arthur Creech Jones was a very constructive Colonial Secretary, a man of wisdom, a man of his word and a man of honour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-18a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-19", "file": "debates1964-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eca031abee86050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.595.8", "colnum": "595", "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 the right hon. and learned Gentleman not aware that the public differs from him on this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.595.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-19", "file": "debates1964-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eca031abee86050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.606.4", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "This is a complicated subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.606.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-19", "file": "debates1964-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eca031abee86050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "out of that reply, may I ask the hon. Lady whether she will look at this matter in view particularly of the steady increase in the number of cases of corporal punishment inflicted on these inmates, for although one knows that many of these inmates can be very provocative, nevertheless the incidence of corporal punishment regarding these young people seems to be rather an anachronism in these days?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-19", "file": "debates1964-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eca031abee86050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WALES (RESPONSIBILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed Gentleman the Member for Cardigan (Mr. Bowen), we did try to make contact with him direct. Finding that impossible, we did what we thought was the next best thing and tried to do it through the offices of the Liberal Party, which we considered to be appropriate. We were informed by the Liberal Party, most courteously, that the hon. and learned Gentleman, most unusually, was away from his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.628.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-19", "file": "debates1964-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eca031abee86050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.630.3", "colnum": "630", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WALES (RESPONSIBILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Jones\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. T. W. Thomas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.630.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-19", "file": "debates1964-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eca031abee86050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WALES (RESPONSIBILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend further aware that for the last 60 years we have been agitating for what he has done to be done? Since this is an historical event so far as Wales is concerned, may I be permitted to say, on behalf of the people of Wales, in their own language, and in one sentence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-19", "file": "debates1964-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eca031abee86050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is one in front of you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ajority of two and we can get away with it. Everybody will be bored with it. These constitutional matters do not very much excite, and anyone who is not frightfully dull will be scolded out of the House by the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne for levity, and anybody who is frightfully dull will drive everybody else out, and it will be fairly safe.\" I am sorry that I do not have a Liberal audience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.691.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-19", "file": "debates1964-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eca031abee86050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way I have nearly finished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-19", "file": "debates1964-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eca031abee86050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.698.5", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Percival", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "se of Commons, and of course it is not. There are other alternatives. There is another place where some of them can do their functions. But if the Government are too bigoted to use that alternative then it is open to them to have persons appointed who are Members of neither House, and that is but a small extension of the way in which the services of two notable ex-Europeans are already being used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.698.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-19", "file": "debates1964-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eca031abee86050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.734.2", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Curran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Curran", "preceding_text": "cision does not appear to rest any longer in this House. So far as I can see, this House has become more and more a registry office for recording decisions taken outside it. The Bill will accentuate that process still further. It will, I suggest, mark a further stage in the decline of the House of Commons as a place where decisions are made, as distinct from a place where decisions are registered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-19a.734.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-20", "file": "debates1964-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "41ad6751e1fa0dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-20a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REMUNERATION OF TEACHERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg (St. Marylebone)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg (St. Marylebone)", "preceding_text": "me out into the open. It is not something which can be swept under the carpet. Sooner or later, a decision must be made. Sooner or later, this House must be apprised of that decision. I know that, having said what I have said, the Minister of State will say, \"Well, of course, that is your fault\"—that is, my fault and that of my predecessor in his office—\"that this thing has become a party issue.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-20a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-20", "file": "debates1964-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "41ad6751e1fa0dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-20a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRICKS (SHORTAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I am being fair. I was fair to the right hon. Gentleman this morning, when I telephoned him and told him the scope of this debate. He cannot complain that I am unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-20a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.910.4", "colnum": "910", "heading": "CONGO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend bear in mind that it is vital that those who are holding these hostages should be persuaded to release them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.910.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "CONGO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "t may I ask the hon. Gentleman, first, what was the first day on which any British initiative was taken about the British subjects who are at present at risk in the Congo? Secondly, is it not worth taking almost any steps which are designed to save these people from slaughter, or the possibility of slaughter? Will the hon. Gentleman or one of his colleagues take the first plane out to these talks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "BANK RATE (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " circumstances in which our Bank Rate is being increased. No assurances were, of course, given to the American Government before their own election about what would happen in relation to the Bank Rate. We are both free to move our Bank Rates in the way we think appropriate. As to the Budget, I think that that has been grossly misrepresented abroad, including by some hon. Members of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "BANK RATE (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Throughout last summer—if the right hon. Gentleman wishes to keep this up—he, and particularly his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, denied that there was any need to take steps of this sort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "BANK RATE (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Throughout last summer—if the right hon. Gentleman wishes to keep this up—he, and particularly his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, denied that there was any need to take steps of this sort—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I say this to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "BANK RATE (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "f the right hon. Gentleman wishes to keep this up—he, and particularly his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, denied that there was any need to take steps of this sort—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I say this to the right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] He constructed our financial economy like a house of cards, and the first whisper of truth blew it down. There is nothing to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.917.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.917.5", "colnum": "917", "heading": "BANK RATE (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Chequers.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Whilst wishing, from the national point of view, that these steps help sterling considerably, may I ask why Bank Rate was not put up last Thursday? What has happened between last Thursday and this morning to make necessary what appears to be a panic measure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.917.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.919.10", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "ish—I think that I have proved beyond doubt that they are—or that they are not independent—and I hope that I have proved that they are completely independent in the sense that the British Government can use them whenever they like. I turn from the present force of the bombers to the Polaris submarines. The British Government can use them whenever they decide that the national interest requires it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.919.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I said \"in the course of the last few days\". As has been said, we are debating this matter tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the measures that were introduced a month ago to operate on exports and imports, which were the inheritance of right hon. Members opposite, and which the then Prime Minister went on denying when he was pathetically proclaiming on the hustings—I know that he does not want to listen to this now, but he is going to get it—when he went round the country saying that the country had never been stronger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hat the country had never been stronger—[ Interruption. ] This had already been dealt with. We are now dealing with a purely financial factor. I hope—and I am going to say this before I leave the subject—that we shall get from right hon. Members opposite today and tomorrow concern for and recognition of the fact that sterling is not a party asset of any party but an all-party and a national asset.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"M.L.F.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "er sharing and consultation in the deployment of N.A.T.O.'s nuclear strength. We on this side of the House are irrevocably committed against more fingers on the trigger. We have made it clear on the Opposition benches. We made it clear during the election, and, unfortunately, we have never succeeded in extracting a similar unambiguous statement from the Leader of the Opposition and his colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "4 hours, or ask them whether they thought that we should do it? This is an extraordinary argument. We have had a month of continuous negotiation. Does not the right hon. Gentleman think that we should not have had it anyway if we had asked permission first? What does he think would have happened to sterling and our imports during that period? The right hon. Gentleman's approach on this is totally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Anthony Courtney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Anthony Courtney", "preceding_text": "f hon. Members opposite in so many cases in the history of the last years, considerably before I arrived in this House. They seem to have put strategic considerations last whenever it was a question of conflict with their pre-concept of moral international issues. Hon. Members opposite must bear a great load of responsibility for the fact that the Suez Canal is no longer an international waterway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "f a British deterrent was something which stimulated German appetites, and, in fact, the German attitude on the M.L.F. was not a proposal which came from Germany in the first instance. It came from the other side of the Atlantic. That was the position about the missile. Now I come to the organisation. The main proposal on the organisation came from the British side and it is contained in clause 4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "self so much to his own party. He finds no difficulty in raising cheers from the jingo which lurks so close beneath the skin of so many hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite, though not all of them. The right hon. Gentleman put a really excellent case against the current proposals for a mixed-manned surface fleet. Indeed, he aroused his own back benchers to a frenzy of Gaullism as he deployed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Of course, it is inevitable when this issue has played so large a rôle in one of the longest election campaigns in our history that much of what is being said about it today is being influenced by party considerations. I believe that the nation's security is too serious a matter to become the shuttlecock in a game between the parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ing imposes unacceptable strains on our economy, then it will weaken and not reinforce our influence in the world. When we decide the size and pattern of our defences, we must watch with extreme vigilance their impact both on our balance of payments and, even more important, on our productive resources, particularly in scientists and skilled manpower. We must make sure that we get value for money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ity in office, have been calculated to force them in the opposite direction. When he summed up for the Opposition this evening, the right hon. Gentleman spoke as though the Alliance today was facing no problems whatever, as though N.A.T.O. was not under serious strain. In fact, the Alliance today seems to be on a collision course, with America, Germany and France all moving in opposite directions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman said about the current proposals for a mixed-manned nuclear force, and I believe that the time has come, as the Prime Minister said, when we must take a fresh look at the real purposes of the Alliance and not allow ourselves to be paralysed by a theological obsession with one particular proposal for a mixed-manned nuclear surface fleet. What do we as a Government have in mind?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " involved in massive new expenditure on weapons of which the Alliance, as the right hon. Gentleman said, already has enough, particularly when such new expenditure must give a fresh impetus to the arms race. All this leads irresistibly to one conclusion. We must be prepared to consider including our existing and planned strategic nuclear forces in such an arrangement so long as the Alliance lasts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " impetus to the arms race. All this leads irresistibly to one conclusion. We must be prepared to consider including our existing and planned strategic nuclear forces in such an arrangement so long as the Alliance lasts. [ Interruption. ] If right hon. Gentlemen will take the trouble to listen, and if their hon. Friends will allow them to hear, I shall come to that. Beyond these general principles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give the answers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ld carry on for 25 years, he needs even more instruction from his right hon. Friend than I imagined. If the right hon. Gentleman still holds the view which he expressed at Ottawa, surely he cannot object to the present Government if it attempts to make that fearful combination of American and British nuclear power more certain and more effective. I put another question to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not give some answers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ol? Those were the actual words used by the Minister for the Navy in the right hon. Gentleman's Administration speaking in another place on 17th March this year. If the right hon. Gentleman believes that that time may come, surely he must want it to come as soon as possible and he will support the Government's efforts to bring that time nearer. I will ask the right hon. Gentleman another question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "We have argued on many occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1036.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "We have argued on many occasions—[ interruption. ]—if the right hon. Gentleman wants to hear my answer perhaps his hon. Friends will allow me to give it to him. My answer is that I agree entirely with the Leader of the Opposition that we could not meet a Soviet missile threat independently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1036.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1036.3", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I am answering. This is what the right hon. Gentleman chose to ignore a few moments ago. The last question I want to ask the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1036.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-23", "file": "debates1964-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "08b3f19417769077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1036.4", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE(NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NASSAU AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members opposite will give me a chance I will answer, but meanwhile I propose to make my own speech in my own way. This is the key question behind the whole debate. Do hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-23a.1036.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1075.7", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "that I should wish to complete, with the local authority associations, the review of housing subsidies and finance, before any statement is made about interest charges on loans for local authority house building or on mortgages for house purchase. I should make it plain, however, that help to intending owner-occupiers would require legislation and that there will not be time for that this Session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1075.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1076.3", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman alleged in his supplementary question that rates of interest for building societies were bound to rise now. I should like him to notice that Mr. Lewis Cohen, Chairman of the Alliance Building Society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1076.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1081.6", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I wanted to ask a supplementary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1081.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1089.3", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The E.F.T.A. countries?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " to see where they stand on this issue. We are entitled to a clear answer from the Opposition whether they think that action was or was not required. They ought to tell us which of those two views they hold. In our view, in the situation in which we found ourselves, this action was required. We have been confirmed in that view by those in other countries who take, per- haps, a more impartial view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1089.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1093.2", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I have a rather long speech to make to explain the Bill, because there is much in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1093.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e policies, such as the reform of the tax structure, and, more urgently, the fresh start in an attempt to get an incomes policy, a drive for technological improvement, the preparation of a plan covering all the elements of a faster rate of economic growth, and a drive for more exports, add up to a substantial task and to a substantial piece of work for five weeks in the life of the new Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "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 wish to recriminate. I do not intend to go over that, I merely say to the House as a whole—and the Opposition should refrain from laughter—that unless the House and the country recognise the seriousness of this situation, which has been measured by the action which the Government have had to take, we cannot have the drive that is necessary to ensure that this country is fully competitive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have made it worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "that unless the House and the country recognise the seriousness of this situation, which has been measured by the action which the Government have had to take, we cannot have the drive that is necessary to ensure that this country is fully competitive. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It is no use the Opposition saying \"No\". Are they saying that there is not a serious situation? Is that what they are saying?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1108.5", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "We would not have got into this situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1108.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1108.5", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"YOU did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "geration adopted by the party opposite. The Prime Minister is aware of this. Yesterday, he said: We are dealing with a situation where what matters is not what our trade and payments position is, but what people overseas think it is.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 23rd November, 1964; Vol. 702. c. 914–933.] If people overseas think that our position is worse than it really is, who made them think that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1108.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1108.5", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "sition is, but what people overseas think it is.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 23rd November, 1964; Vol. 702. c. 914–933.] If people overseas think that our position is worse than it really is, who made them think that? [HON. MEMBERS: \"YOU did.\"] This is extraordinary. We have been accused of underestimating the present difficulties; now we are accused of exaggerating them. The figure of £800 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1108.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1109.3", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "tly published trade figures show quite clearly that before any question of the imposition of the surcharge was made imports were beginning substantially to decline. All these are reasons why the situation has been exaggerated. Then there has been the extraordinary mishandling of the import surcharge. Even The Times , which can hardly be regarded as the most enthusiastic pro-Conservative newspaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "onable for a new Government to review all expenditure, but to do that straight away in respect of a joint project with the French Government and to single out that project in this way was obviously ill conceived. The fact is that Concord sticks out like a sore thumb. \"Let's go with Labour‡\" Then there is the treatment of South Africa over the Buccaneers. The announcement is coming tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1110.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1118.2", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "—are not interrupted.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "The tradition of the House, which the House observes with great courtesy, is that maiden speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1118.3", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "—are non-controversial", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1118.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1118.5", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Roberts", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. Is it not a fact that the reason why courtesy is extended to a maiden speaker is that the tradition was that maiden speeches were not controversial? If that is correct, we are quite prepared, I am sure, to give the hon. Gentleman a courteous hearing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1118.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1118.7", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is not a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I would ask hon. Members, when a point of order is being put to the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1118.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "preceding_text": "query seriously certain statements made by the right hon. Gentleman. My hon. Friend accused the right hon. Gentleman, among other things, of being highly tendentious in his selection of authorities. As a result of that, I listened all the more carefully to what the right hon. Gentleman had to say today. The right hon. Gentleman was not merely tendentious this afternoon, he was downright dishonest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One Of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "August or July—all right. Moreover, that agreement included certain terms and conditions in regard to the policies which should be pursued by the British Government which took the loan. Is that true or is it not? The right hon. Gentleman has an opportunity of answering the question. He has said that some of my previous suggestions were poppycock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "ago—should treat the House to bunkum of this kind and suggest that the sterling crisis is due to the presentation of figures perfectly accurately known to him and everyone else concerned in the matter. It is the same kind of nonsense to suggest that the act of putting on the surcharge on manufactured goods is responsible for our difficulties—not because we did it, but because of the way we did it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "and moves on, the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be able to reassure the investment trust movement that it does not have to believe the bogey-man view of the Labour Government Front Bench put up, very illadvisedly, by the Opposition Front Bench. The businessmen in the City will learn that in the long run the Labour Party and the Government are something not inimical to their long-term interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1183.0", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "long, investigated and made a tremendous fuss. Eventually, they said that he did not have to pay the duty. The problems for people passing through the Customs are rigorous, and rightly so in many cases, but we should be trying to help the exporter. In fact, we are not. Many Customs officers are fine, courteous men, but, unfortunately, there are many who think it their duty to be arrogant, cynical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1183.0", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "uage. But when he goes abroad and cannot speak the language, allied to the other difficulties, he often says, \"It is not worth the bother\", and does not go. I should like the Board of Trade to make available much more readily the assistance of interpreters, perhaps glamorous interpreters. If we want to glamourise the job of exporting, let us do it properly. Let us have a regular weekly T.V. panel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1183.0", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "s. We must, therefore, give the maximum publicity, not to export companies, but to the people doing the exporting. Unfortunately, we do not make enough fuss of our exporters. Turning to the Budget as a whole, I know that in terms of economics it balances on the right side. The Chancellor has, therefore, shown that it is not inflationary. But it has created, to some extent, an inflationary climate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1196.1", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Certainly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "preceding_text": "side, the Budget was and is inflationary. Everybody in the country who knows anything about it and everybody abroad thinks that it is. Combined with stopping modernisation on the railways and restarting rent control, it indicates a return to the high consumption, low investment, fuddy-duddy economy we had in 1945. That has unquestionably done a lot of harm. May I say something about the surcharge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1203.1", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "preceding_text": "Tax. The fact of the matter is that vast numbers of people's interests are directly affected by the hesitation which is universally felt, through his fault, at this time, and I beg him to remove the uncertainty. The hon. Member for Woolwich, West spoke of Sir Stafford Cripps in his remarkable speech. Certainly, all of us in the House will have the greatest respect for the late Sir Stafford Cripps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1217.1", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "rge quantity of the goods will be exported but cannot identify those which will not. I come to the larger question which is raised, and obviously overshadowing the debate has been the announcement made yesterday of the increase by 2 per cent. in the Bank Rate. It has been noticeable that some hon. Members opposite have scarcely been able to conceal a certain pleasure at this rise in the Bank Rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "Not £800 million, but no one ever suggested that it would be £800 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "till have been at a wholly unacceptable rate, and it is that which hon. Members opposite do not want to face up to. The third way of putting the argument is by saying that the pressure was the result of the inflationary effects of the Budget. There can be no doubt, and hon. Members on both sides have given expression to this view today, that there has been misunderstanding abroad on this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MaeDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MaeDermot", "preceding_text": "te insufficient, and it was, therefore, necessary to impose additional taxes taking effect at once at a rate approaching £100 million a year which was the advice we were given and it has not been challenged. We achieved this by the increased duty on petrol and derv which will bring in about £93 million a year. Taking together, the £125 and the £93 million will have a strong disinflationary effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MaeDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MaeDermot", "preceding_text": "r, the £125 and the £93 million will have a strong disinflationary effect—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] That has not been appreciated abroad; I think that it has not been appreciated in the City, and I do not think it is appreciated, even at this moment, by hon. Members opposite. Do hon. Members opposite still say that it is wrong to impose that degree of taxation, or do they still say it is inflationary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1240.6", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPYARD, ABERDEEN. (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "—and for the Aberdeen Trades Council in particular. If the hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley) will allow me, the time is very short—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1240.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-24", "file": "debates1964-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "267257a738c544f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1242.6", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPYARD, ABERDEEN. (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The essential part of that letter from the Minister of Labour which the hon. Lady did not read is this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-24a.1242.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1270.0", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am not responsible for reports which come from any country outside this country, or, indeed, for reports in the Press here. What the hon. Gentleman has said is not really true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1278.2", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "CONGO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "While all of us will have learned with relief and thankfulness of the saving of these many lives, does my hon. Friend agree that it is entirely a matter of speculation what would have happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1279.0", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "CONGO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Americans.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether the Minister would join with me in paying a tribute to the Belgians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1285.1", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (BUCCANEER AIRCRAFT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Following the point raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for Conway (Mr. Peter Thomas), I think that the Prime Minister is quite aware that over the resolution that he refers to he is constantly misleading the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1285.1", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (BUCCANEER AIRCRAFT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Following the point raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for Conway (Mr. Peter Thomas), I think that the Prime Minister is quite aware that over the resolution that he refers to he is constantly misleading the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] There were 11 points in the resolution with which Her Majesty's Government agreed, because we did not want to hamper United Nations' activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1285.3", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (BUCCANEER AIRCRAFT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister has stated that general trade with South Africa is important and that there must be no general boycott, which is important because many of our industrial cities have large numbers of coloured immigrants who are dependent on trade with South Africa for their jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "t without their weekly payments, would be forced to go to the National Assistance Board for help. I want to make it clear that what I am about to say does not reflect either on the Ministry's headquarters staff or on the staff throughout the country. These men and women deserve very great praise for their work, and particularly praise for the very heavy burden that they carry at times of uprating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1322.3", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ill remember that on the last Bill the Labour Party was thinking along very much the same lines in the Amendment on the constant attendance allowance, which would have been the same thing for the chronically sick. We were grappling with this problem through last summer. I hope that the right hon. Lady will continue to grapple with it where we left off and find an answer. It is extremely difficult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1322.3", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "arn her own living, but she will get it regardless of how much she earns. But had she been widowed on the day before her fiftieth birthday, she would get nothing beyond the 13 weeks' resettlement benefit because she would he deemed to be able to earn her own living. She would get nothing even though she could not earn her own living. We therefore have an absolutely rigid boundary at the age of 50.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1327.1", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "This is probably one of the things that I would have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1328.0", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cynical.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "I propose to put down an Amendment for the no-shilling widow. That is why I am giving so much notice now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1328.0", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "I propose to put down an Amendment for the no-shilling widow. That is why I am giving so much notice now—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Cynical.\"] It is not cynical. We, too, had considerable plans which we would have carried out had we got back into power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael McGuire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael McGuire", "preceding_text": "I had received since I entered the House, and I like to think that, among the prayers offered, there is one directed particularly towards the giving of strength to maiden speakers. The man I succeeded had been Member of Parliament for Ince for 22 years, Mr. Tom Brown. I know that he was loved and respected by his constituents, and I am sure that he enjoyed great respect on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1372.3", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not to all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady expresses that point of view she contradicts my opponent who represented her party in my constituency. He said that the only increase was 4s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1372.5", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "it tired of this nonsense that we heard in the early part of her speech, and I think people outside the House are getting tired of it as well. I wish right hon. and hon. Members opposite would cease constantly arguing about what took place between 1945 and 1951. Many people who voted in the election were very young in the period 1945–51. One cannot argue comparisons between a siege economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1372.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALACE OF WESTMINSTER MEMBERS' FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I do not want to say at this moment, for a reason which I am sure the right hon. Gentleman will consider a good one. I am prepared to tell him afterwards, but not publicly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-25", "file": "debates1964-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "701f5397b6ba7fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1437.3", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALACE OF WESTMINSTER MEMBERS' FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whitehall.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "entary Labour Party. I am certain that the right hon. Gentleman has all our interests at heart in trying to make the best use of what is available. We all wish him well in his tour of the Westminster district in trying to find other accommodation. I have been looking around in my mind. I am sure that we shall not be put in St. Margaret's, Westminster. I hope that it is not the Middlesex Guildhall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-25a.1437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1443.5", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONG KONG", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "ard Hong Kong as the shop window of democracy in the Far East? Is she aware that it was only four months ago that the right to form political parties was conceded to the people of Hong Kong? In view of that fact, and in view also of the increasing prosperity, there is now a growing desire for a greater share in running the Colony by the people of Hong Kong. Will my hon. Friend say whether or not —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1443.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1451.3", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL TERRITORIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "In view of the use of the word \"leper\", would not the right hon. Gentleman agree that the remarks made recently by his right hon. Friend —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1466.5", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the double standard code of conduct applied in respect of a Government who refused arms to Portugal in respect of her overseas territories but allowed arms to South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1466.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "STERLING (CENTRAL BANKS' CREDITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ives at a time when they had been drifting down and left the new Government to take over this responsibility when their own policies in relation to exports had obviously failed a long time ago. Secondly, I must say that I think it a little impertinent of hon. Gentlemen opposite to adopt this self-righteous air when they have embarked on prestige projects which have imposed a heavy burden upon our—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1480.4", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "STERLING (CENTRAL BANKS' CREDITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pounds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether my right hon. Friend could say how much of the 1,000 million dollars stand-by credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1480.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1481.1", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "STERLING (CENTRAL BANKS' CREDITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carol Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carol Johnson", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will no doubt recall that in the autumn of 1957—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1481.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1493.1", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RESTRICTION ON RECOVERY OF POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "preceding_text": "posite, many of whom sat for so long on this side of the Chamber, have not learned, as we have done very quickly, the difference between sitting on this side and on that. I sat on the Government side for 13 years, and was frequently told, \"Please do not speak on this important subject\"— on which I am sure I must have had so much that was useful to add—\"because we want to get on with our business.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RESTRICTION ON RECOVERY OF POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julius Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Everybody has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julius Silverman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Islington, South-West (Mr. Albert Evans) has moved an extremely important Amendment. I hope that my hon. Friend the Joint Parliamentary Secretary will forgive me if I take up a little time. I know that he is anxious to make progress. This is extremely important, because we want to know who has the power to prosecute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1540.1", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RESTRICTION ON RECOVERY OF POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " great debt of gratitude for his help and for the courtesy he showed when he was Chairman of the Social Services Committee of the Trades Union Congress and I was Minister of Pensions and National Insurance. Therefore, what I have to say about this memorandum far from conveys any reflection on the admirable man whose name appears at the bottom of it. I hope that he did not compose it. It says this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1547.0", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RESTRICTION ON RECOVERY OF POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bert Hazell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bert Hazell", "preceding_text": "tages they occupy. We have heard sentimental expressions about the farmworkers. This has been typical throughout the years. The farm-workers have made their comments on this issue known to every Minister of Housing, every Ministry of Agriculture and, I believe, every Prime Minister for many years. Until now, they have received no encouragement on a matter which is a social blot on the countryside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1547.0", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RESTRICTION ON RECOVERY OF POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bert Hazell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bert Hazell", "preceding_text": " about a situation that might well have occurred to them. There may be, and it is argued that there will be, hardship to the farmer if he cannot secure possession of a cottage for another worker. Indeed, the right hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames stressed the fact of the incoming worker to the farm who is looking for accommodation. There is not a great measure of hardship today for the farmer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1548.3", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RESTRICTION ON RECOVERY OF POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hazell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hazell", "preceding_text": "e the people who are to receive some measure of protection by the Clause. The question of farmers' hardship is played upon very considerably. Do we really give full weight to hardship on the worker? If a farmer finds that he has to wait a little longer for his House, as he may well do when the Bill becomes an Act, he has transport available. He can convey a man to and from his farm to the village.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1548.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1548.3", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RESTRICTION ON RECOVERY OF POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hazell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hazell", "preceding_text": " and small townships. If the farmers obtained temporary relief by the acceptance of the Amendment, it would be only temporary, because more and more young people are determined not to live in isolation where they cannot secure the amenities to which they have been accustomed in the villages or small towns. In every constituency—North, South, East and West—there are hundreds of empty tied cottages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1548.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RESTRICTION ON RECOVERY OF POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are for furnished lettings.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Member. In Perthshire 182 houses have been provided in this way. These areas are sparsely populated and I suggest that the houses on the farms should be occupied by people actually working on the farms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1567.3", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RESTRICTION ON RECOVERY OF POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " have been thinking about it a great deal to see what we can do to reassure the N.F.U. which has a genuine case in this respect. I have emphasised how special is the position of the farmworker. The more I hear about lonely farms and lonely cottages, the more I feel for the unfortunate cowman who has a bad farmer, when they are lonely in isolation and hating each other. This is a terrible disaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1567.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1570.1", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RESTRICTION ON RECOVERY OF POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "do not wish to know because they are such cads.\" We hope to improve relations by eliminating the temptation to the tiny majority to use a right which they should never have had. 8.15 p.m. We have given a twelve-month period of delay as a maximum, but we are also relying on the county court judges, who in my experience are not overwhelmingly biased in favour of agricultural workers against farmers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1571.0", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RESTRICTION ON RECOVERY OF POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn King", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn King", "preceding_text": "efit of their farms, and it would not be right if an undesirable incentive were given to them to take less pride in their housing than they previously did, or if there were a growing tendency—it has already started—to use caravans instead. Finally, there is the most important point of principle. Right hon. and hon. Members opposite have said on many occasions that housing must be a public service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1582.1", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RESTRICTION ON RECOVERY OF POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "It is kind of the hon. Member to think of my welfare, but I was not doing that at the moment. For the Minister to say that the farmer can go to the county court and get an order sounds very fair and reasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1582.1", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RESTRICTION ON RECOVERY OF POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": " I am not saying that there could not be some amendment made in the administration of the county court jurisdiction—I have always thought that there might well be—but it does not exist at the moment. The system is one of going on circuit. It takes a long time to get a case on and it may be adjourned The Minister probably does not know, and if he does not listen he will never learn, how easy it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1588.0", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RESTRICTION ON RECOVERY OF POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "they would have done in a case that happened to me. On one occasion I went to my farm after a long day's work and found the cows unmilked, the reason being that the cowman, who was employed jointly with his wife—who looked after the calves—was busy chasing his wife round the kitchen table with a carving knife. The first thing I had to do was to get rid of the wife. I had to get her out of the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1613.1", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "PROTECTION FROM EVICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "The Government, I think it is reasonable to say, intend to consider it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1625.5", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "PROTECTION FROM EVICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "I find the Clause remarkably unsatisfactory in many aspects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1625.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1628.2", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "PROTECTION FROM EVICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "o to the county court to have his summons heard for eviction of a tenant if the situation so warrants? The right hon. Gentleman has made vague promises of doing what he can to speed this procedure, but I do not understand how he will be able to do it. Perhaps he can elucidate this to the Committee. We should know before we part with the Clause. As I have said, I do not want to weary the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1628.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-26", "file": "debates1964-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "9bc60867395bba40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1641.0", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Clause 2.—(SUSPENSION OF EXECUTION OF ORDER FOR POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "s it is will meet the point. The right hon. and learned Gentleman defended the owners who are not so well off as their tenants. There may be such owners—and I recognise that there may be—but my right hon. Friend has already said that this legislation, perhaps for the first time in the history of this country, tilts the legislation in favour of the tenant. For that we on this side do not apologise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-26a.1641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-27", "file": "debates1964-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c83c95d1420c3b76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1709.3", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "GRAMMAR SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkins", "preceding_text": "ensive schools. The views of teachers are also extremely important and, as the Minister will be aware, there is considerable divergence of views among teachers in Bristol about the advisability of this scheme. I am very much afraid that these views of the teachers have tended to have been disregarded. Scant attention can well be said to have been paid to them. This is a matter of great importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-27", "file": "debates1964-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c83c95d1420c3b76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1733.1", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "GRAMMAR SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": "Gentleman the Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond) has been poking fun at the Conservative Party recently in the Press. He has been telling people that when the crunch comes in the Conservatives' internecine warfare the right of the party always wins the day. I must say that the figures for Liberal Members of Parliament are as follows. State schools, nil, independent schools, 100 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-27", "file": "debates1964-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c83c95d1420c3b76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1735.1", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "GRAMMAR SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"School?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "Indeed where are the Liberal Members gone?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-27", "file": "debates1964-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c83c95d1420c3b76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1751.3", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "GRAMMAR SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "e sometimes forget things which are wrong. Early leaving needs far more attention. There is over-concentration on O level examinations. I have heard grammar schools lauded to the skies. I have heard it said that they produce scientists, etc., but there is still no career for the grammar school product, however good, in the higher ranks of business, the Army, the Church and some of the professions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1751.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-27", "file": "debates1964-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c83c95d1420c3b76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1751.3", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "GRAMMAR SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Forty-six\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ols lauded to the skies. I have heard it said that they produce scientists, etc., but there is still no career for the grammar school product, however good, in the higher ranks of business, the Army, the Church and some of the professions. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] How many grammar school boys become judges or are in the top rank of the Army? How many occupy seats on the other side of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1751.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-27", "file": "debates1964-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c83c95d1420c3b76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1762.0", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "GRAMMAR SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with the hon. Member. I ask again: why are we anxious? I say quite frankly that it is because there are enemies of the grammar schools in the party opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-27", "file": "debates1964-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c83c95d1420c3b76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1762.0", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "GRAMMAR SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "l and in Liverpool, and only last week the Economist talked of the plain spite to be seen among some local education authorities. The question is what the Minister will do. I would remind him that in a comparable situation in the Labour Government of 1945–50, the late Miss Ellen Wilkinson and Mr. George Tomlinson played a fine rôle in keeping their own wild men in order on education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-27", "file": "debates1964-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c83c95d1420c3b76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "GRAMMAR SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bristol.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "l rather than that offers a range of studies which I particularly want for my child\", or even \"I simply prefer that school to this\". The extent to which any parent can get his own way on that must depend on the fact that if more people want to get their children into a particular school than there is room for, some will be disappointed. I could not find, on looking at the Liverpool plan in detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-27", "file": "debates1964-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c83c95d1420c3b76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "GRAMMAR SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " married and it is called a single comprehensive school. To what extent does the Secretary of State mean to use his powers either to encourage or discourage that kind of thing? My case is that a Minister who intervenes in the first sense to set himself up as a pope or who fails to intervene on appropriate occasions in the second sense is in both cases failing to discharge his duties as a Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-27", "file": "debates1964-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c83c95d1420c3b76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "GRAMMAR SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What do you think?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ister who intervenes in the first sense to set himself up as a pope or who fails to intervene on appropriate occasions in the second sense is in both cases failing to discharge his duties as a Minister. [ Interruption. ] I am glad that hon. Members opposite say \"Ah\", because I take it that they want me to ask the Minister what occasions he considers to be appropriate. That is what I propose to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-27a.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.6.7", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the greatest task facing this country at the present time is the problem of increasing its imports and that to do that we need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.6.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.17.5", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Smyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Smyth", "preceding_text": " that this is because parents of these young men do not believe that they have a settled career in the Gurkha Brigade? I ask the right hon. Gentleman to allay this anxiety. In regard to my second Question on Gurkha recruiting generally, there is still a feeling in the Gurkha Brigade that they have not got a very settled future and this is affecting recruiting in Nepal, and the general problem of —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.17.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.17.5", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Smyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Smyth", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman to allay this anxiety. In regard to my second Question on Gurkha recruiting generally, there is still a feeling in the Gurkha Brigade that they have not got a very settled future and this is affecting recruiting in Nepal, and the general problem of —[ Interruption. ] I have two Questions on the Order Paper. This is affecting recruiting and maintenance in the Gurkha Brigade. I suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.17.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.24.9", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "We have mentioned this to the Eire Government but I think that it is too minor an incident to expect a protest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.24.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.37.10", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Before I call the right hon. Member for Berwick and East Lothian (Sir W. Anstruther-Gray), may I take the opportunity, which I welcome, of paying tribute to him, on behalf of the Committee, for the able, devoted and distinguished services which he rendered as Chairman of Ways and Means throughout the last Parliament. Sir William Anstruther-Gray.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.37.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.64.6", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ook the matter a little further than the point which was raised. Do not let us keep raking up something that we have already discussed and which has been amply explained by the Prime Minister. Let me make my point again. Some of the extra money obtained should go to assist the old-age pensioners. They have suffered for a long time as a result of the policies pursued by the Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.64.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman can really sustain that for one moment. A person starts to pay the full standard rate of Income Tax round about £800 to £900 a year. Therefore, if a man is receiving a salary of around £1,600 a year and if we take the difference and multiply it by 6d. in the £, that alone give a figure of around £80.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.73.3", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member should be aware of his facts. Let us be quite clear. Hon. Members opposite went to the country saying nothing at all about the deficit on balance of payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.73.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.74.5", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir Harwood Harrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir Harwood Harrison", "preceding_text": "would raise Income Tax. I ask another question. What did the Liberal Party say about raising Income Tax? Did it make great play of the fact that when it got back to Parliament on the votes of commuters who will pay the increase of 6d. one of the first votes it would give would be in favour of raising the standard rate of Income Tax? When we receive the Budget Resolutions there is very little time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.74.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.76.3", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Crawshaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And 6d. on petrol?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Crawshaw", "preceding_text": "he answer. We can argue about this all day, because our philosophies are completely opposed on that point. We do not believe that it is quite the same for a person earning £2,000 to £3,000 a year to pay 5d. extra on a packet of cigarettes as it is for a working man. The two sides are arguing at cross purposes, because we on this side can never see the point of the argument put by Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.76.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "out. I would like the Government's view to be stated clearly by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. As far as I know, no one has ever said that this increase in the standard rate of Income Tax is to be used for the increases in the retirement pensions. It is true that, if we were told that these pensioners were to have the benefit of the increase in Income Tax, both sides would be prepared to pay it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "I heard speeches from hon. Members opposite which I should like to answer and which, in the view of the Chair, were relevant and I shall continue to discuss them in so far as the previous occupant of the Chair allowed those speeches to be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.82.3", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "That is obviously what the hon. Gentleman had in mind. At least, that is the logic of what he is saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.82.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.91.2", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "f our Parliamentary system is beginning to be portrayed very clearly to the eyes of the world. It appears that we oppose for opposition's sake, and try to be clever at each other's expense. I do not think that this is the best way for a modern society to run its system of government, and I would counsel hon. Members to give a little consideration to that aspect of the problems which confront them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.91.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.108.3", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "n the past. I have no doubt that oppositions will do it in the future. This present Opposition are certainly doing it now. Nevertheless, I beg them not to believe that there is any particular currency in their doing it in this way. There is not, and there is no particular kudos in their doing it in this way. People recognise that benefits and payments go together. That is what we are trying to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "alance of payments right, and in reducing the swollen deficit, we are, in fact, hampering our rate of growth. But as I understand it, people of all nations today, and especially our own, demand that we should live within our means, that we should have a higher standard, and that we should play our part in the world. This is a problem to which, I think, the whole nation has to devote its attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "ter rate and that many of his own complaints today would have been behind him. To say that after only 40 days the Government have done nothing in this matter is an absurd comment to make. While it is eminently flattering, it is unrealistic. But at least there has been a full adumbration of the legislative programme proposed for Scotland for the first year, including the Highland Development Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "x on to someone else. Hon. Members on both sides of the Committee could name those sections which will not be able to pass it on. They are the people who have the real cause for complaint. The rest will simply slide it on to other backs. The logic of the argument of hon. Members opposite in opposing this tax is that they are prepared to make the old-age pensioners, the sick and the injured suffer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.138.4", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "wish that the right hon. Gentleman had been as lively in defending the interests of Scotland when he had the power to do something as he is now that the power has gone from him. I wonder whether the right hon. Gentleman visualises what would happen if the proposed increase of 6d. was removed. Suppose the Minister said that he would take off the 6d. as is asked in the Amendment. Where should we go?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.138.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.139.5", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "We will leave that to the next part of my argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.139.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.139.5", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "d one or two sympathetic interrupters in the halfway party. I believe that when the decision is taken some hon. Members opposite will either support the Government or will abstain on this decision to impose the tax. This is a decision taken not because we love taxes, but because at this particular time this increase is necessary. There is nothing permanent in it. In my view, it is a temporary tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.139.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman doubts that, I refer him to paragraph 13 of the White Paper \"Development and Growth in Scotland, 1963–64\", Cmnd. 2440.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "has been a rise of at least 11,000 in the number of employees in employment in manufacturing industry alone between mid-1963 and mid-1964, a rise of 1·6 per cent. compared with a rise of 1·3 per cent. in the same period in Great Britain as a whole. This fact has enormous significance for Scotland, because under the Conservative Government we at last achieved this great break-through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Clark Hutchison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Clark Hutchison", "preceding_text": "undamental or overriding reason why the taxation system should be the same in all areas. I know that this idea was objected to by the Treasury for many years, but the objection was finally undermined when my right hon. Friend the Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling) in his Budget two and a half years ago brought in the special depreciation and other allowances which have been such a help in Scotland —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "pose to answer some of the detailed points which have been put to me during the debate. The right hon. Member for Argyll (Mr. Noble), who opened this debate, referred to the tourist traffic, and nobody is keener than I am to encourage the tourist traffic. He thought that this would be a great deterrent, that people coming from abroad would be deterred by the size of the increase in the petrol tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-11-30", "file": "debates1964-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd5d58140fb8b07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": " knowledge whether the breakdown would be on almost identical lines in Northern Ireland, but the hon. and gallant Member can draw his own conclusions from his knowledge of a comparison between the two countries. We recognise the unemployment position in Northern Ireland. We should do. We drew attention to it from the benches opposite for 13 years. This is part of the process of putting that right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-11-30a.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.209.4", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What Constitution?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": ", and is he further aware that, he having been so outspoken in his statements to the Rhodesian Government, many people in this country feel that he should now be equally outspoken to the African nationalist politicians in that country? Will he point out to them the necessity to fight constitutionally if they wish to be taken as responsible politicians rather than rely on intimidation and violence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.209.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "ive arms to a country in the Commonwealth which is not prepared to stand by any Commonwealth defence agreement and yet deny arms to South Africa which is prepared to stand by its agreements? Is lie not also aware that the concern expressed by his hon. Friend the Member for Goole (Mr. George Jeger) is felt very strongly in Pakistan, especially in view of the fact that India is one of the countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that, even if the necessity for a nuclear base in Britain is accepted—and I do not accept it—in Scotland we regard its situation as being extremely dangerous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "rty opposite is increasing direct taxation on the productive resources of the country by £45 million or £50 million more than is needed for pensions. I think that this lie about the pension had better be nailed once and for all. It is a very misleading argument. These taxes are not being imposed in order to deal with the pensions. They are being imposed for an ideological reason, to try to create—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Box", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Box", "preceding_text": "ncrease in duty will exercise an appreciable and immediate disinflationary effect and will make an important contribution towards my general objective of preventing an increase in the pressure of demand.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 11th November, 1964; Vol. 701, c. 1037.] It seems to me that, above all else, this increase in petrol duty is bound to have a most inflationary effect on prices in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has skedaddled.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "Nothing could be more courteous and I am grateful to the hon. Member. The hon. Member for Torquay (Sir F. Bennett)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Snow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Snow", "preceding_text": "eat a stretch of the imagination to say that if the imbalance of trade was between £700 million and £800 million six weeks ago by now would it be running at £1,000 million? I think that that is a reasonable calculation. There is a case for brutal action and again the right hon. Member for Bexley has been a victim of brutal action. Is it not about time that this country stopped being shoved around?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.328.8", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Samuel. With very great respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.328.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.330.2", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is not going to lead me from the argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.330.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.330.2", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": " obtain the raw material, silicon, to manufacture silica products. Their import will not be affected, but, the cost of the manufactured goods for export will be put up. In that sense the long maintenance of these surcharges may be positively injurious to the export effort we need to increase. I sincerely hope that we on this side of the Committee will press this Amendment to a very early Division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.330.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.334.4", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "did not say that\" but I happen to hold the Floor at the moment and I say that he did say it. I do not know whether the hon. Member was in the House when the right hon. Member for Barnet made the speech to which I refer. From his interventions I can only assume either that he was not in the House, or that he was asleep when the right hon. Gentleman was speaking, because all the rest of us heard it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.334.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Buying and buying and buying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.347.3", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "rmation and he did not say whether any undertakings had been given about the period involved. My hon. Friends have pointed out the difficulty of getting information about the figures the Chancellor has already given. Having been in the House of Commons for 15 years I can honestly say that it has never been more difficult to get information out of a Government than it has been from this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.347.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right honourable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Thompson", "preceding_text": "I do not want to repeat the general argument so well put by my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Thompson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Thompson", "preceding_text": " highly sophisticated production techniques mainly for the aircraft and electronic industries. This firm has had on order—and I have a copy of the contract here—for the past eight months, for delivery during the next few weeks, a unique type of vertical milling machine called a copying mill. This machine will be associated with a completely automated tape path control system developed by Ferranti.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "My remarks were not made in a personal sense, Dr. King.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw. That is all that is necessary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "My remarks were not made in a personal sense, Dr. King. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] If hon. Members will wait, I shall, perhaps, be allowed to make my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.375.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "of £500,000 worth to come. Building for this equipment has begun. This machinery is absolutely essential for the continuation and expansion of the firm's export business. The Committee will readily understand that the project is getting into very large sums of money. This firm is considering what is the meaning of the words used by the President of the Board of Trade. What is \"a temporary impost\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "ese people did not necessarily want to go into the area. They were induced to go, and in going they are taking a number of risks which they did not want to take. They are attempting to deal with specific economic problems. They should not be induced with one hand and then slapped down with the other. This must have an effect on anybody else who is considering that type of action. What have I said?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.385.3", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "I had not overlooked the hon. Gentleman's Amendment. I was coming to deal with it in a moment. I was going to say that, as so often happens in these cases, I found the Liberal Amendment on this subject of goods in transit more intelligent and more sensible than the Amendment of the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-01", "file": "debates1964-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac1c37e7c9fd13f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.392.3", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "To hear the Minister say that it was not practical to deal with the matter surprised me. Frankly, I was shocked to hear the word \"impossible\" come from the lips of a Minister of Her Majesty's Government on a question relating to righting an injustice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-01a.392.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman really must be his age occasionally. I hope that he will be much more responsible as shadow Minister of Agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Harrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Harrison", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister bear in mind—and I think that he has given an undertaking to this effect—that there are many sides to this problem and many new methods of farming which are not necessarily against the interests of animals? Of course we are all animal lovers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.454.7", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has no right to make an accusation against my Department or officials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.454.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.458.4", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "No, not at all. I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman has read my excellent article. Indeed, it may well be that at a later date we shall certainly complete our election programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.458.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1.—(EXEMPTED GOODS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "May I make a plea especially on behalf of rose growers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1.—(EXEMPTED GOODS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "at some of them are not available in this country, but, as I have said, non-availability is not an argument which the Government can accept as a reason for adding anything to the Schedule. The articles for which exemption has not been granted are not regarded as eligible because they are more fully processed than others. My right hon. Friend has a good deal of sympathy for one item, Stockholm tar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.530.2", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1.—(EXEMPTED GOODS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" There is one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "We are dealing here with the delicate mechanism of large industries. Hon. Members on this side of the Committee have made very reasoned speeches and have made their case an immensely strong one. Yet throughout the whole of this debate there has not been a single representative of the Board of Trade present to intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.569.0", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1.—(EXEMPTED GOODS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Bexley (Mr. Heath) asked me about the word \"exemption\". I pointed out that in consultations with the principals of these concerns I approached them about complete exemption within a month or two. My plea was for earlier consideration than that given to the general principle over the whole range. I got that assurance from the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.578.2", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1.—(EXEMPTED GOODS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "heme, to make additional exemptions which depart from the principle we have tried to enunciate. Aluminium oxide and silicon carbide could not, in the view of the Government, be exempted from the charge without serious repercussions on a wide range of other manufactured chemicals which must remain subject to it in the interest of maintaining the charge over as wide a range of products as possible.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.578.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.590.2", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1.—(EXEMPTED GOODS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A tariff.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "rate. There is a general shortage of this material and there is no alternative source, as I have said. Once again, the same argument applies. By the imposition of this charge, the Government and the hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite are not going to halt the importation of this material. It will continue to come in, regardless. What will happen is an increased charge and cost on the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.590.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redhead", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redhead", "preceding_text": "I can confirm the hon. Gentleman in his conviction of his own error. It will not be possible to contemplate—I did not suggest it—on Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.599.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redhead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redhead", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way to the hon. Gentleman. I have been most accommodating in giving way to hon. Members opposite. There is the further Amendment, No. 54, and this, again, would produce difficulty if it were included in the exemption list. Again, I am prepared to have a look at this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.612.5", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member keeps on talking about the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry. This is largely composed of, and certainly strongly influenced by, American companies which have established factories in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.612.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redhead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redhead", "preceding_text": "That is a more general point which I will try to return to before I sit down. May I also point out, and this should not be overlooked, that the effect of this Amendment would be to exempt also all the proprietary medicines bought for self-medication. That in itself I would not think a very strong recommendation for the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redhead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redhead", "preceding_text": " the desire to avoid the chain reaction which is possible here. Nevertheless, I will draw to the attention of the Chancellor the general tenor and content of the debate. While I am not able to commit him or to enter into any definite commitment about this, I am sure that when we consider any modification of the surcharge it is in this area that we are bound to feel the greatest degree of sympathy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.635.2", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The National Health Service.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ake the view that we spend far too small a percentage of our national income on the Health Ser- vice compared with certain European countries—the one effect of this will be that we will have to spend more if we are to bring hospitals up to date and provide the service that is needed. This surcharge will have the effect of being a tax on ill-health. It will increase the cost of treating ill-health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.635.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.639.6", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "That will be convenient, Sir Samuel. The Committee must now face the fact that, after today's debates on various aspects of the Schedule, the Government are in complete disarray.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.639.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.640.2", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "It is surprising to hear cries of \"Hear, hear\" from hon. Members opposite. Most of them have not been here all day. They are merely Lobby fodder waiting for the bell to ring so that they can come in and vote. Why have they not been here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.640.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "Sir Samuel, I do not see anything wrong with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.641.3", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "rt of thing often happens at this time of night, and we do not need to be unduly worried about it. I would have hoped that on the Government benches we would have had a modernised party but, to use the words of the Prime Minister, I think that it is still the old penny-farthing party. Some years ago, a British chemical company, in conjunction with an American firm, engaged in a degree of research—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "or the Amendment when there is this strong feeling in the building industry. My right hon. Friend was right to draw attention to the fact that there is no Minister present from the Ministry of Public Building and Works. I have in my hand a copy of a letter written to me by the British Woodwork Manufacturers' Association drawing attention to the matter, but as time is getting on I will not read it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.660.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.661.2", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman is reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "me sections of the letter which are necessary to my argument. The letter says: As you know, the recent import surcharge of 15 per cent. is increasing the costs and prices of our industry providing manufactured woodwork components for the building industry. For example, the costs of hardboard and plywood used by our industry to be manufactured into doors, kitchen storage units and panels …\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.661.5", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "I can look after myself in this matter, although I am very grateful to you, Sir Harry. I am quite prepared to leave it to the Chair on every occasion, but since I supposed that the rather irresponsible laughter indicated that I was making it up and that I had a blank sheet of paper in my hand, I thought it was as well that hon. Members should know that in fact I had a letter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.661.5", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": " on every occasion, but since I supposed that the rather irresponsible laughter indicated that I was making it up and that I had a blank sheet of paper in my hand, I thought it was as well that hon. Members should know that in fact I had a letter. [ Laughter. ] It is not the slightest use hon. Members opposite behaving in this fashion. I am quite an experienced hand in these Committee proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forbes Hendry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forbes Hendry", "preceding_text": "lar, as a result of the serious shortage of plaster board and plaster lath. This is obvious from the Question which I put to the Chancellor of the Exchequer who gave me the curt answer \"No\" when I asked that these materials be exempt from the imposition of this surcharge. As a result of the splendid progress made by the last Government in house building, and particularly in council house building—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.669.4", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A council house?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I very much appreciate the simulated indignation of the hon. Member, but may I deal with the specific point on which I attempted to correct him? The illustration given by my hon. Friend was that it would mean an additional £30 on a three-bedroomed house costing £4,500.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.669.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "This is typical of the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "This is typical of the hon. Member. [ Interruption ]. If hon. Members wish to be rude, I can go on for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodnutt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodnutt", "preceding_text": "he only type of machinery to which that lower basic rate applied. I absolutely accept the Government's statement that it is not their intention to set up this surcharge as a protective tariff. Nevertheless, protection will be its effect. Many hard things have been said about the British machine tool industry in this House, and outside, over the past few years. Some of them may have been justified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.683.6", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": ". If he wishes to intervene I shall be very glad to give way to him. I would refer to the position of cotton grey cloth, which is of very considerable interest to the cotton textile industry in this country, and I should like to point out to the hon. Gentleman who is to reply to this debate that it is the first weaving of the yarn from which cotton fabrics and a vast assortment of wearing apparel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.683.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.685.5", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is interested, I suggest that he gets in touch with the Cotton Board, from which I obtained this information. Some of the exports go to African countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.685.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.685.5", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "ry for re-export or processed for the essential requirements of industry in this country and the provision of the household goods necessary for the well-being of the general trade and industry and the families of this country. If the 15 per cent. surcharge is retained it will mean that over a very wide range of articles there will inevitably be a considerable increase in costs in the months ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.685.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.685.5", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": " way, the Opposition can keep them here for many hours, so that they have great difficulty in getting their business through. In answer to a Question which I put down the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that he would allow drawback on cotton grey cloth. Of course, this is an extremely difficult thing to do in the cotton trade, of which I have some experience, and in which I declare an interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.685.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.685.5", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "d in which I declare an interest. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] Hon. Gentlemen opposite are most extraordinary, because now it seems that if anyone has knowledge of an industry about which he is speaking, and about which he has some experience, in some way there is something unpleasant about it. I would remind hon. Gentlemen opposite that they are connected with the trade unions, whose interests they are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.685.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.691.5", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "od, and this charge may bring a definite rise in prices in certain sections of the food industry. When the Government review the matter will they look at that specific point? Will they give an assurance to that effect? Secondly, there is the question of the production of molybdenum bearing steel. On 4th November the Board of Trade made a specific tariff reduction in respect of molybdenum trioxide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.691.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-02", "file": "debates1964-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "76cf29b4b26a5485", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.695.2", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2.—(RELIEF FROM EMPORARY CUSTOMS DUTY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware of the great complication which will arise because components for some of the larger aircraft are also used in exactly the same way for some smaller aircraft? In other words, certain types of nut which have to be used, and which have to be bought in America—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-02a.695.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "I was not personally responsible for any of those.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR WEAPONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the Opposition was that we were not, and should be doing. The hon. Gentleman cannot have it both ways. In regard to the long catalogue of defence announcements from the hon Gentleman—and we are always interested to know what defence announcements he has to make, although most of them relate to things about which we have not yet taken decisions; if he wants to announce them that is all right by us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.744.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.746.3", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FORMER MINISTERS (DIRECTORSHIPS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. If that is going to be thrown across the House, one should have the right to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.746.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.746.5", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FORMER MINISTERS (DIRECTORSHIPS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is the duty of all hon. Members, in the general interest, to remain silent while the Chair is addressing the House. The point is that directly we drift into the mention of an individual case the hon. Gentleman passes out of the realms of what is possible in a question. For that reason it must be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.746.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.746.6", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FORMER MINISTERS (DIRECTORSHIPS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "If I said anything which is unparliamentary, of course I withdraw, but I would just say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.746.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "METROPOLITAN POLICE (REPORT OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "ess my appreciation also to Mr. Mars-Jones for his admirable Report, with whose conclusions I entirely agree? As the Report contains sharp criticism of the lack of judgment shown by an hon. Member in spreading exaggerated and distorted allegations against the police, does the Home Secretary consider that it is appropriate that that hon. Member should hold high Ministerial office in the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.753.2", "colnum": "753", "heading": "METROPOLITAN POLICE (REPORT OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that that involves, of necessity, some reproof of the conduct of an hon. Member, and that is inappropriate in a question. I think that it would require some other occasion, and on that account cannot be raised in this form.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.753.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.795.3", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I will not be distracted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.795.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.797.5", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I leave that point, Sir Leslie. I have made it. But the right hon. Lady must not resent the fact that my party wants to make progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.797.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.802.0", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "preceding_text": "er for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph) in speaking to these Amendments, because he did not speak to the Amendments. He followed the hon. Lady the Member for Tynemouth (Dame Irene Ward) in talking about a general review. Nevertheless, I will pursue one or two of the right hon. Gentleman's remarks. He came down to the fact that the Conservative Party favoured the appointment of a Royal Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.802.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.803.2", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has not scored anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.803.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.803.5", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not think that the hon. Gentleman should say that of hon. Members who have put their names to an Amendment. To suggest that such an Amendment is not an honest one is contrary to our traditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.803.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "widows should get something; and the sooner the day the better. I have no hesitation in putting the increased cost directly on contributions. I recognise, however, the force of what she said, and I will make just one point before asking leave to withdraw the Amendment. A big review of the structure of all the social security services must be complicated and of a kind which will take several years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roderic Bowen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roderic Bowen", "preceding_text": "ter came down against the abolition of the earnings rule in relation to widows, but he was saying in substance that if we are to abolish the earnings rule for widows, it would be unthinkable not to proceed further and abolish it for persons in receipt of retirement pensions. So far as I know, the Opposition will not oppose that part of this Bill which relates to the abolition of the earnings rule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.835.0", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "preceding_text": "I am not a late convert to the view that the earnings rule should be scrapped. The reasons for it that have been given in the past did not sound to me any more plausible then than those that we shall probably hear presently from the Government Front Bench. The earnings rule was invented by the Labour Party, which took it over from Beveridge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.835.2", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "preceding_text": "That exercise on that occasion was one that I did not consider to be honest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": " must look at this quite narrowly at the moment and decide whether the earnings rule should be adjusted now in the light of the usual criteria by reference to which the earnings rule has mostly been altered in the past. That is all I have to say on the earnings rule. I hope that the Committee will feel that it is a sufficiently plausible case for doing nothing with the earnings rule at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": " in 1958, when we gave a 10s. increase, children got 3s. 6d. There has not been a time for many years when children have had such a small proportion of the total increase as they have got now, because it is not 2s. 6d. compared with 7s. 6d., it is not 2s. 6d. compared with 10s.; it is 2s. 6d. compared with 12s. 6d., the smallest possible increase in relation to children that could have been given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Carping criticism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "children got 3s. 6d. There has not been a time for many years when children have had such a small proportion of the total increase as they have got now, because it is not 2s. 6d. compared with 7s. 6d., it is not 2s. 6d. compared with 10s.; it is 2s. 6d. compared with 12s. 6d., the smallest possible increase in relation to children that could have been given. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Well, I think so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-03", "file": "debates1964-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "83e13115abf46680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Edith Pitt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Edith Pitt", "preceding_text": "-class mothers who will benefit by the removal of the earnings rule, who, due to their circumstances, go out to work. They are the women who will not benefit by the removal of the earnings rule. I said this in my Second Reading speech. The women who stand to benefit are the professional women who have high qualifications and who have thus high earnings and whose need for the present earnings rule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-03a.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-04", "file": "debates1964-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5380eb0c345dbc41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-04a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "y evenly balanced. The sparse attendance here today does not indicate that a majority of hon. Members are indulging in leisure at present. They are hard at work in their constituencies. Nor, indeed, does the fatuous Motion which has been put on the Order Paper by a large number of hon. Members opposite, most of whom are completely unacquainted with the proper running of our Parliamentary business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-04a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-04", "file": "debates1964-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5380eb0c345dbc41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-04a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "rder by saying that while that proposal is designed to provide hon. Members with the leisure they hope to enjoy, it would merely mean that civil servants and all sorts of other people who serve us would have to stay up at night even later in order to deal with all the things which could not be done during the working day because the House would be meeting in the mornings as well as the afternoons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-04a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-04", "file": "debates1964-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5380eb0c345dbc41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-04a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "HoN.MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "s perhaps in their approach to the problem of how much Government control there should be. The rôle of the Government in this matter is to cultivate and not to control. The theme of the Government and the arts was admirably put in a booklet which has been mentioned in the House before, called \"Government and the Arts\" and it was produced by four hon. Friends of mine, three of them baronets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-04a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-04", "file": "debates1964-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5380eb0c345dbc41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-04a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "heam (Mr. Sharples) spoke about the way in which some people when they go to the countryside leave it in a condition which is desperately distressing to farmers and most unpleasant to those who come after them. We must adopt a sterner attitude towards this small minority. This applies to all the fields of leisure. Why do we have the phrase, \"To get away from it all\"? What are we getting away from?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-04a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1064.2", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "UNITED NATIONS (REFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Tilney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Tilney", "preceding_text": "ce-keeping force on a permanent basis. Next year the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter will be celebrated. Therefore, thought is now being given to the United Nations. It has grown from its original strength of 51 nations to the 115 of today. I believe that both sides of the House hope that U Thant's treatment in hospital will soon see him about fit and well again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1064.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1125.2", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "UNITED NATIONS (REFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not being fair, in that he is only reading an isolated passage from a very well-considered speech. In fact, the matter which my right hon. Friend condemned most and criticised was, as I say, the tendency of certain members of the United Nations to advocate, through resolutions of the United Nations, force for the settlement of disputes between nations.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1133.8", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are the sick ones.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "le in it are either so exhilarated or so sick that you have no problem\"— whoever \"you\" may be— When you stop they all get out and argue about which way to go. I do not know whether that is true. I can only say that we on this side of the House have the impression that it is a very sad matter if the country has been driven hard in this way in order to preserve unity within the Labour Party. I hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1133.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1166.4", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "That is particularly a matter about which we complain. The ultimate success of our exports is the surest way to solve our trading difficulties. These imposts, in their blanketing form, are designed ultimately to damage our ability to export. That is our criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1166.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1166.4", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "because I should be out of order. We had evidence at an earlier stage of the Bill that these charges are not to be as short term as we would wish. We are disturbed about this because the charges must affect a very large variety of those industries upon which we must rely if we are to succeed in our trade drive. If we are to succeed, we should be, as a nation, like an athlete about to enter a race.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1166.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1169.0", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Member for Taunton in opening the discussion on the first Amendment. I hope that what I say will not be taken as unduly stimulating, but in a tone of voice which indicated that he was trying to make himself as excited as he could be the right hon. Gentleman asked why we had to introduce what he called this wretched Measure. The answer is to deal with wretched situation which we found.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1172.0", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wolrige-Gordon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is addressing the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wolrige-Gordon", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman is addressing myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1177.5", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "This is a simple arithmetical point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1177.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1177.5", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "This is a simple arithmetical point—[ Interruption. ] I am surprised that the right hon. Gentleman intervened about it. I agree that the purpose is not to raise revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1177.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1190.2", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "made an intervention. He cannot argue that the 15 per cent. imposes an additional burden on the National Health Service if in the instance from his own constituency he admits that the firms are not only able but willing to absorb the surcharge. In addition, he argues that because of a prior agreement—he asks whether it will be renegotiated—no additional burden can be imposed on the Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1193.2", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Niall MacDermot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Niall MacDermot)", "preceding_text": "ctly understandable, however, that hon. Members should have raised this matter again. My hon. Friend the Minister of State, Board of Trade assured hon. Members that he had listened with great sympathy to the arguments which had been adduced and that he would report them to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. While making it quite clear that he could not promise that that would be reflected on Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1193.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1225.0", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "ere going on at such a rate that this year to the extent of about £700 or £800 million annually, we were not meeting our commitments on current and capital account. That is a very serious situation. We have to relate our proposals to that situation, not to a static situation, but to one in which imports are coming in at an ever-increasing rate—1963 more than 1962, 1964 at a greater rate than 1963—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2.—(RELIEF FROM TEMPORARY CUSTOMS DUTY.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": " unless we are very careful, 1965 will see a very bad trade slump. Already, there is evidence of orders falling off. Already, as far as I can see, there is a danger that the country will next year face a very difficult trade position. As a consequence, trading profits will be a great deal less, and the amount of tax collected will be correspondingly less. We may see unemployment up to a 1 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2.—(RELIEF FROM TEMPORARY CUSTOMS DUTY.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "rage him to make an extra effort. The Clause gives the impression to the businessman that the Chancellor is determined somehow to squeeze all profits out of private industry and leave practically nothing. I commend to the Chancellor the editorial comment in The Times on Monday, which quotes the Chairman of Barclays Bank, D.C.O., as saying: Profits are the motive power of economic growth … —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2.—(RELIEF FROM TEMPORARY CUSTOMS DUTY.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " How temporary is \"temporary\" so far as industry is concerned? If the impost does not last for more than two years, it cannot have any permanent effect upon our problems. If, on the other hand, he takes it off quickly owing to foreign pressure, he will merely put up unnecessarily our own costs of production. May I give another example? Another company with which I am associated, a textile company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2.—(RELIEF FROM TEMPORARY CUSTOMS DUTY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. P. G. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. P. G. Channon", "preceding_text": "ion to goods which were under contract, no concession to goods already in transport and no concession to those who were in severe hardship. All these matters point to the fact that, although perhaps it is not intended, there is a severe measure of retrospection in the surcharge. What is worse is that the House, by the Government's will, has gone on imposing a charge on health, knowledge and homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2.—(RELIEF FROM TEMPORARY CUSTOMS DUTY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. P. G. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. P. G. Channon", "preceding_text": "t release of everything from the surcharge. I hope that he will release many goods as early as possible where there is good reason to do so. I support my hon. Friend the Member for Louth (Sir C. Osborne) in saying that one result of the surcharge is considerable lack of confidence by industry in the Government. The Government imposed it in a very bad way indeed. They have got themselves in a mess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1255.3", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2.—(RELIEF FROM TEMPORARY CUSTOMS DUTY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "tom, a bad Bill. I very largely agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Scarborough and Whitby (Sir A. Spearman) that it is largely an unnecessary Bill. It is full of imposts, the results of some of which have, I am sure, taken even the Government by surprise. I thought that they were doing something to stabilise the economy, but what has resulted? This and other things have so shocked the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1257.1", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2.—(RELIEF FROM TEMPORARY CUSTOMS DUTY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": " matter of business this situation was faced, and it was perfectly right for industry to face it, because industry has a right to face things as it sees them, and there was the shattering foreknowledge of the danger of the Labour Party coming to power, and, irrespective of the balance of payments, and just because of that party's love of quotas and all the rest of it, there was an inherent danger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-07", "file": "debates1964-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5b3ce2d753c7a3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1278.0", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECCLESIASTICAL AREAS, LONDON (REORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "This is rather serious. The hon. and gallant Baronet is saying that Canon Satterthwaite himself, from whom I received this information, is a liar.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-07a.1278.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1302.6", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answered.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "Question No. 23.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1302.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "The provision of electricity is also a pretty good amenity. The design of these towers was submitted to the Royal Fine Art Commission, which made no comment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1310.1", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows a great deal about irresponsible landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1310.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1315.6", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GAS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1315.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1316.3", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "There was no leak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1316.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1316.5", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GAS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1316.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1317.0", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Hors MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that I can find no previous example where information with regard to taxation)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that I could find many—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that I could find many—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—This is a matter for Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1320.4", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman not consult the R.S.P.C.A.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1322.3", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "CORPORATION AND CAPITAL GAINS TAXES (PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not know that this is very \"instant\", because the right hon. and learned Member for Wirral (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd) indicated in his Budget speeches in 1961 and 1962 that he was considering introducing this tax to get rid of the Income Tax and Profits Tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1325.0", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "HOUSING (LEASEHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"The landlords\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "s? Is he aware that the substance of his statement appears in this morning's Daily Express ? If so, will he undertake to investigate how it is that that information became available to the Press before he made his statement? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this policy of government by statement, followed by a long interval for legislation, causes the maximum of difficulty for all concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1325.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1437.0", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION FROM EVICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roots", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roots", "preceding_text": "ed that there would be difficulties before ever they spoke. These hon. Gentlemen have spoken on fears and complaints conveyed to them by constituents. If they were trumpery, it is curious that the right hon. Gentleman's mind should have run to them as well. He has admitted that there was a difficulty here, that a number of quite innocent people would suffer, and that he could not find a way round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1465.1", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "First, on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends, I want to express our very warm regret that a Measure of this importance should have been produced for the consideration of the House at this late hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1465.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1480.1", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "l when the right hon. Member for Sutton Cold-field was at the Ministry of Power, did he not discuss this type of Order at a late hour or listen to discussions on other Orders from other Departments? Did this not happen under his own Administration? I was amused by the hon. Member for Yeovil in his synthetic and histrionic protest which filled this side of the House with sympathy for his gestation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bessell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bessell", "preceding_text": "h, South (Mr. Norwood) on his maiden speech, but I should not like the occasion to go by without a word of compliment from this bench. On behalf of my party I add my congratulations to those which have been expressed by other hon. Members. I have a sneaking suspicion that at this hour of the night hon. Members in all parts of the House would be far happier to be in their beds than listening to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1496.3", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. EMBERS: \"Hear, hear:", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "ely as a social service to provide employment for those in it. The gas industry, to which we are being asked to vote considerably increased funds, must exist on its own and must make use of every modern invention which comes to hand. Hon. Gentlemen opposite are doing their best to prolong this short speech of mine. I have no intention of inflicting myself on the House for longer than is necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-08", "file": "debates1964-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5caae651e1393ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not tonight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "to give the House. One of these is on the question whether the gas industry should have some permanently fixed share in our fuel policy. We have heard that sentiment expressed. Surely that would be a most dangerous attitude to adopt. One must be flexible in this. One must be able to adapt oneself to future needs. Are we going to have a Ministerial reply which will give us a little more indication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-08a.1498.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY (COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "In view of the Importance of the decisions which can flow from the report, may I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether, if the inquiry takes more than six months, he will consider calling for an intimate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1563.0", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Douglas Houghton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Justify it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Douglas Houghton)", "preceding_text": "It may help the Committee if I say something about this Amendment now. It is the first of three Amendments to Clause 1, each of which proposes to delete mention of the Minister referred to in the Amendment from Clause 1. I judge from that that right hon. and hon. Members opposite do not want a Minister of Land and Natural Resources,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1566.0", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "d tolerance of Ministers of all Administrations have made this form of interdepartmental co-operation possible and fruitful, and I am sure that right hon. Gentlemen opposite found that when they were in office. Co-operation will undoubtedly be the keynote of the success of this Ministry, but at least there will be a Minister who can tell all the other Ministers his broader view of the use of land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1566.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1568.0", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who? Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": ", but at least there will be a Minister who can tell all the other Ministers his broader view of the use of land. [ Laughter. ] I suppose that it is very amusing. Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite will probably tell us when the giggling has to stop. I do not know whether it will be at three in the morning, or eleven o'clock tomorrow, or when it will be, but we are here and we shall stay here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1571.1", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "an. What have we heard about the Minister's functions? We are told that he is to apply his serene intelligence to brooding generally over the problems of land and to advise his colleagues upon them. No doubt they need advice, but they would do better to take it from the House of Commons. If an adviser was wanted, was there not a Hungarian going who would have done it perhaps a little more cheaply?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1571.1", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "t, as I understand it, remains with the Minister of Housing and Local Government. It is he who hears appeals from the local planning authorities on the use of land. It is he, for example, who was responsible for the decision the other day to create a commuter village in the urban green belt in Kent. I think that I should be out of order if I made any comment on that decision, but it is a decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1596.2", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "I do not deny that, as a matter of order and of defining the scope of the debate, there are obvious difficulties. But we are discussing what the new Ministry will do. We are not entitled to ask the Minister to come here this afternoon and answer the question, \"What are you doing?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1596.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "hen, so far, all we can embark upon is the constitutional sanction for the Ministry itself. Hon. Members will have the opportunity to debate this matter of the transfer of functions when it comes up in the customary way, on the Estimates of the Department, and so on. I submit that what we have to be satisfied about at this stage is that there is a prima facie case for the creation of the Ministry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1603.1", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Mischief.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "preceding_text": "With respect, I did not put to the right hon. Gentleman questions of detail. I put to him questions of broad policy and principle. The Committee should not be insulted by being asked to give its approval if the Government cannot take the trouble to explain to us what they wish the Ministry to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1630.4", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the child?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "I would not call this a legitimation Bill. It is a registration of birth. A little later the House will be able to decide whether it likes the look of the child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1630.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1630.4", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are not the questions in order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "hat this is all about. I hope I may be forgiven for discerning a degree of Parliamentary conspiracy on the benches opposite. Let us be candid about these things. If the Committee is seeking genuine satisfaction, I have done my best to give it and I am still doing by best to give it. I must, however, maintain that the Committee is pressing me to give answers to questions which are not fully mature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1630.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1632.3", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "As I understand, it is the negative procedure as it comes under the Ministers of the Crown (Transfer of Functions) Act, 1946. That disposes of that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1632.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1633.1", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "preceding_text": "l, what would be the effect on the world outside? We want the world outside to know that we are united about this, particularly our Commonwealth. If we divide we destroy that assurance. So it is a difficult position that we are in. As Parliamentarians we on this side think we ought to divide because we have not been fairly and properly treated, but in the circumstances which I have just mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Neither do you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "y affected, and without any precedent in any other country to go on, the Prime Minister, with that unique blend of inexperience, truculence and conceit that has characterised his every action, has gone blundering on with an arrangement which, prima facie, has nothing and nobody to commend it. The right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster knows nothing whatever about technology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1645.0", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman should know.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " Turning from his justification for his appointment to his prospectus, I confess that I was not particularly reassured by the Parliamentary Secretary's own prospectus for his work and for that of Mr. Cousins. This is what the Parliamentary Secretary said about what he was going to do: This country has to earn a living. When Ministers are in doubt, they always seem to take the refuge in platitudes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1645.1", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "solution proposed by Lord Robbins which I originally favoured as a temporary expedient during the period of the crash programme. Nobody can rationally defend the present arrangement. Had the Secretary of State tried it—had he continued with the arrangements in force at the Election—he would not have been at all overworked. The idea that the Department of Education and Science as it is constituted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1660.0", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "dvance and for an improvement in our standard of living and at the same time discharge what we believe to be our moral obligations—obligations which are also enlightened self-interest—in giving as much help as we can to other countries in the form of technological development and industrialisation. It is against this background that my right hon. Friend decided to appoint a Minister of Technology—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "arned Gentleman will be quiet for one moment. We have been in office only a few weeks. The new Minister has been in office only a few weeks. The new organisation is being brought together. Surely it is not surprising that in this short time it has not been possible to launch new and, possibly, expensive and ambitious projects. These will come. Give us time. We know that time is running against us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1664.0", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "preceding_text": "o take a more technological approach to our affairs. I have at least this advantage over the right hon. Gentleman, that I started my industrial career as a work study man and I know a little about the analytical approach to these problems. If technology means anything, it surely means precision. Indeed, even the right hon. Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell), who is always so keen on interrupting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1664.0", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "preceding_text": "e and the rôle of the Ministry of Technology, we on this side have to go back to earlier stages. I suppose that the best starting point is the \"ark of the covenant\" of the new Government, the Labour Party's recent election manifesto, in which we were promised a Ministry of Technology to guide and stimulate a major national effort to bring advanced technology and new processes into industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1673.3", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman clearly is not very interested in technology Dr in economic affairs. He has still not taken in the lesson which I read from Lord Kelvin. Until he has done that, he will still be 100 years out of date. We were discussing the proposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1681.0", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Such as?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "opriate Bills. The question asked was whether the new Ministries were already active without the benefit of that authority. The answer is that the present activities of the new Departments are those which the Ministers can properly carry out as legal persons or through the exercise of the Prerogative and are of a kind which Departments customarily carry out without specific Parliamentary approval.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "The oath of allegiance has been taken by those Ministers who have been sworn in as members of the Privy Council. The oath will be taken by other Ministers covered by the Bill when the Bill becomes law. That is provided in Schedule 1. As regards the expenditure of officials in the new Ministries; the salaries of permanent officials are being carried on the Votes of their previous Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1683.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1684.3", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO NEW MINISTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "preceding_text": "I understand about the new Ministry of Overseas Development making use of the officials of my old Department, but my old Department did not have someone of the rank of Permanent Secretary. I do not understand how the Permanent Secretary of the new Ministry can, as it were, be carried on the cadre of my old Department which did not allow for such a rank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1693.0", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "This is becoming a very serious matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1693.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1697.0", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "ing away of the sovereignty of, the House of Commons which, in the country, he is reputed to believe in and fight for and defend. The hon. Member for Ebbw Vale knows that what we are debating tonight is the fact that the House of Commons has been reduced in stature and the Executive has been increased in stature. This is something which the House of Commons has been fighting against for 300 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1698.0", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Ormskirk (Sir D. Glover) asked whether the introduction of these Ministries as quickly as possible was so urgent. The answer is, \"Yes, it was\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1698.0", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ential to carry out the purposes to which right hon. Members opposite paid lip-service during an earlier part of this debate and then searched their consciences whether they should vote against its introduction. It was urgent in the case of the Minister of Technology because the country has been falling behind every other country in Europe, because we have fallen behind in the field of technology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1698.1", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "reat chivalry, took it upon himself to say that he had himself advised their non-attendance at this debate. I do not know who he thinks he is so to advise Ministers who are intimately concerned. As the right hon. and learned Gentleman reminded us, this situation has existed before. What would have happened when the Department of Education and Science was created a year ago, if I had not come here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1709.3", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ective Report stage and no adequate time for consideration before Third Reading. This is, in fact, a major Measure. Right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite cannot pretend that these new Ministries are important without, at the same time, accepting that it is an important Measure. It seeks to give validity to setting up the new Ministries. We have had debates in which no time has been wasted at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1709.3", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "f that. It validates new Ministries, and we have had considerable debate about that, but there is very much in the Bill which is still to be debated. We are really only just at the beginning of some very important constitutional matters. Clause 2 deals with questions of salaries, which, I gather, are not unimportant, and may, perhaps, be part of the reason for the desire to press on with the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1714.0", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": ", I want to give some brief quotations from the speeches of Government spokesmen on this very Bill. I start with the Attorney-General who, as reported in col. 649 of HANSARD, said: The figure of 91 which we propose is quite simply the number of Ministers whom the Prime Minister wishes to have in the House of Commons. That is the beginning and end of the matter. That is the statement of a dictator.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1714.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1715.2", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Dictator.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1718.3", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not the hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "all this fuss is about. I have listened with my usual care to the speeches on the Motion by three Members opposite—for Wirral (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd), for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond), and for Chertsey (Sir L. Heald)—or rather two right hon. and learned Gentlemen and one right hon. and intelligent Gentleman—and I do not know what they are getting at. We have been here for a little over nine hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1718.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1723.0", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert W. Bowden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There have been no answers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert W. Bowden)", "preceding_text": "not pursue that line. I am very conscious of the importance of the Bill. The former Leader of the House has said that he is, too, and he felt that we should make good progress with it. In the exchanges that took place in the House on Thursday last week, I said that we would see how we would get on, and we have seen how we have got on. In six hours we have got Clause 1, and that is hardly progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1723.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1723.0", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert W. Bowden)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert W. Bowden)", "preceding_text": "rred to Press comment during the last week. The proposal from some of my hon. Friends for a change in the sittings of the House to half-past ten in the morning has received a great deal of appreciation not only from the general public, but from the Press. This sort of happening late at night or early in the morning on an extremely important Bill when there has been no attempt at all to co-operate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1723.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1729.2", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "per, we see that there are still 33 Amendments to be dealt with. We are burking the issue if we do not take into account what has happened to the Bill in the discussion so far. The Leader of the House ought to recognise that to expect to get the whole of the Committee stage, Report and Third Reading tonight has been proved to be quite unreasonable. In the light of what has happened, that is clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1729.2", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": " in the wrong. I believe that, taking everything into account, and understanding the bantering and the enjoyment which some hon. Members get out of this sort of exchange, we have reached the point at which the Leader of the House, without losing face, by doing his duty and helping his colleagues in the Government, could say that if he could get Clause 3 tonight he would consider giving half a day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1735.4", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(PROVISION FOR SALARIES OF CERTAIN MINISTERS. 1937 C. 38.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "4,500. In looking at the Bill which implements the Report of the Lawrence Committee—the Ministerial Salaries and Members' Pensions Bill, which was introduced today—we find that it will be necessary to distinguish the Chief Secretary from all other Ministers, in respect of salaries. It now seems that it would be more convenient to include the Chief Secretary in the provision for Ministers of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1735.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1735.4", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(PROVISION FOR SALARIES OF CERTAIN MINISTERS. 1937 C. 38.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "at the Chief Secretary to the Treasury should be in the Cabinet. He also said that he must deal with his senior colleagues from a position of equality, and that in this change the Minister is deliberately downgraded, and so on. It would be impossible to include the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the Cabinet if he remained in a position on the salary list below that of Minister of Cabinet rank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1735.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1738.4", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(PROVISION FOR SALARIES OF CERTAIN MINISTERS. 1937 C. 38.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "Sir O. Crosthwaite-Eyre rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1738.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(PROVISION FOR SALARIES OF CERTAIN MINISTERS. 1937 C. 38.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member looks at page 471 of Erskine May he will find that the word \"hypocrites\" is used in the plural. I am, therefore, perfectly justified in my Ruling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1739.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1739.4", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(PROVISION FOR SALARIES OF CERTAIN MINISTERS. 1937 C. 38.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, I was in the course of explaining to the Committee not only what the Amendment proposes to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1739.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1743.3", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(PROVISION FOR SALARIES OF CERTAIN MINISTERS. 1937 C. 38.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "ery of government. We have been most surprised, on this side of the Committee, that the deputy Prime Minister, who is at present carrying on the burdens of the premiership, has not been here at all, as far as I know, during the course of the afternoon and evening on a Bill that concerns the machinery of government. It is interesting that at one o'clock in the morning he should decide to come here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1745.0", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(PROVISION FOR SALARIES OF CERTAIN MINISTERS. 1937 C. 38.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": " the Duchy of Lancaster can hardly blame us if we take a little time in asking for elucidation. He ought to know that it is no good making a rather brief exposition and then making Hitlerian gestures across the Floor in order to try to silence critics. If he does that, he must expect questions and speeches afterwards. If he had given way, I for one should not have wanted to ask some questions now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1745.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1755.0", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(PROVISION FOR SALARIES OF CERTAIN MINISTERS. 1937 C. 38.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "posite were in charge of legislation, I well remember being here until breakfast time. In view of the remarks made by hon. Members opposite about the importance of tonight's legislation, the legislation that we discussed on those occasions was certainly, if I may take the word of hon. Members opposite for it, not as important as this legislation. I am rather surprised that the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1754.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1756.4", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(PROVISION FOR SALARIES OF CERTAIN MINISTERS. 1937 C. 38.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friends are urging me to keep going. We are in Committee, and one may make 10 speeches. I have made 10 speeches in Committee before on a matter when it was necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1756.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1758.1", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(PROVISION FOR SALARIES OF CERTAIN MINISTERS. 1937 C. 38.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "There is no intention of losing that. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1765.0", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(PROVISION FOR SALARIES OF CERTAIN MINISTERS. 1937 C. 38.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I cannot think that I could make a useful speech at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1766.2", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(PROVISION FOR SALARIES OF CERTAIN MINISTERS. 1937 C. 38.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I cannot feel very guilty, but I am sorry if I have not understood the point we are at. I thought that we were on the Question \"That the Clause stand part of the Bill.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1766.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-09", "file": "debates1964-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "de5e72d32df09176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1772.1", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(PROVISION FOR SALARIES OF CERTAIN MINISTERS. 1937 C. 38.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. Redmayne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How does the right hon. Gentleman know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. Redmayne", "preceding_text": "f State free, and in the last Conservative Administration there were seven Secretaries of State, one under the limit. When the Attorney-General a little innocently and quietly said, \"… as another Jones\", which is a nice expression—\" Jones the Attorney\"—he joined in the enthusiastic reception for the appointment of a Secretary of State for Wales. That enthusiasm is not so heartfelt in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-09a.1772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1803.9", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "In view of that reply, can the hon. Gentleman explain the distinction that is drawn in paragraph 11 of the Government's White Paper on the economic situation, between the earnest consideration which the Government said they had given to the interests of E.F.T.A. and the Commonwealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1803.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1803.9", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "drawn in paragraph 11 of the Government's White Paper on the economic situation, between the earnest consideration which the Government said they had given to the interests of E.F.T.A. and the Commonwealth— [ Interruption. ]—countries and the continuous communication which they claimed to be engaged in with the United States Government? Can he further explain the reason for Sir Eric Roll's visit —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1803.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1803.9", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "situation, between the earnest consideration which the Government said they had given to the interests of E.F.T.A. and the Commonwealth— [ Interruption. ]—countries and the continuous communication which they claimed to be engaged in with the United States Government? Can he further explain the reason for Sir Eric Roll's visit —[ Interruption. ]—to Washington over the weekend of 25th-26th October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1803.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1803.9", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Special.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "ountries and the continuous communication which they claimed to be engaged in with the United States Government? Can he further explain the reason for Sir Eric Roll's visit —[ Interruption. ]—to Washington over the weekend of 25th-26th October—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Can he assure us that on the next occasion on which the Government find it desirable to renege on their international agreements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1803.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1803.9", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "nt? Can he further explain the reason for Sir Eric Roll's visit —[ Interruption. ]—to Washington over the weekend of 25th-26th October—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Can he assure us that on the next occasion on which the Government find it desirable to renege on their international agreements—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Special.\"]—they will not give the appearance of preferential treatment for the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1803.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1804.4", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Would it not be possible, Mr. Speaker, to ask supplementary questions in a rather shorter time if hon. Members on this side of the Chamber could be heard?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1804.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1805.0", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "M. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "M. Hirst", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. While I am sure the House has the utmost sympathy with you, Mr. Speaker, and the difficulties you have mentioned, are those difficulties to deny the House opportunities for hearing—if the House wants to hear—answers to questions? I appreciate your difficulty, but would it not be better, whatever those difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1805.0", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "M. Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time wasting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "M. Hirst", "preceding_text": " point of order. While I am sure the House has the utmost sympathy with you, Mr. Speaker, and the difficulties you have mentioned, are those difficulties to deny the House opportunities for hearing—if the House wants to hear—answers to questions? I appreciate your difficulty, but would it not be better, whatever those difficulties—[ Interruption. ] I am speaking on a point of order to Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1806.9", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of your last Ruling, Mr. Speaker, and in view of the length of this supplementary question—which clearly was longer than the last—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1806.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1814.3", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Is the First Secretary aware that I have made no speeches on the Continent on economic subjects since the election? Therefore, will he withdraw the statement he made about me earlier?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1814.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1815.8", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That is precisely the kind of question that I find offensive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1815.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1815.8", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That is precisely the kind of question that I find offensive—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—because if hon. and right hon. Members opposite really believe that they are the only people who care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1815.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1838.2", "colnum": "1838", "heading": "REGIONAL ECONOMIC PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tilney", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1838.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1878.0", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 3.—(NUMBERS OF HOLDERS OF MINISTERIAL OFFICES IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman speak with knowledge?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Martin Redmayne", "preceding_text": "his regime. I therefore advise him to break away from it now and come and vote with us. My next point is a very serious one, and I address it most particularly to those back-bench Members of the Labour Party who have in the past been so hot in defence of private Members' rights. The more Ministers there are, and after all Ministers are very closely under the control of the Chief Whip in any party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1895.0", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 3.—(NUMBERS OF HOLDERS OF MINISTERIAL OFFICES IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "in English, is the objection which he put forward in rather more legalistic terms. I ask the Government to reconsider this matter. The limit is being increased to 91. The Government already have four in hand, even with the six paid Assistant Whips. It is true that they have bespoken two of those four vacancies—Mr. Cousins and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs—but there are still two left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1903.6", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2.—(THE HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION ACT, 1957.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "and it is difficult, after the debates which we have had for many hours yesterday and today, to add much about the detail of the Bill or about its purpose. I said through the debate, and it seems to me now, that underlying the opposition to this Bill has been the deep resentment of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite at having a Labour Government. That really is what all the row has been about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1903.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1914.1", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2.—(THE HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION ACT, 1957.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "reached Third Reading, and I thought to ask the permission of the House to explain the Bill, because the explanations from the Government Front Bench have not been designed to make the Bill clearer. They have been designed to cast a shadow of doubt and cloudiness over our proceedings, because the Government know that the truth is that the Bill is a far more squalid Measure than they dare to admit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1916.5", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2.—(THE HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION ACT, 1957.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "e back benches. She was the most highly-trained political guerrilla in the Labour Party, trained for midnight attack and the most vitriolic speaker. She could not be left out of office; an office had to be found for her. This is a case of providing important offices of state with little power in order to keep vitriolic critics quiet in the months ahead. I shall not delay the House for much longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1916.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1919.0", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2.—(THE HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION ACT, 1957.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-10", "file": "debates1964-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "13cceec86d16bd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1930.5", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEVERN BRIDGE TOLLS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": " keep the House longer than hon. Members and, indeed, I myself would want. A few weeks after the election all this is forgotten. Tolls are no longer indefensible but become indispensable, hence this Bill. I am not against tolls, but I protest most strongly against this rather unprincipled conduct of the Labour Party which fought the election on what amounts to a false prospectus. That is shocking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-10a.1930.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-11", "file": "debates1964-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "70cabce981fbe46b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-11a.1978.3", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "preceding_text": "nd natural environment. It is proposed that these research councils should be within the ambit of the Secretary of State for Education and Science and that he should have a Council on Scientific Policy. That body will replace the present Advisory Council on Scientific Policy, whose latest Report has just been issued. I take the opportunity of paying tribute to the work of Lord Todd with that body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-11a.1978.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-11", "file": "debates1964-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "70cabce981fbe46b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-11a.1984.0", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Transfer them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "No. This is a question of enabling the Authority to do work of a kind which under its present restrictions it cannot do, but which, if combined with the kind of work which it is now doing, gets the fullest use of the services of the people and the equipment which it has required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-11a.1984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-11", "file": "debates1964-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "70cabce981fbe46b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-11a.1991.1", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wishful thinking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Marples", "preceding_text": "ys in this House. Let us get that clear. I am, therefore, sorry that we do not have the advantage of listening to Mr. Cousins explaining precisely his duties, functions and objectives. I am sorry that we are not hearing exactly how he proposes to run his Ministry. I hope that he will give us his ideas—I will not say when he comes here, because we on this side hope that he may lose the by-election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-11a.1991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-11", "file": "debates1964-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "70cabce981fbe46b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-11a.2004.1", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "hat establishment there is a skilled craftsman of 70 years of age who, when he is asked to work on a job on Sundays, is carried to and from his work in a taxi: he is so valuable. The reason is that the machine which he operates and which is so vital to the company's profits can only be operated by him, and only by him because he served his time on the same machine. As I say, he is 70 years of age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-11a.2004.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-14", "file": "debates1964-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "073151d3fd920697", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.26.2", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Padley", "preceding_text": "I can assure the House that any difference in the timing of the messages to these Governments was not significant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-14", "file": "debates1964-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "073151d3fd920697", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.26.7", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Padley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Padley", "preceding_text": "Frankly, in view of the fact that all was due to the bungling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.26.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-14", "file": "debates1964-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "073151d3fd920697", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.26.8", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "Can we have an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.26.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-14", "file": "debates1964-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "073151d3fd920697", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "Can we have an answer? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] Were the Americans informed 48 hours before our E.F.T.A. partners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.26.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-14", "file": "debates1964-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "073151d3fd920697", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.28.2", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Could the hon. Gentleman say whether some of his back benchers stick up for their own country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-14", "file": "debates1964-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "073151d3fd920697", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "rtage of non-commissioned officers. While this is no doubt a tribute to the charms of airwomen, it does bring awkward problems in its wake. Indeed, in all three services the slogan \"Join the Forces and see the world\" seems to have been replaced by \"Join the Forces and find a husband\". To try to meet the problem, a bonus scheme for those girls who complete a six-year engagement has been introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-14", "file": "debates1964-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "073151d3fd920697", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": " fence he is coming down. Tonight, in winding up the debate, he has an opportunity. I hope that he will take it, because these are views which individual members of the Administration have no right to continue to hold on becoming members of the Government. I hope that we shall get absolute clarification on this point. This is just the sort of situation we must avoid, because it leads to confusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-14", "file": "debates1964-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "073151d3fd920697", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dame Joan Vickers", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Joan Vickers", "preceding_text": "r which to commit oneself. One does not enter into such a commitment with a civilian firm. A man might not like the type of service, and if the unskilled man could enlist a shorter time it might be helpful for recruiting. I hope that the Government will consider employing more Chinese and Goans in the galleys, because they make excellent cooks and would help greatly with the problem of recruiting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-14", "file": "debates1964-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "073151d3fd920697", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence for the Royal Navy (Mr. Christopher Mayhew)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence for the Royal Navy (Mr. Christopher Mayhew)", "preceding_text": "e last defence debate on 23rd November, trying to do a little better what his right hon. Friends so signally failed to do on that occasion. Surely it is understood that while the review of our defence policy is going on it is really not possible for me or anyone else to answer the innumerable specific high level questions of policy put to us by the hon. Member for Bournemouth, West this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-14", "file": "debates1964-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "073151d3fd920697", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.159.5", "colnum": "159", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "mitments to the resources which they had. The right hon. Member for Monmouth must know that, because he resigned on this point. That is our aim. I am not only thinking of our immediate predecessors but also thinking from vivid personal memory of 1939—of landing in France in September of that year with the first of the Territorials, very good men but seriously under-trained and wretchedly equipped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-14a.159.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-15", "file": "debates1964-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f03b9050f2c3b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that her hon. Friends are very satisfied with the progress which she is making in building up this Ministry and with the enthusiasm which she is bringing to her job?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-15", "file": "debates1964-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f03b9050f2c3b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Does not the Minister remember her fiery and crusading speech in the House in February, when she envisaged a world authority giving much increased aid and subsidised by a world income tax? As she then said that this would be given priority if the Labour Party came to power, should not the right hon. Lady now be giving a lead to the United Nations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.193.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-15", "file": "debates1964-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f03b9050f2c3b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.201.6", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Is the—[ Interruption. ] Is the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.201.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-15", "file": "debates1964-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f03b9050f2c3b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.201.6", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Is the—[ Interruption. ] Is the Minister—[ Interruption. ] Is the Minister aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.201.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-15", "file": "debates1964-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f03b9050f2c3b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware of the great distress that has been caused among the unfortunate sufferers of this disease by the moronic observations of the Prime Minister, and is not this typical of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-15", "file": "debates1964-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f03b9050f2c3b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.202.2", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oram", "preceding_text": "I have watched the hon. and gallant Gentleman over a period of six weeks attempt to tackle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-15", "file": "debates1964-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f03b9050f2c3b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.204.7", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT JOHNSON (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister today answer two specific questions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.204.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-15", "file": "debates1964-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f03b9050f2c3b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.204.9", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT JOHNSON (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that it would have been a great convenience to the House if he had been able to circulate to the House, or make, a statement about his talks in Washington so that we could have had it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.204.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-15", "file": "debates1964-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f03b9050f2c3b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITIES, ENGLAND AND WALES (GENERAL GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "preceding_text": "of Britain will be affected by this rate of growth of local government expenditure and this General Grant Order is a major factor in the whole of local authority finance. By the time of the last General Election I should think that this was pretty well known to the Labour Party. Yet the Labour Party at that time in its Manifesto was consistently urging that more money should be spent on education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-15", "file": "debates1964-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f03b9050f2c3b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITIES, SCOTLAND (GENERAL GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Harvie Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Harvie Anderson", "preceding_text": "ish affairs, but it is interesting to note the degree to which the zeal and enthusiasm have been hampered in a few short weeks. It gives one pause to wonder how long this will continue, and to what extent. He said that the sums with which we are dealing tonight have been increasing and that he welcomed this trend. It is the good government of the past years that has enabled these sums to increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-15", "file": "debates1964-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f03b9050f2c3b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITIES, SCOTLAND (GENERAL GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "her horse that they ride at the same time is that we are not acting quickly enough. It is quite wrong to parade these contradictory arguments and expect either the House or the country to believe them. The reason why the country has been more fair minded than the Tory Party and that the Government, despite all the difficulties that we are facing, is as popular, indeed more popular with the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-15a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-16", "file": "debates1964-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "40d528c23ee61ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite wrong in his allusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-16", "file": "debates1964-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "40d528c23ee61ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "If the average is 13s. 3d. a week, it presumably means that some rents will be less than 13s. 3d. Does the Secretary of State think that an average rent of 13s. 3d. a week is reasonable when earnings in Scotland are over £16 a week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-16", "file": "debates1964-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "40d528c23ee61ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "at an average rent of 13s. 3d. a week is reasonable when earnings in Scotland are over £16 a week? [HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"] Further, is he aware that the leader of the Glasgow Corporation said that he could build more houses if he had extra financial resources, and do not these low rents now being charged prevent cities like Glasgow from having a pool from which they could build more houses? Will he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-16", "file": "debates1964-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "40d528c23ee61ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": " is he aware that the leader of the Glasgow Corporation said that he could build more houses if he had extra financial resources, and do not these low rents now being charged prevent cities like Glasgow from having a pool from which they could build more houses? Will he— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]— use his influence to get backward local authorities, most of which, I am sorry to say, are Socialist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-16", "file": "debates1964-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "40d528c23ee61ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Lady that I am not at present aware of any anxieties about this in Scotland. As she will be aware, we in Scotland pioneered legislation in this field. In 1954 we allotted five years for enfranchisement of long leases in Scotland. At that time we under-estimated the number of people affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-16", "file": "debates1964-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "40d528c23ee61ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.393.8", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maxwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maxwell", "preceding_text": "t of the recommendations in the Plowden Report. I am extremely disturbed that the Foreign Office is not implementing speedily or energetically enough the recommendations of the Report relating to the need for our diplomatists at home and abroad to do a great deal more to promote British exports. There is a fiction abroad that Members of Parliament control the money spent by Government Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.393.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-16", "file": "debates1964-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "40d528c23ee61ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.393.8", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maxwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maxwell", "preceding_text": "speedily or energetically enough the recommendations of the Report relating to the need for our diplomatists at home and abroad to do a great deal more to promote British exports. There is a fiction abroad that Members of Parliament control the money spent by Government Departments. [ Interruption. ] I knew that some of this was wishful thinking, but I did not realise, until I came into the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.393.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-16", "file": "debates1964-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "40d528c23ee61ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.394.4", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "e gross provision required for the Vote to cover the last quarter of the current financial year is£9·7 million, of which £7·8 million is derived from payments from the Foreign Service Vote and the Commonwealth Relations Vote in respect of transferred services, and the remaining £1·9 million is primarily accounted for by increases in pay, allowances and administrative expenses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.394.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-16", "file": "debates1964-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "40d528c23ee61ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.396.2", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "It is plain that the Foreign Office staff need reminding of their duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.396.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-16", "file": "debates1964-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "40d528c23ee61ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.397.3", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "nation in the world and we had no difficulty whatsoever in earning our living as a country, and it is not surprising that its staff and thinking should prove so sluggish to a changeover to making trade more important than political report writing. Over recent years, however, as we laid down or retreated from our imperial responsibilities it has become ever more difficult for us to earn our living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-16", "file": "debates1964-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "40d528c23ee61ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": " The hon. Member was quite right when he said that upwards of £60 million is no mean matter. I do not wish to say more than that, because the Committee wishes to embark on the important—indeed, vital—debate which is to follow, but I should like the Committee to notice that the hon. Member, who has spoken courageously as a private Member, has been received attentively by this side of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-16", "file": "debates1964-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "40d528c23ee61ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.443.0", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Dr. Horace King)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Dr. Horace King)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Dennis Walters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-16", "file": "debates1964-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "40d528c23ee61ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "gone, cannot be carired through in the normal course of Government business. I detected that today in the Prime Minister's speech. It is the first time I have heard from him a more subdued speech and a more responsible one than any of his previous utterances have been since the new Parliament came into being. Before the election, he was saying that there was no point in our doing much east of Suez", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-16", "file": "debates1964-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "40d528c23ee61ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is shaking his head.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is not in the Chamber. He is beyond the Bar of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-16", "file": "debates1964-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "40d528c23ee61ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. George Thomson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. George Thomson)", "preceding_text": "cations of the kind of initiative in the general field of disarmament which we were seeking to take. It is widely recognised in circles outside those which normally support this side of the House that the kinds of policies announced by the Prime Minister are those best suited to Britain's rôle in the modern world. The Economist, which is not distinguished as a supporter of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-16a.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.557.3", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Hector Hughes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.557.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.563.2", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I stand by what I said in the House earlier on this matter. When we got, in this election as in previous ones, strikes threatening to paralyse the whole of the motor car industry, when there was reason to suspect that there had been political motivation in the earlier ones—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.563.3", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "Surely the Prime Minister is not attempting to continue this quite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.563.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.563.4", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On that last allegation, I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will withdraw that statement. I had no contact whatever with my hon. Friend. The Question was put down without my knowledge and it was answered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.563.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "No, I will not withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.564.4", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who believes him?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has subsequently denied this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.564.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.564.6", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The right hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Godber) clearly made an implication against the behaviour of the Table when he said that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister had arranged that a Question should be so placed that it would not be reached. Is that not an attack upon the Table and the institutions of this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.564.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.565.2", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Could not the Prime Minister have got the House out of the difficulty by asking leave to answer the original Question orally?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.565.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer was under great pressure to make a further statement, which he did. I think that his further statement was helpful, and I hope that the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "to what I think is the most damaging criticism of his project. I believe that it is fatal. The right hon. Gentleman's purpose is to unite N.A.T.O. In answer to an interruption by myself yesterday, the right hon. Gentleman said that he thought that I and others would appreciate that there were strong reasons for putting this new Atlantic force and its controlling body outside the N.A.T.O. Alliance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "s project. I believe that it is fatal. The right hon. Gentleman's purpose is to unite N.A.T.O. In answer to an interruption by myself yesterday, the right hon. Gentleman said that he thought that I and others would appreciate that there were strong reasons for putting this new Atlantic force and its controlling body outside the N.A.T.O. Alliance—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—although he kept an open mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": ".O. Alliance—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—although he kept an open mind. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If I was not absolutely stone-deaf, that was what the right hon. Gentleman said. I must look at it in HANSARD. The Prime Minister, in response to that interruption by myself, said that if I gave it thought I would see that there were very important and good reasons for having this outside the N.A.T.O. Alliance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear,hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": " we should find it easier to reach agreement. He asked the Prime Minister yesterday how he proposes to solve the problem of meeting the German demands for some further influence, different from the part which they already play in N.A.T.O. What do we offer Germany in these new proposals for an Atlantic nuclear force? This, I suggest, was a question which the Prime Minister totally evaded examining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.605.3", "colnum": "605", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "To some extent this question is still for negotiation among our allies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.605.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I think that the Leader of the Opposition is making a confusion here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "onfusion here—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—perhaps a permissible one in view of what was said about the operational authority for the force, which would be separate from the N.A.T.O. Council, but operating with it, and the commander of the force, who would be in the N.A.T.O.chain of command. This is, after all, an entirely new nuclear force. At the moment the targeting of national forces inside N.A.T.O.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.608.3", "colnum": "608", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not difficult.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "olicy—then wrote The logic of events will take a Tory Administration into the MLF, if only because the alternative of what would, in effect, be a joint U.S.-German venture in the nuclear field is unacceptable. This is the crude reality behind the pseudo-Gaullist braggadocio of the right hon. Member for Monmouth in our last debate. The right hon. Gentleman may have bamboozled his own back benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "00F4;le are highly mobile conventional forces capable of rapid deployment. Often a rifle or even a stave and wicker shield will be enough, but we need some sophisticated weapons as a deterrent against the escalation of a local conflict, and therefore we must keep some bombing aircraft outside the Atlantic nuclear force in at least the conventional rôle. Several hon. and right hon.Gentlemen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "er centralisation in economic and military decisions, and these are common to a large number of hon. Members on both sides of the House. However, that day has not yet arrived. Our criticism is not of these objectives but that the activities of Her Majesty's Government in the last 50 days have been to set those objectives back, that the mission to Washington placed even larger obstacles in its way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "German statesman can be found today who would contemplate an action which, after all, would mean that N.A.T.O. would be riven from top to bottom and an end to everything that every post-war German Government has striven for. What we are entitled, however, to ask the Prime Minister is this: what is his proposal on the M.L.F., the mixed-manned surface fleet? He is the Prime Minister of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t that the Russians would never negotiate if this came into being. What is happening, and what has happened today, is that the right hon. Gentleman and his right hon. Friend are still carrying on the same departmental row without departments. There was nothing new whatsoever either in his speech or in that of the Leader of the Opposition. What we have had is the same old speech—we know it so well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Sinclair) yesterday; and those of my hon. Friend the Member for Stepney (Mr. Shore) and of the hon. and learned Member for Solihull (Mr. Grieve) and Barkston Ash (Mr. Alison) today. The right hon. Gentleman made a bit of a point in his speech about an alleged contradiction between the Foreign Secretary and myself. Let us get the facts clear. I said in a television answer on Sunday that I had not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman. Certainly, we will have the talks which he suggests. He also knows enough about locks to know that the kind of question which he has raised can be discussed in private. We shall be happy to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman believes that there is nothing technical about this, he has forgotten a great deal that he knew two months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman believes that there is nothing technical about this, he has forgotten a great deal that he knew two months ago. [ Interruption. ] All right. I will agree to meet the right hon. Gentleman; I will give him these details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.694.3", "colnum": "694", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has explained already this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.694.3", "colnum": "694", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has explained already this afternoon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—that there will not be any system of locks which interferes with our right of communication with a submarine or our right to withdraw the submarine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.694.3", "colnum": "694", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d already this afternoon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—that there will not be any system of locks which interferes with our right of communication with a submarine or our right to withdraw the submarine. [ Interruption. ] That is the answer that the right hon. Gentleman is getting. If he wants the details, the right hon. Gentleman is getting to a very high degree of irresponsibility, because he knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.694.3", "colnum": "694", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "re will not be any system of locks which interferes with our right of communication with a submarine or our right to withdraw the submarine. [ Interruption. ] That is the answer that the right hon. Gentleman is getting. If he wants the details, the right hon. Gentleman is getting to a very high degree of irresponsibility, because he knows—[ Interruption. ]He is not the only one. I should like now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.694.3", "colnum": "694", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " only one. I should like now—[ Interruption. ] If some of those hon. Members opposite suffering from a state of postprandial euphoria will recognise that we are tonight debating a very serious issue about defence and if they do not want to listen and cannot take it, there is plenty of room in the Smoke Room for them. I am now going to turn to the speech of the right hon. Gentleman this afternoon.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " India does, what about Pakistan? That is an attitude of direct incitement to proliferation. Secondly, he talks about an independent foreign policy. I am going to leave on one side, tonight at any rate, the question of how far one can have in- dependence except on the basis of a strong economy on which one can be seen to be paying one's way. I want to come to this point that our influence depends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Test Ban Treaty?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "A.T.O. CENTO and S.E.A.T.O. do not require a nuclear bomb. Our central position in the Commonwealth, which I feel right hon. Gentlemen opposite never properly developed, certainly owes nothing to claims of independent nuclear status. It depends far more on our policy on issues like South African arms, and questions of race and colour, and the same is true about our influence in the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Friends, but I am prepared to challenge the right hon. Gentleman as to the basis of these telegrams. Mr. Khrushchev said on the Monday to my right hon. Friend and myself that he was not prepared to have inspections, that he was not prepared to have a partial test ban, yet by the end of the week he told us, without a Tory being in the room, that he was prepared to reopen his mind on this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.695.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ssential component or material not covered in the contracts? Is there not a danger there? The question is not hypothetical. I should like the Leader of the Opposition to tell the House whether he is now satisfied that Britain can, from its own resources, without long delays wrecking the whole programme, supply every essential component for the Polaris programme without dependence on the Americans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I now tell the right hon. Gentleman, as to the secrecy on the other point and on this, that he is free to come and to examine the information which we have. In respect of the warheads, I will ask the Leader of the Opposition—he is the one who makes all the speeches—one or two questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.702.3", "colnum": "702", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " what hon Members are all about to vote on. I want them to know what they are voting about. The question is whether after 1968 we shall be in a position to supply all the fissile materials required to maintain the effectiveness of our warheads having regard to the half-life of these materials and so on. The Leader of the Opposition knows what I am talking about. I will not specify these materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.702.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.702.5", "colnum": "702", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What I am saying to the Leader of the Opposition is that this programme would work only on an inter-dependent basis and not on an independent basis. He is not going to wriggle out of this one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.702.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "is—it depends on the credibility of the Government. I want the Leader of the Opposition to tell us, as a former Prime Minister, as the head of the alternative Government, knowing that a go-it-alone war would mean a certain amount of posthumous revenge against the Soviet Union and total annihilation of all human life in Britain, whether he would be prepared to press that button in that kind of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-17", "file": "debates1964-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a7983f0770a40d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer, answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "n to tell us, as a former Prime Minister, as the head of the alternative Government, knowing that a go-it-alone war would mean a certain amount of posthumous revenge against the Soviet Union and total annihilation of all human life in Britain, whether he would be prepared to press that button in that kind of war. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] If he is not prepared to answer that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-17a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-18", "file": "debates1964-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "8a117850de641e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND MEMBERS' PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": " to save sterling from complete ruin. Why is there this crisis in sterling? I think that it is because the outside world can see that we in the United Kingdom—all of us, not just one section but all of us—are living beyond our means. That is why they have no confidence in our paper money. We are eating and drinking, smoking and gambling and spending on sport more than we are earning or can afford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-18", "file": "debates1964-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "8a117850de641e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.753.7", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND MEMBERS' PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "This is grossly unfair. My net income today, and one hates to say these things, is far less than it was in the difficult days before the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.753.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-18", "file": "debates1964-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "8a117850de641e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND MEMBERS' PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member had any brains, he might get a directorship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-18", "file": "debates1964-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "8a117850de641e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND MEMBERS' PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And directors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the same principle advanced by the right hon. Gentleman in connection with Ministers—which he justified by the difficulties he knows his own Chancellor of the Exchequer faces—shall be applied to Members of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-18", "file": "debates1964-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "8a117850de641e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND MEMBERS' PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " to do this or that bearing in mind what old-age pensioners got. Let us use that test now and see how we are to justify this increase to the old-age pensioners. We have said that the old-age pensioners shall have an increase to £4 a week, but how can we, as hon. Members, say to them, \"£2,500 is not enough. We cannot manage on £50 a week—but you old-age pensioners have to get through on £4 a week\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-18", "file": "debates1964-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "8a117850de641e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND MEMBERS' PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "re to justify this increase to the old-age pensioners. We have said that the old-age pensioners shall have an increase to £4 a week, but how can we, as hon. Members, say to them, \"£2,500 is not enough. We cannot manage on £50 a week—but you old-age pensioners have to get through on £4 a week\"—[ Interruption. ] This argument will be used outside. I do not understand Socialist Members of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-18", "file": "debates1964-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "8a117850de641e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.756.5", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND MEMBERS' PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "eft behind. Then he was interrupted and he said: Hon. Members opposite must make up their minds. Either the situation is serious or it is not. In our view, it is … Since that speech was made the economic situation of our country as seen in the foreign exchanges of the world has gone much worse. I am not saying whose fault that is, but am trying to set the case out. It is desperately worse.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.756.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-18", "file": "debates1964-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "8a117850de641e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.756.5", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND MEMBERS' PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You opposed him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "he things we want to do could be done immediately and without effort and cost. He went on to say, and this is a point which I want hon. Members to accept: it does not mean a return to Crippsian austerity.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th November, 1964; Vol. 701, cc. 216, 217 and 233.] That is exactly what I think it does mean. I wish to Heaven that Sir Stafford Cripps were back to deal with this position.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.756.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-18", "file": "debates1964-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "8a117850de641e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND MEMBERS' PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " us out of our difficulties. I remind hon. Members that Dunkirk was not a military success. It was the greatest military defeat we have ever had. It was what happened after Dunkirk that mattered. The then Prime Minister did not tell hon. Members, \"You shall have increased salaries.\" He did not say, \"You shall have increased welfare benefits.\" He spoke of blood, toil, tears and sweat for everybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-18", "file": "debates1964-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "8a117850de641e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.762.6", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND MEMBERS' PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ve felt for a long time that Members of Parliament should be full-time. Some of us are full-time. I am. I have no outside interests. I declare my interest. Occasionally, I have managed to acquire some income as a result of writing, not that I am a professional writer—I am a most inadequate writer—but, nevertheless, it sometimes happens that a publisher, in order to make a little money for himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.762.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-18", "file": "debates1964-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "8a117850de641e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.775.6", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND MEMBERS' PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Humbug\", \"Ridiculous\", \"Nauseating.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "r Stafford Cripps was working constantly in the interests of this nation, and then, in a subsequent intervention, to admit that he voted against the policies enunciated by Sir Stafford Cripps, and in so doing to confess that he voted against the national interest on those occasions, is a startling confession. For him, of all people, to talk about Sir Stafford Cripps in the way that he has done is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.775.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-18", "file": "debates1964-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "8a117850de641e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND MEMBERS' PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Doig", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Doig", "preceding_text": " was born was £1 per week, so that if other workers accepted this argument, their wage today would be £5 per week. An M.P.'s salary today would be £12 a week, to keep himself and his family in his constituency and to keep himself in London during the week, paying all the expenses. This would have one result. The House of Commons would be composed entirely of Members like the hon. Member for Louth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-18", "file": "debates1964-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "8a117850de641e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.802.2", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND MEMBERS' PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "preceding_text": "er in office for only a fortnight. If that were to happen, would he have the full benefit of the Bill? Surely, it would be unfair that he should be the only man to get a pension for life for merely a few weeks' service. If we agree that the proposed salary is the right one, surely the holder of such an office should qualify for the full salary only when he has done the requisite length of service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.802.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-18", "file": "debates1964-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "8a117850de641e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.816.2", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND MEMBERS' PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister for facing the problem—but only partly facing it. A sum of £1,000 a year is nothing like adequate. I said that in my speech. But there are two items on the tape at the moment, one to say that the Government are unable to make their loan repayments to Canada and the United States at the end of this month, and the other to say that the Bank of Switzerland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-18a.816.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be aware that we have watched the position carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.833.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.845.6", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "Surely the right hon. Gentleman can give us, at least in outline, what his thoughts are?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.845.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.856.3", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "I consider that the expenditure on the arts by the last Government was extremely trivial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.856.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.862.4", "colnum": "862", "heading": "COAL STOCKS (TRANSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman say why this situation which, presumably, has been cleared over the weekend, as he says, has not been dealt with before?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.870.8", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": ", 1957, was not easily reached. It had a history which many of us remember. But today, in spite of the fierce and passionate battles on the Death Penalty (Abolition) Bill, 1956, following which the Homicide Act was passed, and although the Act has been law for seven or eight years, there is no one in the House today who is prepared to advise right hon. and hon. Gentlemen to go back to the old law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.870.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.875.5", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment. Suppose the right hon. and learned Gentleman's figures are right—they may well be for anything I know to the contrary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.875.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the hon. Member's Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "inference, which could be correct, that, therefore, the removal of the death penalty for non-capital murders had increased the number of non-capital murders. Is that right? Is that what the right hon. and learned Gentleman says? I hope to have it right, because, if that is so, then I ask why the right hon. and learned Gentleman is not proposing to restore the death penalty for non-capital murders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Brooke", "preceding_text": " the distinguished Parliamentary name which he bears. I am reluctant to take time in this debate when I know that there are other maiden speakers waiting and so many hon. Members who wish to speak; yet I think that the House probably would wish me, as the last Home Secretary, to express my views with all possible honesty and to give it the benefit, such as it is, of my experience in that capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Wyndham Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Wyndham Davies", "preceding_text": "of this House. I have no doubt that tonight, despite the fluency of my argument and those of other hon. Members on our side of the House, we shall pass this Measure, because I have a feeling from the speeches made today that this is the general desire. Why are we different from the general public? I discussed this with a distinguished psychiatrist in the Midlands before I came to make this speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Wyndham Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Wyndham Davies", "preceding_text": "ual, and what is different about you is that you have a marked sense of aggression.\" Let us look at each of us sitting around this House today, and let us appreciate that we have this aggressive feeling. This aggressive feeling is exactly the same psychological feeling that will lead a man to murder. It is my belief that we have a natural sympathy through our aggressive feelings with the murderer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.945.3", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": " higher proportion were for retaining the death penalty than for abolition. We must not take a high and arrogant attitude in this House thinking that we know so much better than all the people who put us here. I hope that many of those who put us here will take note of how we vote tonight. I am sure that anyone who had the temerity to put this proposal in his election address at the last election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.945.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.947.8", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "I know that lawyers and statistics can prove practically anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.947.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.947.10", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "er prison officers from now onwards. A deputation of prison officers came to see me last week and they brought a wife with them. I asked if she was a prison officer, but she said no, she was a wife. I asked why she was there and she said, \"Because my husband will be put to much greater risk in future than up to now. I hope the Government will see, if he is killed, that I get a reasonable pension.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.947.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "You get all sorts of bank robbers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "lihood of being caught and all that—and the advantages of carrying a gun or not, and the advantages of using it in the last resort or not using it, of killing or not killing, and saying to himself that on balance it is worth it, on balance it is worth carrying a gun and, if he is in a corner, worth shooting his way out, because at the worst all he will get is \"life imprisonment\"—and what is that?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Kerr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Kerr", "preceding_text": "prepared to admit, the basic urge and satisfaction of punching the other fellow on the nose. Indeed, since Saturday night I have had pleasant daydreams of encountering the same young man again in circumstances less advantageous to him and more advantageous to me. This, it seems to me, is the mark of the whole of our thinking or, rather, the mark of the thinking of those who want to retain hanging.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.983.2", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle", "preceding_text": "husetts warned a Commission of the danger of removing the death penalty, and said that it would be needed as a reserve weapon, none the less the President of the Rhode Island Police Chiefs' Association—where capital punishment has been abolished for more than a century—when consulted, said that that body, after long experience of being without abolition, was strongly opposed to capital punishment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.983.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-21", "file": "debates1964-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "23bf93e875759816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": ", the instance which always impresses me most here—and it is one to which I will be returning later in my speech—is the industrial area of Flanders, stretching from Belgium to Northern France. In Belgium, there has been no death penalty for about 100 years. In France there is the death penalty. There we have the same kind of people, the same race of people and the same kind of industrial problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-21a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-22", "file": "debates1964-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "709880702b9b80fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1032.2", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "Would not the hon. Gentleman agree that the TSR2 is a prime example of British technological achievement and skill and that the whole future of the British Aircraft Corporation is bound up with the future of this aircraft? Is it not high time also that we had a statement on the future of the Concord, which I understood we were to have before the House rose for. the Summer Recess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1032.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-22", "file": "debates1964-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "709880702b9b80fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1041.5", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not think that there are uncertainties in this field—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1041.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-22", "file": "debates1964-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "709880702b9b80fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1045.3", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman's premise is quite wrong on this occasion Scotland and other development areas are being singled out to ensure that they do not suffer from the effects of the Government's measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1045.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-22", "file": "debates1964-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "709880702b9b80fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order. Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Spearman", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister that on 15th September he wrote to the Chairman of the Scarborough and Whitby Labour Party a personal letter, which was much publicised during the election, and in which he said, I confirm that obviously a major decision such as the proposed Scarborough-MaltonWhitby closures would he covered by the statement in the Labour Party Manifesto that the new regional authorities will\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1045.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1964-12-22", "file": "debates1964-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "709880702b9b80fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1046.6", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Spearman", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister must have known that when he made that pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1046.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-22", "file": "debates1964-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "709880702b9b80fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1049.8", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "call that on 5th March of this year he urged the then Prime Minister, the present Leader of the Opposition, to make it clear that he was advising President Johnson against those who were proposing an invasion of North Vietnam as a way of aiding the situation in South Vietnam, and on 30th June of this year he again addressed the present Leader of the Opposition and asked him to make it quite clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1049.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-22", "file": "debates1964-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "709880702b9b80fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1057.3", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CEREALS MARKETING BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "in functions of a commodity commission would be to phase and integrate imports with home production. That is not the purpose of the Bill, or of the Authority it is intended to establish. It is solely concerned with home-grown cereals. Equally, as the Bill demonstrates, we are not wedded to the idea of producer marketing boards as the sole panacea for the problem of domestic marketing arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1057.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-22", "file": "debates1964-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "709880702b9b80fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CEREALS MARKETING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": " have the time, since with the public opinion polls showing a steady decline in the Government's popularity, the Prime Minister will seek an early election before the full enormity of the follies which the Government have perpetrated has been borne in on the mass of the people. It is easy to see the real reasons why we are witnessing the Socialist Government, introducing this Conservative Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-22", "file": "debates1964-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "709880702b9b80fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 3.—(PROVISION FOR ARBITRATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "ertainly are. I must declare my interest. I was once a member of the N.A.S. and I left because I thought it was not a union, but an organised agitation. I am now, and have been for a long time, a member of the National Union of Teachers and a local officer, and I am resisting this Amendment. So let not the hon. Member for Selly Oak think that this is an agitation organised by the N.U.T. It is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-22a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-23", "file": "debates1964-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "181b476be2a7ac56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-23a.1218.2", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "This is something for the exercise of common sense rather than legislation. We cannot legislate to relieve people of the liabilities of creating obstruction on the roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-23a.1218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-23", "file": "debates1964-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "181b476be2a7ac56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-23a.1218.2", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "This is something for the exercise of common sense rather than legislation. We cannot legislate to relieve people of the liabilities of creating obstruction on the roads. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] That is what is implied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-23a.1218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-23", "file": "debates1964-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "181b476be2a7ac56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-23a.1219.7", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Could the hon. Gentleman be a little more specific? What does he mean by \"take more account of the wider social consequences\"? What more could be done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-23a.1219.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1964-12-23", "file": "debates1964-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "181b476be2a7ac56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-23a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "DOCKS (CONGESTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "afternoon concerned with that. We are concerned with the short-term problem, a real and urgent one, which, in its present phase and intensity, was not there at all six or nine months ago. I recognise that there is a division of ministerial responsibility here; that responsibility is divided between at least three Departments—the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Labour and the Board of Trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1964-12-23a.1295.1"}