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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-01-25", "file": "debates1966-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c5cf82bca4ffca45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "What is the Government's attitude towards amounts which did not arise last year? I refer particularly to the contribution of Oxfam in sending relief to try to feed children suffering from starvation in the famine areas and whose contribution has been stopped by the British Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.8.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-01-25", "file": "debates1966-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c5cf82bca4ffca45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.9.3", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Y. Mackie", "preceding_text": "f contributions sent through the Presbyterian Mission in Africa are salaries to European missionaries there who are teaching African children? Is he aware that these salaries are already far less than the salaries which these people would receive in this country and that to offer them three-quarters of those salaries when they are away from home living on a subsistence level is quite unreasonable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.9.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-01-25", "file": "debates1966-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c5cf82bca4ffca45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.22.8", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that there is a great deal to be said for the Government dealing with pay claims within their own sector where they have responsibility rather than passing the matter on to these overburdened members of the National Board for Prices and Incomes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.22.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-25", "file": "debates1966-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c5cf82bca4ffca45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "Non-payment of interest does not disqualify the stock as a trustee investment", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-25", "file": "debates1966-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c5cf82bca4ffca45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will put a clear question, he will get a clear answer. As to the way in which he has now formulated the question, if there were a purchase of another aircraft which had the power to deliver bombs—we have already got the Canberras, as he knows—if there were such a purchase it would increase the power of delivery, but this is going to be internationalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-25", "file": "debates1966-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c5cf82bca4ffca45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "GAS SUPPLY, WEST MIDLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "does not agree that the situation shows up the appointment of the Winter Emergency Committee as the \"gimmick\" that it really was? In view of the right hon. Gentleman's admission that there was no miscalculation of demand, was it not odd of the Prime Minister, whose habit of blaming other people is only too well known, to seek to blame the Opposition for the consequences of two breakdowns of plant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-25", "file": "debates1966-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c5cf82bca4ffca45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "GAS SUPPLY, WEST MIDLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, Central (Mr. Palmer) is quite right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-25", "file": "debates1966-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c5cf82bca4ffca45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "GAS SUPPLY, WEST MIDLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman probably knows, I have paid a visit to Tipton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-25", "file": "debates1966-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c5cf82bca4ffca45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "GAS SUPPLY, WEST MIDLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "Awaiting the results of inquiries before giving answers is not something usually to be attributed to the Leader of the Opposition. I think that he has anticipated quite a few inquiries. I did not in any way damn any institution or firm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-25", "file": "debates1966-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c5cf82bca4ffca45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the questions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. Gentleman talks about \"stopping hedging\" on Rhodesia, I hope that that is his new year resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-25", "file": "debates1966-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c5cf82bca4ffca45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Amery", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that it would be quite unrealistic to believe that he will find any responsible body of Europeans prepared to co-operate with him on the basis of the terms which he has just announced?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.49.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-25", "file": "debates1966-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c5cf82bca4ffca45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.52.3", "colnum": "52", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry, Mr. Speaker, but, with great respect to you, I cannot accept that. The Prime Minister said that I deliberately submitted myself to propaganda on the part of the enemies of this country. He implied that I made no attempt to see the Governor, Sir Hugh Beadle or anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.52.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-25", "file": "debates1966-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c5cf82bca4ffca45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.66.5", "colnum": "66", "heading": "DEFENCE EQUIPMENT (OVERSEAS SALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "A very good example is that we are not in favour of selling arms to countries which are hostile to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.66.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-01-25", "file": "debates1966-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c5cf82bca4ffca45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.67.3", "colnum": "67", "heading": "DEFENCE EQUIPMENT (OVERSEAS SALES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman seriously expect the House to believe that when the party opposite, at the last election, referred to stopping the private sale of arms all it meant was that we should not sell arms to our enemies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-25a.67.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-26", "file": "debates1966-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0e651c84cc05cd12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-26a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend also consider other means? Is he aware that the provision of facilities for the travelling public is one way of getting rid of vandalism? If he cares to get into touch with the manager of Coventry City Football Club, he will discover that in transporting its football followers all over England, that club has eradicated vandalism by providing refreshments and all sorts of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-26a.216.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.381.2", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Would not the Minister of State nevertheless agree that this White Paper has few friends and a great many enemies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister realise that the costs cannot be measured in pounds, shillings and pence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.409.2", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "preceding_text": "es; second, because much of the rise in the cost of living since the General Election is due, as I shall show, to the Government's financial and economic policies; and, third, because all the indications are that, over the next few weeks and months, the cost of living will soar at an even faster rate. It is incredible to recall that, only 15 months ago, the man who is now First Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.409.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "preceding_text": "The whole House will agree that the right hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber) is always extremely impressive in his arguments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And this year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "preceding_text": "ense. I am always intrigued by the abandon with which hon. Members opposite exaggerate the difficulties with which the country is faced, and the way they squeal if anyone ever criticises anything they are doing when they are in office —but I am not complaining about that. During the last 10 years, prices have risen every year, with the solitary exception of 1959, which was a General Election year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.420.2", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "he annual increase in the cost of living this year would be 7 per cent. to 8 per cent. The right hon. Gentleman did not go that far today, because events have shown that this rapid increase in the cost of living has not been maintained. Although prices rose by 3·8 per cent. in the first six months of the Labour Government, in the following eight months they rose by only 1·9 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.420.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "e dramatic references to a price-dam about to break seem to imply that to absorb cost increases without raising prices is an artificial exercise. Obviously, there are limits, at least in the short term, to the extent to which increased costs can be absorbed, and it must be understood that if incomes continue to rise at a rate the country cannot afford this must eventually have an effect on prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look who is coming in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "There is no dispute between members of this Front Bench that they are in support of a policy which links together prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "What we would really like to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "The position is clear. What I am putting to right hon. and hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has it done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": " Government took office and was purely the result of the election of this Government. No policy which concerns itself solely with prices and incomes can possibly succeed. One of the main tasks of the Government has been the production of policies designed to stimulate technological efficiency and increased productivity in industry. The Ministry of Technology was established for this specific task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "f the nation. It is our duty, which we shall discharge undeterred by these accusations of being unpatriotic, to criticise sharply and constructively the discharge or non-discharge of that trusteeship. The measures or non-measures which the Government have taken to remedy the economic crisis into which they so foolishly and unnecessarily plunged the country when they came into office 18 months ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the then Chancellor of the Exchequer the right hon. Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling) in the last cost of living debate in 1964. He will find the reference in Vol. 689 Of HANSARD in col. 181. I accepted it then and I accept it now. If we look at price rises in the last year we see that the further we get from the Tory Government which ended in 1964 the more does the price record improve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.450.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.468.2", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "that period, and the imbalance in terms of wealth and the ownership of wealth, is a kind of blueprint in line with their policy statements for the future. The \"pacemakers' society\" is based on that concept. When we examine the period 1954–62 we find that the top 6 per cent. of incomes amounted to more than the bottom 40 per cent., representing nearly half the people. This was after taxation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "preceding_text": "overnment to do anything to assist these people. The country, instead of getting a solution to the rise in prices, is being fed on a daily diet of headlines. The Prime Minister and the Government know, and the country is beginning to learn, that the daily manufacture of headlines is no substitute for sound Government. When the Prime Minister decides—I hope that it will be soon—to go to the country", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "e knocked the stuffing out of hon. Members opposite, but they have many years ahead of them if they get it knocked out of them as quickly as that. If this is the sort of opposition we get at the beginning of 13 years, what will it be like at the end? I hope that there will be a thorough examination of Her Majesty's Opposition after this debate. Up to this moment at least there has been absolutely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ttempt to secure the intelligent idea of an incomes policy were destroyed because the Government that were attempting to put it into operation did not have the power and authority to see it through, but had to deal all the time with an unscrupulous and half-witted Opposition who had no desire to see such a policy work, but were out—to use a terrible word—to do everything they could to sabotage it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ong period. We need that bigger majority as soon as possible. I trust that what is happening tonight in Hull will give us a further spur in that direction. Whether we have it or not, I hope that the Government will consider these matters in all their aspects and put their confidence as early as possible in the determination of the people to have a real Socialist policy carried out in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "onable to make profits when all the time the taxpayers foot the bill for any loss which may take place in the nationalised industries, I do not know. The fact is that over the last 15 months the price of practically the whole range of goods has increased; from bread to mothballs, the housewife is today paying more. I have just been to Hull, and I am convinced what the result will be there tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like your 10 years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "t Minister when, during the last two months, the cost of living has been rising at the rate of 5·4 per cent. The Government have based their figures on the last eight months, as the Prime Minister said in his letter to the Labour candidate at Hull. He remarked how stable prices had been in the last eight months. Not nine months, because that would have proved to be a very bad figure indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "or two other examples of the important work of the Ministry of Technology. He missed out the best argument. The greatest thing which the Ministry of Technology has done in supporting the Government's prices and incomes policy is to give a job to the general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union to keep him quiet. This has been the most successful role of the Ministry of Technology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "tary Secretary this afternoon came to the Despatch Box and said, \"Of course, rates have gone up. Of course, they went up 14 per cent. last year, and they are liable to go up 10 per cent. this year. But,\" he said, \"it is not the Government, it is the system that has made the rates go up.\" In its election manifesto, the party opposite did not say that it was a system that it would keep for two years", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Douglas Jay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Douglas Jay)", "preceding_text": " of which he was speaking. I think the right hon. Gentleman might at least start by getting his figures right. I should have thought that in view of the record of those 13 years a rather heavy obligation rested on the party opposite to tell the country just how they proposed to stop this happening again. I notice that in the foreword to the Conservative Party's new policy statement—I have it here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "policy which we are pursuing is a co-operative one which has been repeatedly endorsed by the most representative leaders of industry, both on the side of management and of labour. Even though the Board started operating only in the spring, it has already received 18 references, nine of them on prices, and made nine reports. If the Board and the policy embodied in it succeeds, it will be a success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "By taking the dates that he has done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.529.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman did not even listen to what I said, perhaps because he has not been here for most of the debate. I chose the periods April to December, 1964, and April to December, 1965, because those were the dates chosen by right hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.529.6", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, that is not true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.529.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.529.6", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "n increase in indirect taxation, they will have to explain to the House why they imposed repeated increases in indirect taxes in their 13 years of power. The taxes on wines, beer and spirits went up under their Administration in 1964, as did the price of tobacco, the taxes on petrol, drink and tobacco went up in 1961 and the tobacco tax was raised by Tory Chancellors in 1956, 1960, 1961 and 1964.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.529.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-27", "file": "debates1966-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2b6339272fa8501", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "I shall be delighted if every hon. Member reads the context for himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-27a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-28", "file": "debates1966-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "6912673fab832c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-28a.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ESTATE AGENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "preceding_text": "I want a majority of Government supporters in charge of the council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-28a.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-28", "file": "debates1966-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "6912673fab832c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-28a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ESTATE AGENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. M. Woodhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. M. Woodhouse", "preceding_text": "um charges, I am sure that everyone will have been impressed by what the Minister has just said, which seemed fully to dispose of that danger. In these happy circumstances, there remains very little for me to say, so I will confine myself merely to one observation. Speaking as a former Home Office Minister, I am much relieved—not that I ever expect to be a junior Minister in the Home Office again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-28a.632.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-31", "file": "debates1966-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "09daa2c726780340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.676.4", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Can the Parliamentary Secretary say whether the Answer to my Question will satisfy the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists? In view of the shortages and difficulties involved in the make-up of a profession supplementary to medicine, has the hon. Gentleman personally consulted the Chartered Society? I ask, because I notice that a Question about the Royal College was answered by the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.676.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-31", "file": "debates1966-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "09daa2c726780340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has asked enough but, unfortunately, I did not hear half of it. My reply to her is that whether the Association will agree with my answer is of no consequence to me in this context—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.677.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-31", "file": "debates1966-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "09daa2c726780340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.688.2", "colnum": "688", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which people?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister agree that, irrespective of sanctions, the time is ripe now to try to improve the relationship between this Government and the Rhodesian people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.688.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-31", "file": "debates1966-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "09daa2c726780340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this new batch of sanctions which produces a total embargo seems to be in some contradiction to his original statement just after U.D.I. that he did not seek a total embargo? Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that there will be widespread opposition to this announcement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-31", "file": "debates1966-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "09daa2c726780340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this new batch of sanctions which produces a total embargo seems to be in some contradiction to his original statement just after U.D.I. that he did not seek a total embargo? Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that there will be widespread opposition to this announcement—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"]—in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-31", "file": "debates1966-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "09daa2c726780340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.693.0", "colnum": "693", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ese additional sanctions will help to do that, while at the same time putting forward our views on the basis on which Rhodesia can return to constitutional rule. I have already said to the right hon. Gentleman—and his words call on me to repeat it—that the only thing in Rhodesia standing in the way, or which did stand in the way, of a diminution of the right-wing and semi-Fascist resistance there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.693.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-31", "file": "debates1966-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "09daa2c726780340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman aware that he constantly displays his inability to deal with the real points which are being put seriously from this side of the House, by irresponsible challenges to the Opposition to put down Motions which would break any sort of bipartisan approach? If the right hon. Gentleman were earnest in his desire to see a national policy he would refrain from this continual abuse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.694.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-31", "file": "debates1966-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "09daa2c726780340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "I was coming to that. It confirms what I have been saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-31", "file": "debates1966-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "09daa2c726780340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "preceding_text": "tionalisation. But I am grateful for the hon. Member's intervention, because it helps to support the suspicion I have held ever since the Bill was published, namely, that whatever the intention of the Goverment may be at the moment, the Bill holds a dangerous element of nationalisation which could ultimately be used, as I have already said, to ensure that the land became the property of the State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-31", "file": "debates1966-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "09daa2c726780340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "dealing with transactions in land. In 1964–65, for example, local authorities spent some £164 million on land, which is a lot even compared with the borrowing powers of the Land Commission. Here one has authorities already equipped and well able to do the job. Indeed, at the town and country planning conference a couple of week ago at which the Minister was present—because I sat next to him", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-31", "file": "debates1966-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "09daa2c726780340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ength into our proposals for preventing the inflation of land prices by an improvement and acceleration in the planning procedures. If the proposal is, as the Government are now making it, to proceed with a levy while doing nothing at all to deal with the dilatory nature of our planning procedure, they will inevitably get inflation of land prices with the levy passed on. That can only be avoided —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-31", "file": "debates1966-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "09daa2c726780340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.836.11", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " and Means Resolution taken after a Second Reading of the Bill. The Financial Secretary has all the precedents at his disposal, though I do not know, from the expressions I see in a certain direction, that that knowledge appears to be immediately available. No doubt it can be obtained. This is a serious matter in respect of the control by this House of the machinery for the imposition of taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.836.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-01-31", "file": "debates1966-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "09daa2c726780340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-01-31a.842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.864.3", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Do not such industrial tycoons have enough to do on the jobs enumerated by my right hon. Friend without being given this part-time appointment? By the way, on a point of order, would it not be useful if hon. Gentlemen who speak from the Front Bench opposite first mentioned their names so that we may know who they are?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.864.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.865.4", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend explain why the coal industry is the only industry in Britain which must produce official figures of absenteeism? Is he aware that if he looks around he might care to make a guess at the amount of absenteeism on the benches opposite? I have made a quick calculation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.865.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.865.6", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "And I estimate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.865.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.866.8", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "It is a question for the boards themselves. They can approach the area boards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.866.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.866.8", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "It is a question for the boards themselves. They can approach the area boards—[ Interruption. ]—if they wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.866.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.869.4", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "This was not the criticism I received when I put on the ban. There was criticism of interference with the rights of other people. As a matter of fact, I merely suggested that it would be a good thing to do it, and I think that it has been rather good. I will discuss with the appropriate chairmen —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.869.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.871.8", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "There has not been any general price increase for coal at the pithead for more than five years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.871.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.880.2", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister realise that these countries only bite the hand that feeds them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.880.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY (PLOWDEN REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Robson Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It did\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Robson Brown", "preceding_text": "ot quite so liberal in my praise of the Plowden Report itself. It was a curate's egg which was pretty rotten in many parts. The Plowden Committee made a great mistake in visiting only one factory in Northern Ireland. It should certainly have visited one of the most advanced in Britain and without question should have gone to the United States of America to study the best which could be seen there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.957.3", "colnum": "957", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY (PLOWDEN REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "ris. It said that all N.A.T.O. members would have a proper share in the deployment and control of the nuclear deterrent. They have not. When the Labour Party came to power it clearly felt the responsibility of defending this country, and since it was shown the facts it has imperceptibly changed its attitude from what it had been at the hustings in 1964. Also, if Labour is in power a little longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.957.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY (PLOWDEN REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley R. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley R. McMaster", "preceding_text": " F28. Another German consortium, B.F.W., itself approached Shorts to collaborate in the twin-engined twin-jet V.F.W.614. This was designed to replace the Dakota, the DC3, and there is a very big potential market for it. It has been suggested by some of the Ministry of Aviation requirement experts that the V.F.W.614 is not a suitable replacement—the very same experts who suggested that the B.A.C. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY (PLOWDEN REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley R. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley R. McMaster", "preceding_text": "a very big potential market for it. It has been suggested by some of the Ministry of Aviation requirement experts that the V.F.W.614 is not a suitable replacement—the very same experts who suggested that the B.A.C. —[ Interruption. ] I should like briefly to examine the reason why Shorts was established in Northern Ireland. As the House well knows, we have in Northern Ireland a very difficult and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY (PLOWDEN REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley R. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley R. McMaster", "preceding_text": "her to the United States or to aircraft companies which have sprung up in the past five or 10 years in Europe and share with them secrets and plans that we can well use here. There is a future for the aircraft industry in the United Kingdom. The 1957 White Paper was completely wrong. I read a recent report on the war in Vietnam, which has been discussed a great deal through the Strangers' Gallery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY (PLOWDEN REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "preceding_text": "t industry would be very pleased to see the Parliamentary Secretary transferred to that appointment. The debate has been part and parcel of the continuing debates about the economic capabilities and the health and posture of this nation. We believe that the problems of the aircraft industry are solvable along the lines put forward in the debate today. We believe that the problems are worth solving", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY (PLOWDEN REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "I do not absolve B.E.A. from some blame, but what I am saying is that the last Government allowed the Corporations to get away with this sort of thing. I am saying that that Government were not immune from blame. They must accept some of the blame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY (PLOWDEN REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about dollars?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "o well aware of the mess left behind for us to clear up. At the beginning of his otherwise good speech, the hon. Member for Sudbury and Woodbridge started to make allegations about the cancellation of projects last year. Is there anyone in his senses who can deny that, if those projects had gone on, they would have cost the country many millions of pounds which, on any cost-effectiveness analysis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.1007.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "SEA FISHERIES (SALMON AND MIGRATORY TROUT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "preceding_text": "do not take the point as strongly as hon. Members opposite do. Liberal Members are in on this too, saying that there should be compensation and urging adoption of the Hunter Report. I wish that they would return to the belief of their forebears in the Liberal Party that the land should belong to the people, despite their vote yesterday. In Parliamentary legislation, of course, land includes water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-01", "file": "debates1966-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1f28980e214c5641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "SEA FISHERIES (SALMON AND MIGRATORY TROUT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "One or two hon. Members have asked why the Order has been introduced for only one year. This is a point about which one can take various views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-01a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-02", "file": "debates1966-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b625609ec6c43704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1061.4", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "First, is it not rather unfortunate that, since this is the only chance we shall have to ask these questions before the Defence Review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1061.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-02", "file": "debates1966-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b625609ec6c43704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1061.9", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "What happened in the United States is a matter primarily for my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary, but, in addition, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence will, no doubt, inform the House on his return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1061.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-02", "file": "debates1966-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b625609ec6c43704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1076.7", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, who has recently arrived to his task, has not studied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1076.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-02", "file": "debates1966-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b625609ec6c43704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "HOME DEFENCE FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wants a debate I assume we shall have it on the Second Reading of the necessary legislation in the not too far distant future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-02", "file": "debates1966-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b625609ec6c43704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "HOME DEFENCE FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that Labour M.P.s warmly welcomed the decision on the Territorial Army, but that many of us regard today's announcement as appeasement of the Conservative \"top brass\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1098.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-02", "file": "debates1966-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b625609ec6c43704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1105.2", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "o the police, appear inadequate to deal with this deteriorating situation, and rejects the Government's proposal to abolish juvenile courts and to give power to the executive to release prisoners after serving only one-third of their sentences without reference to the judiciary. I should like to take the opportunity of welcoming the right hon. Gentleman to his first major debate as Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-02", "file": "debates1966-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b625609ec6c43704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1105.2", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ot stayed awake at night worrying about the possibility of my right hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead, the right hon. and learned Member for Newport (Sir F. Soskice), or even the present Home Secretary using the police to seize power. There is something that I worry a little more about, and that is whether the police do not already virtually have the upper hand over the forces of law and order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-02", "file": "debates1966-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b625609ec6c43704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1105.2", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "e Member for Hampstead, the right hon. and learned Member for Newport (Sir F. Soskice), or even the present Home Secretary using the police to seize power. There is something that I worry a little more about, and that is whether the police do not already virtually have the upper hand over the forces of law and order—[ Laughter. ]—whether the criminals do not have the upper hand over the criminals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-02", "file": "debates1966-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b625609ec6c43704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIME", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": "ostentatiously from his right hon. Friend the Member for Bexley (Mr. Heath). I hope that the latter is not the case. When I was Minister of Aviation I greatly enjoyed having the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Mr. Maude) opposite me for much of the time. I hope very much that the right hon. Member for Monmouth will not find himself in the same situation as the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-02a.1120.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-03", "file": "debates1966-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e34c43ab3d9880ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-03a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "All my visits to the Carlisle State Brewery experiment—despite the fact that geographically, although not electorally, my constituency includes Burton—lead me to say that I think that it is a very good experiment indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-03a.1275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-03", "file": "debates1966-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e34c43ab3d9880ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-03a.1288.2", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERS AND MINISTRIES (TITLES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nisters without specific duties assigned to them and it is not usual to describe in detail all the duties that they perform. I can assure the hon. and learned Gentleman that my right hon. Friend certainly works extremely hard on the duties that he performs extremely successfully, and, unlike his Tory predecessors, as a non-departmental Minister he is not employed at public expense on party duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-03a.1288.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-03", "file": "debates1966-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e34c43ab3d9880ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-03a.1302.6", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "ommittee would agree that our work was enjoyable as well as, I hope, constructive. I am sure that you, Mr. Speaker, will understand that all of us who were on that Standing Committee feel a particular pang of sorrow and loss and would wish, before we go further with the Bill, to express our feelings in a very simple manner and our gratitude for the work which Dame Edith did and our tribute to her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-03a.1302.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-03", "file": "debates1966-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e34c43ab3d9880ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-03a.1408.1", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "t facts for us to remember. It is perfectly true that there is one proposition that Aneurin Bevan put to the doctors which has not been carried further. After they had had all these controversies, when they had been settled and the doctors came into the Service, he was asked what was his future longterm prospect for the doctors. His reply was that he wanted to see a high incidence of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-03a.1408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-03", "file": "debates1966-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e34c43ab3d9880ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-03a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thirty years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "d organising them. He just wants to get on with treating patients and I think that he is likely to be just as good a practitioner as a man who is keen on the status of an independent contractor. I would like to congratulate the hon. Member for York (Mr. Longbottom) on what I believe was his maiden speech from that Box in his present shadow position. I hope that he occupies it for a very long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-03a.1428.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-07", "file": "debates1966-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "538e518ca18a42bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-07a.9.5", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that his answer was so complicated that it was very difficult to follow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-07a.9.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-07", "file": "debates1966-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "538e518ca18a42bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-07a.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": "In the light of what my right hon. Friend himself has already said, does not he think that it would be timely for him to make a more formal declaration of intent on behalf of Britain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-07a.30.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-07", "file": "debates1966-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "538e518ca18a42bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-07a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "site, when they were in government, had already turned down and rejected the very thing which now, when they are in opposition, they are arguing for. Then there is the attitude, which we saw in the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East, when he was speaking today, that, somehow or another, the Conservative Party believes in encouraging thrift and self-reliance and a strong family community life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-07a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-07", "file": "debates1966-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "538e518ca18a42bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-07a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": ", they are arguing for. Then there is the attitude, which we saw in the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East, when he was speaking today, that, somehow or another, the Conservative Party believes in encouraging thrift and self-reliance and a strong family community life. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] All right, but the implication is always that Members on this side stand for the very opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-07a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-07", "file": "debates1966-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "538e518ca18a42bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-07a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "ho do not pay out a penny in sick pay of any kind, why they do not see fit to introduce some such scheme. This applies to the large and small businesses. In shipbuilding, the lack of fringe benefits is notorious. The shop owner is the backbone of the nation and sometimes of the Conservative Party, but he gets away with murder because there is not such a thing as a shopkeeper who pays sick benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-07a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-07", "file": "debates1966-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "538e518ca18a42bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-07a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "hey deal with are not the particulars of interpretation of the industrial injury law, and they do not deal with industrial injuries matters, but with matters involving knowledge of the workmen's compensation law and the application of wide discretionary powers which turn on knowledge of working practices. That may sound somewhat involved, so I will repeat it in simple language if the House wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-07a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oram", "preceding_text": "I agree with both parts of the hon. Member's supplementary question. We recognise the situation and are urging that the financial difficulties should be overcome. We are confident that before long this will be possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.186.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.186.2", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes or no?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that on the two previous occasions to which my hon. Friend has referred—when payments to British pensioners were discontinued by independent Governments—the British Government stepped in and paid the pensions, can the hon. Member say whether the same practice will be followed on this occasion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.186.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.192.6", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that full and interesting reply. My hon. Friend made it clear that there are proposals which will revolutionise turn-round at the ports. Will he bear in mind that, on these benches at least, we expect that the nation as a whole will gain whatever benefits accrue from public money invested in these schemes and the work carried out at N.P.L.? May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.192.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.193.0", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "Dracones are flexible containers used for the transportation of liquids and, in some cases, grain. They are usually made of nylon fabric coated with synthetic rubber or some similar substance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BUILDING AND HOUSING (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Conservative target was a paper target because, in the first place, at the time when they left office they had not provided for the necessary materials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.206.4", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am deeply moved, as I am sure Lord Cromer will be, by the fact that since this Question was put down my hon. Friend has become such a rapid convert to some of the things Lord Cromer says. Last night Lord Cromer commended this Government very strongly indeed for the fact that we have been showing the way to exercise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.206.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.208.4", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MOSCOW (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You need one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not in fact have a personal television adviser.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.208.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "PUBLIC INVESTMENT AND EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "If I may take those questions in reverse order, I do not yet know the final figures for 1965; but it looks as though we shall be pretty well on target to clear off the deficit by the end of 1966, as we are determined to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "PUBLIC INVESTMENT AND EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "have any alternative proposals for getting rid of the deficit, they will develop them in the economic debate. No doubt, we shall hear what part, in their view, the \"failure\" of the incomes policy, as they constantly call it, would play in their calculations. No doubt, we shall hear what measures they would propose to take and whether they would follow an incomes policy or not. Speaking for myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "PUBLIC INVESTMENT AND EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "cts referred to are those in existence on 27th July. There are no new development areas yet in existence. They have to be put on the Statute Book. On roads, my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport will make a statement in answer to a Question within the next day or two, I think, and detailed questions can be put to her. I hope that we shall have a clear indication from the Opposition where—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.216.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.255.3", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ibility for the statement issued by Her Majesty's Government last month. I know the feelings of some of my hon. Friends about the bombing—and, indeed, about that statement—and I want to say this to them. They have always been frank with me and I am always frank with them. I have never doubted their sincerity. I have sometimes wanted to see similar passion shown by hon. Members opposite about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s during the 40-day truce had been sizzling with messages to Hanoi and to Ho Chi Minh saying, when one thinks of all the pressures brought on the United States, \"Now conditions for talks exist. Now play your part. Your friends in this country who want peace expect you now to respond.\" I should like to have seen, \"Peace in Vietnam\" outside the Chinese Embassy, demanding that the Chinese Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o democracy in Hanoi. Therefore, there is no pressure on them to give away their negotiating points before they come to the conference table. So week after week I am asked to say that I believe that America should recognise the Vietcong at the conference table on equal terms. But there is no one putting similar points to Ho Chi Minh. There are no banners there. There is no free Press there either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tiations while the bombing is on\". When the bombing stops, there is still no negotiation. If some of my hon. Friends or Senator Fulbright, who is a very old friend of mine, will get out of Hanoi a statement to the effect, \"We will come to the conference table if these two conditions are met\", we will do all we can to ensure that those two conditions are met. I have not much doubt about the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thank the noble Lord for asking me, how dare I say what I said? I want to make this perfectly plain. I said earlier that I am sure that, there is universal sincerity in wanting to see peace, but there has also been far too much in recent weeks like the guffaws from hon. Members opposite, every time my right hon. Friend the Minister of Technology comes on to the scene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ietnamese affairs and feelings. There is no one in the House who feels more passionately than my right hon. Friend and I about these things. This is the point I have tried to make. I deplore that, while in this House we can talk about these issues, outside in the country we have right hon. Gentlemen and party leaders trying to make an issue of this question as a means of swinging votes to a party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "I hope that the House feels that that has clarified the issue. I confess that I do not. The Prime Minister cannot deny that there are those on his side of the House who have actively supported in every way—he has been complaining about it himself—the enemies of our allies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Russia herself?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " forces of Mao Tse-tung very much help—we all know that. But it was very difficult for them to do so considering that, for some years past, they had been collaborating with Chiang Kai-shek. The fact is—and no hon. Member opposite can say that it is not true—that no country has ever gone Communist, with the exception of Cuba, without having a Communist frontier next to it or a Communist occupation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "all the evidence shows to be mistaken, it will help very little if we mend our own ways. It is a matter of vital necessity that we should say to Governments like the Government of India, that we are anxious to see genuine economic advancement, and we are not interested—and I hope that even hon. Members opposite are not interested—in using the British taxpayer to underwrite the export of Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-08", "file": "debates1966-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcc2e852cb066535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady certainly said all that. She also said—and I noted her words at the time—that she had found the debate particularly fascinating because of this difference. What I think is odd is that a debate in which there are so many grave issues is of particular fascination for her as a political advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-08a.337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-09", "file": "debates1966-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "854e2fc23edb57f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.386.5", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "The deferments did not apply to schemes in the development areas in any way nor to schemes that in any way affected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.386.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-09", "file": "debates1966-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "854e2fc23edb57f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.400.2", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — F.M.C. PRODUCTS, NOTTINGHAM, LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "preceding_text": "Has the Director of Public Prosecutions now had an opportunity to examine the notes of the proceedings in the magistrates' court, proceedings which resulted from the Director's refusal to prefer a bill of indictment against the company? Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that I attended a case and that no evidence that I heard seemed to me to justify not putting the firm on a charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.400.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-09", "file": "debates1966-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "854e2fc23edb57f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.401.5", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITORS' CHARGES (CONVEYANCING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where from?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "I can assure my hon. Friend that the views and interests of consumers, as of the public generally, are being very carefully considered by my noble Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.401.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-09", "file": "debates1966-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "854e2fc23edb57f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITORS' CHARGES (CONVEYANCING)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be aware that this is a system which has operated for a very long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-09", "file": "debates1966-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "854e2fc23edb57f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": ", to the concept of a free market place, something which has been advocated by many leading Conservative economists, notably Dr. Lees in the pamphlets which he has published in the last two or three years. In our view the individual has the fundamental right in a good society to a free health service and we believe that there should not be a tax on illness. It is a matter for ethical judgment and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-09", "file": "debates1966-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "854e2fc23edb57f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "econd question is that we are concerned—and I take it that the right hon. Gentleman is equally concerned to have a rapid expansion of the Service in terms of hospital building and everything else. This we are going to achieve, as our figures show. Within the context of the National Plan we are achieving much in the sphere of pensions and education that hon. Gentlemen opposite utterly failed to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-09", "file": "debates1966-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "854e2fc23edb57f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "preceding_text": "sults of the surveys at Dover Castle quite recently know how thoroughly they were done, and I am sure that it would be the wish of all who were there to pay our tribute to those who carried out the surveys so thoroughly. In passing, I should like to make a suggestion to the Parliamentary Secretary. We now know that as a result of these surveys we have an extraordinary historic collection of bores—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-09", "file": "debates1966-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "854e2fc23edb57f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "I leave that to the Minister. I am not answering a debate, I am asking questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-09", "file": "debates1966-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "854e2fc23edb57f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "It is my clear recollection of the last public statement of the Chairman of the British Railways Board that he still believed that the timetable could be kept and that the deficit could be eliminated, but only if the Beeching Report of 1963 was implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-09a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-10", "file": "debates1966-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd31e64325b77ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.595.3", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That must have been the fiftieth occasion on which the hon. Gentleman has announced final evidence that the prices and incomes policy is not working. He is no better on this occasion than he was on the previous 49. What he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.595.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-10", "file": "debates1966-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd31e64325b77ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.601.7", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Since I saw the hon. Gentleman's Question on the Order Paper, and since I prepared the Answer, I have thought again about it and I have asked the Department to let me have some information on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.601.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-10", "file": "debates1966-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd31e64325b77ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.610.7", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDEX OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Nothing was more predictable than the right hon. Gentleman's supplementary question. He put it last week as well. The answer is, as I made plain long before the election, that the situation they left us with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.610.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-10", "file": "debates1966-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd31e64325b77ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET (FOREIGN SECRETARY'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-10", "file": "debates1966-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd31e64325b77ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.616.2", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET (FOREIGN SECRETARY'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "one he made on his Commonwealth tour, if correctly reported in the British Press. It seems that his enthusiasm to get into Europe diminishes the further he gets from Europe. But I welcome the renewed interest of the right hon. Gentleman in this subject, because in their election manifesto last lime Europe was hardly mentioned by the Conservatives. The right hon. Gentleman, the then Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.616.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-10", "file": "debates1966-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd31e64325b77ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.626.0", "colnum": "626", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the Opposition will recall what Mr. Speaker just said; that in his view this is a controversial matter. Is the right hon. Gentleman suggesting that a controversial matter should be settled in the House on a free vote?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.625.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-10", "file": "debates1966-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd31e64325b77ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND (ROYAL COMMISSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "usual form of announcing the Queen's gracious permission to have set up Royal Commissions and suggesting that my right hon. Friend should follow with a rather fuller statement because, as he is in closest touch with the individual inquiries which are going on, it is better for him to answer. Most hon. Members in touch with this matter in their own areas could put questions to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-10", "file": "debates1966-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd31e64325b77ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.643.3", "colnum": "643", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND (ROYAL COMMISSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The basis of separation between them will be, roughly speaking, the River Tweed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-10", "file": "debates1966-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd31e64325b77ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crowder", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crowder", "preceding_text": "mally speaking are detained as a measure of safety—one knows how careful the police have to be—for a period of three and a half to four hours at the most. It can be longer, but it very seldom is. Anyone who has had too much to drink and is unfit to drive, will be safe enough on the road having had three or four hours in which to sober up. In any event, that would seem to be the view of the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-10", "file": "debates1966-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd31e64325b77ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": "but driving in any circumstances. I therefore think that a level of 80 mg. per 100 ml. is reasonable. As a level it has been contested by very few people—not even, I note by the motoring associations. Let me try to remove one misapprehension. A fixed level of alcohol in the blood does not mean that we are ignoring the different effects which the same amount of alcohol has on different individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-10", "file": "debates1966-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd31e64325b77ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "e or the country wants. Therefore, there must be special checks, not based on driving or other behaviour which is in itself suspicious. Those checks could either be random, or they could be based on some objective circumstances not relating to the driver's behaviour which might give rise to suspicion—for instance, stopping all the drivers who left a particular pub or club, or whatever it might be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-10a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-11", "file": "debates1966-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f5f8b99eb5b8d582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-11a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEXUAL OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Berkeley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Berkeley", "preceding_text": "n a crime for hundreds of years, dating from the Middle Ages and perhaps earlier. Until Tudor times at least it was an ecclesiastical crime, and came before the ecclesiastical courts. Were we to have ecclesiastical courts in 1966 buggery would not be a crime because the Churches, every one of them, in Britain are overwhelmingly in favour of amending the law on the lines of the Wolfenden proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-11a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-11", "file": "debates1966-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f5f8b99eb5b8d582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-11a.814.3", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEXUAL OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under the present law. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " them have one-night stands, but a great number do. One consequence of having a great number of partners, in many cases gathered from the most sordid parts of society, is to get those partners coming back and saying, \"You remember me and what a good time we had. I am very hard up and out of work. Will you let me have £25 or £50?\" That kind of blackmail goes on on a large scale and is inescapable.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-11a.814.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-11", "file": "debates1966-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f5f8b99eb5b8d582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-11a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEXUAL OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "preceding_text": "nother area can mean that no prosecutions take place. The consequence is that this is a law which by its application is utterly inequitable and unjust. Therefore, it is both unenforceable and unjust. And the penalties attached to the law are utterly senseless. We all know that to send a homosexual to an overcrowded male prison is as therapeutically useless as incarcerating a sex maniac in a harem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-11a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-11", "file": "debates1966-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f5f8b99eb5b8d582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-11a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEXUAL OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " in favour of this reform. Has the right hon. Gentleman given to my hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster, who is now absent, any pledge that the Government will give him support or will find time to further the Bill? Does my hon. Friend have a promise from the Prime Minister that time will be found for it? Has the matter been discussed. If not, I reason that we are wasting our time this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-11a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-11", "file": "debates1966-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f5f8b99eb5b8d582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-11a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEXUAL OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ulse. I cannot help it. You must not punish me. I was born that way, or my father did not treat me properly as a child, and I cannot help it.\" Over the years we have struggled with what may be called the no-hanging Measure. What has been the result? We have talk of diminished responsibility until there is no responsibility at all. What has been the result? The result has been an enormous increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-11a.835.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-15", "file": "debates1966-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b553afb8b5431c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1093.3", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "In particular, would my right hon. Friend say what are his plans, in view of the new prototype reactor established near Dounreay experimental station, for the purpose of bringing more power to Aberdeen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1093.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-15", "file": "debates1966-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b553afb8b5431c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1109.6", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF LABOUR (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Minister of Labour on the speech, but is it not becoming clearer every day that the incomes policy stands very little chance of success while under the direction and control of the First Secretary of State who, despite his many abilities which we recognise, is temperamentally unsuited?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1109.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-15", "file": "debates1966-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b553afb8b5431c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COUNCIL HOUSES (SUBSIDIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What we are saying is that, within the housing accounts of each local authority, each local authority should have local freedom to decide these matters. We have always said that. What we object to is the right hon. Gentleman's suggestion that council house rents should be raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-15", "file": "debates1966-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b553afb8b5431c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1119.4", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "INVESTMENT INCENTIVES AND INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I gather that the hon. Lady is still leaving us. The Government are fundamentally concerned to achieve social justice in our society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1119.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-15", "file": "debates1966-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b553afb8b5431c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "INVESTMENT INCENTIVES AND INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "overnment take to improve the working of the mixed economy is a subtly-disguised move towards further nationalisation. And then they have the effrontery to accuse us of being doctrinaire. Let me make it quite clear once again—this time, I would hope, once and for all—that the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation will have no compulsory powers whatsoever. But its job is to bring the changes about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-15", "file": "debates1966-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b553afb8b5431c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "INVESTMENT INCENTIVES AND INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is it fair to drag him in?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I have not the slightest idea. All I know is that he has been consulted throughout and that what he said in that speech is extremely relevant to what we are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-15", "file": "debates1966-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b553afb8b5431c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1130.9", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "INVESTMENT INCENTIVES AND INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That shows how difficult it sometimes is in the House. I wondered how hon. Gentlemen opposite had lived for half an hour without getting the giggles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1130.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-15", "file": "debates1966-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b553afb8b5431c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1130.9", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "INVESTMENT INCENTIVES AND INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That shows how difficult it sometimes is in the House. I wondered how hon. Gentlemen opposite had lived for half an hour without getting the giggles. [ Laughter. ] Now they have them. I said the opposite of what my hon. Friend thought I said. I said that we accept the mixed economy, but that the boundary between public and private enterprise will change. What I went on to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1130.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-15", "file": "debates1966-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b553afb8b5431c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1131.3", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "INVESTMENT INCENTIVES AND INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman was not in such a hurry, we would understand that I was paying Northern Ireland the courtesy of finding out whether we have got this agreed with them. The answer is \"Yes\", but, unlike the party opposite, which has 12 tame hacks from Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1131.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-15", "file": "debates1966-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b553afb8b5431c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "INVESTMENT INCENTIVES AND INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman now wants to shy away from what he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-15", "file": "debates1966-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b553afb8b5431c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "INVESTMENT INCENTIVES AND INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBHRS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "isagrees with his right hon. Friend. I am putting a question to the First Secretary. I listened to him with courtesy; he might perhaps do the same to me. I am asking him whether he disagrees with his right hon. Friend the Minister of Technology, who is the one other Minister of significance named in this White Paper to co-operate with this body. Does the First Secretary agree or disagree with him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-15", "file": "debates1966-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b553afb8b5431c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1151.2", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "INVESTMENT INCENTIVES AND INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member is not acting in accordance with the standards of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-15", "file": "debates1966-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b553afb8b5431c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1151.2", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "INVESTMENT INCENTIVES AND INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "mber is not acting in accordance with the standards of this House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] He is acting in accordance with the standards of debate of hon. Members opposite. I heard what he said about what my right hon. Friend said. I do not know more about it than that and I should need to check it in its context. The answer is that, if my right hon. Friend said what it was said he said, that is no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-15", "file": "debates1966-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b553afb8b5431c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "INVESTMENT INCENTIVES AND INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hirst", "preceding_text": "y with considerable authority—because I am on the Economic Policy Committee of the C.B.I.—that the First Secretary had no grounds whatever for making the statements he did. Had the right hon. Gentleman bothered to check his facts—and considering the position he holds it would have been decidedly prudent of him to have checked them—he would have seen that he should not have used such a dirty trick—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-15a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-16", "file": "debates1966-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fef51f59b8ddb6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1320.6", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER (PERSONAL STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ssure both the House and the hon. Member concerned that I gladly withdraw any words in my Ruling which unwittingly gave offence. The Chair must be firm, but never discourteous. I hope that hon. Members will never hesitate to let me know whenever I err in this way. May I again assure the House that the Chair intends, like a great predecessor, to show favour to none, but respect to all hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1320.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-16", "file": "debates1966-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fef51f59b8ddb6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "pt for one interruption to correct a statement, and I intend, for the present, to carry on with my speech. We are busy with our review, and I do not think that there are any fears in the private insurance world such as have been expressed by hon. Members opposite. The real fear of hon. Gentlemen opposite is that the State might do something which would interfere with profits for some other people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-16", "file": "debates1966-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fef51f59b8ddb6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1368.0", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Newcastle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "I, too, was extremely dissatisfied with the answer of the right hon. Lady. To give the excuse for the administrative difficulty that the computer at York—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-16", "file": "debates1966-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fef51f59b8ddb6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA (EXPORTS AND IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gallons.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "nt that I disagree with the right hon. Gentleman, and I certainly support the Order. I conclude my speech, because it is obvious that I shall not get far in pursuing this, by referring to reports that are coming through this evening. I am not sure whether this is specifically concerned with the Order, but I understand that it refers to \"any specified product\". I understand that 30,000 tons of oil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-16", "file": "debates1966-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fef51f59b8ddb6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1456.2", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA (EXPORTS AND IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "What we are discussing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-16", "file": "debates1966-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fef51f59b8ddb6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1456.4", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA (EXPORTS AND IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tedious repetition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "o the Order. I was discussing the three interventions which have so far been made from that side of the House and was coming to the fourth, only to find that I cannot pursue that further. I was remarking that the three speakers from the Opposition so far have presented contrary views to the Order. There is a three-way split already. I think that that is a perfectly valid point, because, after all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1456.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-16", "file": "debates1966-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fef51f59b8ddb6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1461.3", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA (EXPORTS AND IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is responsible?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "to when we create fictitious and imaginary criminal offences when we know perfectly well that we cannot enforce the law and no one will seriously imagine that it will be enforced against people in Rhodesia. Why, therefore, stick this sort of nonsense into an Order of this description? If we are serious in this matter—and remember, this is a very, very serious matter, this is a tragedy in Rhodesia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1461.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-16", "file": "debates1966-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fef51f59b8ddb6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA (EXPORTS AND IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of them", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "preceding_text": "ome quite a long time ago. I have said before, and I said it to the Prime Minister, that when we discuss these matters we want to keep a very reasonable calm, because, at the backs of our minds, the objects of this type of Order must be that we can meet face to face with the people in that country. No puppet Government can do that. They must be people who can speak for the inhabitants of Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-16", "file": "debates1966-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fef51f59b8ddb6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA (EXPORTS AND IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "preceding_text": " of our minds, the objects of this type of Order must be that we can meet face to face with the people in that country. No puppet Government can do that. They must be people who can speak for the inhabitants of Rhodesia. [HON. MEMBERS: \"All of them]?\"] All of them, and there are no people who are so contented and so happy as the coloured people of that country and none support the Government more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-16", "file": "debates1966-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fef51f59b8ddb6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA (EXPORTS AND IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "preceding_text": " is unable to live on her own money, properly paid in dividends, but blocked in this country. As a result, we are paying her £9 9s. l0d. a week National Assistance, not a penny of which would she require if she could use her own money for her own purposes in this country. That is the type of thing that we have come to by passing this type of Order. The whole matter needs looking at very carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-16", "file": "debates1966-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fef51f59b8ddb6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA (EXPORTS AND IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Charge it to the Law Officers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "preceding_text": "on. ] I am afraid that a number of hon. Members opposite, making very uncalled for noises, did not hear what I said. I will repeat it. A British subject with funds in this country, resident in this country now, is unable to draw those funds. We have to pay her £9 9s. l0d. a week National Assistance, because she cannot touch her own money for her own purposes here. If that is not nonsense, what is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-16", "file": "debates1966-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fef51f59b8ddb6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1478.5", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA (EXPORTS AND IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": " Cuba, although the Americans ask us not to do so, and undoubtedly a similar position will arise with other countries as well. The sooner we can get the negotiations going, and the sooner we can get a settlement of this whole unfortunate matter, the better. These Orders may bring the Rhodesians more into line, and make them more ready to talk, and it is for those reasons that I support this Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-16", "file": "debates1966-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fef51f59b8ddb6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1482.2", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA (EXPORTS AND IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "preceding_text": "This places me in a difficult position, because I may not answer the question. The Chair has ruled that I may not do so. I suggest that the hon. Member was well aware when he asked the question that that would be the ruling of the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-16", "file": "debates1966-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fef51f59b8ddb6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1484.3", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA (EXPORTS AND IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "preceding_text": "erness, in tension and in mistrust, it becomes increasingly difficult, not only for us but for the African population and for the Commonwealth to find a means of reconciling these difficulties and bring about a peaceful solution. It is a peaceful solution with which I am ultimately concerned, and it is to ensure that the measures that have been taken by Her Majesty's Government shall be effective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-16", "file": "debates1966-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fef51f59b8ddb6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1484.7", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA (EXPORTS AND IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am sure that what I have said may not arouse pleasure on all sides. It is now being suggested that there may be some difference of opinion between myself and my colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-16a.1484.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-17", "file": "debates1966-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4a3284c2c02c7ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-17a.1521.5", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "In regard to King's Lynn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-17a.1521.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-17", "file": "debates1966-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4a3284c2c02c7ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-17a.1524.7", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "Yes, this is one of the factors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-17a.1524.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-17", "file": "debates1966-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4a3284c2c02c7ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-17a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Distaste is a feeling that occurs to some of us on other matters. We have had a Privy Councillor in Rhodesia this week. We hope to hear from him when he finally gets back. He did not arrive in time for last night's debate, for reasons which we all understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-17a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-17", "file": "debates1966-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4a3284c2c02c7ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-17a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. Harold Davies)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. Harold Davies)", "preceding_text": "ave private cover and who feel themselves to be immortal—and we all feel ourselves to be immortal when we are in our 'twenties—to opt out. But the chronic sick cannot opt out. That is one of the difficulties of imbalance which any Government, of whatever political calibre, would have to face in dealing with this problem. I know that there will be smiles when I say that we are bearing this in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-17a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-17", "file": "debates1966-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4a3284c2c02c7ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-17a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. Harold Davies)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. Harold Davies)", "preceding_text": ". But the chronic sick cannot opt out. That is one of the difficulties of imbalance which any Government, of whatever political calibre, would have to face in dealing with this problem. I know that there will be smiles when I say that we are bearing this in mind—[ Laughter. ] Hon. Members opposite may join in the joke if they like, but my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-17a.1576.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-21", "file": "debates1966-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "1e96a46cfadabbe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.60.5", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "They were referring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.60.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-21", "file": "debates1966-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "1e96a46cfadabbe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.60.10", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "All I am saying to the House is that, having consulted a member of the Jenkins Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.60.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-21", "file": "debates1966-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "1e96a46cfadabbe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.61.8", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Like the Minister of State, I have been able to deal with only some of the aspects of the Bill which have attracted particular attention since it was published. There is a wealth of detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.61.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-21", "file": "debates1966-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "1e96a46cfadabbe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Rodgers", "preceding_text": "commission. It could be described as attempting to do those things which ought not to be done and omitting those things which ought to be done. Many hon. Members have illustrated the things which should have been included in a Bill of this sort. My right hon. Friend the Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber) pointed out that it is 18 years since the law relating to companies was last revised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-21", "file": "debates1966-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "1e96a46cfadabbe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "e immediate running of the business should be disclosed; that figures should be given for charitable contributions, educational contributions, trade protection arrangements and research proposals as well as political contributions. That makes sense. But merely to pick out political contributions and say that they should be disclosed is exhibiting the political vindictiveness of the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-21", "file": "debates1966-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "1e96a46cfadabbe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.103.0", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": " that, unless a company is able to give a good reason why it should not disclose certain information, then it should disclose it because disclosure is, by and large, for the national good. I come now to some of the important omissions from the Bill. I see no reason for hiding the large holdings at present held by nominees. I see absolutely no reason why directors' dealings should not be disclosed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-21", "file": "debates1966-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "1e96a46cfadabbe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "e the rest of the country, the impression that they are only capable of scratching at the surface of any problem and the legislation they introduce creates far more injustices than it tries to remedy. The Minister of State mentioned that it has been stated, although he did not necessarily agree with it, that the Bill will be remembered more for what has been left out than for what has been put in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-21", "file": "debates1966-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "1e96a46cfadabbe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "y hurting family businesses—and one remembers that the Minister of State, Department of Economic Affairs, said about that, \"And a good job too.\" Then there is the distributive effects of Corporation Tax, which again will hit the small business. We now have the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation, which is creeping nationalisation, and the nationalised industries having more power to manufacture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-21", "file": "debates1966-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "1e96a46cfadabbe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.150.3", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "raph 52 charitable donations and in paragraph 53 it said that it did not recommend disclosure of charitable donations because it did not think it important enough. I do not think those three paragraphs, read together, can have any other possible construction than the one which I have put on them. I do not propose to say any more on the subject, because I do not think that it is the most important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-21", "file": "debates1966-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "1e96a46cfadabbe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.150.7", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ng the confidence of the public in the banks, measuring that against the right of shareholders and investors to disclosure, until the matter had been carefully examined with the banks. Hon. Gentlemen opposite are complaining that everything is not in the Bill. In a sense, it is flattering that they expect us to have done in about 16 months all the things that they did not do in 13 years of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.150.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-21", "file": "debates1966-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "1e96a46cfadabbe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ry glad to know that the House will give such an enthusiastic welcome to a Bill designed to cure the most pressing defects in the field of company law, a Bill which, by requiring the disclosure of much more information in companies' accounts and directors' reports, will check abuses, remove an unhealthy veil of secrecy, give confidence to shareholders, creditors, investors, employees and the like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-21a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "In view of the totally unsatisfactory nature of the reply, and in view of the abject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.223.7", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.223.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.223.7", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I understand—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—wait for it—from some private exchanges that there is involved in the question the suggestion that I misled the hon. Gentleman. I have read my Answer of 16th December and I think that it was open to two constructions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.223.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.226.6", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The answer is, I think, that we have not yet got there, because we set ourselves a two-year target—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.226.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.231.8", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AFRICA (GOVERNMENT AID)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "In view of the humanitarian aims mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman, would he now agree that there should be a restoration of the cut in missionary remittances, from 75 per cent. to 100 per cent., and that the figure should be even higher than that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.231.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.234.4", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has it all wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.234.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.234.4", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has it all wrong—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and not for the first time. Both at Hull and Camberwell I said that there were right hon. Gentlemen opposite who were inciting industrialists to do this. To their credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.234.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.234.7", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The First Secretary in his speech made specific accusations against my right hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain Macleod) which he has been afraid to make this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.234.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "Oral Question for tomorrow to a Written Question for yesterday. Consequently, when my Question, which was originally tabled 16 days earlier, namely, on 1st February, was reached today, the Treasury Minister was in the comfortable position of being able to duck any serious questioning. This is not the first time that a set of circumstances of this sort has occurred with reference to the Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.237.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.238.2", "colnum": "238", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "I am grateful that the hon. Member for Norfolk, North, has given that explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.238.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North, for his explanation. Naturally, our personal relationship in desiring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "DEFENCE REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "is commitments, because, by what he is doing, he is breaking the agreement which was made for the South Arabian Federation on its independence? Further, is he aware that we do not believe that this is the moment to make a final decision on the carrier force in the middle of the 1970s, which is what the right hon. Gentleman is now doing? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware also that in his statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "DEFENCE REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "he time when such a negotiated end to the confrontation will become possible. I hope that the same view is taken by the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, who expressed himself in very robust terms on this issue when he was recently in Singapore. I know that this view is not shared by the defence spokesman of the Opposition, since he said that one could only explain the deployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "DEFENCE REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "llion on defence and that, in spite of the country being saddled with eight successive Tory Ministers of Defence, we have never had a fundamental review of our defence position until now? Will my right hon. Friend say whether, in spite of having spent £20,000 million on defence during 12 years of Tory rule, any carrier programme was ever formulated or carried out? Will he tell me at the same time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "DEFENCE REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "am entitled to ask one or two. Will my right hon. Friend, at the same time, tell the House, with reference to the proposed retention of our forces in Europe on the understanding that our foreign exchange costs are met, whether a time limit is to be imposed for the payment of those foreign exchange costs, or, otherwise, is it intended that we should withdraw some of our forces from Europe? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "DEFENCE REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Am I wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.247.5", "colnum": "247", "heading": "DEFENCE REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What for?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to disappoint the right hon. Gentleman, but he has got it wrong again. What we propose to do, as we made clear a year ago, is to build four Polaris submarines. We have offered, and maintain our offer, to assign them to an Atlantic nuclear force irrevocably for the duration of the alliance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.247.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "DEFENCE REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I do not want to minimise the problems which will arise in maintaining the morale and efficiency of the Fleet Air Arm for another 10 years. This is one of the most important questions which we have to consider. One of the reasons why the First Sea Lord thought it wise to retire now rather than in August was so that his successor should start from scratch now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-22", "file": "debates1966-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "09324a27e32c3110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.314.3", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOOL TEXTILE INDUSTRY (LEVIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Tiley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Tiley", "preceding_text": "I am happy to be associated with and to follow the hon. Member for Bradford, South (Mr. George Craddock) in making a short speech in support of the two Orders in his presence and that of the hon. Member for Bradford, North (Mr. Ford) as well. I would say to my hon. Friend the Member for Reading (Mr. Peter Emery) that there is nothing as good as wool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-22a.314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.394.5", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "Does the Postmaster-General recall that we were told in the Labour Party manifesto that Labour was ready poised to swing its plans into instant action? Why are we waiting? Why have we had 18 months of dithering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.394.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.414.0", "colnum": "414", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " increase in the pay and incomes of other people in preceding years. In other words, what the Civil Service gets in this year is related to what others got in earlier years; but I do not want to make too much of that. The right hon. Gentleman referred to overseas indebtedness. It is true that we have borrowed substantial sums to pay for the debts which were incurred by the Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.417.0", "colnum": "417", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman started it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Yes, I constantly tell the country of the £800 million deficit, although this is not very much related to the public expenditure that I have been talking about; but I quite understand why the red herring of the £800 million deficit was introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.417.2", "colnum": "417", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should try to get his facts right. The borrowing from the Central Banks was begun in the summer of 1964, before the election, and it was not repaid at the time I assumed office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.421.5", "colnum": "421", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "opposite sounding now? Is it reveille or is it retreat? It is not a new strategy for social security. It is a new retreat from social security. This is not \"Putting Britain Right Ahead\". It is putting Britain right behind again. These are the clarion calls which the Opposition hope will gain support in any forthcoming election there might be. Now I want to turn to our own aims for social security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.421.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "dd a postscript to the statement that I made in the course of my speech on 10th November last year about an income guarantee. The House will remember that this was postponed in the Chancellor's announcement on 27th July last year. The income guarantee, together with many other things that we had resolved to do, became a casualty of the bankrupt condition that we inherited from the last Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When is the election?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "ble on a stable basis without frequent inquiry and for long periods. The new Ministry will do more on its own initiative to see that people coming to retirement get all the help, in terms of cash or services, to which they are entitled. If the House will be patient for a little longer my right hon. Friend the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance will deploy this new approach to the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "rdship. It is the positive maintenance of contemporary living standards throughout life against all hazards and especially in retirement, which is the biggest threat of all. Therefore, the Welfare State is in this new crisis and that is what the debate is about. Our approach to it is not one of belated responses. The party opposite has turned its back on any responses at all to this new challenge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no it has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": " of contemporary living standards throughout life against all hazards and especially in retirement, which is the biggest threat of all. Therefore, the Welfare State is in this new crisis and that is what the debate is about. Our approach to it is not one of belated responses. The party opposite has turned its back on any responses at all to this new challenge—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh, yes, it has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "the biggest threat of all. Therefore, the Welfare State is in this new crisis and that is what the debate is about. Our approach to it is not one of belated responses. The party opposite has turned its back on any responses at all to this new challenge—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh, yes, it has—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no it has not.\"] Oh, yes. With that in mind, I think that I can sum up in a few sentences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "7,000 old compensation cases—we found the remedy. The Welfare State is a noble and humanitarian ideal, for which Her Majesty's Government will continue to strive. Public opinion endorses this concept and we are sure that, given the opportunity, it will do so again. We are determined to work for its expansion and development. Thirteen years of Conservative apathy and more recent signs of sabotages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "It is fair to raise that point. This is not only part of the debate about social services. It is also part of the great debate about the economy of the country and what will give it the dynamism which will allow us to do what we want for the social services. That is the whole point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "her the Government should insist that there should be free prescriptions for those who do not need them as well as for those who do, or whether, instead, we should have better hospitals, they prefer to have better hospitals with special arrangements for those who need the free prescriptions. This is the plain fact. All hon. Members on the Government side of the House know it. What they were doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.439.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter (The Hartlepools) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.439.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.439.5", "colnum": "439", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "Mr. Leadbitter rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.439.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.439.7", "colnum": "439", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "o that we would review the whole Beveridge system. The Chancellor of the Duchy has apparently been doing it—at least, we understand that that was his task. We have done it ourselves with our own resources as well. I suspect that our resources are greater than those of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, hidden away, as he is, in his monastic cell, with two secretaries—and I do not mean that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.439.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "No, I must get on. Let us look at the main items with which we ought to deal in this situation. We are moving, and have been moving, rapidly into a middle-income society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "To bring up the standard of the whole of the social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"New groups?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell) listens patiently, he will hear a great deal. Then there are the families in which the father has died, or has deserted the wife. In 1961, there were 180,000 children in this category. Then there are the elderly and those who have looked after their parents all their lives, the single daughter who, perhaps, has to live without any real financial support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.445.2", "colnum": "445", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Means test.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "s committed to dealing with family allowances over the whole field. This is a clear example of where, in this prosperous society, we cannot show that people need increases right across the field, but we can show that low-wage earners, especially those with above the average number of children, require increases. Why not take special action to deal with them? I put this to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.445.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson (Penistone) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.447.3", "colnum": "447", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "iction. These are all discriminations in favour of these people. This does not mean the abandonment of the Welfare State; it means improving the Welfare State. We should discriminate also—I said this at Birmingham—in favour of those particular areas in the country which have the most difficult problems—those with bad housing, bad schools, oversized classes, those things which lead to rootlessness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.447.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.448.1", "colnum": "448", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon at Question Time we have the somewhat unedifying spectacle of the Prime Minister publicly revealing what he is pleased to call his guts. Now that we are all aware that he has got them, would it not be better if he used them and did something with them? This is what we expect. The second main theme which I put before the House is that what we ought to try to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "It is. We say that in addition to the basic scheme there should be occupational schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.451.2", "colnum": "451", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I can tell the right hon. Gentleman very quickly, but what he has proved is that it is absolutely clear that the scheme is on top of the basic scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.451.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " very eloquent remarks about the country today, and in many ways I agree with him. When we are discussing the Welfare State and the social services it should be remembered that the Welfare State is only part of Britain today, though a vital part. There is all the rest of the country which needs to be dealt with. There are all the old cities which need to be rebuilt. There are still the slag heaps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "We have had a characteristic speech from the hon. Gentleman the Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton). I do not propose to reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.477.6", "colnum": "477", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "sioners was also raised five times. Thus, we can dismiss with contempt the charge that the Conservatives are trying to undermine the Welfare State. It is quite true that there is a difference between the two sides of the House. I do not see why we should attack each other about this. Let us, rather, try to understand why there is a difference and not be abusive about it, as was the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.477.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.499.0", "colnum": "499", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "preceding_text": " the Labour Party has to offer us on the Welfare State, the field is clear for us. We are not prepared, as the Government apparently are, to go on repairing the Beveridgs structure and shoring up bits of it. We are prepared to say—and the Labour Party, to my surprise, is not—that we must ask once more the fundamental question: why do we have a welfare State? We have it to help people who are poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.499.0", "colnum": "499", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "preceding_text": "o my surprise, is not—that we must ask once more the fundamental question: why do we have a welfare State? We have it to help people who are poor. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Surely, we do not have a Welfare State in order to help people who are rich? Surely, the Labour Party is not now committed to doctrine of fair shares for the rich? We are concerned with the poor. Let the rich look after themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "igger political disaster than they will suffer at the next General Election. They do not like the Welfare State; they have no time for it. Their dilemma is in having to acknowledge the necessity of the Welfare State because of the nuisance of democracy and the fact that people have votes. There were some aspects of my right hon. Friend's speech this afternoon with which I was not altogether happy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.527.3", "colnum": "527", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " proportion of national income devoted to social benefits during the 13 years of Conservative rule rose from 5 per cent. to 7 per cent.—5 per cent. of the lower national income when we took over, and 7 per cent. of the higher national income when we came out of office. I say to hon. and right hon. Members opposite that if they ever do have a record to equal those 13 years, then will come the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.527.3", "colnum": "527", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "beyond doubt, the 13 years which they deride were the 13 years of most rapid social advance in the history of this Island. If I believed for a moment that the party to which I belong would abandon the policy which it has pursued during the 23 years since the debate of which I have spoken, I would leave it as certainly as I would leave it if it abandoned private enterprise because the sheet anchor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.527.3", "colnum": "527", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ear in which we now are, the financial year 1965–66, the 20th year after the inauguration of the scheme. He said: Briefly, the proposal is to introduce for all citizens adequate pensions without means test by stages over a transition period of twenty years while providing immediate assistance pensions for persons requiring them. That brings us to the year 1965, the year in which we now are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.527.3", "colnum": "527", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"A swindle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ption of this Government is a swindle. The fact is that the swindle, if it be a swindle, consists in transferring from a contributor to the beneficiary without keeping for the benefit of the contributor anything at all. This is what successive Governments have been doing. The Minister of Housing and Local Government, when he was in opposition, with his felicitous gift of phrase, referred to it as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.527.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Housing and Local Government wrote about four years ago. He said: The truth is that in politics there come occasions when honourable men are bound to practise deception and to tell lies, and only hypocrites will impugn their personal integrity when things go wrong and they are caught red-handed. Mr. Speaker, the right hon. Gentleman has been caught red-handed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.534.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.535.3", "colnum": "535", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "preceding_text": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Richard Crossman) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.535.5", "colnum": "535", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "shout, an enormous noise, to cover up the fact that they are trying to think of some reason for giving up the scheme other than the fact that it has now been demonstrated to be a swindle. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster gave the figures of money right hon. Gentlemen opposite collected and which we are still collecting because we have not had time to change the system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.535.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.535.5", "colnum": "535", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "the problem of reorientating the whole of our social services in a period of affluence for those who have not kept pace with those standards. Secondly, he said, we must therefore face the fact that when people got on in life and got more respectable, they did not want to have the State scheme, but wanted to have self-reliance, to be owner-occupiers and to be members of B.U.P.A.—the British United—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.535.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Not private health—I am glad to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.538.5", "colnum": "538", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "al Assistance. Half a million more could be if they went along and qualified for it. At the other end, I would reckon that there are roughly a million who are relatively well off. Then there are the 2½ million at the bottom in grinding poverty and in various degrees of poverty above. To describe this as an affluent society, with a few islands of special cases seems extraordinary distortion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.538.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "glect of houses to rent, the deliberate destruction for years of council schemes, and the abolition of subsidies for some years, produced the situation reported in the Milner Holland Report. It produced a desperate situation in our conurbations. We have the simple Tory view. They say, \"We are so affluent that everybody who matters can afford to buy a house\". But, as a matter of fact, 40 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "e. I turn now to health and prescription charges. I will deal with this briefly, because the issue is clear. One can simply say that priorities are different. Here again, we estimate the British people differently. We are told by the Opposition that nobody has any feeling about prescription charges and that they were a mere nothing. The Tories would remit them only for those whose need was proved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman told me that we in the Labour Party had no policy. I will repeat to him what it is. We did it in three stages. First of all, we did the relief operation of raising very high indeed the flat rate of the existing pensioner, and we did it, frankly, because we do have a principle, which is, that even when this country is in difficulties we do not forget our promises to the needy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "l, we did the relief operation of raising very high indeed the flat rate of the existing pensioner, and we did it, frankly, because we do have a principle, which is, that even when this country is in difficulties we do not forget our promises to the needy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Well, I must say, I am interested in that reaction. I can only believe that the Conservative Party has consistently used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "WELFARE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "y one employee, if every building labourer, is to be brought in, we should have hundreds of thousands of independent pension schemes, all of which have got to be organised and operated and controlled by the State. Really, for an Opposition which claims to be run by business men, and really for an Opposition which, as we learn, has 36 of its members intimately concerned with the insurance industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "MOTORWAYS (TEMPORARY SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Rowland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Rowland", "preceding_text": "I trust that hon. Members on both sides do not regard this as a party matter. I must say that the growls from the supercharged Members opposite make me wonder whether this is a party matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "MOTORWAYS (TEMPORARY SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Rowland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Rowland", "preceding_text": "I trust that hon. Members on both sides do not regard this as a party matter. I must say that the growls from the supercharged Members opposite make me wonder whether this is a party matter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Why?\"] I am glad to know that it is not, but there does seem to be an unfortunate correlation between all those who wish to drive fast and hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.571.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-23", "file": "debates1966-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ac07616f6e63470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.571.2", "colnum": "571", "heading": "MOTORWAYS (TEMPORARY SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Rowland", "preceding_text": "embers opposite make me wonder whether this is a party matter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Why?\"] I am glad to know that it is not, but there does seem to be an unfortunate correlation between all those who wish to drive fast and hon. Members opposite. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] Well, I trust that we may have somebody opposite defending these Regulations. As I have said, I trust it is not a party matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-23a.571.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-24", "file": "debates1966-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0fe1026d0c694d49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.610.4", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for that most encouraging reply. Is she aware that music lovers throughout Britain, including my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition and my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Handsworth (Sir E. Boyle), will be most grateful to her for this? Will she allow me to say that it is clear now that her beauty is matched only by her generosity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.610.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-24", "file": "debates1966-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0fe1026d0c694d49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.617.3", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. E. B. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. E. B. Hill", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman agree that, if he has sampled school meals, as I have, they are astonishingly good value and that he would do better to consider charging rather more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-24", "file": "debates1966-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0fe1026d0c694d49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE (STATEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If he did, I must have a word with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-24", "file": "debates1966-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0fe1026d0c694d49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.625.3", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE (STATEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that in spite of the fact that the Opposition are behaving so irresponsibly in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.625.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-24", "file": "debates1966-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0fe1026d0c694d49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.625.3", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE (STATEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that in spite of the fact that the Opposition are behaving so irresponsibly in this matter—[ Interruption. ]—the country is fully behind him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.625.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-24", "file": "debates1966-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0fe1026d0c694d49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.629.7", "colnum": "629", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "I would remind the right hon. Gentleman that this is not a \"phoney\" prospectus. It is much too soon to announce the date on which my right hon. Friend will present his Budget. It could come a little earlier this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.629.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-24", "file": "debates1966-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0fe1026d0c694d49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.656.5", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": ", we can both contemplate. I am astounded that my right hon. and hon. Friends have had to table these new Clauses and apparently reargue the whole case which was made in Committee. Of course, one can always hope, and I was also hoping in my deep contemplation that, as soon as my right hon. Friend resumed his seat after his excellent speech, the Minister would rise and accept all these new Clauses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.656.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-24", "file": "debates1966-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0fe1026d0c694d49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "e of those living on small fixed incomes such as are envisaged in the Clauses would ever have contemplated the reaction of right hon. and hon. Members opposite to these Clauses. I only hope that the right hon. Gentleman has the most unpleasant dreams from now for the rest of his life, unless he accepts these Clauses in toto. May I apologise to the House for the fact that I shall not be here later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-24", "file": "debates1966-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0fe1026d0c694d49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cole", "preceding_text": "Despite what the right hon. Gentleman said, we must look at the causation of the Bill for two reasons. First it is necessary because still, in the latter part of the 20th century, we have a high degree of poverty among a number of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-24", "file": "debates1966-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0fe1026d0c694d49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I really have very little to say about the Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-24", "file": "debates1966-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0fe1026d0c694d49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT ACT, 1965", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Smith", "preceding_text": "d one particular case which I raised during the Committee proceedings on the Bill in which stamping goes on upstairs during the night in an attempt to evict the tenants. So far, the council has been unable to take appropriate action. This is not a recalcitrant council refusing to take an interest. It is Socialist controlled, and one would have imagined that it would have taken action in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-24a.757.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.871.3", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "It was certainly not wide of my question, if I might say so, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.871.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.887.5", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "In previous Parliaments I have heard leading members of the party opposite express views about Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.887.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.887.5", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "In previous Parliaments I have heard leading members of the party opposite express views about Europe—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—I am answering—which provoked the most bitter and hostile comments from their colleagues. We all know that this is a question on which there are many differences of view in this country. Those differences of view are not always aligned with ordinary party differences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.887.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend really believe that the countries of the Six are concerned about safeguarding British interests? Is not their primary concern to safeguard their own interests? Would my right hon. Friend mind if I ventured to ask him and some of his colleagues to exercise a bit of caution in this matter and recall the decision of the Labour Party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.887.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VICTIMS OF NAZI PERSECUTION (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "The men whom the hon. Gentleman is representing were, of course, gallant Service men and very audacious escapers during the Second World War. Their place of imprisonment, although in geographical proximity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.899.8", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES FORCES (BRITISH IMMIGRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Padley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Padley", "preceding_text": "In my reply to the first supplementary question I stated quite clearly what the legal position is: no student who does not accept the obligation of being called up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.899.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.902.2", "colnum": "902", "heading": "HOVERCRAFT DEVELOPMENT LTD. (MR. CHRISTOPHER COCKERELL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Is not this a very strangely timed resignation?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.902.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "LEASEHOLD REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": " blatant attempt to bribe the electorate. If this is a prelude to the General Election—and it is certain that the Government will be in difficulties in making a convincing explanation for the programme for the last few weeks if it is not—the Government must indeed rate their chances very low, if they have to sink to this. They rate also the morality of the British people very much lower than I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.934.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "LEASEHOLD REFORM", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Janner", "preceding_text": "Measure or a similar Measure be introduced in time to save them. What is not understood on the other side of the House is that it is not only a technical problem of leasehold reform. This is a very serious matter which strikes at the very root of our society, because it means that the homes of the people are to be protected, and the people themselves protected from being turned out of their homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.950.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.951.2", "colnum": "951", "heading": "LEASEHOLD REFORM", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Janner", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what is being advocated on the other side of the House—that they should be turned out and that the landlord should be in a position when the lease terminates to take possession of the house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.956.2", "colnum": "956", "heading": "LEASEHOLD REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "obtains in many parts of South Wales. For more than 50 years Members from South Wales have striven to make Westminster aware of the peculiar problem which affects us. That some progress has been made is evidenced by the appearance of this White Paper. Indeed, some success in our missionary work is also indicated by the fact that tonight there is not to be any official vote against the White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "LEASEHOLD REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Griffiths", "preceding_text": " been ready, it would have been presented to the House rather than this White Paper. We should not now be discussing broad principles but the hammering out of some kind of agreement between both sides of the House. There is, in fact, a broad measure of agreement between the Minister's statement and the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston-upon-Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "LEASEHOLD REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "I have deliberately selected typical properties, and I have gone to a qualified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "LEASEHOLD REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "preceding_text": " of the fact that the Conservatives did not know how they would vote on this matter, or whether we would vote at all. This is such a mixed grill that it is not possible to pick out the pieces. If the Minister of Land and Natural Resources wanted to test opinion, he should have produced a Bill and then we could have tabled Amendments Clause by Clause. There are a number of parts of the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "LEASEHOLD REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " good development is offered, we must preserve the right to allow it to go ahead. The hon. Member for Swansea, East (Mr. McBride) called the White Paper a \"leasehold emancipation charter\". If legislation slavishly followed the statements in the White Paper, it would be better called a seven-page \"spivs' charter\". After nearly 500 days in office, the Government give birth to this election hand-out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "LEASEHOLD REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "ad. The hon. Member for Swansea, East (Mr. McBride) called the White Paper a \"leasehold emancipation charter\". If legislation slavishly followed the statements in the White Paper, it would be better called a seven-page \"spivs' charter\". After nearly 500 days in office, the Government give birth to this election hand-out. [ Interruption. ] Indeed, it is an election hand-out in more senses than one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.1015.2", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "LEASEHOLD REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "alue since 1962 would probably cancel that out and, in 1967, the tenant, having acquired the house at a small price a few years ago, would be entitled to the whole house—£10,000 worth of it—which would be handed over to him as a gift, and the very next day he could flog it. Is that equity? Is that what the Government want to bring into operation? What a lovely General Election this is going to be!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.1015.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "LEASEHOLD REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "me to read the Report of the Wilberforce Committee. Why not provide here for the recommendations about enforcing positive covenants? If both the right hon. Gentleman the Minister and his Joint Parliamentary Secretary had not started their careers in the Temple on the common law side, they might, perhaps, have known the maxim of the Chancery Bar, \"He who comes to equity must come with clean hands\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "LEASEHOLD REFORM", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. James Griffiths)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. James Griffiths)", "preceding_text": "This has been an interesting debate and it will have an extraordinary conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "LEASEHOLD REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "We have set these limits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-02-28", "file": "debates1966-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b98733d33ba631fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, DEVON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "w) and Tavistock (Sir H. Studholme) in opposing the Order. The speech we have just listened to may be—although I hope not—the last speech in the House by the hon. Member for Tavistock before his retirement and I hope that it would not be out of order if I were allowed to say, since he is our senior Member in the West Country and has been for many years, that we shall greatly miss his wise counsel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-02-28a.1042.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1085.4", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that that reply will be received with great satisfaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1085.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1091.0", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MOSCOW (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "Was the Prime Minister absolutely frank with Mr. Kosygin? Did he tell him that he had already asked the Queen for a Dissolution and, therefore, might not be able to speak for Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MOSCOW (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend say whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1095.8", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OIL TANKERS (MOZAMBIQUE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Is this not a surprising answer, if the Prime Minister is serious about oil sanctions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1095.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1097.3", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BUSINESS FIRMS (QUESTIONNAIRES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that digging up all this information and filling up all these forms is a very expensive operation? Under the circumstances, would Her Majesty's Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1097.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1101.2", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WINTER FUEL EMERGENCIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My advice to the hon. Gentleman is that he should not try to fire off his limited shots too early. There is a month to go yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1101.4", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WINTER FUEL EMERGENCIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that we had ever given a promise that the calculations of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite in relation to the supply of gas and coal to the Midlands were accurate. It was the job of this Committee to see that everything that could humanly be done in a severe winter was done, but it could not deal with promises and other things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1101.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "BALLOTS FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Robson Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Robson Brown", "preceding_text": "I beg to give notice that on Thursday, 17th March—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Severe?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "he economy. We have acted within the last month to damp down the growth of private spending. The economy is, therefore, reasonably well-poised, and I shall watch and assess the effect of this latest batch of measures before reaching a considered Budget judgment. The best guidance that I can give the House, therefore, at this stage is that I do not foresee the need for severe increases in taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "er, they will not involve any additional net expenditure in the short run. First, National Savings. The total sum remaining invested in National Savings at the end of 1965 was £8,350 million, a record end-year figure. Total balances in the Savings Banks increased over the previous year; and sales of Premium Bonds have continued to flourish. The new £25,000 prize is proving a very great attraction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "house; and for those who take out an option mortgage the reduced rate of interest will be available for the whole of the loan. But the Government now propose to discuss with the building societies arrangements for guaranteeing the last slice of the mortgages where these represent an exceptionally large proportion of the valuation of the house and where they are taken out by people of modest means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "t is important that the preparations should be thorough so that the changeover may be as smooth as possible. New coins will have to be minted and business machines adapted or new ones, including perhaps dual-purpose machines, manufactured. For these reasons, the Government have decided in favour of a five-year period of preparation, and we propose that the changeover should come in February, 1971.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Stock Exchange?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "er, will be liable for the duty; if he is not the owner, the person who hires the machine to him will be liable. The duty is estimated to yield £3½ million in the first year and also in a full year. The term \"casino gaming\" will need to be defined and I propose to cover the playing of roulette, chemin-de-fer, blackjack, baccarat and dicing, together with similar games called by other names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1128.2", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "retched Minister of Housing and Local Government nor the Chancellor of the Duchy was allowed to say the things which the Chancellor of the Exchequer was keeping for himself after the announcement of the date of the election. In his proposals for owner-occupiers, the Chancellor is, of course, taking approximately one-third of the proposals which I put forward quite clearly in my Hammersmith speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1128.4", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "chnology and he appointed the Minister of Technology. But the right hon. Gentleman's name does not appear on the Prices and Incomes Bill, the most important Measure which the Government were to introduce. Nor is his name on today's Motion. The plain fact is that the right hon. Gentleman is utterly opposed to everything which the First Secretary is doing and is demonstrating it again quite clearly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1128.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " of the people of Britain today. What Britain needs is to tackle vigorously the fundamental weaknesses of the economic system, and these I propose to examine one by one. What people need is to take the decisions, some of them very hard indeed, which are necessary for our survival and to have the spirit to carry them through. Our task ought to be to create that determination and arouse that spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "What I am stating is the truth and the Prime Minister knows the truth. This has been said everywhere in America and Europe. People will ask what the Chancellor's statements are worth compared with what he has been saying recently. I will quote the Chancellor's words about his economic policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1132.1", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I have told the Chancellor throughout the whole of last summer that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1132.1", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I have told the Chancellor throughout the whole of last summer that—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I supported sterling on every occasion and the Chancellor, at any rate, was fair enough to acknowledge that, although his right hon. Friend the Prime Minister never did. I repeat now that if we are elected we shall in all circumstances, support sterling. That is a categorical assurance which I give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "iatives? He did not take the Foreign Secretary with him. No, he took party officials, because it was perhaps really a party trip and not a serious negotiation. Perhaps it was a party trip after all and not a serious negotiation. We know the real reason—he just wants to cash in. The Chancellor of the Exchequer ought to have gone through the Motion and dealt bit by bit with the specific parts in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1135.3", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "What I am pointing out is that from the national point of view this means a certain loss in earning power and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1135.3", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " to be lightly taken as an achievement of the Government to go the whole logical course. It is a serious matter. The Chancellor of the Exchequer spoke about the defence situation. Let him not forget the burden which he has accepted on the balance of payments for the purchase of the F.111 on credit terms from 1970, according to the White Paper. That has to be offset against the whole of his policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1135.3", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"When did the Tories do that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "anifesto, at the Swansea speech of the Prime Minister and all the work which they were supposed to be doing during 13 years, one sees that they have not introduced any new technique for handling the economy. The Government have, in fact, abandoned some of the techniques which we were developing. They have abandoned, for example, our discrimination between regions with free depreciation, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Woof", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Woof", "preceding_text": "do. It is said that the longest way round is the sweetest way home. Nothing is easier than to show that people follow their interests in the sense in which they understand them, but I still hold rigidly to the dread of the great chasm that could be brought about by the convulsion of economic misfortune. Opinions may differ, but now that the Government are in the twilight of their responsibilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1217.1", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman the Member for Glasgow, Govan (Mr. Rankin) referred to this as a classic debate. It has certainly been a remarkable one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "It is all very well saying \"Hear, hear\" in a small voice, but we have not got it. What we have is the stagnant production against which the Prime Minister warned us, and we have the increased taxation which the Prime Minister quite rightly said would make his policies impossible. Last night, therefore, he said this. It is a very different story from \"This Week\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For whose benefit?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "id it over and over again in our Administration. Many countries have achieved this. America has done it over and over again. It is not true that this relies only on levels of unemployment, because that ignores altogether the sheer relief from the burden of taxation and the lift and the energy that it can give to the people of a country. In our 13 years nine out of 14 Tory Budgets reduced taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell him now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "error of precedent. I do not think he knows the flaws that there are in doing that. What he seeks to do by taxing turnover is to repeat the identical mistake which Winston Churchill made forty years ago. He is much nearer the mark in what he told us about the casino side of gambling in this country. Some time, off the record, I will tell him exactly where he has gone wrong and what he ought to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1225.3", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is not concerned with 13 years; he is concerned with three weeks. He wants to know whether one can fool 50 per cent. of the people for three weeks. That is the only thought in the Prime Minister's mind at present. The answer is that the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1226.2", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "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": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1226.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has given a fair description of the position, which I accept, from the point of view of the reserves. Would he now tell the House how much of the debt incurred by the present Government is still outstanding?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1228.2", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I do not suppose that the right hon. Gentleman was here during the speech of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1228.2", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I do not suppose that the right hon. Gentleman was here during the speech of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] If he will look at tomorrow's OFFICIAL REPORT he will see it given precisely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Barlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Barlow", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1229.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1229.9", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "wledge of gambling, said that one part of the gambling tax might be improved as to its machinery. I know that the right hon. Gentleman is a great expert in these matters, and we shall be glad to have his advice and assistance. As he is such a great gambler I wonder whether I might ask him the one question: would he tell us whether he has made any bet on the Tories winning the forthcoming election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1229.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-01", "file": "debates1966-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "220cb4e5bd92e211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1229.9", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "Gentlemen opposite have for what they would be doing in circumstances in which we find ourselves. The first thing I must say—because this came from both right hon. Gentlemen who started and wound up the debate for the Opposition—is that the accusation against my right hon. Friend is that his actions have not been sufficiently decisive. What hon. Members opposite would have my right hon. Friend do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-01a.1229.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-02", "file": "debates1966-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "021d43139c428dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1278.5", "colnum": "1278", "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 refers to the previous Administration. They did nothing, it is true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1278.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-02", "file": "debates1966-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "021d43139c428dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1287.0", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I have made my statement and I think that it will be accepted. The Bill was a very good one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-02", "file": "debates1966-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "021d43139c428dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1303.0", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "MINISTRY OF AVIATION (PRICING OF GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I think we can dismiss the last point in the right hon. Gentleman's comments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-02", "file": "debates1966-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "021d43139c428dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PACKINGTON ESTATE, ISLINGTON (COUNCIL ON TRIBUNALS' REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"About policy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful. That is what we would have expected of the Minister—to be forthcoming in that way. I am sure that the House is grateful to him for that. The hon. Gentleman the Member for Woolwich, East (Mr. Mayhew) enhanced his reputation last week as a man of honour by resigning on a matter of disagreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-02", "file": "debates1966-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "021d43139c428dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PACKINGTON ESTATE, ISLINGTON (COUNCIL ON TRIBUNALS' REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Apparent\" unfairness.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mark Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman seriously telling the House that an accusation of unfairness to private individuals by a Minister and his Department is not a matter of importance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-02", "file": "debates1966-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "021d43139c428dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PACKINGTON ESTATE, ISLINGTON (COUNCIL ON TRIBUNALS' REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "urtesy. We are talking at a different level. If, every time a person feels a sense of grievance against a decision of a Department—even though no injury is done him and no attack made on his rights or liberties as a citizen—he can by making a protest bring the whole machinery of Government to a halt, the situation is intolerable. It is one which no Minister, obviously, could be expected to endure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-02", "file": "debates1966-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "021d43139c428dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1376.3", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PACKINGTON ESTATE, ISLINGTON (COUNCIL ON TRIBUNALS' REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "It is completely untrue that we did not allow objectors to be aware of anything. What is true is that we made it clear", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-02", "file": "debates1966-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "021d43139c428dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PACKINGTON ESTATE, ISLINGTON (COUNCIL ON TRIBUNALS' REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "gree with the Minister when he says that this has been a very long drawn out matter and that it should be brought to a conclusion at the earliest possible moment, there is no excuse whatsoever for the Minister, first, to say that the initial plans did not satisfy him in respect of a number of criteria, which he said were much too long to read out to the House, and then that the objectors were not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-02", "file": "debates1966-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "021d43139c428dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1396.1", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "hoice as we now possess, can retain, and can extend? I expect that many Members have read a very interesting report on school selection in London, which appeared in yesterday's Guardian . It said: Last summer the parents of all children transferring from primary to State secondary education in the Inner London area chose a school. Eighty-five per cent. of the children went to first-choice schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-02", "file": "debates1966-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "021d43139c428dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1399.1", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trevor Park", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trevor Park", "preceding_text": " by their record in office, it appears that the party opposite champions a very one-way type of freedom. Local authorities, they would say, are free to keep things as they are, but if the local authority wants to change the system and to develop a comprehensive approach then, on their record when in power, the attitude of the party opposite would seem to be that that freedom ought to be withdrawn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-02", "file": "debates1966-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "021d43139c428dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1404.8", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": "to the vast majority of enlightened people and that it should form the basis of the only truly acceptable policy on this issue. The best forms of education are, I believe, those which offer advances for each child according to his ability and not simply those which adjust a child's opportunity to the advancement of others who may be limited in capacity. This is what the comprehensive system means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1404.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-02", "file": "debates1966-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "021d43139c428dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1404.8", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"how?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": "red harmful at all. We know from experience that it can be a challenge to a child, even at the age of 11, as is proved by the late-developers. Those children have accepted their late development as a challenge, and have shown that they can meet it. There is no reason to suppose that a reasonably satisfactory system of selection cannot be evoked, perhaps not at the age of 11, but at some other age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1404.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-02", "file": "debates1966-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "021d43139c428dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redhead", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redhead", "preceding_text": "ions. But in extolling the virtues of secondary modern schools, I wonder how many hon. Members realise that, in fact, they are substantially conceding the case for comprehensive education. Who are the inmates of secondary modern schools? They are the children who were judged to be failures by the 11-plus examination. By the very character of that choice, they were sent to secondary modern schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-02", "file": "debates1966-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "021d43139c428dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redhead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redhead", "preceding_text": "aratism they must face the implications and not pose, as many of them do in that fashion which says very piously, \"We are not opposed to the principle of comprehensive education but\" and then go on to argue, as we have heard them argue tonight, \"Yes, by all means have comprehensive schools but let us preserve the grammar schools\". That is an utter inconsistency which cannot be supported logically.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-02", "file": "debates1966-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "021d43139c428dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redhead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redhead", "preceding_text": "preserve the grammar schools\". That is an utter inconsistency which cannot be supported logically. [ Interruption. ] So manifestly is that so that I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman should ask his question. Hon. Members opposite want to preserve various devices for maintaining selection in part or for privileged sections, and they then tell us that they want to abolish the 11-plus examination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-02a.1438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-03", "file": "debates1966-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "da46b1e848bb23da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1482.0", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NASSAU AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course it is the Government's policy, as I have explained on a number of occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-03", "file": "debates1966-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "da46b1e848bb23da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1482.0", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NASSAU AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course it is the Government's policy, as I have explained on a number of occasions. [ Interruption. ] Of course it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-03", "file": "debates1966-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "da46b1e848bb23da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1482.2", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NASSAU AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have already made some saving out of the nuclear programme, as has been announced in the House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-03", "file": "debates1966-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "da46b1e848bb23da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1482.6", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NASSAU AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1482.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-03", "file": "debates1966-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "da46b1e848bb23da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1482.6", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NASSAU AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: When?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "or a very long time understood that the nuclear striking power of the West as a whole without any British contribution would be about 95 per cent. or 96 per cent. of the total. That is at any rate the ratio of a pea to a drum, if not to a mountain. We kept the Polaris submarine programme because production was beyond the point of no return, but we said that it must be internationalised as a means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1482.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-03", "file": "debates1966-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "da46b1e848bb23da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1489.2", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RATES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I do not accept at all that the cancellation of the revaluation has the effect suggested by my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1489.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-03", "file": "debates1966-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "da46b1e848bb23da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1489.3", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I do not accept at all that the cancellation of the revaluation has the effect suggested by my hon. Friend—[ Laughter. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1489.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-03", "file": "debates1966-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "da46b1e848bb23da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1489.4", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RATES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I must apologise and withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1489.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-03", "file": "debates1966-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "da46b1e848bb23da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade received this report on 27th February, a few days ago. It will not now be possible to publish the report before the Dissolution of the House. Nevertheless, my right hon. Friend is aware of the interest among hon. Members to see it as soon as possible, and he is making arrangements to lay a White Paper in dummy form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-03", "file": "debates1966-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "da46b1e848bb23da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1493.0", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "Will hon. Members be given access to the precincts of the Houses of Parliament on Friday of next week so that an opportunity for clearing up and removing papers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-03", "file": "debates1966-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "da46b1e848bb23da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "m to say \"Yes\" all the time, but I wish we could have a decision because it can truly be said that the hares have been running through the field of broadcasting just like the Waterloo Cup, only to finish up in a sort of March madness with nobody knowing which way to jump next, least of all the right hon. Gentleman. Tonight may be his last chance as Postmaster-General to make a deathbed confession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-03", "file": "debates1966-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "da46b1e848bb23da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1571.1", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ur industry going now in colour television, when it does come it could simply lead to imports of foreign components. In addition, colour television offers some prospects for the export of British colour programmes, although it is difficult to give a figure for these. It was our intention to announce our decision as part of the broadcasting review. However, as this is taking longer than we thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-03a.1571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1698.0", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should be aware that I made a statement on 1st November and there can have been no dubiety about the situation since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1718.3", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE, FRENCH SECTION (BOOK)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend for that information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1718.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1731.0", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "are now. I would ask the right hon. Gentleman and the whole House to await the legislation which will be brought forward. He has asked about the cost, and again I would ask him to await the legislation. The point that interests the right hon. Gentleman most is clear from his reference to the National Plan. I can assure him that the cost for this is contained in the provision made to my Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1731.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1732.5", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "hat if, as she says, she and her Department have been working on these proposals for many months, it is entirely incomprehensible to the House that she should not be able to state one single figure for the cost of them? It undermines completely the integrity of her performance, and demonstrates not only to the House but to the country that this is the last of a whole series of statements produced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1732.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1733.1", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "y annoyed. I would be willing to compare my integrity with his. I have already dealt with the point about costs, which was raised by the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph). We have made it perfectly clear—the Chancellor of the Exchequer has done so time and again, and it has been made clear in the National Plan—that each spending Department has been allocated a certain figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1748.2", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "he make-up of the remaining £180 million, which is what the whole of the Defence Review is about, that is, the only things which we were waiting to know when the Defence Review was published. Why is it that there is this extraordinary contrast between the forthcoming right hon. Gentleman on the 4th and 5th August last year and his extraordin ary tight-lipped silence in February and March of 1966?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1748.2", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Press.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "uction in the Regular Army? By how many battalions does he estimate that it will be reduced by the year 1970? This is where the importance of these decisions lies. It is hence that their practical consequences flow. This is what the country has the right to be told now—in the framework of the Defence White Paper. In some of the details which we get from the Department of Defence by indirect means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1754.1", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "The commitment which I have read to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1754.1", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "The commitment which I have read to the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I will answer—is a perfectly clear commitment as to what Her Majesty's Government promised to do. By the right hon. Gentleman's announcement he has broken that promise. We regard that promise in those terms, in the terms in which it was made by Her Majesty's Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1760.0", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I can reconcile it very simply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1760.0", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I can reconcile it very simply—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1760.0", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I can reconcile it very simply—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—in this way. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I will answer. It was a great mistake to have scrapped the aircraft carrier under construction. The Government should have gone on with the aircraft carrier on accordance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1761.1", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ve so far been incurred on the TSR.2—that is to say, expenditure incurred after the decision not to proceed with the TSR.2, but to cancel it—and if we add, further, the substantial interest charges, something like £40 million, which we have incurred because this is a dollar expenditure and because it has been carried forward, then the cost per aircraft of the F.111A works out at around £5 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1768.1", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ers of the United States, is, to use the words of the Secretary of State for Defence a few days ago, shortly to stand at an election\".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 22nd February, 1966; Vol. 725, c. 242.] It is, therefore, worth while looking to see what it was that the Labour Party was holding out to the country when it last stood at a General Election. When the Labour Party last stood at a General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1774.1", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "No—not at all. I have made it clear that I see us keeping defence expenditure steady while the national wealth rises, with the result that, in 1969–70, we shall be spending only 6 per cent. of our gross national product on defence instead of the 7 per cent. which the previous Government planned to spend. It would have been quite wrong for Britain to plan on continuing to spend 7 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1774.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1775.5", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Then he is not here, is he? As he is not here, perhaps I should say that the issue of defence expenditure was not involved in the issue over which he and I resigned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1775.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1775.7", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State should now withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1775.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1776.1", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Mr. Healey rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1776.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot be certain about everything but, I think that it is possible to take some decisions now and that a Government with any sense of responsibility to the British people must take those decisions which it is possible to take and not leave everything to be decided by foreigners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1782.1", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "o delegates from the Federation of South Arabia and Aden Colony in some way commits Britain to conclude a defence agreement with an independent South Arabia in 1968 under which she would retain her military base in Aden. This, also, is quite untrue. The promise which the right hon. Gentleman made was to convene a conference. The present Government attempted to convene such a conference last March—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1784.0", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Sandys", "preceding_text": " from the Federal Government themselves. They asked that we should fix a date for independence and that we should conclude a defence agreement. Those two things were joined together because they knew that independence without protection was a farce. We gave the pledge that we would do both things—independence not later than 1968, and a defence agreement. That pledge clearly commits our successors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1784.0", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Sandys", "preceding_text": "the pledge that we would do both things—independence not later than 1968, and a defence agreement. That pledge clearly commits our successors—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] I must continue. The House should know that this pledge was subsequently confirmed on behalf of the present British Government by the British High Commissioner in Aden. That is an important fact. The right hon. Gentleman also knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1784.0", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Sandys", "preceding_text": "ence agreement. That pledge clearly commits our successors—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] I must continue. The House should know that this pledge was subsequently confirmed on behalf of the present British Government by the British High Commissioner in Aden. That is an important fact. The right hon. Gentleman also knows—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] The right hon. Gentleman also knows that when he himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1794.3", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about France?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "l regret that he should have felt it necessary to take this step. But those who are saying, for whatever reason, that the phasing out of the carrier force in up to 10 years' time means the end of the Royal Navy are doing the Fleet a grave disservice. The fact is that the United States is the only country in the world which plans to maintain a viable carrier force round the world through the 1970s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "preceding_text": "n he was in Australia getting the approval of the Australian Government for the defence White Paper, after he had, first of all, got the approval of the American Government for it—that Britain must continue to have a world rôle in a military sense. But Britain is shorn of its imperial rôle, out-numbered in fire power by the United States by 20 to 1 and by the Soviet Union by 10 to 1—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1830.3", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wolverhampton, South-West.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman must do his homework before he lectures me. My party did not. The fifth point was that the Labour Party would use the enhanced increased influence that we should get by very good conventional forces, far better equipped than we have today by making savings in the nuclear arm. This, too, has been unfulfilled. I was surprised that the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1830.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1836.1", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Broken promises.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Scotland. The enormous sums of money spent overseas could be used in developing our economic life. This would give us real influence in the world. I hope that this debate will go on throughout the General Election. We must challenge all the old conceptions that huge armaments bring peace or defence in any sense of the word. I welcome the debate and I hope that it will be carried on in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1840.1", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "No. I want to conclude by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1840.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He was taking the Communist line.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member said that he is prepared to take risks. Does he mean risks with the security of the country? He said that that was what he was prepared to do. I think that this is an extraordinary thing to suggest. Will he answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1843.1", "colnum": "1843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "preceding_text": "irably clear explanation about the rôle of Britain's nuclear strategic forces. This is the most complete vindication of the policies of previous Conservative Governments. The paragraphs in the White Paper on the V-bombers are of especial importance, and I am sorry that some of the hon. and right hon. Gentlemen from below the Gangway opposite who took part in the debate earlier are not here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1853.1", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "Although I doubt whether the right hon. Member for Preston, North (Mr. J. Amery) will be with us, I assure him that in that year there will still be a Labour Government. We are not seeking to postpone any payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-07", "file": "debates1966-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd72bfe608d08998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1858.1", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the right hon. Gentleman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I want to finish what I am saying. The right hon. Gentleman makes his comments in The Times , not in the House. I must answer his right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-07a.1858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1900.5", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it is for either the hon. Gentleman or myself to decide whether we have succeeded in that. I am sure that the electorate will do this very convincingly in the very near future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1900.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1905.0", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECHES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will certainly consider publishing that N.E.D.C. document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1905.0", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECHES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will certainly consider publishing that N.E.D.C. document—[ Interruption. ] No, we are not holding up reports or sweeping things under the carpet. Some day, I will give a long list of the things that we found—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1905.0", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECHES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will certainly consider publishing that N.E.D.C. document—[ Interruption. ] No, we are not holding up reports or sweeping things under the carpet. Some day, I will give a long list of the things that we found—[ Interruption. ]—postal charges, the B.B.C. licence and dozens of others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1905.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1915.3", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I draw your attention Sir, to the fact that on the tape at this moment is the published statement which the Minister of Public Building and Works is supposed to be making to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1915.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1915.10", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. We recognise the difficulty in which you find yourself, but the Leader of the House is present. This is a very serious matter because, having read a statement which apparently we ought not to have had yet, but which is on the tape, it appears that the Government have been using powers which they have no authority to use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1915.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1919.2", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING CONTROL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I know the Question on which I am speaking and it was my intention to ask leave of the House to speak again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1919.4", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING CONTROL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "e Building Control Bill becomes law I cannot grant licences as such. Anyone starting a project now, however, wants to know whether he will need a licence to complete it once licences can be granted. I am, therefore, giving prior authorisations to urgent projects. There is nothing illegal about starting a project costing over £100,000, but anyone doing so without authorisation does so at his peril.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1919.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1919.6", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING CONTROL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is entitled to make a speech if he so wishes, but I think that it would be for the convenience and the sense of the House if first questions were asked of the Minister on what he has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1919.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1920.4", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING CONTROL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "As I understand, the right hon. Gentleman, being a very senior Privy Councillor, will have an opportunity of catching your eye, Mr. Speaker. He must contain himself at least until the election, when he may get into his electioneering form—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1920.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1921.0", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING CONTROL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Would you be good enough, Mr. Speaker, to remind the House, as I am sure that you wish to do, whether we are now on the Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1921.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1921.4", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING CONTROL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The question of the competence or incompetence of any Minister or hon. Member of Parliament is not a matter for the Chair. It is a matter for political discussion. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman did not want to suggest that the Chair wished in any way to influence the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1921.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1923.2", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING CONTROL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "I do not think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1923.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1926.1", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING CONTROL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1926.2", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING CONTROL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "nted to leave the matter so that my right hon. Friend could consider the constitutional position. I shall be only too glad to deal with the matters raised, but I want now to make only one point. We have been moving under these powers—if I can use the word \"powers\"—since 27th July. Today's statement was intended as no more than an indication to industry of the course of action that things will take", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1926.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1926.2", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING CONTROL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "to deal with the matters raised, but I want now to make only one point. We have been moving under these powers—if I can use the word \"powers\"—since 27th July. Today's statement was intended as no more than an indication to industry of the course of action that things will take [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am afraid that we will not get any further if I am picked up on the precise meaning of every word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1926.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1930.1", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Open and frank.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "preceding_text": "t specified.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 22nd February, 1966; Vol. 725, c. 257.] What are these cuts? The House and the country deserve to be told, and it is sheer hypocrisy for the Prime Minister and others to go spluttering about the country and the world talking about a great national debate on these matters while hiding under a carpet these basic facts about the nature of what the Government are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1937.3", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "er of Aviation last night said categorically that it would not be a replacement for the F111. He said equally categorically that it would be a replacement for the V-bombers. I would not be at all surprised if our French friends are surprised when they suddenly hear that the Anglo-French variable geometry project is suddenly being cast in the rôle of a successor to the Victor and the Vulcan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1937.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1948.1", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "is to the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, Southwest, it is not everyone who can speak for one and a quarter hours and maintain an average of one major error every 10 minutes throughout the length of that speech. One is bound to ask why, with these qualifications, was he not one of the Tory Ministers of Defence? I turn now to the questions of what are the foreign policy assumptions of defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1948.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1955.9", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "No. I am not giving way. I want to make it clear—in any case I am in the middle of a particular statement which perhaps the hon. Member for Surbiton (Mr. Fisher) had better listen to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1955.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1955.11", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "In the negotiations which must ensue about this matter we shall seek to ensure that a reasonable proportion of the aid Great Britain will give will be spent on strengthening the Federal Regular Army and the Federal Guard. As an immediate measure we are arranging for the equipment of the Federal Regular Army with 81 mm. mortars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1955.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1955.11", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " that is a wrong judgment. It is wrong for this reason above all: it is difficult to prophesy in advance what the situation in the Far East in the 1970s will be. What I am sure would be wrong would be for us to take a decision now which would make it certain that whatever was happening in the Far East then we could in no way influence it, and that is what not having an east of Suez rôle is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1955.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1960.1", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What a hope.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "preceding_text": " and signed by my right hon. Friend the Member for Streatham (Mr. Sandys), then Commonwealth Secretary. I understand that shortly after this the leaders of the Federal Government saw the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister, who was then Leader of the Opposition. I believe that he told them at that meeting that he would stand by any agreement they reached with the British Government of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1965.0", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "What I said to the Federal Ministers when I was in Aden in June is that we would honour our treaty commitments. I dealt with this in speaking yesterday. I also made it clear to them that we had no interest in staying in a base in Aden against the will of the local population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1966.0", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The news was welcomed in Aden.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": " since the White Paper was published the Federal Government have again asked us to maintain a defence agreement to protect them against external aggression. The right hon. Gentleman says that the people of Aden do not want us there. The newspaper reports, for what they are worth, have been saying very categorically that there is great disturbance and great anxiety at the news that we may be going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1971.0", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "to create something in the nature of an explosion in the ranks of the Labour Party. The Opposition seemed to believe that if the defence issue were raised we should be at loggerheads with one another, at one another's throats, all quarrelling with one another. But there has been hardly a word of protest. Of course there has not. This is a united party—and we shall be united at the coming election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.1971.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2030.3", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "I am very much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2030.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2030.5", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Since the former Administration did not fix a ceiling on expenditure and its policies were a failure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2030.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2030.6", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And never met it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "in giving way to the hon. Member. It is quite wrong either to say that economics can put a limited and definite ceiling on defence expenditure or to say that defence expenditure must be met regardless of the economic consequences. We must have balance in these matters, precisely what the party opposite is failing to do. It is very sensible to set a target as we set a target on defence expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2030.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2031.3", "colnum": "2031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "That is a pretty poor one even before a General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2031.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2032.1", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ore bases. There are many points made by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woolwich, East in his statement. He gave four major reasons why carriers are essential for operations east of Suez. If the right hon. Gentleman does not agree with my right hon. Friend, and with his right hon. Friend, perhaps he may agree with the Prime Minister, who said in his speech at Plymouth during the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2032.1", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ish up with one or two references to the election plans of the party opposite in this matter of defence. Last time they said that they would embark upon a new initiative in the realm of disarmament. What has happened? We have a Minister of Disarmament, an admirable man, and one can say fairly of the noble Lord that the only disarming thing about him is his personal manner. He has achieved nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2036.1", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "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": "nts have been made on both sides. I do not complain about that. I thought that we had a first-rate knockabout speech from the right hon. Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling), and I imagine that after the election many of his hon. and right hon. Friends will be putting up the sticker: \"Don't blame me, I voted Maudling.\" It is worthwhile, if we are to treat this problem with the seriousness it deserves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2042.1", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I cannot indicate that. What I can tell the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2042.3", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Please let me get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2042.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2042.3", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "er by 1975 unless we build one new aircraft carrier. I ask the House to face the facts on the carrier programme. Three carriers are all that we can afford through the 1970s, and, as I understand it, the right hon. Gentleman is not proposing that we should have a force of more than three. He is proposing to build one new carrier. In fact, the Navy could not man more than four carriers in the 1970s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2042.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2042.3", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "e to face the facts on the carrier programme. Three carriers are all that we can afford through the 1970s, and, as I understand it, the right hon. Gentleman is not proposing that we should have a force of more than three. He is proposing to build one new carrier. In fact, the Navy could not man more than four carriers in the 1970s—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\"] That is the view of the Admiralty Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2042.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2045.1", "colnum": "2045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " with what was said by the right hon. Gentleman recently on this—that it must be a major objective to reduce the level of our forces in the Far East to that once planned by the previous Government before confrontation began; when we are able to reduce our deployment in the Far East to that level—we shall make further reductions in equipment and manpower which will save the additional £100 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2045.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2046.2", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "We have had nothing about policy from the right hon. and hon. Members opposite. We have had no indication of what their planned expenditure would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2046.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2046.6", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2046.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2046.10", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I know that the Opposition do not want to hear this, but the country will. We have had no indication of what they would spend on defence in the 1970s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2046.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2046.10", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I know that the Opposition do not want to hear this, but the country will. We have had no indication of what they would spend on defence in the 1970s. [ Interruption. ] But we have heard that they would build a new aircraft carrier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2046.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2048.1", "colnum": "2048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Mr. William Whitelaw (Penrith and The Border) rose in his place and claimed to move , That the Question be now put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-08", "file": "debates1966-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b3c3a45495ac0c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2053.2", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENSORSHIP OF PLAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Steel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " to a proper conclusion. If it comes to the conclusion which I advocate, I shall be only too eager to assist the Government or anybody else to get a Measure through, but if by any chance investigation reaches deadlock the Bill which I seek leave to introduce will be ready to be introduced at once. When the Government come back after the election there will be a number of measures to be introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-08a.2053.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2079.6", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that, owing to the continued efforts of my hon. Friend the Member for Ediburgh, Leith (Mr. Hoy), assurances have been received from the Board of Trade that incentives will be available in the Leith Dock area?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2079.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2093.3", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "First of all, might I say in passing to the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2105.0", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "BUILDING CONTROL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for making that statement. Is he aware that this precipitates a grave situation and that his statement is entirely unsatisfactory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2106.0", "colnum": "2106", "heading": "BUILDING CONTROL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that there are many precedents for retrospective legislation. Whether there are precedents for retrospective legislation across the dissolution of Parliament is a different matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2111.0", "colnum": "2111", "heading": "SUPER VC10s (CANCELLATION OF CONTRACT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "preceding_text": "This is yet another very gravely damaging blow to the British aviation industry—and one that was very nearly hushed up until after the election. Is the Minister aware that in our opinion he has been extremely weak in this mat- ter, and that he should have insisted on B.O.A.C. taking the remainder of the Super VC10s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2112.0", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "SUPER VC10s (CANCELLATION OF CONTRACT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "On that last point, the right hon. Gentleman's view is different from that of the Chairman of Vickers and, on the whole, I prefer the view of the Chairman of Vickers about his own production schedules. This is the most outrageous statement that I have heard in this House for a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2113.3", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "SUPER VC10s (CANCELLATION OF CONTRACT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I have spent the last month trying to find a way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2114.2", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "SUPER VC10s (CANCELLATION OF CONTRACT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Henderson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the VC10 is becoming known as probably the finest passenger aircraft flying today? Can we be assured, in spite of the statement which the Minister has felt justified in making—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2114.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2116.7", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "DEBATES (INTERRUPTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am not sure that the hon. Member for Accrington (Mr. Hynd) is in order in quoting from a newspaper if he is asking a question of Mr. Speaker. I hope that we can leave the events of last night alone and not pursue an inquest into what arose last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2116.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2117.3", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "MEMBERS, OFFICERS AND OFFICIALS (MR. SPEAKERS THANKS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "n hon. Members; in providing hon. Members with all necessary papers; and, not unimportant, in providing both refreshment and sustenance for the House and its staff. I would also express our sincere thanks to the Clerk, the rest of the Table and its associated Officers for unfailing courtesy and a constant readiness to help and advise us. We have been richly served and I thought it right to say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2147.1", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": "ses were built. I am making a statement of fact. When the present Government took office, there were 434,000 houses under construction, and they managed the miracle of completing nearly 50,000 fewer. I have made the point on several occasions. I hope that the Joint Parliamentary Secretary will follow this with some care, because whenever he has wound up a debate on this topic he has been confused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2167.1", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "m, at 7 or 7¼ per cent. Those are the facts, despite all the fine words and fine pledges of right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite and despite all the optimism about it which they have expressed today. It has been made worse for the person who wants to buy a house by the fact that house prices rose last year by the unprecedented amount of 7½ per cent. —and those are official figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2210.2", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL BUSINESSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "preceding_text": "ssmen, as no doubt other hon. Members have done. What does the small businessman think of his future? He welcomes opportunity. He is not afraid to work. I am sure that the Minister of State would agree with that. He wants competition, but not unfair competition. His fear is that private enterprise is being whittled away, slowly but surely, under the legislation which has come from this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2210.2", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL BUSINESSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "preceding_text": "that they could deal with such a situation. But the conclusion which must be drawn from all the measures which they have put to the House is that they want to eradicate the small business. I hope that hon. Members will not think that I am over-stating the case when I say that my personal fear, my personal hunch, is that it is deliberate policy of the Labour Government to squeeze out the small man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2246.1", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORT DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to The Ministry of Transport (Mr. Stephen Swingler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to The Ministry of Transport (Mr. Stephen Swingler)", "preceding_text": "Let us return to reality. I must ask your leave, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and that of the House, to speak again. I hope that leave will be granted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2246.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2255.0", "colnum": "2255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITALS, BERKSHIRE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Nor will you.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": " is that they are now responsible for them, and the figures have not been \"upped\". I have been able to check up today that these figures still apply. It will do the Minister no good to say, \"I have not had time to deal with this\" or \"It is not my responsibility because we have been in government for only 15 months\". If I have anything to do with it, he will not be there after the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2345.3", "colnum": "2345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS, ISLE OF WIGHT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodnutt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodnutt", "preceding_text": " Dr. Beeching. I am sorry that he has left British Railways. He carried out his terms of reference and made certain recommendations, and it was then up to the Government of the day to say whether these should be implemented. My point is that the Conservative Government never said that these suggestions should be implemented in the Isle of Wight. It was the Labour Government who made that decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-03-09", "file": "debates1966-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "16e3534ecd4b6b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2359.1", "colnum": "2359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Commander Courtney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Courtney", "preceding_text": "t time in our national history we have given up our ability to defend our merchant shipping outside a short distance flying range from this country or our major bases abroad, a departure from historical strategic precedent. I cannot believe it will be persisted in even by this Government, should, unhappily, they be returned to power at the end of the month. Surely, as we on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-03-09a.2359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Edelman", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Edelman", "preceding_text": " the Commonwealth and in Europe as well. Our bonds with the Commonwealth remain strong. Indeed, their strength is assured by the Commonwealth tours undertaken by Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip—both those successfully accomplished and those yet to be undertaken. I know that it would be the wish of the whole House now that I should offer congratulations to Her Majesty on her birthday today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Edelman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Edelman", "preceding_text": " reform; a programme which will be the subject of ardent debate through many days—and probably through many nights as well. The reinforcement of knowledge and experience from new Members of this House will be especially welcomed in this connection. The Parliament of 1404, which met in Coventry. was called the \"Unlearned Parliament\" because the King demanded that lawyers should be excluded from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "eness of the need for the Government to produce fresh thinking and fresh policies to deal with the problems with which they are confronted, both at home and overseas. I have been able to congratulate the two back benchers who have taken part today. I am afraid that I cannot do the same for the Government. After a victory which they claim as a great triumph, there is still the same old Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is yours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "confronted, both at home and overseas. I have been able to congratulate the two back benchers who have taken part today. I am afraid that I cannot do the same for the Government. After a victory which they claim as a great triumph, there is still the same old Front Bench. [Laughter.] All right. Let them claim it. I do not mind. All I am pointing out is that there is still the same old Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ench. [Laughter.] All right. Let them claim it. I do not mind. All I am pointing out is that there is still the same old Front Bench—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is yours?\"]—grossly inflated as they are, and nowhere are the ravages of inflation seen more clearly than on the faces of right hon. Members opposite. There are 111 members in the Government, nearly one-third of the Parliamentary Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " is just stretching failure more and more widely throughout the Departments in Whitehall. The First Secretary may be shorn of his power, but his influence is extending in other directions; and I welcome this. The Prime Minister has been able to welcome the First Secretary's brother to the Government. The First Secretary has appointed his brother-in-law Chairman of the South-East Regional Council.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.57.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.61.2", "colnum": "61", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is a British Parliament.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I am absolutely up to date. There are seven Ministers at the Foreign Office. One of them may be a Scotsman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.61.7", "colnum": "61", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " Rhodesia. It has already been quoted, but it is a very important statement: My Government will pursue the policy of bringing the illegal régime in Rhodesia to an end, so that a peaceful and lasting constitutional settlement, based on the rule of law and acceptable to the Rhodesian people as a whole, can be achieved. That surely is the wish of the whole House, that there should be a return—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.61.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I quite see that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.64.2", "colnum": "64", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will not answer my question now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.64.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.65.0", "colnum": "65", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I have answered the hon. Gentleman's question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.65.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.65.0", "colnum": "65", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ind it difficult to convince myself that the Prime Minister was right to take this decision. If he is not going to indulge in electioneering, then we could get down to the real problems facing us today. I propose to mention five of them which emerge from the Gracious Speech. The first deals with the economy. At the election we put forward very clear proposals and policies for the five years ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.65.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.65.0", "colnum": "65", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " his vision of a modernised Britain. We refer of course to the election campaign of 1964, the last in which Mr. Wilson chose to expound his purposes. That is from this week's New Statesman . We have had nothing, since 1964, of the real purposes of the Prime Minister and his colleagues. This last campaign was the most backward-looking campaign, on the other side of the House, of any campaign since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.65.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Certainly. The figures came out on 11th March because they were ready. On 12th March I said at the Press conference, when I was questioned about this, that they could not come out as early in April because of the intervention of the Easter holiday. I said that they would be later, and that remark was reported to the right hon. Gentleman at his succeeding Press conference.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.68.4", "colnum": "68", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " of the 18th, when these figures were published, to see exactly what the Press said about them, as a result of leakages or guidance received. This is thoroughly undesirable. The second point I wish to raise is that the production figure is down for February and has now been stagnant for 13 months. The real inflation is as acute as ever and this year will not see the balance of payments in balance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.68.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.68.4", "colnum": "68", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What abuses?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "e acuteness of all the problems, which we shall no doubt be discussing at length in the Budget debates. The second point, which was not touched upon in the Gracious Speech, dealt with trade unions. There was no mention of action here. The Royal Commission drags on its long and weary way, and meantime the abuses which became public during the election campaign can apparently continue uninterrupted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.68.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "sinterpreted the situation at the W.E.U. meeting and in what he told the Press and the country afterwards. The Prime Minister dealt with this matter in his Bristol speech. Perhaps the First Secretary can say whether or not that speech represents Government policy. If so, the Prime Minister is stating clearly that we cannot enter the European Economic Community with its present agricultural policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "nd dreary. These are the problems with which the Government are faced, and it is on the results that the Government produce that they will be judged. \"No alibis this time\", said the Daily Mirror . \"No alibis this time\", echoed the First Secretary. \"No alibis this time\", echoed the Minister of Labour. They did not mind alibis last time. They welcomed them; they used them; they seized power on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why raise it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rial disputes or for programmes for tackling industrial restrictive practices. Indeed, taking the whole of the year and a half in question when the right hon. Gentleman and the Minister who preceded him were in office, one finds a pretty heavy record of industrial disputes, which all of us deplore, whichever party is in office. Quite frankly, I do not think that this is a party issue of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.84.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It would not be helpful if I said too much about the various methods of communication with the Governor, or about the frequency of communications or exchanges between us. I have been rather more forthcoming with the House than perhaps I should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.104.2", "colnum": "104", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is now taking us a long way into–", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.104.2", "colnum": "104", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman should study what happened in respect of the Committee of Twenty-Four concerning demands for a Security Council Resolution that all of us would have found very dangerous. In those circumstances, a meeting of the Security Council having been asked for, we went ahead and tabled our Resolution. The right hon. Gentleman can say, \"Is that promoting or is it not promoting a Resolution\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.104.2", "colnum": "104", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tleman can say, \"Is that promoting or is it not promoting a Resolution\"—[ Interruption .] The position is that, faced with this situation, I honoured what I said to the House, namely, that there would not be a unilateral blockade. As for the question of raising and promoting Resolutions, I believe that we were entitled to promote the right Resolution without going back on what I said in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.104.2", "colnum": "104", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "it has gone further; it has recognised—as the right hon. Gentleman once said—that we are dealing here with a vital moral issue. Should we have waited to recall the House and then have had a semantic debate on what was meant by the word \"promote\", or should we have taken action? If we ought not to have taken the action we took, what action does the right hon. Gentleman think we ought to have taken?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.104.2", "colnum": "104", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the point of interception of a number of distinct circles which cover vital Commonwealth interests and vital economic interests for Britain—and the economic interests cut more than two ways—covering Britain's standing in the new world. This issue is at the centre of that area of the new world which is dominated by race conflict, racial intolerance, and the ever-present danger of a race explosion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.107.0", "colnum": "107", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister started this section of his speech by saying that he wanted to get the greatest possible accord in the House, but he could not have gone about doing so in a worse way. The plain fact is that he said in his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ur contacts with the Portuguese Government over a long period of months gave our Portuguese friends plenty of time before then and on that day to give us assurances which would have meant that it might not have been necessary to take the action which we did at the United Nations. I will try to see now where the Opposition stand on this. I have told them where we stand and they know where we stand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o analyse their position. The Leader of the Opposition rejects the illegal act and has never been equivocal about that. He recognises that once one rejects the illegal act, there are three main avenues of choice for this country. One would be unconditional surrender by this country to the illegal régime and acceptance of the act and all that would follow for Britain's standing in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " which he quoted, I sharply distinguished between the use of force in that context with the measures which might be necessary on an international basis to deal with oil-running activities by international spivs. To say, as he has done, that we have gone back on our stand against the military use of force and to say that we have used it in this case is a complete twisting of our words in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. Gentleman gets into this sort of state, he always wants to make things as difficult as possible for good relations between this country and every other country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "logic or anything else, into stirring up unnecessary trouble with another country, just because the right hon. Gentleman's entire contribution to the debate this afternoon has been to criticise what we did and provide no alternative solution to this specific problem—the challenge presented to us by the breaking of an oil embargo which I thought hon. and right hon. Gentlemen now supported. This is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.114.3", "colnum": "114", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "m to say were going on, by making a premature announcement in this House. My view, however, is that if there should persist through South Africa such a flow of oil or other commodities into Rhodesia as would make our policy totally ineffective, this is a matter we should have to take to the United Nations. I would not act illegally and unilaterally, but we would be right to do as I have just said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.114.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Walter Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Walter Elliot", "preceding_text": "I think that I am the first back-bench Member, Mr. Deputy Speaker, who has spoken in the present House with you in the Chair. May I, with respect, wish you the greatest success in that position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must give me time to start. Time is an important factor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "TELEVISION PROGRAMMES (POLITICAL SUBJECTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "responsibility for who goes on the air and who does not is the responsibility of the broadcasting authorities. If, in the instance to which my hon. Friend refers—and I have no knowledge of this case—they decided, even at a late stage, to make a change, let us be quite clear that this was a decision by them, taken in the light of what they decided after representation may or may not have been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-21", "file": "debates1966-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fa9a21ba740e70e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "TELEVISION PROGRAMMES (POLITICAL SUBJECTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " directly, admittedly only on a very formal occasion. This is not a matter on which the Government have a specific view, but I think that I can say, in representing the views of others, that one reason why some people are in favour of the televising of Parliament is that they prefer the selection of speakers by Mr. Speaker to the selection of speakers by producers. I say this as a former producer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-21a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-25", "file": "debates1966-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d7eca9e8b2320ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-25a.358.8", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OPENING OF PARLIAMENT (FILMING)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The right hon. Gentleman has just said that the decision was taken by you, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-25a.358.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-25", "file": "debates1966-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d7eca9e8b2320ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-25a.360.3", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OPENING OF PARLIAMENT (FILMING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are They?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "to a Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Kettering (Sir G. de Freitas), it was announced to the House that the proceedings would be televised. On the second point, it has to be appreciated that, while Mr. Speaker has certain responsibilities when Parliament is dissolved, those responsibilities are clearly laid down in Erskine May, and this is not one of them; so it was the House authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-25a.360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-25", "file": "debates1966-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d7eca9e8b2320ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-25a.360.3", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OPENING OF PARLIAMENT (FILMING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How did they decide it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "ceedings would be televised. On the second point, it has to be appreciated that, while Mr. Speaker has certain responsibilities when Parliament is dissolved, those responsibilities are clearly laid down in Erskine May, and this is not one of them; so it was the House authorities—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are They?\"]—there are many, the Serjeant at Arms, the Clerk of the House and many other authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-25a.360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-25", "file": "debates1966-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d7eca9e8b2320ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-25a.362.2", "colnum": "362", "heading": "COPPER (PRICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " country of a wide variety of products—cars, television sets, and so on? This, obviously, is a serious matter, as he said. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that it has been suggested that one reason for this has been that copper users have been stocking up in fear that the Zambian source of copper might dry up in the event of conflict between Zambia and Rhodesia? In view of the increased revenue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-25a.362.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-04-25", "file": "debates1966-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d7eca9e8b2320ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-25a.368.2", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cousins", "preceding_text": "The means that the——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-25a.368.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-04-25", "file": "debates1966-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d7eca9e8b2320ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-25a.368.4", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cousins", "preceding_text": "I was trying to fit in with Mr. Speaker's view about the need to allow a number of other right hon. and hon. Members to take part in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-25a.368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-25", "file": "debates1966-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d7eca9e8b2320ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-25a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "out priorities, because they are bound up with money. This is the crux of the whole situation. Will he tell us tonight how he proposes to get over this hurdle in order to reorganise secondary education and to raise the school leaving age almost simultaneously? I should like to up the point made by the hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe), in his maiden speech. There is a very grave danger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-25a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-25", "file": "debates1966-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d7eca9e8b2320ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-25a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Anthony Crosland)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Anthony Crosland)", "preceding_text": "understand from his speech, to be able to call him \"my honourable Friend\". When he was elected, there was some doubt as to the precise character of his political views, but he cleared up any doubts this afternoon and much of what he said would have stirred echoes on this side of the House, as any reference to O'Connell is bound to do. It was a pity that no other hon. Member from Ulster was present", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-25a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-26", "file": "debates1966-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f0806d7013482c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.563.2", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "—as was foreseen by this Labour movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-26", "file": "debates1966-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f0806d7013482c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I should make it clear to my hon. Friend that the United States have made it clear that their bombing will be concerned simply with the military necessities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.570.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-04-26", "file": "debates1966-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f0806d7013482c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.572.2", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I should be bringing what I have to say to a conclusion. I have been speaking for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-26", "file": "debates1966-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f0806d7013482c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.575.3", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "tly orderly, with the exception of one man who has since been prosecuted and convicted of attempting to incite a crowd. In fact, I have been told by those who watched the television showing of the election count in Belfast, West that the only thing out of the ordinary that anybody noticed was one of the hon. Member's own supporters crying out, \"When are you going to pay me for personating, Gerry?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.575.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-26", "file": "debates1966-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f0806d7013482c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.652.2", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I am willing to look in any direction, and whichever branch of the Press I look at I find that what they report from Washington is an impression of views held by the American Administration which are irreconcilable with what we understand they have been being told by Her Majesty's Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.652.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-04-26", "file": "debates1966-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f0806d7013482c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "d countries—he described them as being of a kind similar to that we have recently arranged with Saudi Arabia, to the value of 400 million dollars.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 7th March, 1966; Vol. 725, c. 1861.] Now, it is strongly reported—I understand this has not been repudiated officially—that the value of the sale to Saudi Arabia is to be counted against the 400 million dollars sales to third parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-26", "file": "debates1966-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f0806d7013482c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.658.3", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman announced that he did not want to interrupt me, I felt it wrong to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-26", "file": "debates1966-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f0806d7013482c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.658.3", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman announced that he did not want to interrupt me, I felt it wrong to give way. [HON. MEMBERS: Give way.] I hope that right hon. and hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-26", "file": "debates1966-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f0806d7013482c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "choslovakia in 1947, by Soviet officials. I do not myself foresee the expansion of Chinese military power in this sense into South-East Asia which would enable the same type of development to be repeated. But, having said all that, I must insist that fear of China is real and is growing throughout South Asia. There is no doubt whatever and I say this to some of my right hon. and hon. Friends that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-26", "file": "debates1966-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f0806d7013482c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "and hon. Members opposite will free themselves of the obsessions of the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West and will come to approach these vital problems of defence and foreign policy, not on a party basis. I do not object to the most rigorous scrutiny. I hope that hon. Members opposite will employ Question Time and every other opportunity to test what we are doing and to question us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.665.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-04-26", "file": "debates1966-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f0806d7013482c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.669.12", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "(4) Standing Order No. 5 (Precedence of Government Business) shall have effect after the Summer Adjournment as if the session had been opened at the first meeting of the House after the said Adjournment.—[ Mr. Bowden .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.669.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-04-26", "file": "debates1966-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f0806d7013482c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.670.3", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE (MOTIONS FOR LEAVE TO BRING IN BILLS AND NOMINATION OF SELECT COMMITTEES AT COMMENCEMENT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "f bringing the Sitting to a conclusion; whereupon Mr. Speaker shall immediately call upon the Member who has given Notice of the motion to move that motion, and if the proceedings thereon have not been concluded at Ten o'clock he shall not interrupt them at that hour; and the motion for the adjournment of the House shall not be moved until after the conclusion of those proceedings.—[ Mr. Bowden .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.670.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-04-26", "file": "debates1966-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f0806d7013482c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.670.8", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE (SELECT COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "eports have been laid upon the Table but not more than Twenty-four hours before the intended time of publication of such Reports, and that, when the Chairman of a Select Committee has been ordered to make a Report to this House, he shall not immediately lay the Report on the Table, but shall do so not more than Two sitting days before the intended date of publication of the Report.—[ Mr. Bowden .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-26a.670.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.684.7", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "There are already very adequate protective means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.684.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OPENING OF PARLIAMENT (TELEVISION AND FILMING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "I think that I had better stick to \"the House of Commons authorities\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.713.2", "colnum": "713", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" It is not not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In a matter of this importance, is it not customary to have more than three or four questions, which is all we have had? This is a matter of very great importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": ", indeed, for the spokesmen for the Opposition. I am sure that the Prime Minister will recognise—as he did in the last part of his statement—how difficult a situation is created for the House by announcing before a major debate a major change in Government policy. It is certainly a change in Government policy—of that there can be no doubt—but it is one which we wholeheartedly welcome on this side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "o parties much closer than it was before. We must, on the one hand, disabuse people in Rhodesia of the belief that what a British Government are aiming at is immediate one-man, one-vote majority rule. On the other hand, we must dispel the idea that it is possible to accept the circumstances in which there can be a constitutional regression in which we would go backwards instead of moving forwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "belief that what a British Government are aiming at is immediate one-man, one-vote majority rule. On the other hand, we must dispel the idea that it is possible to accept the circumstances in which there can be a constitutional regression in which we would go backwards instead of moving forwards. [ Interruption .] The hon. Member can make a speech later if he catches Mr. Speaker's eye. The object—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.724.3", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way again. I think that the objective must be, without any doubt, uninterrupted progress towards majority rule as envisaged in the 1961 Constitution and as supported consistently by all my right hon. and hon. Friends. This is our responsibility and I do not believe it is in any way contrary to what Mr. Smith himself would accept and has, in fact, accepted in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.724.3", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "tive must be, without any doubt, uninterrupted progress towards majority rule as envisaged in the 1961 Constitution and as supported consistently by all my right hon. and hon. Friends. This is our responsibility and I do not believe it is in any way contrary to what Mr. Smith himself would accept and has, in fact, accepted in the past. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is inherent in the 1961 Constitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (Mr. Arthur Bottomley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"U.D.I.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (Mr. Arthur Bottomley)", "preceding_text": "that development continued. The House will recall the sincere and strenuous efforts made by my right hon. Friend during his visit to Salisbury last October. At his request, the Attorney—General and I stayed on in Salisbury for a further day or two in a final effort to bridge the gap. We have had plenty of evidence since then that the Rhodesian Government of the day had in fact decided upon I.D.I.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "and commercial activity. An economy based on the necessity of buying at a premium and selling at a loss is a poor risk. Their credit problems are likely to increase and, as the extent of their failure to dispose of the tobacco crop at a reasonable price becomes apparent, they are bound to find themselves in most serious financial difficulty. Unemployment cannot be disguised by expedients for ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.733.3", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "And one other. The migration of workers, manpower orders and National Service tend to obscure the full extent of this problem. It cannot be contained for long, and there can be no doubt that, as the weeks pass, Rhodesia will be running deeper and deeper into financial and economic crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.733.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "I was showing the right hon. Gentleman, and I shall continue the process of showing, that it is not a change of policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.734.3", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "I intend to make my own speech. If the right hon. Gentleman can get in later and make his own contribution, it is open to him to do so. The right hon. Member for Barnet asked me some questions about the \"Joanna V.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.734.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "re and have been in the closest touch with the Governor. It would not be right for me to reveal the advice which the Governor, as a servant of the Crown, has given to Her Majesty's Government from time to time any more than it would be right for me to reveal the information which I get from my professional advisers. But I can assure the House that we do know the Governor's views and he knows ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Portugal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "s important. We have to consider how our action over Rhodesia is likely to affect the achievement of those other aims. We have to weigh one with the other. To resolve the Rhodesian problem, we must be prepared to take appreciable risks and to pay an appreciable price, but not unlimited risks and not an unlimited price. We have to consider how far it is right to alienate our old and trusted allies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.752.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Nkomo?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the Opposition is Mr. Chad Chipunza, and he should be at the talks. It would be valuable if he were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ore amenable to talks and possibly would lead to a better spirit in the so-called unofficial negotiations. Meantime, sanctions are being continued. Britain probably will not lose much if oil is stopped altogether, although I would remind those hon. Members who have experience of another occasion when oil sanctions were imposed on Italy at the behest of the League of Nations that they did not work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ated us into war. Hon. Members may scoff at that suggestion as being extravagant. Let them read history and recent history. When a statement is made like that which I have just quoted from Sir Roy Welensky, 200,000 white people are not going down completely without asserting their rights, such as they are, even though they may be in conflict with 4 million black people. I do not want to introduce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Wall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Wall", "preceding_text": " palatable, but we must face these facts. Any such idea could well lead to defeat and, in any case, such action would be disastrous for both Britain and Rhodesia. Therefore, we should put the use of British troops out of our minds. But we cannot put out of our minds the use of United Nations forces. If these talks fail, the United Nations, whether we like it or not, may impose mandatory sanctions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.846.4", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "I am, of course, prepared to accept the hon. Gentleman's figures. The position is that, with the interruption of a General Election, the result of which has been most pleasing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.846.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.848.5", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Kerr", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Kerr", "preceding_text": "r Private Members' Bills? There were half a dozen lost when the election came upon us, some of them very valuable Bills. I stress this because it is essentially a non-party point. Some of the most valuable were tabled not by Members on this side but by Members opposite. If I have learned nothing else in my time in the House, I have learned that this place essentially belongs to the private Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.848.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kirk", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kirk", "preceding_text": "s taken. I should like the Leader of the House to look at the matter again. I do not think that any hon. Member wants a Division on the matter tonight, but it is an important matter, one which affects private Members on both sides. Therefore, I would press the Leader of the House, if we give him the Motion tonight—as I suppose we have to, otherwise a situation will arise that we cannot get out of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Saffron Walden (Mr. Kirk) was right when he said that we should let the Leader of the House have this Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "country, to prevent other hon. Members without the Government facilities but merely in the ordinary course from exercising their own rights in that way. It is this that places me in so great a difficulty in my approach to my right hon. Friend's Motion. I hope that hon. Members will recognise that I am trying to take a fair-minded and honest approach to what is undoubtedly a very difficult problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "re it was to come up for Second Reading. It is ironical that if one is a local councillor one has far more chance of getting a Bill through the House than if one is a private Member, because both Houses passed a Resolution keeping alive Private Bills from local authorities. I picked one up in the Vote Office just now—a small Bill of about one page: for the Huyton-with-Robey Urban District Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "s a private Member, because both Houses passed a Resolution keeping alive Private Bills from local authorities. I picked one up in the Vote Office just now—a small Bill of about one page: for the Huyton-with-Robey Urban District Council. [ Laughter .] I am not suggesting that there is any favouritism about this, but here is a piffling little Bill to turn a piece of parkland into a football ground—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " in these matters. They have paid very great consideration to them, as is proved by the facts. We on this side of the House—this is certainly my view—are not prepared to accept from any hon. Members opposite, particularly from those who hardly attended the place during the past eighteen months, the suggestion that this is a Government who brush aside any consideration of private Members' interests", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.872.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.873.2", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Individual Private Members' Motions that may have been moved may have been subject to the normal processes of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.874.3", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "No. I have given way already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.874.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.874.3", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "No. I have given way already. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] If the hon. Member for Abingdon was so eager to press the matter, he might have been here tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.874.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "There is nothing at all to withdraw. What I said was that those of us who are here tonight to engage in this debate are interested in protecting private Members' time, and when I said it I said that the hon. Member for Abingdon was not here, as he was not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.875.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.875.12", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am on my feet. The hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) has intimated that he will give way to the hon. Member for Abingdon in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.875.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.875.13", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I will give way when I want to. I have said that I will give way to the hon. Member. I am very glad to see him here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.875.13"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "steam-roller majority. If we are to have the present Session messed up, as the last Session of this Parliament will probably be messed up, there will only be three decent Sessions for private Members' legislation and that is a poor state of affairs. We have heard from the Prime Minister that various Parliamentary reforms are mooted, including such things as morning sittings and push-button voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.896.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.902.2", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Kerr", "preceding_text": "In view of the reassurances offered by the Leader of the House, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.902.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-04-27", "file": "debates1966-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c2665c62defa786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Another Motion.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman want me to withdraw the Motion tonight? Does he really want that, with the result of a Ballot tomorrow, the presentation of Bills in five weeks—full stop, with no allocation of time for Bills or Motions unless the Government take subsequent action?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-27a.905.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.961.6", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS [SIXTH DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "May I make again one observation? I was able to call 14 back-bench Members yesterday because all right hon. Gentlemen and most hon. Members made speeches of a reasonable length. I am sure that this is what the House wants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.961.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.961.9", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Plenty on the Opposition side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "the Opposition in which he said, in column 57 of HANSARD, 21st April: I found it vague and imprecise, on occasions, I believe, deliberately so, and I also found it dull, stale and very uninspiring.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 21st April, 1966; Vol. 727, c. 57.] It is exactly to that verdict that our Amendment is advanced. Perhaps because it has been a dull speech, there have been a number of empty benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.961.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": ". This, again, is a problem which under this Government's mismanagement has prevented tens of thousands of people who could have owned a home of their own had policies not being changed from those laid down by the previous Administration from doing so. They have been denied that opportunity by a Minister of Housing and Local Government who the whole time vaunted his skill in a great housing drive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to my hon. Friend for emphasising what I have been trying to say. I conclude with an appeal to the Government to take very firm steps in the near future to see that appointments are made in such a way that we can redress what at present is an unfair balance. Medical people should not have such a large number of seats on boards, for example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1053.2", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Say it in Welsh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "with such a highly agreeable quality of voice. It is something which is not to be overlooked in the artifices of political presentation. I think that if I were following the hon. Gentleman 200 years ago I would have said, \" Ars est artem celãre \"—and an old schoolmaster such as the Minister of State for Wales, the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. George Thomas), will know what that means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "t a meeting in London on Monday, and we have also had the Foreign Secretary's speech. It is an astonishing change not only in the past week, but in the period since the General Election itself. I know that the Prime Minister does not like being reminded of the General Election. I believe that he rather agrees with the countless commentators who think that the campaign was a little unworthy of him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would the right hon. Gentleman do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "est rates, there was resultant inflation, which eventually led to devaluation, a further price spiral and further inflation. After six years the electorate saw clearly what was involved in this policy and what were its consequences. This time the theme is not low interest rates, but high interest rates and high taxation—but still there is very high pressure on the economy and very high employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": ". But we are now living in an increasingly prosperous society, and those people earning average wages will more and more be able and will want to buy for themselves many things which those who were formerly termed \"middle class\" have been used to providing for themselves and their families. We believe that we ought to build up a property-owning and capital-owning democracy and that, as wages rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "be done in pensions, and we ought to use the tax system to encourage both. In fact, the reverse happened in the last Finance Act, and the reverse is happening today under the Minister of Housing and Local Government. What could happen if that was done would be that some of the resources at present being used right across the community could be used to concentrate on those whose needs are greatest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "e Government's social policy. I should like now to say a word about Parliamentary reform, which the Prime Minister put in his own speech. It caught the headlines. Parliamentary reform is very good stuff, and I want to say something about it as well. Of course, we are willing to take part in discussions about the creation of a new committee. The Prime Minister invited us to do so, and we intend to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " only do harm to Britain and harm to their own Government in their activities in Europe. In his speech at Bristol, the Prime Minister seemed to have got roughly to 1957. He visualised a Common Market in which our own agricultural policy remains, free entry. The Chancellor of the Duchy seems to have got on a little later, in his speech, to about 1960 to 1961. I do not say this in a critical spirit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Bowden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Bowden)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman need have no fears that my right hon. Friends will take his clothes during the next few months. His real fear should be that his right hon. Friend the Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling) may take his job if he behaves as he has been behaving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "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": "oposals. If the Bill is not introduced in this Session, the next Session will certainly see it introduced. The second point was on the question of a Parliamentary Commissioner, or \"ombudsman\". That is an excellent piece of legislation, and we appreciate that it is something which is wanted by the country. Members of Parliament and the country feel that they want some redress against the Executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "ould have done. The previous Administration used it on a number of occasions. One takes a day every time one wishes to use it for a particular Bill. I am sure that we can devise a scheme which is fair to everyone and which will make sure that a Bill going upstairs to Standing Committee, no matter how controversial it may be, can be adequately discussed and considered without any time being wasted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "of those old customs and traditions which mean so much. Some things may be looked at. Some things may not be. I do not regard it as particularly revolutionary to suggest that we should, for instance, put the Serjeant at Arms in grey flannel slacks instead of knee breeches. These things never appeal to me as being real revolutionary moves. I am sure that there are some things that can be looked at—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1090.3", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "—that the real way to inspire the people of this or any other country is, first of all, to tell the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1090.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1090.5", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "pposition, who found himself on the doorstep with the door firmly closed in front of him. So that one failed, too. What else did the party opposite do? We know: \"Strikes. A Labour Government will mean more strikes\", until somebody suddenly realised that the record of strikes—5¼ million days in one year—was when the the right hon. Gentleman was Minister of Labour. And so it went on. In 1964—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1090.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have had this before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "In 1964 we resolved, despite a majority of three, which happily has now gone, that we would tell the electorate precisely what happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-28", "file": "debates1966-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1209071accae3d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1093.0", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": " I am suggesting. Furthermore, the right hon. Gentleman in his speech tonight, in dealing with the proposed Bill on social security, said that it does one thing; he knew that this was not the case. He said that it simply abolishes the National Assistance Board or gives it another name. It does very much more than that. The right hon. Gentleman knows this. When he sees the Bill, he will realise it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-28a.1093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-29", "file": "debates1966-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2465ac7a197d751d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-29a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GUYANA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "I am saying that every person detained, including Mr. Nunes, is detained not because of political views but because of acts they have been involved in. There is no criticism at all of their political views. The detention is concerned with the actions they have taken, or are likely to take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-29a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-04-29", "file": "debates1966-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2465ac7a197d751d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-29a.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GUYANA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "ised that these are very good. I do not use that as any defence of detention. Surely no one would want to defend detention of men even if they were detained in the Savoy Hotel, but I am told that they have good and fresh food and excellent facilities. The apprehensions of my hon. Friends about the conditions of detention cannot be confirmed. I give that assurance for what it is worth to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-04-29a.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-02", "file": "debates1966-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "60e5fa0479ab71b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-02a.1214.7", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kelley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kelley", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. Is he aware that the Ministry's representative at a recent tribunal in Doncaster gave enthusiastic support to this rather pernicious doctrine that a woman was denied unemployment benefit because she refused to deprive her husband of her companionship in order to have the employer's wishes gratified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-02a.1214.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-02", "file": "debates1966-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "60e5fa0479ab71b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-02a.1220.5", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman agree that 20 years after the war it is increasingly difficult to defend a situation where preference is given to those whose locomotor disability arose from war service rather than from industrial accidents? Would he not agree that it is difficult to defend a situation in which a distinction is made between a locomotor disability and some other form of disability affecting mobilty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-02a.1220.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-02", "file": "debates1966-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "60e5fa0479ab71b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-02a.1237.5", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I wish to raise a point of order following a point or order raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, East (Mr. Mapp) of a slightly different character but relevant to the same line of thought. I refer to Question No. 49.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-02a.1237.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-02", "file": "debates1966-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "60e5fa0479ab71b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-02a.1255.8", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So are we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": " under a Conservative Government at a record pace and its production record was second to none. I wish the right hon. Gentleman would examine what I did say—I do not often ask people to do that—on 8th December, when I read out the statistics, and possibly he will be good enough to ask his hon. Friends to stop talking about all the wasted years. This is something we are very tired of hearing about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-02a.1255.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-02", "file": "debates1966-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "60e5fa0479ab71b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-02a.1356.1", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "bit of London County Council to bring forward an annual general powers Bill containing an enormous variety of Clauses. This was not like the Finance Bill which has to be renewed annually; London County Council had its Money Act which had to be renewed annually. This system of having an annual general powers Bill was a source of criticism and London County Council sought by its general powers Acts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-02a.1356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-03", "file": "debates1966-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a09d265afdd92c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1395.16", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Overseas Development (Mr. Anthony Greenwood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Overseas Development (Mr. Anthony Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "th the emergency, including pesticides and fertilisers. In addition, as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced on 26th April, the Government of India have accepted with pleasure our offer to make immediately available as an advance instalment of Britain's aid pledge for 1966–67, loans of £17 million directed to India's pressing economic problems, among which is the food shortage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1395.16"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-03", "file": "debates1966-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a09d265afdd92c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1400.3", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oram", "preceding_text": "Eight experts provided under technical assistance were in post during the past year advising overseas Governments on co-operative questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-03", "file": "debates1966-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a09d265afdd92c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1409.0", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "None, Sir. Income from agreements to license the manufacturers of Hovercraft abroad accrues to Hovercraft Development Ltd., a subsidiary of the N.R.D.C. But no estimate of future income can yet be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-03", "file": "debates1966-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a09d265afdd92c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1439.0", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 2. TAX PROVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wishful thinking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I believe that we can rely on the co-operation of the bookmaking fraternity. They recognise that this is a moderate tax and one designed to bring in a reasonable amount of revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1439.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-03", "file": "debates1966-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a09d265afdd92c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1446.3", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 6. THE MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "bstantial, and continuing benefit to the balance of payments. The benefit may take the form of starting up a new and continuing stream of exports, or an exceptionally large and quick return in profits earned and remitted from the investment, or a mixture of both. In any case, the benefit defined in this way should be large enough to equal the cost of the original investment in two to three years——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-03", "file": "debates1966-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a09d265afdd92c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1449.2", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 6. THE MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t burden. On that basis it looked as though the equivalent rate would be 35 per cent.; but since then three things have affected the calculation. First, during the passage of last year's Finance Bill, a number of substantial concessions were made as the result of representations by the interests affected and by the Opposition. These have naturally had the result of increasing the equivalent rate.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-03", "file": "debates1966-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a09d265afdd92c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1458.3", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 6. THE MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "That is hypothetical, and I deprecate hon. Members drawing my attention to things which I have not seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1458.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-03", "file": "debates1966-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a09d265afdd92c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1458.9", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 6. THE MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "This is a traditional device—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1458.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-03", "file": "debates1966-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a09d265afdd92c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1459.1", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 6. THE MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I did give such instructions, but something seems to have gone amiss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-03", "file": "debates1966-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a09d265afdd92c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1557.1", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Captain Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Elliot", "preceding_text": " that instead of balancing our accounts by the end of this year it will take another five years. The second theme of the Budget—and it is depressing repetition of the last Socialist Budget—is increased taxation. In making his proposals to increase taxation, the Chancellor referred to them as if they were harmless—absolutely nothing. The hon. Member for Yarmouth (Dr. Gray), who is not in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-03", "file": "debates1966-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a09d265afdd92c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1574.1", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "NEWPORT (MONMOUTHSHIRE) ORDER, 1966", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": " his maiden speech on the occasion of a debate on an Order of this kind. Those of us who have heard his speech tonight can well understand the reasons which motivated the hon. Member in choosing this occasion, and I think hon. Members on both sides of the House will feel that, whatever their views about the matter under consideration, he has presented his case with clarity, confidence and ability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-03", "file": "debates1966-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a09d265afdd92c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1574.3", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "NEWPORT (MONMOUTHSHIRE) ORDER, 1966", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "rable that this should be left under its present kind of three-tier administration in the county of Monmouth. The hon. Gentleman paid a charming tribute to his predecessor, Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, and it seems a cruel fate that, so soon after his great achievement in winning the constituency of Monmouth, his right hon. and hon. Friends should seek to tear away part of his constituency in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-03a.1574.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-04", "file": "debates1966-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "336af2d9e884fc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1621.5", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS (SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "iend aware that that was a very disappointing reply? Would he reconsider the matter in view of the fact that it is possible to put Oral Questions on Scottish affairs only roughly once in six weeks and that that is insufficient, because on that day we have to cover every single Department in Scotland? Would my right hon. Friend have another look at this matter in view of the fact that we also have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1621.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-04", "file": "debates1966-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "336af2d9e884fc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1625.7", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RACE RELATIONS ACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "Did not the court accept police evidence, the defendants' evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1625.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-04", "file": "debates1966-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "336af2d9e884fc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1633.4", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "DOCTORS' AND DENTISTS' REMUNERATION (REVIEW BODY'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I suppose that to satisfy an hon. Member with a mind like that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1633.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-04", "file": "debates1966-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "336af2d9e884fc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1634.1", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "DOCTORS' AND DENTISTS' REMUNERATION (REVIEW BODY'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I protest. I merely asked the Prime Minister that question because a number of my constituents who are doctors understood that the Prime Minister was in possession of this Report well before polling day. I merely asked whether or not that was so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-04", "file": "debates1966-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "336af2d9e884fc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1637.7", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is right across the field.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "t; but how will it increase efficiency? How will it get off any of the fat by way of hoarding labour? Therefore, I hope that my right hon. and hon. Friends will bring in an Amendment to the Finance Bill to remove this incentive from manufacturing industries. I accept that it may be unpopular—nobody likes to lose something which is offered—but I think that that would lead to far greater efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1637.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-04", "file": "debates1966-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "336af2d9e884fc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1641.1", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "t to be exact, but what is his calculation of the extra amount which is being taken in Corporation Tax at 40 per cent. and Schedule F over what would have been taken by Income Tax and Profits Tax at the ruling rates? Secondly—this is a detail, but it would be helpful to know this in advance—approximately how many amendments can we expect in the Finance Bill this year, to the nearest hundred or so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-04", "file": "debates1966-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "336af2d9e884fc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1652.1", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The doctors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "f last night—to some of the wage claims which, unquestionably, will be made. Those who put their wage claims in will know that they will have to pay more for services, they will see that 7s. 6d. tantalisingly before them, and their bids will go in. It is of great importance that we do not have anything remotely like the runaway wage increases which we had last year, and the very first thing to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-04", "file": "debates1966-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "336af2d9e884fc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1652.1", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "hoarded in the service industries of this country. It follows, then, that if there is no dishoarding of labour, the employment situation will become all the more critical. Now, a few words about what seems to be the reality of the speech yesterday and, yet, the unreality of the thinking behind it. The voice yesterday was the voice of Jacob, but it was the hand of Esau we were really worried about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-04", "file": "debates1966-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "336af2d9e884fc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1652.1", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "n of someone almost playing chess with the economy of this country, shuffling people around as though they were pawns. For the whole of the Chancellor's approach takes no account whatever of the special areas or of the special categories, as I have shown, the disabled and the pensioners. All these are forgotten, and in every case the emphasis is straight on old-fashioned cap and muffler Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-04", "file": "debates1966-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "336af2d9e884fc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1659.1", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "nnounced yesterday are, of course, part of the whole consistent strategy. I noted the reaction opposite yesterday when these were announced, but frankly, I believe that the Opposition get this wrong. Of course, exports of capital building up new assets overseas can be very beneficial to the country in the right circumstances and at the right time. But it is no use borrowing long and lending short—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-04", "file": "debates1966-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "336af2d9e884fc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1678.0", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "All Socialists.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Technology; Sir Joseph Lockwood, Chairman of Electric and Musical Instruments Ltd.; Mr. W. G. McClelland, Director of the Manchester Business School; Mr. Frank Schon, Chairman and Managing Director of Marchon Products Ltd.; Sir Donald Stokes, Managing Director and Deputy Chairman of the Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd.; and Mr. C. R. Wheeler, C.B.E., Chairman of Associated Electrical Industries Ltd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-04", "file": "debates1966-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "336af2d9e884fc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1678.1", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " I can assure Sir Frank and his colleagues of the wholehearted wish of the Committee that they should succeed in their task. By a whole range of economic, manpower and financial policies, we are putting British industry into a position to reorganise, rationalise and improve its efficiency and performance. But let us not underestimate the urgency of this. Time is not on our side in this connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1678.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-04", "file": "debates1966-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "336af2d9e884fc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1700.2", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "preceding_text": "se for the first time, I should like to ask for the indulgence of hon. Members. In accordance with tradition, I first want to mention my predecessor, Mr. Greville Howard. For over 15 years he represented the St. Ives division of Cornwall with loyalty, integrity and a high sense of duty. I know that the House will wish him well in his retirement and will also hope that he has a long and happy life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-04", "file": "debates1966-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "336af2d9e884fc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Watkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Good advice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Watkins", "preceding_text": "scussions does so against a most remarkable background of advice from hon. and right hon. Members as to how he should set about it. I have found that in the Palace of Westminster there is a grave shortage of desks and filing cabinets and many other essential facilities which are needed by hon. Members to discharge their functions. But one thing of which I have found there is no shortage is advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-04", "file": "debates1966-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "336af2d9e884fc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1740.0", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "f direct benefit to many hard-pressed fare-paying passengers. For this reason I suggest that this matter should be taken up at the earliest opportunity. I am grateful to the Committee for bearing with me for these few moments. I trust that I have not wasted my time in speaking and that I have not spoken for too long. I notice that it is a tendency which grows on one after being here for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1736.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-04", "file": "debates1966-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "336af2d9e884fc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1780.10", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "GUYANA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "re members of the same \"club\" in that we had been declared persona non grata by Governments on the way to independence. On that occasion, although we were on different sides, he forgot all party preoccupations and came to my aid and expressed strong disapproval of this sort of arbitrary act before independence. I support him tonight quite genuinely, without any wish to cause him any embarrassment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-04a.1780.10"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1837.1", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONG KONG", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Royle", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman stop sensational allegations being made by his hon. Friends? Is he aware of the fine job carried out by the Hong Kong police and their worldwide reputation, and will he do all that he can to defend this reputation in the House of Commons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1840.6", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "In the case referred to by the hon. Gentleman, British Guiana was shortly to become independent. No such issue arises with Gibraltar. I thought I had made it clear to the House that we are having the closest consultation with our friends from Gibraltar. I have said that I am seeing them today, and I shall be seeing them again tomorrow. It is not possible to get them into the conference itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1840.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1848.1", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of that disastrous answer—[ Interruption .]—I shall raise this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1864.3", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is growing concern in and out of the House at the speeches that are being made by Ministers implying that Britain's decision is made and that our entry is decided upon? Is he further aware that we stand by the Gaitskell conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1864.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1864.5", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that he will have increasing opposition from his Left-wing to his proposals to enter Europe because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1864.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1865.1", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. The right hon. Gentleman can be assured that it does. It was in full accordance with the quotation which I just gave from the speech made by my right hon. Friend. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman, who has also made speeches on this subject, is going to come clean with the House. I hope that it would not be his policy to agree, without negotiation, unconditionally to a situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1879.0", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Actual.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "rest, perhaps even affection. Admittedly, special circumstances apply in the first year; but even in a full year the figure is still the very substantial sum of £240 million. So far as the general level of demand is concerned, the Chancellor explained—although perhaps not all hon. Members may have heard him fully at this point in his speech owing to the intervention of a hypothetical handkerchief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1879.0", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or accountants'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "s effect on prices is bound to be small. The labour element in the cost of services will be increased on average by less than 6 per cent. But the labour element is mostly less than half the total cost; and accordingly the total cost would rise by something between 2½ and 3 per cent. But services, in their turn, are only a part of the cost of living. Man does not live by lawyers' fees alone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1885.0", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is food.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I think the best answer to give to that intervention is that I have already indicated the unsuitability of the time to debate one particular item entering into our diet during the course of a Budget debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1885.4", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is confused by the right hon. Gentleman's confusing argument.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman shakes his head, but I am sure he does so in kindness. He has asked me a question, and he would, I take it, like me to answer it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1885.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1891.1", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "hey are published. Every Finance Bill and Budget contains a large amount of anti-avoidance legislation, and it is now time to point out that some of the anti-avoidance devices are really anti-confiscatory devices. The complex of taxes, with Income Tax, Surtax, Capital Gains Tax and an 80 per cent. rate of Estate Duty, is so great on some of the top incomes that people try to take defensive action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1942.1", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "that is being taxed. I suppose that the Liberal Leader meant to infer that because we are taxing service industries we approve and applaud manufacturing while looking down upon and disdaining the activities of service industries. This is an odd sort of argument. If carried to its logical conclusion it must be assumed that the Chancellor is opposed to all drinking, smoking, and profitable industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1969.1", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ax relief on profits earned from exports?\". Of course, we have gone over and over this ground during the last ten years or more—as to how we should increase the incentives to exporters. There is one simple fact—that if we wish to remain a part of the G.A.T.T. organisation and observe its rules, we cannot rebate direct taxation on the profits earned by British exporters. All we can do is to refund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1971.1", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ave carried out my own calculations across the broad sweep of the engineering, textile, chemical and many more manufacturing industries, and the fact is that, including the local rates—I remind the Chief Secretary that industry is now re-rated as to 100 per cent. and the local rates are a major item of cost and are indirect taxes in the terms of the G.A.T.T. provisions—it is perfectly practicable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1974.0", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "w that industry can raise its prices because of foreign competition, agriculture will be very hard hit. Farmers with their Review commodities must look to recoupment in the February Price Review next year, and they rightly have no confidence in Her Majesty's Government. Worcestershire is a lush agricultural and horticultural county. The National Farmers' Union of Worcestershire sent me a telegram.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1974.0", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "rmers with their Review commodities must look to recoupment in the February Price Review next year, and they rightly have no confidence in Her Majesty's Government. Worcestershire is a lush agricultural and horticultural county. The National Farmers' Union of Worcestershire sent me a telegram. [ Interruption .] It is a very good county. The Financial Secretary should not sneer at it in undertones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-05", "file": "debates1966-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e3ad9ffaa01e051d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1974.0", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "sterday stated: This county has no confidence in Employment Tax being recouped at Price Review (Horticulture has no chance of recoupment). No member will be satisfied unless farming is put in Class 1. Farming is an import saver and is entitled to Class 1 treatment. Request every effort to rectify this outrageous situation. They were well chosen words. My reply is in equally carefully chosen words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-05a.1974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-06", "file": "debates1966-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "d0c9a3401dd85091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-06a.2020.4", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "en we go into Standing Committee. I understand that some hon. Members opposite intend to try to talk about a subject which is not part of this Bill. So perhaps I should refer very briefly to the Selective Employment Tax announced by my right hon. Friend on Tuesday as far as it affects agriculture. I want to make the position quite plain. I notice that a number of hon. Members have signed a Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-06a.2020.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-06", "file": "debates1966-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "d0c9a3401dd85091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-06a.2020.4", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": " refer very briefly to the Selective Employment Tax announced by my right hon. Friend on Tuesday as far as it affects agriculture. I want to make the position quite plain. I notice that a number of hon. Members have signed a Motion—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"]—which implies that agriculture is being treated like a service industry. I fear that was based upon an over-hasty reading of the proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-06a.2020.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-06", "file": "debates1966-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "d0c9a3401dd85091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-06a.2030.1", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "preceding_text": "ize.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 30th November, 1965; Vol. 721, c. 1252.] That is exactly my view now, after we have studied some parts of the Bill in considerable detail—the Minister and I and others of our colleagues—in Standing Committee over many weeks. During the recent election campaign, agriculture featured very prominently in political debate—more so than is usually the case, I think—and there are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-06a.2030.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-06", "file": "debates1966-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "d0c9a3401dd85091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-06a.2048.2", "colnum": "2048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about Wales?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Pearson", "preceding_text": "f of notes I hold in my hand almost every word that the hon. Gentleman has already delivered to the House. It is, however, a great pleasure to welcome him and to pay tribute to his contribution. There are far too few representatives of the small farmer in the House. There are far too few representatives of agriculture down the whole of the west side of England, which depends on grass and rainfall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-06a.2048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-06", "file": "debates1966-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "d0c9a3401dd85091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-06a.2065.3", "colnum": "2065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garrett", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garrett", "preceding_text": "I welcome Part III of the Bill. I think I should make my plea for the northern farmers, because I represent a constituency in the north-east of England and I have personal friends who farm in this most difficult part of the country. Most of them who have written to me have expressed appreciation of the efforts which the present Minister has made to relieve them of some of their financial burdens.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-06a.2065.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-06", "file": "debates1966-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "d0c9a3401dd85091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-06a.2111.3", "colnum": "2111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "aving made a change in relation to Schedule 4. The hon. Gentleman really should stop throwing dust in the eyes of farmers. They are used to this kind of thing on the land. They can easily shut their eyes and protect themselves. The result of the election in farming areas has conclusively shown this up and down the whole country. The hon. Gentleman asked me a very important question about tractors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-06a.2111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.14.4", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "I do not honestly think that doctors will be guided in the kind of advice they give to their patients by whether they get a fee of half a crown or so for writing out a prescription—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.14.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.23.6", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I will answer if you wait.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.23.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.26.6", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that children in the Birmingham area needing E.N.T. treatment must already wait 18 months for that treatment and that this waiting can do permanent damage to their hearing? Is he further aware that if a child needs attention in hospital for straightforward tonsils and adenoids, it has no hope of admission at the present time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.26.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.38.4", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "It is our view that it will help this process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.38.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.38.5", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "e a most important statement. Is she telling us that it is Government policy over the next few months to increase the number of employed—that is, to decrease the number of unemployed? Is that her assurance on behalf of the Government? Will she point out to the hon. Member for Salford, East (Mr. Frank Allaun) that in the countries he quoted remarkably different circumstances obtain? Will she agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.38.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.38.5", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ase the number of employed—that is, to decrease the number of unemployed? Is that her assurance on behalf of the Government? Will she point out to the hon. Member for Salford, East (Mr. Frank Allaun) that in the countries he quoted remarkably different circumstances obtain? Will she agree—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—that Germany imports the unemployed of other countries, and that France has a great—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.38.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was he?\"). He remained anonymous. [ Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "hat the Chancellor ought to be shocked. Every newspaper, almost without exception, has come out against the tax. Even the New Statesman came out with the words: He is in the hands of his civil servants and the pity of it is that he represents their views too ably. Actually, it was not the New Statesman which said that. It was the New Statesman quoting a Labour Member of Parliament who had said it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.63.3", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "We are interested to learn that the Chancellor does not want a redistribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.63.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.64.2", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "creases; now, finally, it has this blow which will put up its wages by 10 per cent. This treatment of this high foreign currency earning industry with a very low import content can only be described as irresponsible folly on the part of the Chancellor. Then there are social implications and there are very important social implications. One well respected provincial newspaper, the Birmingham Post —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.64.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "No. What I mean is that questions as enormous as this, the treatment of part-timers, are so important that any responsible Chancellor would have thought of them before. Then there are the effects on education, and upon private educational establishments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.67.3", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Eadie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Eadie", "preceding_text": " Member for Midlothian, Mr. J. M. Hill, who served in the House of Commons for seven years. Unfortunately, he had to resign—or, rather, not seek re-election—because of ill-health. Since I have come here I have learned that he earned the respect of most of his colleagues in the House of Commons, and I am quite sure that all hon. Members will join with me in wishing him better health in the future.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.67.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.67.3", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Eadie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Eadie", "preceding_text": "confidence in the mining industry if we accelerated the inquiry into the distribution of coal. When one thinks of it, it is ridiculous that it should cost more to distribute coal than it costs miners in the bowels of the earth to produce it. I urge the Government to accelerate the inquiry. It may be that I have stretched the cordiality of the Committee too far in its toleration of a maiden speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.67.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Grant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Grant", "preceding_text": "It is a very great pleasure for me to rise and follow the hon. Member for Midlothian (Mr. Eadie). I think that we should all wish to assure him that he has made an excellent maiden speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "preceding_text": " not he feel that the workers will consider themselves to have been cheated when they think that employers can afford, or can be made to afford, to pay the labour tax to the Government—while, at the same time, those same employers are refusing to give them wage rises?\".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 18th April, 1961; Vol 638, c. 986.] That is what the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister said at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "preceding_text": " he said: Over the period of a Parliament, I believe that we can carry out our programme without any general increase in taxation. If that pledge is to be kept, before the next election this Government will have to reduce the burden of taxation by more than £1,000 million. Is that what the right hon. Gentleman proposes to do? Will he renew the pledge in those terms tonight? That is what it means.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "preceding_text": " for the disabled. We are told that 18 Co-operative Members of Parliament are to be true to their conscience and oppose this tax. But what I am waiting to see is how many Labour Members of Parliament will go into the Lobby to secure exemption for the charities of this country. What is the purpose of the Labour Government in penalising the Salvation Army? Does the right hon. Gentleman really think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "preceding_text": " But what I am waiting to see is how many Labour Members of Parliament will go into the Lobby to secure exemption for the charities of this country. What is the purpose of the Labour Government in penalising the Salvation Army? Does the right hon. Gentleman really think—[ Laughter. ] All right. If I may say so, it will be noted outside the Committee that this is the line which hon. Gentlemen take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "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": " for Midlothian (Mr. Eadie), Berwick and East Lothian (Mr. Mackintosh), Cardiff, North (Mr. E. Rowlands), Bedfordshire, South (Mr. Gwilym Roberts) and Chislehurst (Mr. Macdonald) and the hon. Member for Guildford (Mr. David Howell). I particularly enjoyed the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, North, my constituent. He voted for me last time; and I feel that he may vote for me again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "t hold me to a few millions—were about £920 million and we were faced with a balance of payments deficit of over £750 million. In other words, if the right hon. Gentleman chooses what I regard as a completely artificial way of expressing matters, he must not be surprised if, in turn, I set against the liquid gold and dollar reserves that we inherited the deficit that those reserves had to finance,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "entleman expressing his disagreement. It was the need to finance this deficit which brought about so much of the trouble. The right hon. Member for Enfield, West is as aware of that as anybody in the Committee. Although I do not want to spend any time on this, this is why he pressed for the election in the spring of 1964; and everybody knows it. However, I do not wish to go over that ground again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "anted the election, and he wanted it all through the year, because he knew that there were measures which had to be taken; but they were not taken. I come to some of the details of the Selective Employment Tax, The right hon. Gentleman poked some justifiable fun at the administration of it. I expect his grandfather poked fun at Monsieur Bleriot's aeroplane; but it was the first to fly the Channel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-09", "file": "debates1966-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "62b62586a6b19c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "ements. On the basis of the arrangements that I propose, namely, the use of the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance machinery, it will be possible to make no exemptions from payment of the tax, because the sum that will be paid will be included in the National Insurance stamp. The two things will be tied together. Therefore, it is clear that everybody must be subject to payment of the tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-09a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-10", "file": "debates1966-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b59aa6793220352d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-10a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "Has it not been known for certain for about a month that the Minister would have to answer Questions in this House at the top of the list today? Is he doing any public business for this country in Russia, or is he merely completing his education by going there? Will one of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-10a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-10", "file": "debates1966-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b59aa6793220352d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-10a.215.4", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WEST GERMANY (TRADE WITH RHODESIA)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I say to my hon. and learned Friend, who is a lone voice in support of this doctrine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-10a.215.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-10", "file": "debates1966-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b59aa6793220352d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-10a.238.6", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESERVE FORCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-10a.238.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-10", "file": "debates1966-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b59aa6793220352d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-10a.257.2", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESERVE FORCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "to say that there are many Members who genuinely do not like the T.A. It may sound strange to say that, but they have all sorts of queer conceptions about what it is, not least the one which one of my hon. Friends seriously confided to me the other day, that it was kept in being by the Tories only to be used against the workers.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th December, 1965; Vol. 722, c. 1530–31.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-10a.257.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-10", "file": "debates1966-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b59aa6793220352d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-10a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESERVE FORCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "It was not enunciated in precisely the same form, and nor did I happen to agree with it. We are now talking about the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-10a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-10", "file": "debates1966-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b59aa6793220352d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-10a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESERVE FORCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": " an uncertain and dangerously changing world, it is particularly important that we avoid dogmatic assumptions which inevitably lead to the suspicion that they are only made to dovetail with preconceived plans. This suspicion is naturally heightened when the chief character in the act, the right hon. Gentleman himself, in order to attempt a political somersault, lands with such a crash on his head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-10a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-10", "file": "debates1966-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b59aa6793220352d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-10a.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS (GRIMSBY-PETERBOROUGH LINE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "Yes. I do so. I do this because it is the only way I can raise this matter. The Labour Party in Bristol has withdrawn all support from the direct grant schools in the city and has made the allegation that this will not make any difference to the number of free places available in these schools. This is a damned lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-10a.370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.381.3", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows quite well that I cannot go into the actual ranges and other characteristics of an operational requirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.388.4", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that London Airport is getting such a bad name for thieving that one of the Swiss insurance companies advised its customers not to use London Airport and that this is giving our country a very bad name in Europe. Would the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.388.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.388.4", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that London Airport is getting such a bad name for thieving that one of the Swiss insurance companies advised its customers not to use London Airport and that this is giving our country a very bad name in Europe. Would the hon. Member—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Would the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.388.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that nine months ago the former Parliamentary Secretary wrote to me: The time has clearly come\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOOK", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I should certainly not mention the name of this book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.404.4", "colnum": "404", "heading": "HEAD OF DEFENCE SALES (APPOINTMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Minister did say.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say what salary this gentleman is being paid?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.404.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "With great respect, I am standing here because of a half sentence by which it is claimed I misled the House. I am trying to put facts on record, and hon. Members do not seem to want to hear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "in a speech, to which he has referred, on 26th April. In fact, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence, on 22nd February, spoke about … collaborative sales to third countries …\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 22nd February, 1966; 725, c. 245.] both in his introductory statement to the House on the Defence White Paper and in reply to questions posed by the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "f State for Defence, on 22nd February, spoke about … collaborative sales to third countries …\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 22nd February, 1966; 725, c. 245.] both in his introductory statement to the House on the Defence White Paper and in reply to questions posed by the Leader of the Opposition—[ Interruption. ] If hon. Gentlemen opposite will not listen and will not read the text in HANSARD—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "kind similar to that we have recently arranged with Saudi Arabia …\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 7th March, 1966; Vol.725, c. 1861.] In retrospect, I recognise that this may have been an imprecise way of quoting the proposed sale to Saudi Arabia as an example of what was meant by collaborative sales. But it was not intended to mean—and in my view it is stretching language to suggest that it does mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "h Saudi Arabia …\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 7th March, 1966; Vol.725, c. 1861.] In retrospect, I recognise that this may have been an imprecise way of quoting the proposed sale to Saudi Arabia as an example of what was meant by collaborative sales. But it was not intended to mean—and in my view it is stretching language to suggest that it does mean—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] that this deal was excluded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": " taken during the debate, and not making a prepared statement. I think, that any hon. Member who reads the OFFICIAL REPORT, and certainly those—a number of whom I see here today—who were present on that occasion, will concede that I was frequently interrupted, and was pressed for time. I make no complaint about that—it is part of the cut and thrust of debate, and we were on the eve of an election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "n giving the House the information I did give to it, as it was clear that right hon. and hon. Members opposite were not anxious to have the details of how we had managed to get offset arrangements for dollar expenditure when they had failed to do so. While I do not seek to excuse any shortcomings on my part, right hon. Members opposite must accept some responsibility if there was misunderstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for making that clear, because his remarks on 27th April, 1966, caused some offence in the British aircraft industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.448.5", "colnum": "448", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "led the Motion merely as a tactical device. My right hon. Friend has been in the House a good many years, a couple of years longer than I have. I have never known anyone question his integrity. I am shocked that the hon. Member for Bournemouth, West (Sir J. Eden) should question his integrity. I rise to defend, however inefficiently, my right hon. Friend. Let us be clear what we are talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.448.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "one gets this sort of argument. I strongly objected when I heard previous speakers question the integrity of my right hon. Friend, and I felt that I should say something in support of him. I am surprised that when the Saudi Arabian deal was going through or being negotiated with the Americans hon. Gentlemen opposite should complain about the ruthless and efficient competition of American business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "otiated with the Americans hon. Gentlemen opposite should complain about the ruthless and efficient competition of American business. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It is no use complaining about that. In other words, what hon. Members opposite are saying is that this was British business and private enterprise being inefficient in salesmanship and in the marketing of products, compared with the Americans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.449.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "To whom?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Robson Brown", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The point which I want to make to you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.451.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.451.7", "colnum": "451", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "annot mention every dot and comma in negotiations. Of course he cannot. Ministers give the maximum information they are entitled to give, and in this case it was given, and hon. Gentlemen opposite know as well as I do that they are putting into juxtaposition two events which did seem superficially to make my right hon. Friend's statement not quite as clear as they would have liked it to have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.451.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.452.5", "colnum": "452", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "No, but to say that he misled implies that. I heard the words of the hon. Member for Bournemouth, West and of a previous speaker, the hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury, (Mr. Ridley) and they implied it was a lack of integrity. To say, in a Motion of censure, that a Minister misled the House is to imply that he did it deliberately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.452.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.457.3", "colnum": "457", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "the accusation on this ground, whatever the result of the Motion. We know him now as a very naïve man, and he has done one thing by his action in this business. By the inclusion of the Saudi Arabian deal, he has gravely undermined the pride which the aircraft industry and the people of this country took in that deal, because it has been devalued. It has been cast in as part of another deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not here now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "preceding_text": "eading which could not be denied. I think that it is noteworthy—even more than noteworthy: remarkable and unique, anyhow in recent years—that, with the exception of one maiden speech, there was only one speech from the Minister's own back benchers in his support. That was from an hon. Member who had heard neither of the opening speeches, either that of my right hon. Friend or the Minister's reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.460.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.473.5", "colnum": "473", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I also have a duty to the House to make these points, and I remind hon. Gentlemen opposite that it is no good their complaining that they do not get the facts if they prevent me from giving them by behaving like a lot of schoolboys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.473.9", "colnum": "473", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "—a target of 325 million dollars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.473.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.473.14", "colnum": "473", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "al auxiliaries to the United States in the current programme. We have already learned a good deal from our experience, and I hope that the House will have noted that Brooke Marine Ltd., the British firm which put in the tender, said that it had every assistance from the Americans in making the tender; and are willing to try again. But there will always be difficulties. I do not disguise this fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.473.14"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.480.3", "colnum": "480", "heading": "CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ng in the right hon. Gentleman's speech now. I hope that I am in order. I had the impression that the right hon. Gentleman was trying to suggest that this insistence of the Americans followed the publication of the F111A agreement, and that there had been some change in the situation since my right hon. Friend spoke to the House. Of course, all these discussions took place in January and February.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.480.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY AIRCRAFT (LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": "re was becoming a great strain to him. There were some of us who were very concerned about his health, but from what I have recently heard I believe that he is gaining benefit from having a more restful time, although he will always be wanting to do something. I hope that I may be allowed to ask the hon. Member for Feltham to convey to him the kind regards of all of us, and particularly of myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-11", "file": "debates1966-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b23692159cd4a01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY AIRCRAFT (LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scottish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "I have the F111A in mind all the time. I can assure the House that it is not out of my mind. I do not want to see its being bought from America under this agreement and then used in Vietnam. If we can use an aircraft we can use soldiers. They are part and parcel of our armed might. If we are not to use soldiers, and pat our consciences on the back—which is an unusual English phrase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-11a.513.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-12", "file": "debates1966-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "151179982eac59ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.583.7", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "I suggest that as this is an area which is going to be developed there is a need for an office in the East of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.583.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-12", "file": "debates1966-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "151179982eac59ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.591.5", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That seems to be rather a different question. The test which took place last September, on which I reported to the House—and which was a repeat of a test that failed a year earlier, under the previous Government—was not of the kind that would involve venting. It was a test for economy purposes which had failed a year earlier, at great cost. We repeated it and succeeded with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.591.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-12", "file": "debates1966-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "151179982eac59ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "The short answer to the reason for two Bills is that the Government regard this as being helpful to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.597.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-12", "file": "debates1966-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "151179982eac59ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Mid-August?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "It would be extremely difficult to find any time at all between now and the Whitsun Recess. The position will be a little easier afterwards. But the House will appreciate that, with the Finance Bill, the Ministry of Labour Bill and Supply, our time will be pretty well occupied up to mid-August.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.604.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-12", "file": "debates1966-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "151179982eac59ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is for you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": "be for many hon. Members, but for the country it is a dangerous one with very far-reaching consequences, social as well as economic. For those of us who want to see positive and practical steps taken to increase the rate of building and to improve and speed up the planning process so that we can carry forward necessary programmes of urban and rural development, this is an extremely depressing day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-12", "file": "debates1966-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "151179982eac59ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "iew, the Bill is vital for removing the distortion which exists in the planning system. When I speak about \"distortion\" I have in mind the sort of thing about which my hon. Friend the Member for Norwood (Mr. John Fraser) spoke. He pointed to the other side of the river and said that instead of offices he would like to see housing development in certain parts of the area. I entirely agree with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-12", "file": "debates1966-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "151179982eac59ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "preceding_text": " hon. Member made some reference to the fact that when the holder of a concessionary crownhold came to dispose he would be at a disadvantage because he would have to sell at less than market price. The right hon. Gentleman has not quite followed the proposition. That is not the case. The disposer would be able to sell at full market price, less the value of his concession. This is common practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.718.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-12", "file": "debates1966-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "151179982eac59ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "preceding_text": "The last point is very simple and if the hon. Gentleman had put it to me in a different way, I could have relieved his mind at an earlier stage. All that we have done so far in the earmarking of accommodation and the advertising of posts—for which there have been many applications and not all of which are filled—has been covered in the Estimates which were not opposed by the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-12", "file": "debates1966-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "151179982eac59ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What intervals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman can have his opportunity to speak again. On the subject of the rate, I have nothing to add to what I said in the White Paper. We propose an initial rate of 40 per cent., progressively rising to 50 per cent. over reasonable, short intervals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-12", "file": "debates1966-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "151179982eac59ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Minister does not mean me, because I am not reasonable at this moment. The way in which he is treating the Committee is disgraceful. He is bringing forward a Ways and Means Resolution, which is the equivalent of a Budget Resolution, and is treating the House with complete and utter contempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-12a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-13", "file": "debates1966-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "02ab56b531e5fe4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-13a.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT ACT, 1965", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"As late as possible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "properties will come under consideration and the landlords or tenants of them can apply to the rent officer for adjudication as to what he considers to be a fair rent. I hope that he will soon be able to tell us—not today, perhaps, but soon—how soon he can announce that controlled properties will be brought under review by the rent officers and panels. That ought to be decided as soon as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-13a.850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-13", "file": "debates1966-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "02ab56b531e5fe4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-13a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT ACT, 1965", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "arguing that control should be looked at again more quickly. I hope that it will be looked at only in the time of my grandson—who I hope will serve in this place—but not before. Surely one cannot accept as decent the behaviour of the minority who deliberately invest in bad property, knowing full well that they are doing so on the basis of cruel scarcity and are expecting to make profits out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-13a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gunter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gunter", "preceding_text": "I do not like coffee. I am fully aware of the objectionable practices which sometimes arise, but they are diminishing. Staff status is becoming a more important question. But I do not think that this matter would be appropriate for legislation. How I would legislate, I am not sure. Trade unions and employers are at one in this matter. I am sure that my right hon. Friend knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.900.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.918.3", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Is it true?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. White", "preceding_text": "My hon. and learned Friend made that same point when my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister was replying to him last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.918.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.918.9", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOVIET CITIZENS (DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. White", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. White", "preceding_text": "I think that my hon. and learned Friend is fully aware that these are reciprocal arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.918.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.923.1", "colnum": "923", "heading": "E.F.T.A. MINISTERIAL COUNCIL (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " I myself—have made a number of speeches in this country covering the same ground that we covered in speeches abroad. I am sure that each one of us would be very happy to repeat those speeches, and circulate them if hon. Members would like to see what we have said elsewhere. I can assure the noble Lord that the speeches made in this country and those made abroad—certainly by this Government—tally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.924.2", "colnum": "924", "heading": "E.F.T.A. MINISTERIAL COUNCIL (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "In connection with reports in the weekend Press, can the First Secretary confirm that the Government are interested in eliminating barriers in Western Europe at this stage, and do not seek to complicate the issue by bringing in the countries of Eastern Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "the new regional policy, but the one proposal which was left out was the proposal in Clause 16. Why was this so? Can the right hon. Gentleman put his hand on his heart and say that he did not have this in mind at all on 31st March? Why was it not in the White Paper? Why was it left out? The answer's perfectly simple—the Government deliberately held it back for electoral reasons, because they know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.967.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "d say that he did not have this in mind at all on 31st March? Why was it not in the White Paper? Why was it left out? The answer's perfectly simple—the Government deliberately held it back for electoral reasons, because they know— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I have given him a chance, and if he tells me, on his honour, that this was not in his mind before the election, of course I will accept it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.967.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.970.7", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Ask B.P.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ding in a company and the company acts in a manner which the Government consider to be undesirable, do the Government propose to intervene? If the Government take a majority holding in a company, does the right hon. Gentleman really think that the Government machine is suited to exercise control? The Government will have control. Are Government directors to be appointed to the Board, for instance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.970.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "tends to write in all kinds of qualifications and conditions, then we shall obviously be only too happy to assist him, but at the moment he is seeking for himself an open-ended power. The truth is that this is but one more Socialist proposal to enable the Government, by a process of infiltration, to extend the area of State ownership and control of industry—and without any reference to Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "obviously be only too happy to assist him, but at the moment he is seeking for himself an open-ended power. The truth is that this is but one more Socialist proposal to enable the Government, by a process of infiltration, to extend the area of State ownership and control of industry—and without any reference to Parliament—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] This is, of course, all part of the Socialist package—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ary was indeed being frank when he said in the debate on the White Paper on the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation: … the boundary between public and private enterprise will change\".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th February, 1966; Vol. 724, c. 1130.] I am pleased to see all the members of the Government Front Bench nodding their heads. This is what they want. However, I can assure the House that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.972.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ednyfed Hudson Davies", "preceding_text": " presence here of Mr. Elwyn Jones, who was the first Member for the Conway constituency. Part of the constituency—the part incorporated in the then Caernarvon Boroughs—was represented by David Lloyd George, and, as the first Welshman to speak today, I should like to pay my tribute, and I know that of everyone in Wales and in the House, to the memory of that great and dear lady, Megan Lloyd George.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. H. K. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. H. K. Baker", "preceding_text": ". Third—and this is, perhaps, somewhat unorthodox—I suggest that a new Minister be appointed, a Joint Under-Secretary at the Board of Trade who has the suffix \"Scotland\" after his name. It is essential that we have a Minister who can deal solely with development in Scotland. There is in my remarks no disparagement of the present Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, but he has far too much to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "eft wing were relishing something in this Bill, implying that it was nationalisation by the back door. I thought that he was rather off the beam. In my view, it is nothing of the kind. Over many years, irrespective of the colour of the Government, whether Tory Governments, our recent Labour Governments, or the remains of the old Labour Government in the 1950s under the leadership of \"Clem\" Attlee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.994.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "It would be pleasant if right hon and hon. Gentlemen opposite would listen for a moment. The hon. Member for Banff quoted one passage from the Plan for Expansion which I had myself marked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "It would be pleasant if right hon and hon. Gentlemen opposite would listen for a moment. The hon. Member for Banff quoted one passage from the Plan for Expansion which I had myself marked. [ Interruption. ] It would help the course of the debate if the Scottish Ministers did not talk the whole time. That paragraph in the Plan for Expansion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "ng), as I understand it was to be until a short while ago, because the hon. Gentleman spoke so feelingly about the problems of Edinburgh and Leith. He told us, if he was correctly reported in the Press, which is often a difficult thing to assume, that his heart was not at all in the problem of explaining to Leith and Edinburgh why one should lose £6 million worth of work, and the other £7 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "have a story of development in these areas—development that is most important and supported by the whole House—that we do not get the whole truth. A whole new organisation has stemmed from the original steps taken by Mr. Baldwin. I shall not go further, but I dislike injustice and it is monstrous that the Minister of State did not allow me just to say, when I sought to interrupt him in his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "no intention of speaking on the Financial Resolution, but when my dander is up I get going. What I wanted from the Minister of State was an assurance that this Bill will be administered free from political intervention. This is very important. Right hon. and hon. Members opposite will have noticed Motion No. 59 on the Order Paper, standing in my name—\"Impartiality in national and regional bodies\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I am going to confine my remarks to the Financial Resolution, because Motion No. 59—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I am going to confine my remarks to the Financial Resolution, because Motion No. 59—[ Interruption. ] Certainly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-16", "file": "debates1966-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8188ee984488dc59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "t very well. I specifically did not intervene in the debate because I thought that I would let it ride until I saw how it developed. Motion No. 59 draws attention to the fact that we in the north of England want an undertaking that no one will deal with these matters in any executive capacity who has received payment from the Labour Party for services rendered during the General Election campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-16a.1063.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-17", "file": "debates1966-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "07bb9a6e060ce905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-17a.1115.2", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I have already indicated the care which the Government take in examining every single request for additional civil servants and the need to give effect to Government policies which are the wish of the people of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-17a.1115.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-17", "file": "debates1966-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "07bb9a6e060ce905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-17a.1120.7", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is getting an obsession about my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-17a.1120.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-17", "file": "debates1966-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "07bb9a6e060ce905", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-17a.1212.3", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS AID BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "ary to the Treasury declare that educational institutions in receipt of public funds will be exempt from the Selective Employment Tax. In an indirect way, public funds are received from the Ministry of Overseas Development through the bringing of overseas students to the college. Does this mean that, as public funds come in in this way, the Co-operative College will he exempt from the payroll tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-17a.1212.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1333.4", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA (MURDER OF MR. AND MRS. VILJOEN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "We have made our general views clear to all concerned—that we condemn violence and we hope that this kind of murder will not happen. I can only repeat what I said before, that it is the illegal declaration of independence which has led to this kind of terrible murder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1333.8", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA (MURDER OF MR. AND MRS. VILJOEN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why say it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "No. There is nobody who can give any proof which connects it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1333.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1334.3", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA (MURDER OF MR. AND MRS. VILJOEN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Does not what the right hon. Gentleman has now said twice almost amount to saying that U.D.I. justifies murder?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1334.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "POLICE FORCES, ENGLAND AND WALES (ORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "preceding_text": "I welcome this move towards police efficiency, but as my right hon. Friend knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1346.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1346.3", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "POLICE FORCES, ENGLAND AND WALES (ORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Member must sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1354.0", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "te. A large part of my time during the recent General Election campaign was spent in answering telephone calls from Labour candidates who told me that their Conservative opponents were going round the constituencies complaining about the closure of railways under the 1962 Act. This is the reality which underlies the Bill, whatever debating points the poor, desperate hon. Member was trying to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1363.1", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "ou how we shall use this money or what policies we shall pursue, but I ask for a blank cheque for this enormous amount.\" That is something to which it would be very irresponsible for this House to agree. We know very little of what will be in the White Paper. We know that the Minister has taken on many advisers. We are told that Mr. Christopher Foster now has a staff of 50 working in the Ministry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Roebuck", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Roebuck", "preceding_text": "h is effective Government, and I am sure that we shall get it. I urge my right hon. Friend not to tinker any further with London Transport. There is only one solution to the problem of public transport in the London area and elsewhere—a democratic socialist solution—and I hope that she will get on with the job. I hope that nothing that I have said will be taken as criticism of my right hon. Friend", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for South-all (Mr. Bidwell) said that to a certain extent this was a preliminary canter, and I agree. We have been studying the form of the right hon. Lady the Minister of Transport, and I do not know that we particularly like what we have seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1414.1", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "sidising me when I use electricity, so why should the commuters who commute at peak periods on the railways in London be helped in this way? If there is to be subsidisation of local municipal transport, why not for Glasgow, a city which I represent, or other provincial cities? Why should London be cossetted in this way? Now perhaps the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Mr. Manuel) will support me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1424.0", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "tradistinction to his effort, I think that I am making not too bad a job of it, speaking factually. The hon. Gentleman referred to our election pledges at the 1964 election and, rather wilfully, suggested that we promised that there would be no more rail closures. Did he read the Labour Party manifesto and did he read our pledge at the time? We said that there would be no more major rail closures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "It is not. The station is closed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1463.0", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Warned.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "The subsidies of the kind which the hon. and gallant Gentleman describes flow directly from the 1962 Act. This is what we have to look at. I followed the hon. and gallant Gentleman's remarks very carefully. He dealt at some length with a closure in his constituency, and threatened my right hon. Friend that he would come with a delegation to see her on this problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1463.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1463.4", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "We have all listened with great interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "We have all listened with great interest—[ Interruption. ]—who wants some extra money from a gold mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "—to ask for order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1468.2", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "I have been trying to address the House for four minutes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I ask that the House should give me a hearing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1468.4", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "I should like the support of the Chair, Mr. Deputy Speaker, so that I may be heard. The hon. Member, in his interesting speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1468.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1469.3", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Elwyn Jones)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1469.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1469.6", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Judicial Offices (Salaries) Order, 1966, a draft of which was laid before this House on 21st April, be approved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1469.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1469.9", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. As some of us wish to oppose this Order, may I ask you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to ask hon. Members at the Bar to keep quiet,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1469.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1470.2", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ould be taken into account in determining the remuneration of these judicial officers are the same as those which govern increases in the remuneration of the higher Civil Service. As the House knows, the remuneration of the higher Civil Service is periodically examined by the Franks Committee. This Committee reports with recommendations, and the normal procedure has been for Governments to accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1470.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Rawlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Rawlinson", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member will have an opportunity of taking part in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1475.2", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "told that they must not rock the boat or upset the Government, although the lawyers can do this if they like. The right hon. and learned Member for Epsom said that the increase we are considering represents a rise of 3½ per cent. When one is earning £5,000 or £6,000 a year 3½ per cent. means something. But if one is earning £8 to £10 a week 3½ per cent. means relatively little", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1475.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thirty\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I find that even the legal profession can jump to the bait. It was only 13 months ago that the right hon. and learned Gentleman gave an increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I expected that one. I appreciate and pay tribute to the fact that it was the Tory Government which set up the original Committee of Inquiry, and the 1922 Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1480.1", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "preceding_text": "What astounds me about this case, as it did with the doctors' increase, the judges' increase, the senior civil servants' increase and Forces pay, is that hon. Members opposite not only acknowledge that these increases are necessary but they jump forward with alacrity to support and advocate them, shouting down any Member on this side who dares to criticise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1484.1", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "come. Of course my hon. Friends are right in saying that this Order, brought in tonight within hours of the Government saying to the seamen, \"You must give way\"—because that is in fact what they said to the seamen—will be utterly incomprehensible right through the country. If this Order passed in this House tonight without protest the country would think this House was off its rocker at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1494.3", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. and learned Gentleman would not know about that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "to be supposed that it was his right hon. and learned Friend, the Attorney-General. At any rate, I do not know who else he meant, because it was the Attorney-General who had moved the Motion. But it did not seem quite the same to us on this side of the House. We have heard a lot of very passionate and sincere stuff about the poor fellows who have to work out in the cold and the rain and the sleet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1494.3", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£2 a week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " hardly likely to be fatal, even with the present Government. Is it the right hon. and learned Gentleman, who is proposing a Motion which is, so we are told, within the norm of 3½ per cent.? He is at least consistent in that respect. But it has to be contrasted, if the sincere and passionate hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway are to be taken seriously, with a demanded increase of 17 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1499.1", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "I accept that apology, but one of the most irritating things here is the domination of the place by Privy Councillors. However, I shall not delay the House for very long, because there are very important items to be discussed after this debate tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "enting us from advocating a policy in which we passionately believe. I was not a Member of this House when the last wages award was given to the judges, but I can well remember reading in The Times that one of the hon. Members for Newcastle was saying, \"This is not an issue on which we will divide the House and vote against the Government because we do not think this issue sufficiently important.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "efully what they are doing when they increase the wages of these people who, by any standard within our society, are well paid. Even if the cost is only some £60,000, many of my constituents would welcome £60, never mind £60,000. The incomes policy should be seen to be fair equitable and socially just. I know that hon. Members opposite are fishing in troubled waters and trying to get us to divide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-18", "file": "debates1966-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ad58fe73597952e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "t below the Gangway. I say to hon. Members opposite that, when we on this side are trying to get our policy to work, they should produce their policy, and remember the consequences of the policy of the right hon. and learned Member for Wirral (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)—a tremendous rise in unemployment and in prices. So at the moment I, for one, am prepared to give the Government the benefit of the doubt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-18a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1529.5", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman resist the suggestion made by the hon. Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1529.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1547.9", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NASSAU AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "Could the Prime Minister he quite frank with the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1547.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1548.4", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NASSAU AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have never looked at this at all in connection with the Common Market.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1548.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1556.1", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "unity, and various proposals for greater political unity in Europe, is something which all of us would want to support. What we have always said is this. I remember that is used to be said in moving terms by the late Hugh Gaitskell that, in his view, this country is not ready, and would not be ready for at least 20 years, to consider any political arrangements, as opposed to economic arrangements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1556.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1557.1", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the best case for political unity in Europe was put forward in the pamphlet \"Keep Left\" written by hon Gentlemen opposite in 1947? Will the right hon. Gentleman bring that firmly to the attention of his hon. Friends and pledge his Government to build a United States of Europe governed by a directly elected supranational Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1557.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1589.7", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Before you give your Ruling, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I am willing to substitute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1589.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1590.6", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Where is her?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm whether he has given my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition notice of his vicious attack upon him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1590.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1590.7", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am puzzled at this. A Motion of censure is being moved by the Opposition. If the Leader of the Opposition, who spoke last Sunday entirely on housing, is not here to stand up for what he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1590.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1601.3", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ted in April. If this improvement is sustained, the private sector could easily stage a come-back sufficient to embarrass any prophet of doom. There are 203,000 houses in the pipeline in the private sector, but one of the puzzles here is that, during the last 12 months, the period for completing a house in the private sector, which used to be two months longer than the period in the public sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1601.3", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "he private sector could easily stage a come-back sufficient to embarrass any prophet of doom. There are 203,000 houses in the pipeline in the private sector, but one of the puzzles here is that, during the last 12 months, the period for completing a house in the private sector, which used to be two months longer than the period in the public sector—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No, never.\"]—has now drawn level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1602.1", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "The period is now 12 months, but it used to be ten months. In the course of the last year, it has prolonged itself. I am giving the detailed figures. This spring, it is taking over 12 months to complete a house for sale, compared with just over ten months a year ago and just over nine and a half months in March, 1964. It used to take builders two months less to build a house for sale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1602.1", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman said it took longer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " of the last year, it has prolonged itself. I am giving the detailed figures. This spring, it is taking over 12 months to complete a house for sale, compared with just over ten months a year ago and just over nine and a half months in March, 1964. It used to take builders two months less to build a house for sale. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Now, it takes the same time to build a house in both sectors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1604.1", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "t apply to it. Secondly, can it be a mortgage famine which is the difficulty? Clearly not. In that sense there has been no mortgage famine this year. It may be difficult some times to get a mortgage, but the number of mortgages being given is greater this year than it was in the first four months of last year. Nor can anyone say that it is a shortage of bricks and mortar or even of skilled labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1607.0", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "hat the right hon. Gentleman mentioned. We must do it and we are on the way to doing it. Also, we have to have the Land Commission. What is the value of the Land Commission? It is not primarily in the first case to public enterprise, not to the council, not to the new towns. All these have their facilities, with my help, for acquiring land. The people who are left out of it are the small builders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1627.0", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "ding a decent living for our people. This is, therefore, a socially desirable industry from every point of view, and it cannot be separated entirely from the conditions of the people who work in it. I will not go over all the arguments again, because other hon. Members wish to speak. It must be remembered that practices are growing up in the building industry which the new tax will help to foster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1664.1", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "hich was to march into the Division Lobby against leashold reform. After all, they had opposed it for 13 years. But nothing would have tempted them into the Lobby at that time because they knew that an election was near. Although they thought it an immoral Bill—it had to be if it was confiscation and a spivs' charter—they could bury their consciences in view of the imminence of a General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1664.1", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "n view of the imminence of a General Election. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If any hon. Member opposite wants to intervene to deny that, he is welcome to do so. I should be fascinated to hear his denial. Another allegation made against the Government is that we failed to keep up the rate of house building. The first thing which has to be made clear is that we built more houses than the Tories ever built.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I do not know the statistics in Scotland, and I do not pretend to. I will take the hon. Member's word for that. All I can say is that in the area of the country which I represent we are getting better treatment in housing than we have ever had, and for this we are very grateful. Finally, because I know one or two other hon. Gentlemen want to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1669.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1679.8", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "No. The clock is against me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1679.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1680.2", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": " had gone to the Isle of Wight with his family they had lost their place on the housing list. This gentleman returned to his family and told his wife, \"The council is very perturbed. I was standing there while the clerk at the local office rang up the head office and spoke to the housing director, and he said that the council is very perturbed.\" I urge the Minister of Housing and Local Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1680.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "That is a very interesting point, but I am most anxious, because time is very short, not to be distracted from the two central points that I have been trying to make throughout this speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1682.1", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1682.3", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The tenders for the houses to be built next year and in the future years were down by one-quarter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1682.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1682.5", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I would simply like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1682.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1693.1", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Public Building and Works (Mr. Reginald Prentice)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about your benches?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Public Building and Works (Mr. Reginald Prentice)", "preceding_text": " which we have just listened from the hon. Member for Londonderry (Mr. Chichester-Clark), have been polemical speeches; they appear to have been rehearsing for an election campaign without realising that they have fought the campaign and lost it. So far as the rest of the benches opposite are concerned, they were nearly empty at the beginning of the debate and they are not very full at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1696.1", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "If I can speak for my right hon. Friend, \"in dispute\" meant that the future of it was still being discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1699.1", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We built the houses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "Of course there are representations from the industry on all these occasions. What I was saying was that there is a real difficulty in the nature of the industry, a difficulty which certainly was not solved by hon. Members opposite when they were in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-19", "file": "debates1966-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f146ddbceb0093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1699.1", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "investment in machinery, on figures agreed with the industry, will nearly double between 1964 and 1970 and there will be extra incentives for that. Although I would like to have spent much more time on this aspect, one gets carried away when answering a great number of points raised during a debate, so I turn to what I consider to be the most important thing to which we can give our attention now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-19a.1699.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-20", "file": "debates1966-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a81cf6aa2d56e242", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-20a.1763.0", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "e have never had the courtesy from the Minister of being allowed to see the Statement of Accounts of the Railways Board. Last year, the Accounts were published on 18th May. Why have this year's not been produced? Our job is to protect the taxpayers' money. When we talked about that earlier on, I heard many jolly laughs on the other side. The taxpayers' money means nothing to hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-20a.1763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-20", "file": "debates1966-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a81cf6aa2d56e242", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-20a.1793.3", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "e, a bus with a staircase in the middle, an entrance at the back and an exit at the front, or vice versa, with the conductor sitting in the middle and taking the fares, so that every passenger had to pass him. If one wants to save 4d. it is very easy to do so. At Whitehall, one can get on a bus going to Victoria Station, and I guarantee that during the peak hour one will not be asked for the fare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-20a.1793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-23", "file": "debates1966-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0140ccfd210eece7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.15.4", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I think that my hon. Friend's words misrepresent the Government's policy. Our policy throughout has been to preserve peace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.15.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-23", "file": "debates1966-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0140ccfd210eece7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.20.6", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DIPLOMATIC SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I think my hon. Friend will agree that we must have regard to trying to recruit people best fitted for the job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.20.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-23", "file": "debates1966-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0140ccfd210eece7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PLOUGHING GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "hat scheme as amended by any subsequent scheme, and if any scheme referred to in this scheme is replaced by a subsequent scheme the reference shall be construed as a reference to that subsequent scheme. Modestly, I disclaim any title to the laughter that that ridiculous sentence has excited, Ministers are confident in a great majority and look forward to an almost—to them—unending future of power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-23", "file": "debates1966-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0140ccfd210eece7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PLOUGHING GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "I think it was the hon. Member for Westmorland (Mr. Jopling) and the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton) who said that we did not pay attention to things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-23", "file": "debates1966-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0140ccfd210eece7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PLOUGHING GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "We have had these points raised by a number of hon. Members. In discussing the Schemes, they have used your good will, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to enable them to make points concerning the Price Review,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-23", "file": "debates1966-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0140ccfd210eece7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PLOUGHING GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mackie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Scottish Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mackie", "preceding_text": "With the permission of the House, I will reply to one point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.180.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-23", "file": "debates1966-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0140ccfd210eece7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.199.11", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (FERTILISERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "There is no transfer of staff. There is to be a transfer of the job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.199.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-23", "file": "debates1966-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0140ccfd210eece7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.200.4", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (FERTILISERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "I wish to make three short points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.200.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-23", "file": "debates1966-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0140ccfd210eece7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.200.4", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (FERTILISERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": " that they wished to reduce the number of people employed in agriculture by 2.8 per cent. by 1970. The only way that they will achieve this is by increasing productivity in agriculture. It seems a strange way to set about it by limiting the amount of fertiliser which is to be used. What is the view of the Government on this? The third point, which I find rather disturbing, listening to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.200.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-23", "file": "debates1966-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0140ccfd210eece7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "complacency. The Minister herself said: That is my policy, and I am pursuing it. I am pursing it successfully, and I suggest that hon. Gentlemen opposite drop their wrecking tactics.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 20th May, 1966: Vol. 728, c. 1835.] What the right hon. Lady hailed as this move forward on liner trains amounts to is that the National Union of Railwaymen is dictating terms to railway management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-23", "file": "debates1966-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0140ccfd210eece7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I beg your pardon, Mr. Speaker, if I have gone too far. What I hoped very ambitiously to do was to attract the right hon. Lady's attention to the debate on the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-23", "file": "debates1966-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0140ccfd210eece7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "n a matter to which Dr. Beeching at least attached enormous importance, is seeking to dictate the terms upon which liner trains should be used. Together with my hon. Friends, I think that this is wholly wrong. The right hon. Lady was given a chance to reply to this point and she has failed to do so.—Perhaps I could refer to the words of my hon Friend the Member for Worcester, who said on 20th May—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-23", "file": "debates1966-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0140ccfd210eece7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.224.3", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "deplore the lack of manners shown by the Joint Parliamentary Secretary when he had two, four or however many minutes it was last Wednesday but did not seek to use them to say anything about the inland waterways provisions. When we debated Clause 2 earlier this evening in Committee I had virtually no answer from the Minister herself, who appeared to be asleep throughout. No doubt I was very boring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-23", "file": "debates1966-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0140ccfd210eece7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Manners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "n this most important point. The friends of the inland waterways want to have the uncertainty cleared up once and for all. Last week I asked the right hon. Lady categorically whether she or the Parliamentary Secretary would tell us what proposals were contained in the White Paper in respect of waterways. It is no good the right hon. Lady yawning and going to sleep again. What we want is an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-23", "file": "debates1966-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0140ccfd210eece7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A good man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member seems to know what is in my mind. Tonight I am directing my mind to trying to elicit from the Government their intentions under Clause 2. We want to know what they intend to do to clear up the uncertainty which Clause 2 puts off for one further year. The hon. Member for Glasgow, Craigton (Mr. Milian) four years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-23a.226.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-24", "file": "debates1966-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "44ae98ea6a523b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.263.2", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that reply and I shall look forward to reading the circular with interest. Nevertheless there is concern—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.263.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-24", "file": "debates1966-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "44ae98ea6a523b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS (SELECT COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend not at least agree that in a democratic assembly like ours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.282.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-24", "file": "debates1966-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "44ae98ea6a523b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.287.2", "colnum": "287", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n against external aggression and internal subversion until it was ready to do so itself\".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 7th March, 1966; Vol. 725, c. 436. ] This was on 7th March. The right hon. Gentleman just said that my hon. Friend made no such reference. I said earlier that she had made such a reference. The right hon. Gentleman said that she did not. I have just read out the reference in that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-24", "file": "debates1966-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "44ae98ea6a523b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.293.2", "colnum": "293", "heading": "ROYAL COMMISSIONS ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MEMBERSHIP AND TERMS OF REFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Baxter", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that a considerable body of opinion in Scotland is in favour of a certain amount of devolution? Will the Royal Commission for Scotland have the necessary power to consider setting up a parliament for Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-24", "file": "debates1966-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "44ae98ea6a523b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was the hon. Gentleman's majority?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "st interests of this country and the world. I cannot think of a more fundamental difference between a supporter of the Government, or a supposed supporter, and the Government, and I believe that cognisance should be taken of it. The hon. Gentleman said that \"powerful influences\"—those were his words—felt the same as he did. That is significant, for this reason. We have just had a General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-24", "file": "debates1966-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "44ae98ea6a523b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": " nation and the Government that we should adjourn. The hon. Member for Ebbw Vale and his colleagues should find out where they stand. I am arguing in their interests. They should not oppose or delay the permission which we are giving ourselves to go on holiday. They need a holiday. I am arguing that it is wrong to delay it. I make this point in support of that contention. Have we a majority of 97?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-24", "file": "debates1966-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "44ae98ea6a523b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "BERS: \"We?\"] I talk as a Britisher. Have we, the British nation, a Government in power with a majority of 97? On paper, they are supposed to have such a majority. The hon. Member for Ebbw Vale has disagreed with the Government on nearly all the fundamental issues. He has great power. I am certain that the Left-wing section of his party, which numbers 40 or 50, of which he is the accredited leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-24", "file": "debates1966-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "44ae98ea6a523b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a holiday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "preceding_text": "d take a 15-day holiday at this moment of time. We have heard the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale referring to the situation in Vietnam, and I am bound to say that, in my view, whatever the merits or otherwise of his argument, no one can dispute that while that highly dangerous situation exists in South-East Asia, it seems incredible that the House of Commons should adjourn for a holiday of this length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-24", "file": "debates1966-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "44ae98ea6a523b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Look at yours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "on which she might have received if she could have seen some of us on these benches, or perhaps been provoked by us, as she would say. Hers was the traditional argument of an Opposition. She said that she was concerned about old people becoming used to the uselessness and loneliness of old age. I would suggest that she will have plenty of time to get used to the loneliness of the benches opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-24", "file": "debates1966-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "44ae98ea6a523b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "preceding_text": "There is not much time. I must get on. My right hon. Friend told the House that there are at present fewer than 15,000 people all told whose National Assistance grants are limited by the wage-stop provisions. We have to remember, also, that the number reaches this level because we increased National Insurance and National Assistance benefits by such a substantial amount last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-24", "file": "debates1966-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "44ae98ea6a523b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "preceding_text": "ces of these unfortunate people. Incidentally, it is most remarkable, now that the Opposition tell us that they regard this as one of the most urgent social needs the country faces, that they did nothing whatever to establish the facts during the long years when they held power. Nothing was done. Nothing was done, by the time we came into the Ministry, to ascertain the true facts of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-24", "file": "debates1966-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "44ae98ea6a523b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "preceding_text": "orward in the standard provided to have moved in two years from £3 3s. 6d. a week, plus some small discretionary allowance, to £4 10s. a week as of right for every old person who is living alone. There were some questions about the disregards themselves. What we have done is to look again at the whole structure of the disregards and to recast them into what is a more logical and equitable pattern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-24a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I have already said that I am not the Minister responsible for forestry, but if the hon. Gentleman will be a little patient, who knows, probably in an hour from now he may hear something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.454.6", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "It is, as I have said, a pity that previous Administrations did not take this matter seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.454.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": ", can justify one section of the population in using the resources available to them to avoid and escape their fair share of the burden which Parliament clearly intended to impose upon them. We would not describe that kind of taxation decided upon by this House after full debate as confiscatory. We would regard a remark in that regard coming from the Opposition Front Bench as wholly irresponsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment. I want to add a further point about the effect of a high level of tax on high incomes. For those who have high incomes and have to pay taxes it may be that the payment of taxes results in their having to forgo some additional luxury. But, for the ordinary man or woman, payment of taxes may mean that one of their children has to go without a pair of shoes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is not accurate in what he says about my right hon. Friend's statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": " hon. Member is not accurate in what he says about my right hon. Friend's statement. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] My right hon. Friend compared the amount coming from this source and the amount which would be available for another purpose. Every right hon. Gentleman knows that under no circumstances does one hypothecate a particular tax to a particular item of expenditure. It all goes into the same pool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.479.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.483.2", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Three.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "No. I have given way five times now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HORN. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "ered that generally they do as good a job as the next man. To suggest otherwise would be to do them a great disservice. As to the more seriously disabled who may require sheltered employment, the Government, of course, provide this through bodies such as Remploy. For all these reasons, therefore, my right hon. Friend does not feel that it is necessary to take any special steps at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.486.2", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I hope that those two hon. Members, who have been bobbing up and down the whole time and to whom I have given way on many occasions, will have regard to the fact that I have already given way five times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.486.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.503.2", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "preceding_text": "ned Gentleman who preceded me as Member for Newport, Sir Frank Soskice, played a most distinguished part in the affairs of the House. I am very privileged indeed to succeed him. He was popular in the constituency and most kind to me personally. I know that hon. Members on both sides will join me in congratulating him upon his recent honour and will welcome him back to Westminster in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "they are indeed under a moral obligation to tell the House and the country how they would proceed to increase unemployment and what economic and financial measures they would introduce to produce an increase in unemployment. I hope for once that they will accept that challenge. Having come to the aid of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor, I will now say something of a more critical nature to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "ther it is necessary at this stage to remove so much purchasing power from the community, and I ask whether it is necessary to produce this degree of deflation at this time. We are budgeting this year for a very high surplus—for a great amount of deflation in the economy—and it is questionable whether we are going a little too far. The index of production has stuck obstinately at about 131 to 133.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "dvantages compared with them. Another purpose of the tax is supposed to be to increase the efficient use of labour by all employers during the period September, 1966, to March, 1967. Is it true that labour hoarding is to be found anly in the small inefficient firms and in the service industries? Is it not true that there are some manufacturing firms hoarding labour which will benefit from the tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "ost us about £300,000 a year. We offer very special services which we shall have to discontinue, and our members will be losing certain services to which they, as members, feel they are entitled. Normal economic considerations do not apply in this sort of case. I hope very much that my right hon. Friend will have something to say when he winds up which will be of benefit to a co-operative society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "course, and the tax will not have done any harm, but, on the contrary, will have done good. On the other hand, if, most unfortunately, there are price rises, it does not follow that, for example, charities will have less money. It may well mean that those who are charitably minded will decide that they have to deny themselves some other expenditure so as to maintain their charity at full strength.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ch I had in mind before the Finance Bill of 1965, in relation to the dangers of dividend tax. It could produce the anomalous situation that the capital structure of a company would decide the total amount of tax paid upon the profit. This is a matter in which I am in a minority of one, because the Conservative Party are pledged to continue the Corporation Tax unamended, according to a declaration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "As the Bill deals with taxation and as the age of the taxpayer is sometimes relevant to his liability, I hope that you will not rule me out of order, Mr. Speaker, if I wish you many happy returns of the day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.551.3", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "By some of the service industries. But perhaps I might be allowed to make my own speech without all these interruptions. Some of the points which hon. Members are making are Committee points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.551.5", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "[Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "an is giving his services to this nation, and he is a brilliant economist. To suggest that he was responsible for the difficulties in India or that they were due to his advice; to suggest, as the right hon. Member for Flint, West did, that he was responsible for the collapse of the economy in Ghana; and to suggest that he was even responsible for a revolution in British Guiana is no joking matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.551.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.590.4", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "most pathological dislike of innovation, of change, of modernisation, whether it be in their Parliamentary procedure or in their tax structure. We have opponents of modernisation in some respects even on our own Front Bench. Some of the worst reactionaries are there at the moment. But hon. Members on this side of the House unanimously acclaim the principle of the new tax. It is easy to administer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.590.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Many people have a lot of peculiar views on a lot of things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "d very careful examination before we exempted them from this tax. A total exemption of all charities would almost certainly lead to widespread abuse. I turn now to another complaint made by the hon. Gentleman the Member for Moray and Nairn. It was about hotels. There may be a case for special treatment of the Highlands, but there is no case for special treatment of hotels in, for instance, London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.593.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.595.4", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Campbell", "preceding_text": "Mr. G. Campbell rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.595.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Insurance or direct to the Treasury is immaterial. If the Treasury does not want to receive the money in small sums but would prefer to receive it en bloc from the Ministry of National Insurance, there is no reason why that should not happen. However, that is not an important point. The method also avoids the possibility, which might occur with some methods of collection, of avoidance. The method—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "vidends and giving rise to lucrative capital appreciation. But that principle, although sound, means that the commercial theatre in the provinces will take a beating, unless my right hon. Friend does what he could easily do—put the theatre as a whole into the position of the Manchester Library Theatre, which is in the refunded category. Those are some of the problems which the entertainment world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John M. Temple", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many waiters?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John M. Temple", "preceding_text": "d to the whole country. I hope that the Chancellor will have in mind the importance to our economy of such organisations, and of such places as Chester Cathedral being kept open, because I am told by the Dean that the tax cannot be passed on, by any method, to those people visiting the cathedral. The other evening I had the great good fortune to be invited to the Catering Creative Circle's dinner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John M. Temple", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John M. Temple", "preceding_text": "eating on that particular occasion, but the dinner was very good indeed. The Circle had sent invitations to the Labour Party, the Liberal Party, and to myself as a member of the Conservative Party. The main matter under discussion was the Selective Employment Tax. Hardly surprisingly, only myself and the representative of the Liberal Party turned up. There was no Labour Party representative there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John M. Temple", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John M. Temple", "preceding_text": " is the Royal Exchange Assurance. What will be the position of the employees of industrial catering services who are providing the same services in these various organisations falling into different zones for the Selective Employment Tax? I had occasion to have conversation a few days ago with persons connected with the industrial cleaning industry, an industry which has not so far been mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite will have observed that the night is young and that the Bill is exempted business and even after the trains have stopped the taxis will be available for a short time and after that the trains will start again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.612.5", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "f these criticisms which have been made with great tact and great skill and great persuasiveness, and I hope the Chancellor will have taken note of the very serious temper of the criticisms, from that side of the House as well as from this. I hope that hon. Members on the other side of the House, when it comes to putting down Amendments to this Bill, will not hesitate to support them in the Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.612.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.612.5", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "ope the Chancellor will have taken note of the very serious temper of the criticisms, from that side of the House as well as from this. I hope that hon. Members on the other side of the House, when it comes to putting down Amendments to this Bill, will not hesitate to support them in the Lobby. [HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"] We are talking about Parliamentary reform and the reform of Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.612.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.617.3", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "—instead of bringing him into the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "ay about the impact of the Selective Employment Tax on the Scottish economy. Fortunately, my hon. Friend the Member for Moray and Nairn (Mr. G. Campbell) has covered the ground very much more effectively than I could hope to do. The Budget conforms to a pattern with which we are becoming drearily familiar. It involves more taxation; it involves more civil servants, and it involves more congestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "s traditional and has been for centuries in this country, charities had been exempted straight away from this tax. What I am unhappy about is the suggestion which seemed to be in the Chief Secretary's speech that there would be some sort of discrimination between charities, and that we should have a selected list of charities—those which the Minister may approve and those which he may not approve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "ly rare—or was until recently—to divide the House on the Second Reading of the Finance Bill, yet I am in no doubt that that is the right course for us to take. It is not important, in the last resort, whether the Bill has been born of ignorance or of malice. What matters is that if unamended it will have disastrous effects for the whole quality of life in this country and for all our constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "Before I proceed to deal with the right hon. Gentleman's speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "herwise go abroad are kept in the home market. There is also the consequence that demands for increased wage are readily conceded in conditions of full employment. Indeed, employers may themselves offer higher pay in order to attract and keep their labour force. Against that background we are struggling to solve the problems concerned with our trade balance, and the present situation in the docks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not the only one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "the docks—[ Laughter. ] I know the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) takes this seriously. At least, I hoped that he took it seriously, but his inane laughter makes me begin to wonder. He has pointed out the dilemma here, and he, at least, is one of those who are honest about a solution. He believes that there should be substantial deflation and large-scale unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "that when Parliament has expressed a clear intention of putting an end to a particular form of avoidance, but that intention is put in danger of being frustrated because loopholes are discovered in the original legislation and exploited, I shall feel justified in proposing further legislation to the House which will be retrospective to the date from which the original legislation became operative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ing, the Government will not hesitate to stop any such loophole by further legislation and to make such legislation retrospective.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 13th December, 1955; Vol. 547, c. 1022.] We shall see the difference in the philosophies of the two sides of the House in that I shall certainly carry out the promise which the then Chancellor of the Exchequer did not despite the expressed intention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " intention to replace the temporary import charge. I mention that because I think that it is important that I should say so, having been asked the question. But it is necessary for the Opposition to indicate whether they believe that it was worth while, despite all the difficulties, which obviously anybody could foresee, to do this. What is their answer? Is it worth while trying to do this or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.650.1", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "d no clear answer to that question. There will be other opportunities when they can make up their minds as to whether they want it unselective, more selective, or whether they want it at all, and I have no doubt that in due course we shall get the same sort of reply as we got on the Corporation Tax. The position is that here is a new instrument that does not fall severely upon the whole community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.650.1", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ctive, more selective, or whether they want it at all, and I have no doubt that in due course we shall get the same sort of reply as we got on the Corporation Tax. The position is that here is a new instrument that does not fall severely upon the whole community. [HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"] It is spread very thinly over a very wide range of services and industries. Let me give an example of what I mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "tleman is a distinguished restaurateur, and he will be able to argue his case later, but not just now. I have no doubt that it was better to use a system of this sort rather than intensifying taxation in the particular areas that I mentioned with the consequences that would have flowed to industry in a very direct way. The second advantage of the Selective Employment Tax is the ease of collection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am reading what it says here; that there are one or two appeals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I really do not follow that argument. Appeals at the moment are made from the inspector of taxes to the general commissioners, a local body of worthy gentlemen selected for their eminence, and they decide the appeal. Local officers are at least a rough equivalent for this purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I really do not follow that argument. Appeals at the moment are made from the inspector of taxes to the general commissioners, a local body of worthy gentlemen selected for their eminence, and they decide the appeal. Local officers are at least a rough equivalent for this purpose. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]; Of course they are a rough equivalent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "far as I can see, with all the implications that flow from that. Charities as a whole at present receive very substantial State aid. The Inland Revenue has given me a figure of £55 million of tax a year of which they are relieved. A great deal of this takes the form of seven-year covenants, by which people get Income Tax relief, and the House has agreed that they should get this Income Tax relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "rity from the general body of taxpayers that payments should be made in this way. Nobody—at any rate at a normal time of day—would try to argue against that proposition. I hope to meet the leading charities in the next week or so. I have asked them to come to see me because I am anxious to find a solution to this problem. We must try to find a way in which they can be recompensed. This is my view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-25", "file": "debates1966-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "af220063ec6d1631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.658.3", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The repayments and the premiums are the responsibility of the Minister of Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-25a.658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-26", "file": "debates1966-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c1dc4bf66da4caa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-26a.710.6", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "I have answered that Question already. I do not know whether my hon. Friend was in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-26a.710.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-26", "file": "debates1966-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c1dc4bf66da4caa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-26a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "Reverting to the question of teachers' salaries in Scotland, may I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he is aware that there is grave concern that unless the Secretary of State makes a statement to the House before the Recess he is merely sheltering behind the Prices and Incomes Board in trying to get a decision on this important matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-26a.730.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-26", "file": "debates1966-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c1dc4bf66da4caa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-26a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "lways more widespread than can be repaired by what is achieved in the short run by legislation. I give a simple example: the relationship between the incomes of pensioners and retired people and those of people currently at work is wholly dependent on the maintenance of the value of money. It has been said that this is a strike against the community. I do not imagine that anyone will dispute this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-26a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-26", "file": "debates1966-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c1dc4bf66da4caa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-26a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Elwyn Jones)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Elwyn Jones)", "preceding_text": "On behalf of the Government, I am grateful for the welcome that has been given on all sides of the House to the announcement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-26a.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-26", "file": "debates1966-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c1dc4bf66da4caa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-26a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Elwyn Jones)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Elwyn Jones)", "preceding_text": "On behalf of the Government, I am grateful for the welcome that has been given on all sides of the House to the announcement—[ Interruption .]—wait a moment, hon. Members will not quarrel with this one—about the announcement made by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour this afternoon to set up the Court of Inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-26a.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-26", "file": "debates1966-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c1dc4bf66da4caa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-26a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Elwyn Jones)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Elwyn Jones)", "preceding_text": " conclusions are reached, they will not be subject to findings of the Prices and Incomes Board?\" My right hon Friend gave the answer by an affirmative nod—yes—to those two questions. Ag is often the case when two questions are asked in one, that may not have been entirely enlightening and I think I ought to make the position quite clear to the House. I am instructed—I am advised by my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-26a.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-26", "file": "debates1966-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c1dc4bf66da4caa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-26a.851.5", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "rnment's intentions in regard to the termination of these powers. As soon as there is no longer an emergency the Government will advise Her Majesty to revoke the proclamation of the emergency, and when that is done the emergency Regulations will lapse. We have no desire to maintain the powers, just as after the 1939-45 war the Labour Government quickly terminated their powers under Regulation 18B—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-26a.851.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-26", "file": "debates1966-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c1dc4bf66da4caa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-26a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (CEREALS GUARANTEE PAYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "tand where the hon. Gentleman was getting with that point. The hon. Member for Torrington (Mr. Peter Mills) and the hon. Member for Dumfries (Mr. Monro) said that my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Scotland should have been here. It is true that there are two Scottish Members present, one on either side of the House, but the hon. Member for Dumfries had no contribution to make to the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-26a.870.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-05-27", "file": "debates1966-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b58653ab60478bc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-27a.891.6", "colnum": "891", "heading": "HOUSE OF KEYS, ISLE OF MAN (MR. SPEAKER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " of Man, to mark the centenary of the democratically elected House of Keys. The House will know that, during several centuries of history of both this House and the House of Keys, there has existed a most cordial relationship. I hope that it will be the wish of the House that I should accept the invitation, and I hope, therefore, that the House will grant me leave of absence for Tuesday, 5th July.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-27a.891.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-27", "file": "debates1966-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b58653ab60478bc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-27a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "RACE RELATIONS ACT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Barnett Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Barnett Janner", "preceding_text": "t in their totality all these accounts are vile lies.' That is precisely the kind of argument used by these cowardly people who, when accused, pretend that the kind of literature which they are spreading and action which they are taking is not conducive to the commission of crimes by themselves and by others. Today, we have to some extent the same kind of matter which was published in Der Stunner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-27a.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-27", "file": "debates1966-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b58653ab60478bc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-27a.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "RACE RELATIONS ACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "iew, from wherever it comes and in whatever terms it is cast. Those who advocate a contrary course do a grave disservice to the great traditions of this country. I fear that the hon. Member for Manchester, Blackley (Mr. Rose) injected into this subject the kind of acrimony which I find incompatible with the plea for tolerance which he made. He referred to the late unlamented Member for Perry Barr.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-27a.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-05-27", "file": "debates1966-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b58653ab60478bc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-27a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "RACE RELATIONS ACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "point of view being expressed. It is the point of view being expressed which the hon. Member wants to strike at through legislative means. He wants to make temperate expressions of opinions in what he calls semi-respectable journals illegal by Act of Parliament. We are in danger of binding ourselves with the chains of accepted phrases. I do not know what people mean when they talk about prejudice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-05-27a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-13", "file": "debates1966-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "d59a7b3860504106", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-13a.1008.7", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend for that brief Answer—it was very much to the point—may I press on him the urgency of this legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-13a.1008.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-13", "file": "debates1966-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "d59a7b3860504106", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-13a.1008.7", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "y I press on him the urgency of this legislation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] May I ask my right hon. Friend to bear in mind that there is a great deal of urgency in this matter, remembering that, as in the case of my constituency, both the folk concerned and many of the leases concerned are moving towards the end of their span? Would he see that the formula decided on to settle the purchase price—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-13a.1008.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-13", "file": "debates1966-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "d59a7b3860504106", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-13a.1022.7", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about Nkrumah.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows that the Commonwealth Mission is only one of many attempts which the Government have made to get a conference on Vietnam, but the Question refers to this particular method, which would require the collective decision of Commonwealth Prime Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-13a.1022.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-13", "file": "debates1966-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "d59a7b3860504106", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-13a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. Harold Davies)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. Harold Davies)", "preceding_text": " our social services. The Bill will provide a better deal for the poorest people in the community, the old and the sick. That is what we are dealing with, so what in the name—I must keep in order —of the Lord has the free Health Service to do with this? It has nothing to do with this Clause. To discuss it is completely out of order, with due respect to you, Sir Beresford. Let us come to the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-13a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-13", "file": "debates1966-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "d59a7b3860504106", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-13a.1184.3", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "EXCHANGE CONTROL (GOLD COINS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "coins, what is the best way of achieving that? One way, of course, is to do as the Government have done. They have done three things—first, they have introduced measures to prevent the use of gold for the manufacture of gold medallions, second, they have prohibited altogether the importation of gold coins, gold medallions and other gold pieces into the country, and, thirdly, and this is the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-13a.1184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-14", "file": "debates1966-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca66a22e3dccff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "It is most disappointing that we get from the right hon. Gentleman questions of that kind which can only cause difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-14", "file": "debates1966-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca66a22e3dccff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1221.4", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ZAMBIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The rebel régime.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that grave hardships are being inflicted on the people of Zambia by the sanctions imposed against the Rhodesian régime?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1221.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-14", "file": "debates1966-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca66a22e3dccff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1222.4", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ZAMBIA", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is under some misapprehension about normal protocol in these cases. When Commonwealth Ministers arrive in any country, it is only sometimes that they are met by a Minister. When a Commonwealth Minister arrives here it is only sometimes that he is met by a Minister. I had very friendly discussions during the week and was seen off by two Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1222.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-14", "file": "debates1966-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca66a22e3dccff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "With respect to my hon. Friend, the problem is rather more complicated. It is not only a question of how many people leave the pits but of which pits they leave. I believe that there is a very real future for a coal mining industry based on economic pits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-14", "file": "debates1966-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca66a22e3dccff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1239.0", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah:\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The simple answer to the hon. Gentleman is, \"Yes, Sir.\" But he will also understand", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-14", "file": "debates1966-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca66a22e3dccff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1239.7", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am aware of the statement of my right hon. Friend. It represents our position, but I have no doubt that my hon. Friend the Member for Woolwich, East (Mr. Mayhew), who has suddenly started to show very great interest in these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1239.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-14", "file": "debates1966-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca66a22e3dccff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1254.2", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "£ STERLING (SUPPORT ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman can have been following Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1254.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-14", "file": "debates1966-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca66a22e3dccff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1257.3", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "£ STERLING (SUPPORT ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that we shall be debating this matter, but I have not noticed much sign of support, except by cheering, from hon. Members opposite, whose only contribution to the Budget was to recommend me to spend a lot more money on Government-financed projects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-14", "file": "debates1966-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca66a22e3dccff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1297.1", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "que political reference book, because it explained why all things had suddenly become possible though they were impossible before. In fact, it was the greatest unintended compliment to my right hon. Friends since they took office. The party opposite now recognises that it is possible to do many of the things which it found impossible during the 13 years of Conservative Government. So we can go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-14", "file": "debates1966-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca66a22e3dccff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1297.1", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "direct result of the London Government Act which was forced through by the hon. Gentlemen opposite. That comment was not out of keeping with the right hon. Gentleman who in the 1960s can still talk of Empire. London has been raped; it staggers, battered, bruised and bleeding from one rate demand to another. It has been ravished by the hon. Gentlemen opposite in their vain lust for power in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-14", "file": "debates1966-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca66a22e3dccff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "hat my hon. Friends have spent 20 months struggling valiantly to reduce the effects of the disastrous policies of the party opposite, pursued for 13 years. They are doing it with great success, but in London there is another aspect to which they must turn their attention in redressing the disastrous effects of the policies of the party opposite. I will not bore hon. Gentlemen with a detailed list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-14", "file": "debates1966-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca66a22e3dccff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1361.0", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "preceding_text": "n small print. There was little reference to it by Labour speakers during the campaign, and I am not surprised. They wanted the impression to remain that they were still going forward with their 1964 proposals although they had been whittled down. All we heard then was that there would be relief for hard-hit families. This has been given, but it was done largely at the expense of other ratepayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-14", "file": "debates1966-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca66a22e3dccff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1365.3", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "preceding_text": "ment a pig in a poke. I would refer now to the question of the timetable. This was a matter which has been referred to by a number of speakers on this side of the House. I took down roughly the words of the Minister when he said that local treasurers are being asked to do more in respect of this Bill than in respect of any other change which has been made in local government finance since the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-14a.1365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-15", "file": "debates1966-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e5797ee021946e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1442.5", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should know all about steeply rising house-building costs, because they occurred while he was Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1442.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-15", "file": "debates1966-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e5797ee021946e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1479.2", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ltiplicity of British firms which are exporters, when the 1932 Act, as re-enacted by the 1958 Act, requires that it is the exporter, the firm which is actually sending the goods abroad, which is liable for claiming the drawback or relief on the import duty paid earlier?\" It took two and a half years, between 1962 and nearly the end of 1964, before I, with Customs and Excise, had evolved a formula—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1479.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-15", "file": "debates1966-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e5797ee021946e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1479.2", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "the firm which is actually sending the goods abroad, which is liable for claiming the drawback or relief on the import duty paid earlier?\" It took two and a half years, between 1962 and nearly the end of 1964, before I, with Customs and Excise, had evolved a formula—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] This is all on the record and I will give the references in a moment—a formula with the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1479.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-15", "file": "debates1966-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e5797ee021946e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1481.0", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What a Government.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " two and a half years, between 1962 and nearly the end of 1964, before I, with Customs and Excise, had evolved a formula—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] This is all on the record and I will give the references in a moment—a formula with the Board of Trade. [ Interruption .] I am referring to the former President of the Board op Trade. I shall make a reference to the right hon. Gentleman in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1479.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-15", "file": "debates1966-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e5797ee021946e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1481.1", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ministrative charges for the process of recovery. With 25 per cent. administrative charges, the exporter is getting back only 75 per cent. of the import duty paid. That is the extent of the tens of millions of book entries that are required to substantiate the amount of import duty paid. The Financial Secretary broke off his correspondence with me. He had no idea that I was returning to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-15", "file": "debates1966-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e5797ee021946e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "e export product. The other addition is the Amendment about drawback on containers. In the past, this has been so tightly drawn that when there has been a wrapping around an export product, that wrapping alone has been entitled to the drawback. For example, if we were exporting herrings and they were wrapped in a Cellophane wrapping, only the Cellophane wrapping would be entitled to be recognised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-15", "file": "debates1966-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e5797ee021946e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1521.0", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "rvative Chancellor placing a tax on productive industry—it raised an amount of £80 million in a full year, equal then to about 8s. a ton on the cost of steel, very considerably increasing the costs of electricity generation and a number of other factors—the overwhelming majority of the Labour Party, then the Opposition, sat quiescent and abstained. They were frightened of their coal mining lobby——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1521.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-15", "file": "debates1966-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e5797ee021946e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1535.1", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ascot.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "Perhaps my hon. Friend would tell the Minister of State that, if he wants to send for the Minister of Power, we are quite capable of keeping the debate going until that Minister arrives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-15", "file": "debates1966-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e5797ee021946e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1596.4", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": ", one would he compelled to restrict its movements so that the Customs could exercise the full responsibility which the House puts on it with regard to dutiable goods. In order not to restrict the movement cf the hovercraft, and having regard to the fact that it is a developing form of transportation and is the ideal smugglers' vehicle—it can do everything that a smuggling vehicle can do and more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1596.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-15", "file": "debates1966-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e5797ee021946e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1596.4", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "to know. Having regard to the fact that it can do what a small ship can do, we have to put the same restrictions on it. That is reasonable. That being the basis of the matter, and the Government's desire being not to Emit its development or its routes, and not to put a barbed wire round the whole country to prevent it coming in or out, for we would regard that as some restriction of our liberties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1596.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-15", "file": "debates1966-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e5797ee021946e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1606.0", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1.—(APPLICATION OF CUSTOMS AND EXCISE ACT 1952 TO HOVER VEHICLES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " Chief Secretary has confronted the Committee with a difficulty. It is clear from his remarks that the hovercraft operator will be at a disadvantage as compared with the operator of a coastwise ship. The right hon. Gentleman, on the other hand, has dealt with the problem at some length with his usual courtesy, and in those circumstances I would feel disposed to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-15a.1606.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-16", "file": "debates1966-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0102b439239a55f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1636.0", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "As for the protest, the hon. Gentleman wrote to me on 17th May and I wrote back two days later, which shows that I took up the matter as rapidly as I could. The fact is that we have local democracy in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-16", "file": "debates1966-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0102b439239a55f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1663.2", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister said that shipbuilding would be transferred to the Ministry of Technology, did I understand him to say that shipping would be transferred there, too?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-16", "file": "debates1966-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0102b439239a55f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1666.0", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A leak.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did not say that I was going to discuss it with industry tomorrow. The right hon. Gentleman must have got his information from somewhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-16", "file": "debates1966-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0102b439239a55f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1667.2", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "HONG KONG (FLOODING)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Frederick Lee)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Frederick Lee)", "preceding_text": "With permission, I will now answer Questions Nos. 69, 70 and 71 together. Exceptionally heavy rainfall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1667.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-16", "file": "debates1966-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0102b439239a55f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1670.0", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "EUROPEAN LAUNCHER DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION (PRESS REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, who has carried out the almost unprecedented act of putting down a Private Notice Question in this case 10 days after the event, is obviously taking this matter very seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-16", "file": "debates1966-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0102b439239a55f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1671.1", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "EUROPEAN LAUNCHER DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION (PRESS REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I said that there is a rather continuing problem in this Ministry which has gone on for a long time under successive Governments. I said that I might have been unfair in ascribing it to the incontinence of a particular Minister who is no longer a Member of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-16", "file": "debates1966-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0102b439239a55f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1692.0", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "betting, and I bet very infrequently on racecourses. My knowledge does not compare with that of my hon. Friend. But I do not understand his argument. If I go to a point-to-point meeting and put £1 on a horse with a local bookmaker the Chancellor's proposal, as I understand it, is that that £1 should be taxed at 2½ per cent., and I therefore pay the bookmaker 20s. 6d. My bet is not affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-16", "file": "debates1966-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0102b439239a55f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1702.1", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "ourite or near favourite is being quoted at 2 to 1 and 2 to 1 is its price in the ring and on the rail, and if a certain \"bookie\" does not have that horse in his book so that he has a lopsided book, far from shading the odds he has to increase them. He has to go from 2 to 1 to 9 to 4 or even to 5 to 2 to attract money on that horse for his book. It is for these two reasons, I assure you, Sir Eric—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-16", "file": "debates1966-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0102b439239a55f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1706.3", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "mber for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain Macleod). If my hon. Friend the Member for the Isle of Thanet (Mr. Rees-Davies) forces a Division, I will vote with the Government. I am against my hon. Friend. We are old antagonists in this matter. It was my hon. Friend who intervened in a speech of mine three years ago to say that it was grossly impracticable to apply a turnover tax to betting on the racecourse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-16", "file": "debates1966-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0102b439239a55f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1706.3", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ts, the punters. I know that my hon. Friend will not agree with me, but I call in aid a representative body of a vast section of British opinion on gambling. I quote from idle Annual Report of the Churches Council on Gambling for the year ended 31st December, 1965. Horse-racing men will immediately say that the Church is biased, puritanical and inaccurate, and that no notice should be taken of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-16", "file": "debates1966-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0102b439239a55f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1708.1", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say \"a few seconds after the off\". I quite concede that. But that represents only a small part of the generality of bookmaking and the placing of bets. We are talking, in the generality of betting, of a sum of £1,000 million a year in terms of turnover—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-16", "file": "debates1966-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0102b439239a55f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1787.2", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "find that these cases have been thrown up, we shall obviously need to revise the scale and consider it again. This is the right way. If I thought that the right hon. Gentleman's figures were right, no consideration of pride would prevent me from accepting them. However, I do not think that his information is any better than mine. I would therefore ask him to accept them and, as he wants to get on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-16", "file": "debates1966-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0102b439239a55f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1812.3", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": " after \"licence\", to insert which expression shall except where the context otherwise requires, include a half-year's gaming machine licence\". At this point we move from the rarified atmosphere of the historical background of backgammon and crown and anchor to the more mundane subject of the \"one-armed bandit\". I suspect that the \"one-armed bandit\" has few friends on either side of the Cormmittee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-16a.1812.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-17", "file": "debates1966-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "1a45b1d3b8582c19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-17a.1940.1", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Our urgings were heard. My party accepted this as a part of its policy manifestos in 1964 and 1966, and it appeared in our policy documents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-17a.1940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-20", "file": "debates1966-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5d0bbcde8f43d32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.22.7", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that I am indebted to her for the very full explanation of this unfortunate case which she has given me in writing? In her reply, however, my right hon. Friend states that, while she is not concerned with any legal question of presumption, nevertheless the date on which the claimant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.22.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-20", "file": "debates1966-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5d0bbcde8f43d32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.26.7", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that some general practitioners require the written consent of husbands before prescribing the oral contraceptive pill to women patients? Will he issue a directive to general practitioners to stop that feudal practice?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.26.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-20", "file": "debates1966-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5d0bbcde8f43d32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "SEAMEN'S STRIKE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "f the successive improvements last year and what is now offered, they would feel that they have done everything to convince the public of their case. I certainly believe that they are now losing public sympathy by the fact that some of them at least are saying, and saying very blatantly, that they are more concerned now with harming the nation than with getting the justice that we all want to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-20", "file": "debates1966-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5d0bbcde8f43d32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.47.3", "colnum": "47", "heading": "SEAMEN'S STRIKE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We are setting up this inquiry—this independent, impartial. high-powered inquiry—on the lines of the Plowden Report into the aircraft industry and the Geddes Report into the shipbuilding industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.47.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-20", "file": "debates1966-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5d0bbcde8f43d32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "No; I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman. I am at the moment directing my remarks to the Chancellor. As I pay the top rate of 18s. 3d. in the £, I might be allowed to know. Apparently the Chancellor will not withdraw. I shall press him in due course. However, that was an aside about Surtax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-20", "file": "debates1966-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5d0bbcde8f43d32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " fact, he never does. The right hon. Gentlemban has indicated dissent twice, but I always do my homework before I talk about figures of this magnitude. Last year—I quote from the Chancellor's Financial Statement for 1966–67—he budgeted for proceeds from Income Tax of £3,592 million. He made an error of £86 million. That figure of £86 million was the extent of his Income Tax error last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-20", "file": "debates1966-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5d0bbcde8f43d32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.73.5", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "ve. Thirdly, it would provide a very good and efficient way of promoting savings, which hon. Members on both sides of the Committee wish to see. I end with this plea to the Chancellor. One day the Government will bring in the collectivist society which hon. Members on this side of the Committee were elected to promote. When we have a fully nationalised economy there will be no need for Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.73.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-20", "file": "debates1966-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5d0bbcde8f43d32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.93.5", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. I have answered the question. I have a final comment on all this nonsense——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.93.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-20", "file": "debates1966-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5d0bbcde8f43d32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "preceding_text": "Is not the hon. Member aware of the fact that, when the Conservative Government left office in 1964, more than 50 per cent. of the wealth of the country was still owned by less than 1 per cent, of its people? Would he not agree with me that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-20", "file": "debates1966-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5d0bbcde8f43d32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.108.4", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " is a good thing to get the total burden of taxation across. The hon. Member for Shipley asked me if I would give the comparative taxation expressed as a percentage of gross national product at factor cost.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 24th May, 1966; Vol. 729, c. 66. ] in a number of differing countries under various heads. I gave that information to the hon. Gentleman. It shows this very interesting fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.108.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-20", "file": "debates1966-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5d0bbcde8f43d32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.108.4", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "rance or Germany to escape the consequences of taxation had better think again, because this is split up in a number of different ways. It may be that in some of those countries he would pay less in direct taxation. In Belgium and in West Germany they would pay less in direct taxation. But they would pay much more in indirect taxation. Surely it is the total burden with which we must be concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.108.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-20", "file": "debates1966-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5d0bbcde8f43d32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "That is the conventional defence of someone Whose intellectual integrity is being assailed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-20", "file": "debates1966-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5d0bbcde8f43d32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the right hon. Gentleman doing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": ". 6d. as they did in 1955—mark the year—and reduced it again from 8s. 6d. to 7s. 9d. as they did in 1959. Is it not extraordinary? I know that it was done with the best of fiscal motives, but it so happens, as has been partially pointed out, that in the months immediately following those elections, hire-purchase deposits were raised, the credit squeeze was tightened and Purchase Tax was increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-20", "file": "debates1966-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5d0bbcde8f43d32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ary? I know that it was done with the best of fiscal motives, but it so happens, as has been partially pointed out, that in the months immediately following those elections, hire-purchase deposits were raised, the credit squeeze was tightened and Purchase Tax was increased. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the right hon. Gentleman doing?\"] I did not go to the country pretending that by reducing taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-20", "file": "debates1966-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5d0bbcde8f43d32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.113.3", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I say to the hon. Member for Bournemouth, West that, although he came closest to the point, I do not think that the saving on school meals would go a long way although it might be a contribution. He also talked about cutting down on the nationalised industries. The railways' deficit was £115 million a year after 13 years of Conservative rule. It does not look very much better than that yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-20", "file": "debates1966-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5d0bbcde8f43d32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Lady will be good enough to listen to the argument which I was about to propose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-20a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.263.2", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister realise that the evidence shows that the majority of the electors of this country are not in favour of steel nationalisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.263.2", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister realise that the evidence shows that the majority of the electors of this country are not in favour of steel nationalisation? [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Secondly, does not the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I have not the faintest idea what he said on that occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.266.5", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "May I put it this way, that we are aware that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.266.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "No leaks were put out by the Ministry of Power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.276.6", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "I can think of few things more likely to cause a crisis in the coal industry than that sort of remark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.276.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "These organisational changes are, in our view, desirable and necessary for dealing with the situation. The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that, despite the serious situation in February, there is now—I think all of us recognise this—a pick-up in the housing situation and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman used the phrase \"a moral case for granting it\" and I think that he stood condemned out of his own mouth. I appreciate that he may have a great deal of sympathy for the small private family investment company, but one must recognise that such companies were formed to avoid taxation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "This is a matter which must be left to those who have a very much greater knowledge of this subject than I have. I do not profess to be an expert in patents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "The loophole for avoidance could be enormous, but I think that there are other ways of closing the loophole rather than by establishing this arbitrary rule. The loophole could be closed quite easily by giving a discretion to the officers of the Inland Revenue and allowing them to use it intelligently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "rely different because what one is doing in most cases is writing a book which is printed time and again. As one would expect, the commercial consequence of that is that it is a regular transaction and produces a regular contract for royalties. One could almost guess beforehand what the remuneration would be and what the terms of the contract would be. The essence of a patent is that it is unique—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.420.2", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "hile I will not enter into the arguments on this issue, I have, in the light of our democratic form of representation, sent a large number of these letters to the Government. I am bound to say that I have been surprised—because this correspondence from my constituent has been going on for some months—that although during this time I have asked for replies to these letters, I have not received any—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.420.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Secretary purely on the ground that his reply has not given them the full satisfaction that they think they were entitled to? I thought that the Chief Secretary made an apology. I thought that he admitted to the Committee that the Government had made an error in drafting last year's Finance Bill. It was quite handsome of the right hon. Gentleman to come to the Dispatch Box and make that admission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.450.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.455.2", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Chairman do report Progress and ask leave to sit again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "n the right hon. Gentleman and my hon. Friend. I am casting no aspersions on either the integrity of the Chief Secretary or the ability of my hon. Friend, both of which I acknowledge. But it is a rather odd position if we are to get into the habit, in Committee on the Finance Bill, of relegating matters to private discussion between the two Front Benches. If there is to be such private discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.481.0", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Brave of the hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "at once, of course. To avoid taxation in a perfectly legitimate way, I purchased the maximum holding of £500 for myself and a further holding of £500 for my wife in M & G Family Bonds for £338 for the 10-year bond for myself and £338 for the 10-year bond for my wife, a total of £676, maturing 10 years' hence with capital appreciation free of Income Tax, free of Surtax and Capital Gains Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.481.0", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "the Loyal Order of Rechabites, which is organised in local \"tents\". They are all very desirable institutions, which have fostered savings over the years, and I say to the Committee that the M & G Family Bond is the contemporary equivalent of the aggregation of very small sums invested over the years in the Loyal Order of Rechabites, through its \"tents.\" The Chancellor should not grin at me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Yes, even at this time of night. My right hon. Friend the Member for Enfield is a Highlander, and is capable of wrath. It is not simulated wrath, either. There is nothing synthetic about his wrath or about mine. I condemn the Chancellor root and branch for suffocation of private enterprise saving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.483.3", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I do. I have been saving all my life, since I first earned 4s. a week as a boy, saving a per centum of my income. Even today, I save a per centum of my income. That is why I pay 18s. 3d. in the £ Income Tax and Surtax combined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "so on the Question, \"That the Clause stand part of the Bill.\" But I wish to address a final remark to my right hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, West, who has the same passionate interest in support of personal savings as I have. I want an undertaking from him, when he winds up the debate for this side, on the Clause itself, that immediately a Tory Government is returned to sit on those benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "ling together the provisions of the Corporation Tax and the denial of relief from double taxation, and the double taxation agreements which have consequently and subsequently been worked out with individual countries in almost indecent haste, one can see the really sinister design of the Government. The Government are out at all costs to achieve a temporary amelioration of the balance of payments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-21", "file": "debates1966-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "356e25e297b12f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This morning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "allowed to it for any financial year, all the foreign taxes payable in respect of such sources of foreign income shall be aggregated and the credit shall be allowed against the due proportion of the corporation tax chargeable on the profits of the company attributable to the aggregate foreign income of the company from such sources. This will be the last discussion that we shall have this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-21a.531.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-22", "file": "debates1966-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "467e8a52dfb684f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "SMALLPOX (PONTYPOOL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his reassurances. May I take this opportunity of expressing, on behalf of the House, our sympathy at the tragic bereavement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-22", "file": "debates1966-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "467e8a52dfb684f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If I might reply, Mr. Speaker, to that part of the supplementary question which was in order before you stopped my hon. Friend, the position is that the Cabinet, like any other Cabinet, is subject to the democratically elected House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-22", "file": "debates1966-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "467e8a52dfb684f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward (Teignmouth)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward (Teignmouth)", "preceding_text": "What a wonderfully dumb Front Bench ! Would it not be better if the Front Bench withdrew and had a Cabinet meeting and came to a decision on various matters which have been raised during this debate? I do not think that most of them even know what the Chief Secretary said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-22", "file": "debates1966-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "467e8a52dfb684f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.669.2", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has been here for an hour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ely that there was no criticism. I know my Parliamentary rules much too well for that. There is no criticism, but I observed, factually, that there is an admixture. There is a timing Amendment from the Liberal Party and there is an exclusion Amendment from my right hon. and hon. Friends. The exclusion Amendment, I remind the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has only just returned to the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.669.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-22", "file": "debates1966-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "467e8a52dfb684f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the President of the Board of Trade. There is also the Lygon Arms in Broadway, which I believe is the best country hotel in England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-22", "file": "debates1966-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "467e8a52dfb684f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "mally a financial and fiscal benefit to the hotel and restaurant industry in the form of investment allowances, by some other kind of financial aid, be it cash grants, as in productive and manufacturing industry, or otherwise. It is not without significance that Mr. Egon Ronay, known to the majority of us in the Committee for his excellent advice on hotels, restaurants, fine food and choice wines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-22", "file": "debates1966-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "467e8a52dfb684f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": " does not make the demands that many manufacturing industries do on imported raw materials. In most cases, the product is native, with the tourists coming to see the country. Many stay in London, but now tourists are beginning to visit other parts of the country. We want to encourage them to travel more widely in Britain. One would have thought that the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-22", "file": "debates1966-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "467e8a52dfb684f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asked me what the intention of Parliament was, but I should have thought that was a question which it was quite impossible to answer except to say that the court interpreted what was the intention of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-22", "file": "debates1966-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "467e8a52dfb684f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "loophole, but if no such particular legislation is passed it is wrong to pass blanket legislation, because that means that nobody knows what is right and what is wrong, or what was the intention of Parliament. When the House passes legislation it should do so with a clear intention. I am not supporting law breakers or dividend strippers. To the best of my knowledge I have never stripped anything —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-22", "file": "debates1966-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "467e8a52dfb684f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.791.0", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "vour of the Amendment is that the Capital Gains Tax is a direct disincentive to savings, particularly by the small saver—and the spread of wealth by wider share ownership has a social as well as an economic purpose. It is fantastic that little investment clubs, of humble people engaged in useful occupations, are beginning to fold up because even the most minute capital gains are taxed in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.791.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-22", "file": "debates1966-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "467e8a52dfb684f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.791.0", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "n a case of vintage port. Those are the arguments in favour of the Amendment. I do not need to be a crystal gazer to anticipate the answer. We know that the answer from the Financial Secretary will be the same as last year. We shall hear, as last year, that he suspects that there is a Surtax payer lurking behind the skirts of the small man and that he will smell somewhere a benefit to the wealthy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.791.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-22", "file": "debates1966-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "467e8a52dfb684f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.803.2", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "o give relief to the small man, let it be by way of personal allowances which are available against the whole of his tax liability. But if we think that the poorer people need more support, the right way to help them is by improving allowances or raising the limits of the lower rate of tax, but not by selecting 3½ million people, most of whom are likely to be at the upper end of the scale——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-22a.803.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "Do not the figures confirm that in recent years there has been a big increase in the number of escapes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.910.5", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman, who used to be a very assiduous Minister, has been spending most of his time these days being preoccupied with my hon. Friends' activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.910.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister consider that it is more costly to abandon a principle, as the Tory Government did when they proposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister consider that it is more costly to abandon a principle, as the Tory Government did when they proposed—[ Interruption. ]—the withdrawal of sanctions against Mussolini over Abyssinnia in 1936?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.914.5", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I respectfully ask that you should look at my question tomorrow, Mr. Speaker. You will see that there were very few words in it and that its length was due to interruptions from the other side of the House. Will the Prime Minister consider that the cost of what was done in 1936—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.914.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.914.6", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why Not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I would not want the right hon. Gentleman to misunderstand my observation. I was not complaining about the length of the question, but the fact that he was going back in history, to the time of Mussolini—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.914.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.915.4", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I am not more sensitive than anyone else in the House. All that I was objecting to was the use of a point of order to make a point of that kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.915.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.915.6", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point or order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.915.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.916.7", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Briefly, then, the relevance of the Abyssinian question raised by my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.916.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.917.0", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Let me tell the Prime Minister perfectly clearly that if he had paid any attention at all to the views of other people in the Rhodesia debates he would know that we supported him in that policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.917.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.921.2", "colnum": "921", "heading": "ARMS SUPPLY (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "That is not the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.921.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.922.3", "colnum": "922", "heading": "ARMS SUPPLY (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "We shall be unable to meet it for reasons of production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. R. J. Gunter)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. R. J. Gunter)", "preceding_text": "in the standard rate of Income Tax would have raised about the same revenue in a full year. I am sure that if hon. Members opposite think that Income Tax or Purchase Tax should have been raised they will, in the debate, make this clear. We on this side have taken the view that it is preferable to introduce the new tax this year, accepting that its provisions will fall some way short of perfection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "anged recently and the contradictions there have been in the statements of the various Ministers concerned. First, this was designed to redress the balance between the amounts paid in tax by the services and manufacturing industry. That was the first argument of the Chancellor in his Budget statement. It also appeared in the White Paper. I believe that it was a completely false and bogus argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wriggle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Is that the sort of excuse the right hon. Gentleman offers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.953.2", "colnum": "953", "heading": "SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Time after time, the question I was asked was whether charities could be exempted from payment of the tax. I have been asked that about lots of groups The answer is \"No,\" because the insurance stamp is being used. This is an entirely different matter from whether there can be repayment of the tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.953.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.954.2", "colnum": "954", "heading": "SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ry interesting and revealing figure. I sent telegrams to Wagner and Strauss saying, \"Rewrite for smaller orchestra\". But to Mahler I have had to send a telegram saying, \"Sorry, the Eighth is now scratched. You just can't hope to do it\". That is, perhaps, a small example of the effect of this tax on the arts. Yet the Government are supposed to be encouraging the arts. They have a Minister to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.954.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Vaughan-Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Vaughan-Morgan", "preceding_text": "ouse that Socialism is the language of priorities. The whole of this discriminatory principle is nonsense and quite wrong. I mentioned earlier that my firm stood to benefit from the Bill. We reckon that, subject to Corporation Tax, we shall receive a gift equivalent to a ½ per cent. increase in the ordinary dividend provided that it is not eroded by wage or cost increases and provided that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "preceding_text": "ades, I would be satisfied, but that is not so. It deals with the wrong side of distribution in terms of penal taxation. I use an illustration. There is a firm in this country—I shall not mention its name because that would not be fair—which is making cosmetic preparations. They are expensive, they are good, and they are sold by charming ladies selected from every locality because of their beauty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "the amount involved here bears no relationship to the nature of the problem that we are discussing. There are marginal cases where there will be difficulties, but, in general, there will not. It is not true. It does no service to the cause of truth to exaggerate the effects which will follow. I listened to the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, who was in good voice this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.1045.0", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "een themselves whether any adjustment of the contract price should be negotiated. But the Government have indicated their view in relation to their own contracts. I now turn to two groups of persons whose cases have been raised—the elderly and the part-timers. I emphasise again that this is a tax on employers, to be paid by employers. It is not a tax on the elderly. Nor is it a tax on part-timers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.1045.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "em. The tax is a liability which is paid by every employer, just as any other tax would be paid. As I say, we will need to watch the position very carefully to ensure that, on social and economic grounds, the fears which I know exist, and some of which have unfortunately been fostered, are not justified. I come to the question of part-timers. In respect of anyone who works for eight hours or less—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " order, to alter a number of provisions. They can be altered either in that way or, if they relate to charging, through the Finance Bill. It is obviously our intention, with a new tax like this, to keep it under scrutiny and continuous review to see how it works out. I come to the question of the regions and I must again say that a great deal of exaggerated poppycock has been talked on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Mr. Heath rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.1048.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "DOUBLE TAXATION RELIEF (AGREEMENT WITH U.S.A.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shift work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ry commentator in this country. It is right that we should devote some time to an examination of the Protocol and some of the consequences which flow from it. Right hon. and hon. Members who see the Financial Secretary and myself once again facing each other across the Table after three days' consideration of the Finance Bill must think that we have a peculiar fascination for matters of this sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-23", "file": "debates1966-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9bd0c461b130a94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.1072.3", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "DOUBLE TAXATION RELIEF (AGREEMENT WITH U.S.A.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "es not dissent from the accuracy of my argument. The hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford warned us, so he said, that something like this would happen. But warnings are not enough. Apparently the only way we could be saved from this disastrous victory which the Americans scored over us—which is the way the hon. Gentleman looks at it—would have been for us not to have had a Corporation Tax at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-23a.1072.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-24", "file": "debates1966-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b60159b481aaf91b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-24a.1190.3", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PONIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "es of section 37 of the Act. It sets the price of a heavy draught horse at £135; a vanner, mule or jennet at £125; and an ass at £25. Why, If there is no purpose in setting minimum prices for ponies, why should there be minimum prices for these horses? Why should they not be abolished rather than confirmed and increased? I should be happy to give way to the Minister if he would tell me the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-24a.1190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-24", "file": "debates1966-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b60159b481aaf91b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-24a.1195.2", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PONIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "This is basic to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-24a.1195.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1209.2", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGuire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGuire", "preceding_text": "I think that this is what is called being snookered with one's supplementary question. I would hope that when the information is to hand", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1214.3", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "preceding_text": "That is a question for the Secretary of State for Education and Science.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1214.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1240.4", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "quarter, and then, according to HANSARD, he went on with these words: Many people spend as much as that on an afternoon at Ascot.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 23rd June 1966; Vol. 730, c. 1044.] The recollection of the Press, of the B.B.C. and of this House is that he said something very different indeed. There are many examples of this in the Press. Perhaps I could quote from the Daily Express of Saturday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1240.4", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "re are many examples of this in the Press. Perhaps I could quote from the Daily Express of Saturday. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] This is headed: Ascot Row. Farmers Demand Callaghan Apology. The Chancellor knows that he received a telegram from the President of the National Farmers' Union, protesting. The discrepancy is quite easily explained. The HANSARD official note was altered by a Treasury official.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1240.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1241.4", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We are on a serious issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1241.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order which the right hon. Gentleman has raised. HANSARD quotes my sentence as being: Many people spend as much as that on an afternoon at Ascot.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 23rd June, 1966; Vol. 730, c. 1044.] That sentence is incomplete. This has nothing to do with a Treasury official. The correction was made on my instructions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": " being: Many people spend as much as that on an afternoon at Ascot.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 23rd June, 1966; Vol. 730, c. 1044.] That sentence is incomplete. This has nothing to do with a Treasury official. The correction was made on my instructions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and I resent very much the right hon. Gentleman bringing a Treasury official into this. This is my responsibility and no one else's.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "ons of what I said on that afternoon, in the middle of a very hot debate. The Daily Telegraph has one, the Daily Express has another, and the B.B.C. has a third, I understand; but the facts are that I said, as HANSARD itself originally reported: Many people of this kind spend as much as that on an afternoon at Ascot. I cut out the words \"of this kind\" because it seemed to me a slur on the farmers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "d: Many people of this kind spend as much as that on an afternoon at Ascot. I cut out the words \"of this kind\" because it seemed to me a slur on the farmers—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"]—and having made it in the heat of that debate I did not wish to immortalise it in the prose of HANSARD. However, the right hon. Gentleman has got his way: the words will now appear; the slur on the farmers will be there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": " heat of that debate I did not wish to immortalise it in the prose of HANSARD. However, the right hon. Gentleman has got his way: the words will now appear; the slur on the farmers will be there—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault?\"]—because I may not take them back. I readily accept that I made the alteration. It will be within the judgment of the House whether they think that is a serious matter or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "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": "has got his way: the words will now appear; the slur on the farmers will be there—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault?\"]—because I may not take them back. I readily accept that I made the alteration. It will be within the judgment of the House whether they think that is a serious matter or not—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"] Of course, it is wrong to alter HANSARD. We all know this. We all know it is never done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "alise he has made this matter much more serious by the statement he has made? He has admitted, first of all—this was my first point—that this was a slur. He has gone on to say that he himself asked that these words, spoken within the hearing of the Press and of the OFFICIAL REPORT, should be struck out. It is not within the competence of any Minister or any Member of this House to do such a thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"DO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order. I am not raising the question of making a change in the HANSARD report. Of course, we all know it has been done frequently, even by Ministers and Prime Ministers—and if the House wants chapter and verse I will give it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1243.3", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "The point of order that I am raising is this, and it will be on the record in HANSARD tomorrow morning—unless it is altered. The statement by the right hon. Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain Macleod) is as clear as can be that a Treasury official altered the statement in HANSARD. What I am asking is: is that not a very serious accusation against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1244.3", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is this not really a very serious matter, and is it not unfortunate that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should try and make it a laughing matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1244.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "I would like to respond to the right hon. Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell) straight away. I am not sure whether I have this right. The account that I gave to the House has been borne out exactly by what Mr. Speaker has said of his discussions with the Editor of HANSARD.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I see no reason for any secrecy about this. I asked the Treasury official to make the alteration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I see no reason for any secrecy about this. I asked the Treasury official to make the alteration. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The Treasury official—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I would like your guidance. Immediately after the intervention that I made or the point of order that I raised a moment ago, the Prime Minister shouted across to me, and I took down his words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1247.3", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "This is what the Prime Minister shouted across to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1256.0", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Strangle this one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman raised, particularly about British Oxygen, are not concerned so directly with payment of the tax. I agree that it affects its attitude from the point of view of whether or not it will pay. However, it is more concerned with repayment. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will not stick to the idea of strangling the Ministry of Labour Bill, because that will look after the refunds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1259.3", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I thought that was the point I was dealing with. I am not ready at the moment to give any undertaking on this particular matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1259.3", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not everyone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I thought that was the point I was dealing with. I am not ready at the moment to give any undertaking on this particular matter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because I want the tax to have a disinflationary effect. I have now said so about six times. I understand that a great many hon. Members opposite think that it should have a disinflationary effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "for Willesden, West (Mr. Pavitt). Then there are the hon. and learned Member for Warrington (Mr. W. T. Williams) and the hon. Member for Bilston (Mr. Robert Edwards). The hon. Member for Oldham, West has a covey of five of them seated in the decimated ranks of the party opposite—decimated because of the failure of the remaining 12 Co-operative Members to be present for this debate. Where are they?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1282.1", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "As far as I am aware, no Tory Member is officially sponsored by an industrial co-operative society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1306.0", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman is proposing to cut back but, presumably—as my hon. Friend the Member for Oswestry (Mr. Biffen) and my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Mr. St. John-Stevas) pointed out—private manufacturing investment. The Chancellor intervened during the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton) and said that the tax had nothing to do with the level of bank advances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "ttee should probe it right to the roots. I support this Amendment very strongly. I support it because I have not been able to find in this Committee any hon. Member of the party opposite, any hon. Member of the Liberal Party or of the Conservative Party, who has a good word to say for this tax. The Chancellor had better realise that he has very little support for it his own side of the Committee——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ally would not find it possible, with regret, to defer the operation of the tax for the hotel industry. It is based upon the National Insurance stamp. This is the basis of the administration. Because it is based like that, nobody in the Ministry of National Insurance can say who is putting the stamp on. So it would mean deferring the date of the introduction of the tax for all sectors of industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "It was not my intention to speak in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "e Chancellor knows, and the Government know, that the Co-operative movement and the Co-operative Members in the House regard aspects of this tax unfavourably. He knows, and the Government know, that the situation in which the Co-operative movement has been placed by the tax is exceedingly difficult. They know also that we have no intention of being used by the Opposition in order to play politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1357.2", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "hon. Members opposite, would be impracticable of working would be entirely wrong. Therefore, because hon. Members opposite are apparently only too keen to go through the Lobby in support of my Amendment, which they believe to be hopelessly wrong in order to assist me to defeat my own Government, which is a proposition I could not be expected to accept, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1371.5", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hilton", "preceding_text": "cause they would come in the self-employed category. He was under the impression that some barbers' shops, with two or three chairs, would be paying the tax. However, I have discovered that a new system, rent-a-chair, is now coming into being. By this system barbers rent individual chairs to people, who become self-employed thereby, and thus avoid the tax. As a Labour-Co-operative Movement Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1371.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1378.4", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I regard this as a wrecking Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1378.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1386.0", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian MacArthur", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian MacArthur", "preceding_text": "ustomers in the country districts, where living costs already are higher than elsewhere, and in districts where we want to see the population increase. It is not only that, because, very often, these small tradesmen are the only employers in the locality. If they are obliged by the tax to squeeze out their single employees, where then will the young lad go for a job? Where will he find his trade?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1386.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1396.1", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Niall MacDermot)", "preceding_text": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Niall MacDermot) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1396.4", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "—I have no power to do so. I have been listening with great interest, for about one and three quarter hours, to the arguments which have been adduced in favour of the Amendment and I thought it might assist the Committee if I were now to state the Government's view. The Amendment is within a fairly narrow compass. There has been a certain amount of forceful repetition of the arguments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1396.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1398.3", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that difficulties may arise over the question of the interval period. Incidentally, it is not quite six months; it is five months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1398.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1404.1", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household (Mr. John Silkin)", "preceding_text": "The Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household (Mr. John Silkin) rose in his place and claimed to move, That the Question be now put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1404.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1406.3", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "No. I will not give way. The Closure which, in my opinion, you mistakenly accepted, Sir Eric, though I am not criticising the Chair, was largely brought about because the right hon. Gentleman suggested to the Deputy Chief Whip, \"Put the Closure\". The Committee has been treated to the most outrageous discourtesy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "h I am not criticising the Chair, was largely brought about because the right hon. Gentleman suggested to the Deputy Chief Whip, \"Put the Closure\". The Committee has been treated to the most outrageous discourtesy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] It is no use hon. Gentlemen opposite saying \"Nonsense\". Most of them were not here. They have shown such a great deal of interest in the problems of the old—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "brought about because the right hon. Gentleman suggested to the Deputy Chief Whip, \"Put the Closure\". The Committee has been treated to the most outrageous discourtesy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] It is no use hon. Gentlemen opposite saying \"Nonsense\". Most of them were not here. They have shown such a great deal of interest in the problems of the old—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—of the under-privileged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1412.8", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": " For the debate to have gone on the time that it did without a reply from the Opposition Front Bench is something which, as far as I am aware, is without precedent in our debates on the Finance Bill. How can the Government know, on an Amendment which was not an official Amendment but which was brilliantly moved by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Buckinghamshire, South (Mr. Ronald Bell )—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1412.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1412.8", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "ber for Buckinghamshire, South (Mr. Ronald Bell )—[ Interruption. ] All right. Hon. Members opposite can go on interrupting. I can go on all night, if necessary. How can the Committee know what was the view of the Official Opposition to my hon. and learned Friend's Amendment. Were we going to support it officially? Were the Official Opposition going to say, \"We have had a very interesting debate\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1412.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1412.8", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "bby to go into, it is significant that the right hon. Gentleman led all his hon. Friends into the wrong Lobby. The right hon. Gentleman wants to get up a lot earlier in the morning or stay up a lot later at night if he is going to catch me on that simple procedural point. We are now here, after midnight, with the Committee obviously not in the mood to debate important matters affecting the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1412.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1412.8", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "on that simple procedural point. We are now here, after midnight, with the Committee obviously not in the mood to debate important matters affecting the people—[ Interruption. ] Hon. Members opposite say that they are. Of course they are. They will immediately go out and disappear. They are Lobby fodder. Under those conditions, anyone who is prepared to continue with the business of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1412.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1412.8", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "tions, this is not the mood in which this Committee should go on debating the important Amendments that we have before us on the Notice Paper. My criticism, and I am sure that it is shared by most of my hon. Friends, and certainly by my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth, West (Sir J. Eden), is that during the last debate when we were debating the problems of the old, those on limited incomes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1412.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": " we would have divided on the Amendment, and then we would have proceeded to the next Amendment with the Committee in the right mood to proceed. But, because of his wretched stupidity, the First Secretary has ruined the whole atmosphere and, whatever happens, I am sure that neither side of the Committee is in the mood to go on debating important matters affecting hundreds of thousands or millions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1420.2", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "should like to make some substantial progress on the major Amendments which lie ahead, we could probably then, I hope with the consent of the Committee, call it a day—or a night, whatever the appropriate terminology—and retire to our beds. I hope therefore, in the light of that that the right hon. Gentleman will be willing to withdraw his Motion and that we can proceed with discussion of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1420.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1424.3", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "Botanical surveys in order? Shocking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1424.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1424.5", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member must not say that. Botanical references in support of an argument are in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1424.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1424.12", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "I must confess that I, too, heard the word \"shocking\", but I understood it to refer to the speech of the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton) and not to your Ruling, Sir Eric.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1424.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "Sir Eric, I was surprised by your Ruling that botanical surveys—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1425.5", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong again\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Eric. The hon. Gentleman has now withdrawn the expression, but I had not thought there was anything unparliamentary in the word \"dumb\" or in the word \"head\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1425.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1425.8", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "ition spokesman on agriculture. Pages of HANSARD were regularly punctuated by sedentary interruptions from the right hon. Gentleman. Power and office have not altered his habits. He is just as noisy as he ever was. But, of course, if he goes on like this, he provokes even the most mild mannered people, like myself, into conduct which otherwise one would, perhaps, be tempted to regard as excessive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1425.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1427.0", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": " some diffidence, but not without hope, that I rise to make a brief speech to appeal to the better and more reasonable sense of the Opposition. The diffidence is due to the fact that I, unfortunately, and to the undying gratitude of the Chancellor, was not able to be present during the earlier debates this evening. I was studying other aspects of the Finance Bill outside the Chamber, as is common.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1429.1", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are three parties.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "rit without any desire to humiliate or injure my right hon. Friend. I sincerely urge upon the Committee that, in a sense, we on this side are dependent upon the great power, effectiveness and alertness of the Opposition. We sincerely believe that there should be an Opposition—although perhaps with some reduction in their number, for political considerations. But we believe in the two-party system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1429.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1430.0", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ould perhaps have been a longer debate on a matter of great importance. 1.15 a.m. Having said all those things we have had, for the last hour, a sort of exercise in mass psychoanalysis from the Conservative Opposition as to what is the mood of the Committee. Because the Conservative Party, with some justification, is angered that the Closure should have been moved, they all want to go off to bed——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the hon. Gentleman doing now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": ". As to whether the right hon. Gentleman will obey it or not, we do not know. If the Tory Opposition want to go home, let them go, every one of them. We are concerned about the future of the development districts, and we think that it is more important that this Amendment should be discussed than that an angry Tory Opposition should meet a gag with a filibuster, because that is what it amounts to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1433.0", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Henig", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Henig", "preceding_text": "Like my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Cheetham (Mr. Harold Lever), I rise with diffidence to address a few words to the Committee. It is the first time that I have had the pleasure of being in the Committee when this important Bill has been discussed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1433.0", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Henig", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Henig", "preceding_text": "like to get together, perhaps over a glass of whisky or something similar, and decide that the interests of the nation demand that we stop this farce now, decide how many more Amendments the Committee will dispose of tonight and get down to business. I can, however, say one thing. Outside the House of Commons the nation is viewing with increasing contempt what goes on here. It views with contempt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "e regard at all to the series of extremely telling and important points which had been made, admittedly in great variety, from this side of the Committee. I thought then that his intransigent attitude, the utterly inflexible attitude which is becoming typical of him during these proceedings, is typical of the Government of the day. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Belper is a natural bully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "ffensive manner. It is that sort of manner which has already done great harm to the nation's interests. It is that sort of manner, after all, which coloured the negotiations earlier in Rhodesia. It is that sort of manner which has caused a great deal of unrest and dissatisfaction in our relations with France. It is that typically intransigent manner which has given trouble over the Aden situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1452.2", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wake up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "I understand that one Amendment has been selected to be moved and the others are to be discussed with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1452.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1480.1", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "pecific local government area, others have argued for a development area and yet others have argued for regions as large as Scotland. In fact, development areas are now more than half the gross geographical area of these islands. Even allowing all those areas, does the hon. Member accept that there is the objection in principle that hitherto taxation has always been on the same basis for everyone?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1484.0", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is plenty of time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "nt to look at this but the present unwillingness of the Government to sacrifice the possibility of starting a good tax by trying to over-refine it in the early stages. The need is to look at it and have regard to the totality of the things which the Government are doing in order to help the development areas. I can give a short list—I do not want to be long; the debate has gone on for a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1489.2", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn King", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman really must not deliberately misquote me. I have told the right hon. Gentleman what I said. I know precisely what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1489.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1495.1", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " know by now that such figures are misleading. The only conclusion one can draw, if they continue to use them, is that they wish to mislead. I return to the nub of the case for a regional incidence in a tax of this sort. The place where a man is employed is a fact. It is certain. One cannot charge Income Tax on a regional basis, though in our investment allowances we made a very effective attempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1511.3", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": " Scotland and the areas of high over-employment in the South-East is more than it was in 1961. There is no ground for the right hon. Gentleman to pretend that that was the reason why the Chancellor opposed my right hon. and learned Friend's proposals in 1961. In terms of regional development, the Government have, in real terms, merely basked in the achievements of the last Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "On page 32 of the Scottish Plan, in page 124, there was pointed out the vital importance of adequate and up-to-date services if Scotland is to be an attractive area for incoming industrialists. I do not need to elaborate on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1513.4", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Several of my hon. Friends have further points to make on this Amendment, so I shall say no more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1513.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1514.0", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "the West Midlands and the South-East of England is related to the nature of our industry. Unfortunately, we come from an area which by tradition has depended on the coal industry and foundries. Many people who have worked in those industries are not able to work and these figures are made up from people who suffer pneumoconiosis and other diseases. The second point is of rather a different nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": " facing the tourist industry are being examined by the Government. The Minister of State, Board of Trade, said in Standing Committee the other day that something must be done to help certain sections of the hotel and catering industry. We have had similar statements today. I do not have much faith in these declarations of good intent. What do they mean? We had another reference in the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "to keep up the standard of service they must offer—they will, it is estimated, have to increase their charges by 10 per cent. and this will have a serious effect on their ability to compete. It is already cheaper to take a fortnight's holiday with B.E.A. from London to the Costa Brava than it is to take a fortnight's holiday with B.E.A. in Argyll. S.E.T. may well make this difference even greater.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1541.1", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And before the Closure, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "ebates connected with much the same subject, and, if it is a fault on the part of my hon. Friends who have taken part in this debate that they did not take part in the earlier ones, I hope that the Financial Secretary will excuse it. I saw seven or eight of my hon. Friends standing at every opportunity in the hope of getting in, but they did not have the good fortune to catch the eye of the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-27", "file": "debates1966-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2dec35adf684b77a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1543.1", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "ve the hon. Gentleman a chance in a moment. He must allow me to develop my argument before he attempts to demolish it. The hon. Gentleman said that selectivity was absolutely essential and that if we had development areas with a higher rate of selectivity and, thus, advantages over other parts, it would wreck the whole scheme. He said that within the development area everything had to be the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-27a.1543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1569.0", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend agree that in Russia and many other countries there is much closer co-ordination between university research and industrial need than in this country? Does he not further agree that there is great need to have scientific management in this country of the type which can appreciate scientific changes? Furthermore, does he not agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1586.0", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "ct against this organisation, and also that an explosive situation exists in Northern Ireland today, due to the reluctance of the Northern Ireland Government to protect the lives of their subjects? Is he further aware that there are Unionist extremists and murder gangs operating in the streets of Northern Ireland? It is for this Government to take action and not the Government of Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1586.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1592.2", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND FRANCE (RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ion, said: That is not the way you ought to treat an ally and a friend. When asked whether General de Gaulle seemed to have deceived Britain, he went on to say: I think in this respect, one must be absolutely frank and say, 'Yes'. These were considered and deliberate Ministerial statements. None of them was the subject of any personal statement of qualification, withdrawal or expression of regret,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1592.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND FRANCE (RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that this is a matter for me, but I hope that the Leader of the Opposition will learn when and when not to use Private Notice Questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1594.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1594.4", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND FRANCE (RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. It was not a reflection on the Chair for accepting it, because, of course, it is the tradition that, if the Leader of the Opposition puts a Question, it is always accepted if it is in order. It was a reflection on the right hon. Gentleman's sense of tactics for twice having tried to use this and getting \"clobbered\" both times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1594.6", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND FRANCE (RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that there is nothing in what he quoted from my remarks which is a personal attack on a Head of State such as was made by the Secretary of State for Defence? Is he aware that I was giving the Prime Minister the opportunity of trying to improve relations with France —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1594.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1595.0", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND FRANCE (RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I would be more impressed with the right hon. Gentleman's statement of his motives and his appeal to treat it in this way if he did not always, when he was going to use one of these tactics, tell the Press in advance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1595.0", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND FRANCE (RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I would be more impressed with the right hon. Gentleman's statement of his motives and his appeal to treat it in this way if he did not always, when he was going to use one of these tactics, tell the Press in advance —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] There were headlines in two Tory newspapers this morning and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1596.3", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND FRANCE (RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. That is true, and not only that. Much more recently there have been many joint ventures started between the French and British Governments and many of them are of very great importance to us at the present time. That is why I deprecate the fact that when my right hon. Friend, having made a slip of the tongue, which can happen to anyone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1599.2", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "DISUSED GRAVEYARDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cordle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cordle", "preceding_text": "nd burial grounds. In view of the short time allotted under the Ten Minute Rule, I propose, with your permission, Mr. Speaker, to stick very closely to my notes as I seek to introduce my small Bill. I should like, first, to congratulate the \"usual channels\" and those responsible for bringing the Ten Minute Rule time back to the afternoon. It is, I think, a move that will be welcomed and applauded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1599.4", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "DISUSED GRAVEYARDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cordle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cordle", "preceding_text": "efer to reside and work in the same areas as everyone else. In consequence, there are the enormous pressures on land for housing, roads, schools, hospitals and all the other manifestations of civilised living which are known to every one of us and are growing year by year. Modern planning and architecture are constantly making better use of the land available and cramming a quart into a pint pot.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1599.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1599.6", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "DISUSED GRAVEYARDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cordle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cordle", "preceding_text": "sed for a really worthwhile purpose? Before passing judgment, we should ask ourselves what would the wishes be of those people who have passed on and have lain in such graveyards for many years. I think that there can be only one answer. Legislate for the living, not for the dead. The view of the Churches is extremely important since, in many cases, they may be the owners of the disused graveyard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1599.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1603.5", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": " in dealing with the problems associated with the seamen's strike, would have sought to catch your eye this evening to wind up the debate. Unfortunately, my right hon. Friend, who has been under very heavy strain during these weeks, has been advised by his doctor that he must take a rest and he is going away from London for some days. I am sure that the whole House will wish him a speedy recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1603.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "For the rest, I referred hon. Members, and I see no reason why I should not, to an article in The Guardian last Saturday, which explained, at greater length than it would be right for me now to go into, exactly what is the answer to this problem, which I think has puzzled all of us, of how it is that a small number of men can get a lot of others to vote with them in this way. The article I quoted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1627.2", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "the Minister of Labour from this debate today and are immensely sorry about the reason for it. We all know the strain under which he has been working and the heavy responsibilities which he has been bearing during these last few weeks. The whole House has an immense respect for the right hon. Gentleman and I join with the Prime Minister in hoping that he will make a speedy recovery to full health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "he executive of the seamen's union contained people who either were, or were the creatures of, a sinister, tightly-knit group. In parenthesis, I would say that I do not know why we have suddenly discovered the phrase \"tightly-knit\" as a pejorative term. There is nothing wrong with being tightly-knit. At one time or another, my right hon. Friend and I have both been members of a tightly-knit group—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "h, and that, perhaps for excellent reasons, they had also been shown to Mr. George Woodcock, and that this dossier implicated a number of officials of trade unions other than the N.U.S. My right hon. Friend mentioned one today, but not a number. He mentioned one, but in that dossier, apart from the one he mentioned, were a number of others. It also implicated a number of hon. Members of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1674.1", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heller", "preceding_text": "cal ideas are wrong. He offered to let Jim Slater and Joe Kenny live in his flat while they were in London during the dispute. Bert Ramelson, the industrial organiser, went along and perhaps took advantage of the situation and talked to Joe Kenny and Jim Slater at the same time. What great conspiracy is this? Is it guilt by association? Perhaps I am in the dossier to which reference has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1677.1", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "that what he was saying was right. No outside pressures were applied to me and to my hon. Friends in supporting the Government in what they have been doing. There was only the pressure of argument and the conviction that it was correct. Some of the statements which have been made have implied that the seamen's executive were a lot of stupid nits. I do not believe that they are. I want us to go on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1731.1", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We want a real prices and incomes policy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ng like that. But, at the end of the day, they have the happy luxury of being able to make negative statements, of being able to say that this is where we get with our prices and incomes policy. Some of us, on the other hand, have the job of governing. We must have a prices and incomes policy, or we know this nation will be plunged again into unemployment. Therefore, we have to take the decisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1731.1", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We will indeed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "h our prices and incomes policy. Some of us, on the other hand, have the job of governing. We must have a prices and incomes policy, or we know this nation will be plunged again into unemployment. Therefore, we have to take the decisions. [An HON. MEMBER: \"We want a real prices and incomes policy.\"] Yes, a real one, and I hope that a lot of my hon. Friends will support it when we have achieved it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1751.4", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "LAW REFORM (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Taylor", "preceding_text": "I very much regret that, though I moved that strangers should withdraw, I have not got an opportunity, in private session, of telling the House about this filthy and disgusting book. It is too frightful for words and, for that reason, I will not quote from it tonight, for I would not wish to embarrass the people in the galleries or anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1751.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1755.3", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "LAW REFORM (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Elwyn Jones)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Elwyn Jones)", "preceding_text": " effective publicity for the book is out of all proportion to the chances of success in prosecuting it In this case, the first difficulty was that, whatever one's own opinion of the merits of the book, the literary critics were almost unanimously agreed that it is a book of literary merit. I must be careful in quoting what the nature of the criticisms was, but the literary critic of the Listener —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1755.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-28", "file": "debates1966-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "205177c113575995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1757.1", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "LAW REFORM (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Has the right hon. and learned Gentleman read it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. 1 cannot give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-28a.1757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1763.8", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I hope that it will enable the acquisitions to continue on an ever-widening scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1763.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1793.7", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman bring these figures to the notice of the Select Committee which, amongst other things, is considering morning sittings and point out to the Committee that more than 75,000 people would lose this valuable privilege if Members were to insist on morning sittings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1793.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1795.5", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I think that these great professions have justified the trust the public has continued to place in them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1795.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1799.4", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "NORTH VIETNAM (UNITED STATES BOMBING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "preceding_text": "Mr. Tapsell rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1799.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1804.3", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "NORTH VIETNAM (UNITED STATES BOMBING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Davidson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Davidson", "preceding_text": "Surely the Government must realise that they have been wrong all along to support the self-defeating policy of the United States, particularly in view of our co-chairmanship of the Geneva Conference? While we welcome the statement by the Foreign Secretary in Canberra on 26th June that we shall not send troops to Vietnam, we also notice that he stated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1804.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1805.2", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "NORTH VIETNAM (UNITED STATES BOMBING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister remember my question of last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1806.3", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "NORTH VIETNAM (UNITED STATES BOMBING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t all. I am quite serious. I do not think that it would be possible to go earlier, but the possibility that this event would take place was one of the things in my mind, although not the only one. I think that it is necessary to have a pretty full discussion now on all aspects of world peace and it is also important, as has been suggested, that we intensify our pressure with our Geneva co-partners", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1811.1", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "NEW ZEALAND (TRADE DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Douglas Jay)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Douglas Jay)", "preceding_text": "and by a separate agreement of 1952 relating to meat. The 1959 Trade Agreement provides for the continuance of duty-free entry for New Zealand products into the United Kingdom, for certain preferences in her favour, for unrestricted access until 1967 of New Zealand dairy products and pork, and for possible anti-dumping action for the benefit of New Zealand exports to the United Kingdom. In return—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1823.4", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving me notice that he would make this personal statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1823.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1824.3", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": " for the blind, the deaf and the disabled, which certainly in our view should be separately discussed. Perhaps you would make it clear, Sir Eric, that this is a matter of selection by the Chair in which you have overruled the protests that have been put to you. Perhaps you will take notice, Sir Eric, that we regard the selection of 10 new Clauses out of 60 on the Order Paper as quite unacceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1824.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1829.2", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "We are concerned not only with the minority, the Opposition, in this Committee, but with the good progress of the whole debate, and as a result of this grouping which has been made of such disparate subjects being linked together as the position of the disabled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1829.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1862.4", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I can only say that I have acted for people in this profession and submitted returns on their behalf as self-employed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1862.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1892.2", "colnum": "1892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"In the Chamber\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "Surely the hon. Gentleman has not been absent from every Division?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1898.2", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Alfred Morris) assures us that hon. Members will have an opportunity later, but that might well depend upon whether another Privy Councillor pops in and pops out, because there must come a time when somebody moves the Closure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1898.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1901.2", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": " behalf of my own co-operative society in Manchester. In January of this year when other retail distribution firms were increasing the price of bread, the Manchester and Salford Co-operative Society reduced its price. Indeed, anyone living in Manchester today can buy a loaf of bread from the Manchester and Salford Co-operative Society for 2d. less than one can buy it from any other bread retailer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1908.3", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only voice?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "preceding_text": "y else will do it. The Catering Wages Act recognises this. It recognises that a social service is performed by employing those people. If we promote social welfare by employing them, anything that destroys the opportunity for employing them should be closely examined, and if it does not stand up to that examination it should be roundly condemned. That is why, in voice, I support these Amendments.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1908.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1923.0", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman's intervention, is a little over £80 and a little less than £85; but that is not the point. The Oldham Industrial Co-operative Society will pay the £85 a week. The society is generous-hearted and a very good employer. Indeed, in Oldham we have very good employers. We do not have many disputes. There must come a point at which the question arises whether this economic philosophy——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1922.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1927.0", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rhodes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rhodes", "preceding_text": "s anyone spoken against some of the Amendments now before the Committee. I do not think that any hon. Member on this side has seen fit to support his own Government. It seems to me that, when a debate takes place in which there appears to be virtual unanimity among back benchers across the Floor, whatever the party political motives may be behind some of the speeches made by hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1927.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1938.1", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "I agree, Mr. Steele—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1948.0", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "I did not hear any such argument from my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East, who is the one Member in this debate who raised that issue. The result is that it is not possible administratively to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1958.1", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": " employees. For the reason I have given, that would not work. As has been said many times, 90 per cent. of part-time employees are women. It is because of this, and because of the level of contribution which has to be paid, that the tax which has to be paid is related to the average earnings. This lower rate for women takes into account the very large incidence of part-time employment among women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1974.1", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Sir Eric, I know the rules of the House as well as you do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1974.3", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Sir Eric, if you interpret the rules of the House in that way, of course I bow to you and withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1974.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1975.0", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sure that it is the general wish of the Committee that we should make progress. The Question before the House is that I do report Progress and ask leave to sit again. As many as are of that opinion say \"Aye\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1974.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1975.5", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Eric. I hope that I understand the position correctly. I take it that you have put the Motion to the Committee and that it is now in order to speak to the Motion. Unless there is any other point of order to interrupt me, that is what I propose to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1975.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1976.2", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I heard the hon. Gentleman say, when we discussed a similar Motion some time ago, that is, a Motion to report Progress, that he intended to speak on every Amendment which came before the Committee on the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1976.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1977.6", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. A point of order has been put to me. I think that it is, technically, in order. The Question before the Committee is that I do report Progress and ask leave to sit again. That Motion was moved for a specific purpose. In the ordinary course it would not admit of a wide debate. I am sure that it was the general feeling of the Committee that we should proceed to a Division on that Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1977.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1977.7", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": " I should say that there was some noise in the Chamber at the time, but I made it clear when I rose that I intended to make one brief point, which I did. If my hon. Friends wish to debate this Motion, it is, as you have said, now before the Committee and is in order. I join with the Chancellor on this. We have taken a most serious step, with a good deal of reflection on this side of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1977.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1980.0", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ployees abroad. Although I must be careful how I say this, I would not have thought that, normally, this would extend the debating power of the Committee for too long a period. Normally, I should have thought that that would have been so. Then there is the Amendment on industrial training boards, and here, again, I should not have thought that we should be over-long. The next one, about hoteliers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1988.0", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "utation, even among his own back benchers, as the last Division showed us. There has been talk of putting down a Motion of censure against certain Members. I fear that that is what may happen upstairs when the next meeting takes place; the Chancellor may find a motion of censure put down against him because he has been completely adamant in not listening to the weight of argument in the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.1988.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2040.3", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not interested.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "preceding_text": " Gentleman did not say anything about the substance of the matter. My experience is that invariably, when the interests of the hotel and catering industry are discussed in this Committee, no interest is shown on the other side. It also appears to me unfortunate that the Minister of State, Board of Trade, who is allegedly responsible for the tourist industry, has not seen fit to attend this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2040.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2040.3", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has probably gone abroad.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "preceding_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not interested.\"] That is one possible excuse. But it may be, and I hope that this is true, that he has made efforts to persuade his Treasury colleagues of their short-sightedness in the policies which they are pursuing, though without success. Another excuse, and perhaps the most likely one, is that the Minister finds the whole subject too painful and cannot bear to attend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2040.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2041.1", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "ite untenable, as my hon. Friend has demonstrated. But I should like to add a point or two to what he said. 4.15 a.m. This industry is already short of 46,000 men. We cannot mechanise most of the jobs which are done in the industry. We can mechanise manufacturing processes, which ought to be encouraged, but will not be encouraged by Government policy, but we cannot mechanise a waiter or a doorman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2056.2", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has dawned.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "lidays? It is no use trying to gloss over the fact that to the people who live in our northern climes the sun is a great attraction. It always has been so, so people feel a great pull to go South, to France, Spain, Italy and the Mediterranean for their holidays. Our hotels have got to compete with this. They can compete, given the old English fine day. We have just had one, and another is dawning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2056.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2062.0", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "preceding_text": "The labour cost in their turnover is about 30 per cent. One can see, therefore, that, however well organised and mechanised a hotel or catering establishment may be, the labour content is very high. We are fortunate in Britain in having a very beautiful country, with many fine historic and interesting things for visitors to look at. But, unfortunately, we have an abominable and unreliable climate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2062.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2068.0", "colnum": "2068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "tax. Hon. Members from both the Conservative and Liberal Parties have spoken for an Amendment which seeks to exclude—the 1d. rate is put in to get the Amendment on the Notice Paper—the hotel and catering industry from the effects of this tax, although many of these hon. Members have said repeatedly that they would be in favour of a payroll tax right across the board, but at a lower rate obviously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2074.0", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In costs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Member will read what I have said in HANSARD, he will see that I have got over it. He referred to this increase of 6 per cent. in wage costs, which I accept as being the likely figure in the hotel industry. The likely total increase in charges made by the hotelier or caterer would be 2 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2074.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2078.0", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have the hesitation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "mendment is very important, and, in spite of what the Minister says, I believe that the tax will have a very serious effect on the tourist industry, and particularly on the South-West. The Minister is being rather complacent. I do not share his views on this, or his optimism for the future of the tourist industry. I have no hesitation in going over some of the points that have already been raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2079.4", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "I am sorry for that slip. I fully agree with what my hon. Friend has said. I want to make two new points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2079.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2087.1", "colnum": "2087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": " people from Lancashire and Yorkshire could go to the Lake District for the day. This applies to many other tourist areas, including the Highlands, I should think. But because of the better roads, built by the Conservative Government, the day trip orbit is very much extended. Already we have far more people from the Midlands coming to the Lake District on day trips. This brings tremendous dangers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2087.1", "colnum": "2087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": " the better roads, built by the Conservative Government, the day trip orbit is very much extended. Already we have far more people from the Midlands coming to the Lake District on day trips. This brings tremendous dangers. [ Laughter. ] It is all very well hon. Gentlemen opposite laughing. They would not do so if they had to put up with the problems that these people bring with them every weekend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2100.1", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "preceding_text": "Clause 42.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2116.0", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley R. McMaster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh. Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley R. McMaster", "preceding_text": "I have great pleasure in supporting the Amendment, which has been so ably moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Down, South (Captain Orr). I am particularly glad that he led for the Amendment today because it was a matter of great regret when I moved a similar Amendment in 1961 that my hon. and gallant Friend did not sign it and support it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2128.5", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rafton Pounder", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rafton Pounder", "preceding_text": "eland is higher than it is in England. It is indeed too high. It is roughly 1 per cent. above the English level. The English level is about 7 per cent., and the Northern Ireland rate is 8 per cent. and a bit. But to refer to a difference of 1 per cent. is misleading, because if we take the figure of 8 per cent. in relation to the figure of 7 per cent. we see that it is one-seventh, or 14 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2128.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2145.1", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": " to make. I beg to move, That the Chairman do report Progress and ask leave to sit again. There are three reasons which I hope will prove acceptable and persuasive to my right hon. and hon. Friends. The first is their natural courtesy, because I am sure that they would wish me to say to you, Sir Eric, how grateful we are for the way in which you have taken the Chair through this very long sitting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-29", "file": "debates1966-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1ff9afdb1ca402b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2152.1", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "here is another and more sinister reason for the delay. Of course, I may be wrong and would be delighted if the Parliamentary Secretary will disillusion me and make me much more happy about the whole affair. Last week there was printed and this Monday published with a flourish by the First Secretary of State the Socialist policy document now accepted in full, or at least in outline, in principle——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-29a.2152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-30", "file": "debates1966-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "099c7fd2da5d5524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2165.3", "colnum": "2165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONG KONG", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "That is more properly a question for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-30", "file": "debates1966-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "099c7fd2da5d5524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2188.0", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONG KONG", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was saying that the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues not only failed to protect the taxpayer but resisted the attempts of other Governments to limit our commitment. Having been one of the negotiators, he will recall that the Dutch Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-30", "file": "debates1966-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "099c7fd2da5d5524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2188.2", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONG KONG", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have said that my right hon. Friend was referring to continuing the activities of the organisation. All I say is that if the right hon. Gentleman had devoted his very considerable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-30", "file": "debates1966-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "099c7fd2da5d5524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2188.2", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONG KONG", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have said that my right hon. Friend was referring to continuing the activities of the organisation. All I say is that if the right hon. Gentleman had devoted his very considerable—[ Interruption. ]—expertise on hair-splitting of these words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-30", "file": "debates1966-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "099c7fd2da5d5524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2190.3", "colnum": "2190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONG KONG", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister recognise that we are not obsessed by the difficulties of party balance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-30", "file": "debates1966-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "099c7fd2da5d5524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2198.5", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "preceding_text": "I understand that the Leader of the Opposition referred to the fact that a Motion of censure has been tabled by the Opposition on the Chairman of Ways and Means. May I ask the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2198.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-30", "file": "debates1966-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "099c7fd2da5d5524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2201.4", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend has pointed out, there are so many divided views on the subject that the Government's view may, therefore, be right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2201.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-30", "file": "debates1966-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "099c7fd2da5d5524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2277.2", "colnum": "2277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Congratulations.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " Parliament. You are assessed under Schedule D in respect of your substantial income from television, broadcasting, and Press journalism. If you would be prepared to translate your claim in respect of Press cuttings from Schedule E to Schedule D, we will allow it\". Therefore, I promptly transferred it and the Inland Revenue allowed it, not only in respect of that year, but for five previous years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-30", "file": "debates1966-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "099c7fd2da5d5524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2286.0", "colnum": "2286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ound to have a crack about the case of the vicar who had to have a certain number of books, because I would have thought that it was arguable that any person who held the office of vicar would have to have had a certain number of books for the performance of that office. Perhaps we can get together and advise my hon. Friend the Member for Worcestershire, South afterwards and have a go at this one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2286.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-06-30", "file": "debates1966-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "099c7fd2da5d5524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2305.0", "colnum": "2305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "hich are part and parcel of the B.M.A.s agreement with the Minister. I hope that this point about ancillary services will be covered in the coming months. At present, and in the interim period, the danger is that if one is able to command the doctor's time because he is short of it, he is definitely encouraged to give the worst possible care to non-paying patients. If one has to wait for an hour——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-30", "file": "debates1966-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "099c7fd2da5d5524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2305.1", "colnum": "2305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why say so, then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "I am saying that there is a cash incentive. No doctor would do this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-30", "file": "debates1966-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "099c7fd2da5d5524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2319.0", "colnum": "2319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "t, and that is why we do not fashion the allowances on what it costs to keep a wife—if the hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) will forgive me for intimating that keeping a wife is a burden. Perhaps I should refer to the relative joys and responsibilities that family life brings. So much for the major principle; I am asked how I reconcile this with life assurance relief and mortgage payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-30", "file": "debates1966-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "099c7fd2da5d5524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2324.2", "colnum": "2324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is wrong with the dogs' home?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "t immoral for the taxpayer to direct it into a certain field of his choice. If the tax concession is not to be given to people who want to subscribe to B.U.P.A., they could easily prevent the money from getting into the Chancellor's clutches by giving it to a dogs' home. Surely the right hon. Gentleman would not wish to prevent people spending it on perhaps a more worthy cause than the dogs' home—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-06-30", "file": "debates1966-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "099c7fd2da5d5524", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2327.2", "colnum": "2327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "preceding_text": "have met, as have other hon. Members, nurses working in private hospitals who, for a variety of reasons, are not prepared or able to work in the Health Service. Were these private institutions not to exist they would probably be lost to nursing altogether. I do not accept the validity of the argument on cost, on two standards of service, or on drawing off of scarce medical resources. Now, finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-06-30a.2327.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-01", "file": "debates1966-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d6b0ffcc6803ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-01a.2362.3", "colnum": "2362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "y cannot be implemented. Much as I strive to stimulate my own party, I would rather that we went slowly and did the thing properly and fairly than make a lot of promises, because people become anxious and unhappy when they cannot be implemented. I would like to refer briefly to prescription charges. When my party introduced this—although it was originally introduced by the right hon. Lady's party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-01a.2362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-01", "file": "debates1966-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d6b0ffcc6803ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-01a.2371.2", "colnum": "2371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "One had to have a prescription for spectacles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-01a.2371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-01", "file": "debates1966-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d6b0ffcc6803ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-01a.2374.9", "colnum": "2374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend introduced 10 major reforms in the last Parliament. She can defend her own record against hon. Members, or anyone else, on the Opposition benches. This brings me to the political reason for the Bill. It was introduced on a previous occasion, when we had a very stormy debate, for a political reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-01a.2374.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-01", "file": "debates1966-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d6b0ffcc6803ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-01a.2374.13", "colnum": "2374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are you doing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "enes in the House on this subject for political propaganda. That is all. Hon. Members opposite say that these are worthy people whom they want to help. I agree. After all, I am a member of the teaching profession and many of these people are ex-teachers. But for goodness' sake do not make political propaganda out of their hardships, as hon. Members opposite have been doing over the last two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-01a.2374.13"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-01", "file": "debates1966-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d6b0ffcc6803ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-01a.2394.5", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George H. Perry", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They could not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George H. Perry", "preceding_text": "enough in 1984. Therefore, I wished to contribute more, and through pressure by myself and some of my colleagues on British Railways I shall soon contribute more than twice as much, to draw more than twice as much. Down through the years, none of these people, before reaching retirement age and before becoming too old and infirm to continue to earn money, ever bothered to do anything of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-01a.2394.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-01", "file": "debates1966-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d6b0ffcc6803ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-01a.2412.3", "colnum": "2412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lomas", "preceding_text": "I was not in the House during all of those thirteen years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-01a.2412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-01", "file": "debates1966-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d6b0ffcc6803ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-01a.2413.1", "colnum": "2413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lomas", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. Group 2 is composed of people who chose not to become special voluntary contributors under a scheme introduced in 1938-These people had the opportunity to become insured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-01a.2413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-01", "file": "debates1966-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d6b0ffcc6803ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-01a.2420.4", "colnum": "2420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "er more be able to boast, as did the hon. Member for Huddersfield, West (Mr. Lomas), that they care for the needy. The greedy, yes. Those who shout, march, hold meetings and make a noise will get their salary increases and better cars, their flashy holidays and their green-backed accolade. But the needy who have no voice and no strength and only the ability to make members of the Government laugh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-01a.2420.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-04", "file": "debates1966-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1de7941ec27cff80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.41.4", "colnum": "41", "heading": "FIRE, AUTO AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "We are grateful to the right hon. Lady for that statement. In view of the fact that a great deal of personal disaster could occur to individuals who find themselves uninsured, would the right hon. Lady endeavour to ask the company to circulate an individual notice to each motorist informing him of the position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.41.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-04", "file": "debates1966-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1de7941ec27cff80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "This is the first time that I have understood that the £20 increase in the personal allowance last year was wholly in respect of the loss of the pension contribution allowance. My understanding was that it was a general increase in the allowance because of inflation, and the fact that everybody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-04", "file": "debates1966-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1de7941ec27cff80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "A home help is only one of the points which are relevant in considering the additional expense to which a taxpayer is put on the grounds of the incapacity mentioned in the new Clause. It is only one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-04", "file": "debates1966-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1de7941ec27cff80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.102.6", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. I shall endeavour to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.102.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-04", "file": "debates1966-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1de7941ec27cff80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Much better than now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "If the concession were limited even at this stage to the new Clause of my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley, it is agreed that the concession would be very small. Over the years, we have had a good deal of respect for the Chief Secretary, particularly when he was on this side of the Committee. He used to argue these things very forcibly himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-04", "file": "debates1966-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1de7941ec27cff80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.113.3", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "It was the old Treasury argument pulled out again, to give nothing away and then: to say that it must not be given because these are influential people who have plenty of money, because they have the impertinence to pay Income Tax —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-04", "file": "debates1966-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1de7941ec27cff80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It would not be free in the end\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "ORT, 17th May, 1966; Vol. 728, c. 1100.] We have been in correspondence about this and I think that it is nonsense. There should be a scheme to prevent the necessity for this new Clause, whereby individuals of moderate means would be able to tell their inspector of taxes what assets they had sold during the year and there would thereby be a free accountancy aid scheme for capital gains tax payers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-04", "file": "debates1966-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1de7941ec27cff80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.159.7", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": "I was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.159.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-04", "file": "debates1966-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1de7941ec27cff80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.159.7", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Goodbye.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": "I was saying—[ interruption .]—I was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-04a.159.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-05", "file": "debates1966-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "26661d8150157df3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Before the Minister makes his annual report, would he be good enough to look into the problem of how, allegedly, the American industrial worker is able to produce two or three times per hour more than his British counterpart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-05", "file": "debates1966-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "26661d8150157df3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.245.2", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Park", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Park", "preceding_text": "th Peace Mission, will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the widespread alarm caused by the growing impression that the United States Government no longer favour a negotiated settlement in Vietnam, but are now seeking to secure a military victory at any cost? Will he repudiate the view that the solution to the conflict lies in the partition of the country along Korean lines? Will he reaffirm that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.245.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-05", "file": "debates1966-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "26661d8150157df3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.251.4", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sorensen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, there have been no such requests, and the hon. Gentleman will have noticed that since October, 1964, we have not been ennobling any sitting Members or giving them knighthoods, or baronetcies, or anything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.251.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-05", "file": "debates1966-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "26661d8150157df3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.262.2", "colnum": "262", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-05", "file": "debates1966-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "26661d8150157df3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.263.0", "colnum": "263", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "uences that it is the duty of all hon. Members who are not already pledged to vote against it. I will give three practical reasons for so claiming. The first is that the sponsors have never explained why the Bill should not apply to the 600,000 men in the Armed Forces, nor how discipline will be maintained if private buggery is permitted to civilians and denied to the soldiers, sailors and airmen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-05", "file": "debates1966-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "26661d8150157df3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.263.0", "colnum": "263", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Names.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "of the Bill, who have previously claimed that there are about 1 million \"homos\" in this country, cannot really make that claim. I do not believe it. I do not believe that our country is as rotten as all that. It is an awful slur on the good name of the country to say such a thing. Further, if this House is representative of the nation, it would mean that there are at least 30 \"homos\" in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.263.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-05", "file": "debates1966-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "26661d8150157df3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "e nation, it would mean that there are at least 30 \"homos\" in the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Names.\"] The allegation comes from the benches opposite, not from me. I am denying it. it is exactly 21 years today that I first had the great honour of being made an hon. Member of this House. During those years I have had the great privilege of having friendships with hon. Members on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-05", "file": "debates1966-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "26661d8150157df3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.264.2", "colnum": "264", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Dirty minds come to dirty conclusions. I have never come across one case of a \"homo\" in this House. How can the sponsors of the Bill be so certain that this practice is so widespread? Will the hon. Member for Pontypool say how many \"homos\" he has known in Parliament during his membership of the House? The third practical objection I have to the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-05", "file": "debates1966-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "26661d8150157df3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.264.4", "colnum": "264", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "No Private Members' Bill can be made law unless the Government of the day find the necessary time. I have more confidence in the northern common sense of the Prime Minister than to believe that he would give Parliamentary time for this Bill, and thus have the odium of this dirty Measure tied to his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.264.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-05", "file": "debates1966-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "26661d8150157df3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ommittee. A brilliant Parliamentarian, my witty and lovable hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale), has been looking for a job and the Front Bench would have been wise to consider him for some such position as this, as he has a deep and intimate knowledge of our rules and procedure. He could spare the time to serve on the Committee. Perhaps he was given this opportunity: I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-05", "file": "debates1966-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "26661d8150157df3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ough the usual channels and in every other way—but have not been successful. We see, therefore, that hon. Members are not appointed by that means. How are they appointed? My right hon. Friend should give an explanation. Why, for example, has my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale been chosen for this work? After all, he has not been the most passive, helpful and obliging hon. Member on occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-05", "file": "debates1966-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "26661d8150157df3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "was put forward? Or is there some other reason? If that is the reason, some of us could also clamour for a debate on Vietnam—not I, because I do not want to serve on the Committee, but some of my hon. Friends who would like to serve might clamour. I therefore hope that my right hon. Friend will give us some information about how all this is done. I hope that he will not tell me that which is true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-05a.377.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.411.3", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I have not seen the transcript.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.411.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (ABOLITION OF DELAYING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON, MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The House will recall that, in the event, the Lords did not push their opposition on that occasion to extreme lengths. In their wisdom, they deeded that the Burmah oil issue was not a very good one on which to fight a General Election, and I think that they were probably right. Since last May many things on the political scene have changed. We now have a radical, Socialist, modernizing Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.437.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.440.2", "colnum": "440", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (ABOLITION OF DELAYING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Mr. Wilson, Mr. Brown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "I do not recall the hon. and learned Member being present during the long debates to which he has referred. I should be grateful if I could be allowed to proceed with my argument. Certainly, it cannot be the responsibility of the Opposition that there was this misjudgment about the Selective Employment Tax. Certainly, this has led to the largest postbag I have ever had in my time in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "rvice debate could come forward. One of the difficulties of a Closure Motion, as the Chief Whip, whom I very sincerely congratulate on his new appointment, will know, is that the gallows is always knocked together in sight of the condemned men, who know that there is no possibility of a reprieve. One sees the P.P.S. moving backwards and forwards along the bench. One sees—I have done it in my time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "accepted the Closure. But any Chairman of Ways and Means under those circumstances would have accepted the Closure, and the Opposition know it. Whether the Chairman of Ways and Means had been a Conservative, a Labour Member or a Liberal, he would have accepted the Closure under those conditions. If a mistake was made, perhaps the mistake was in allowing so many Amendments to be discussed together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "ircumstances, they were not surprised when the Closure was moved. The Chairman was right to accept the Closure after such a lengthy debate, and no amount of indignation can alter that fact. If any censure is needed for the events of that night, it is not upon the Chairman of Ways and Means, but upon those hon. Members opposite who were on their feet shouting at him after the Question had been put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ainly those of us who have experience of these matters and have had many Closures moved upon us, would have been very surprised if that had not occurred. Moreover, although I realise that this is a technical argument, in a sense the Chairman of Ways and Means who accepts the Closure is not thereby saying that the debate is closed. He gives the House the decision as to whether the debate is closed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " tripped in and sat down, having no idea what had been going on. They had no idea of the issues involved or how deeply so many of us felt on the points we wanted to make. They gave this impression of an organised arrangement, as I say, and they were treating the Chairman of Ways and Means very badly. His position is a difficult one, and they were not making it any easier. I shall not say any more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "retion on that occasion in the way it has been used today as a means of attack upon the Government. I must add another word to the Gordon Touche reference which has been made. I cannot myself help feeling—I hope somebody on the other side of the House will utterly disavow this—that there is something of a game of tit-for-tat involved involved here, because the Opposition, in certain circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "ere was none of the slightly hypocritical \"flannel\" in which we wrap our arguments with the Chair. If I may use a school-boyish word which is also appropriate, the right hon. Gentleman was distinctly cheeky, and he should have apologised for his behaviour. I see that the Motion is in the name of the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, though he has not bothered to attend the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Herbert Bowden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Herbert Bowden)", "preceding_text": "uidance and rulings from the Chair it would be a very sorry day for us and for Parliament. I very much hope, therefore, Mr. Speaker, that the sponsors of the Motion, who have said that they will withdraw it, will, in fact, do so. I agree with the right hon. Member for Enfield, West that it is not sufficient to have it negatived. On reflection, I am sure that the Opposition regret having tabled it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House chose to put a point to me personally and I should like to point out that the words he complained of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.492.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.492.7", "colnum": "492", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that I must in the present situation use my discretion. Is it your wish that the Motion be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.492.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.613.2", "colnum": "613", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (HILL SHEEP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister note that from the point of view of the sort of Anglo-Scottish competition that exists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.613.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (HILL SHEEP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "If they have hill sheep, they get the headage payment. If they are cropping, they get the acreage payment. If they are not cropping and if they have sheep, they get the 2s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-06", "file": "debates1966-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "4ff445f6a9b77b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.619.1", "colnum": "619", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (HILL SHEEP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "Perhaps we might now turn our eyes from Scotland for a few moments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-06a.619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.640.5", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Why cannot the Minister and his right hon. Friend be honest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.640.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.649.2", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman asked not to be distinguished from his right hon. Friends, but surely it would be preferable, instead of having a whole series of disconnected Ministerial statements when they are abroad and out of sight of the right hon. Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell), that the Prime Minister should come here and make a coherent statement of his desire to enter the European Economic Community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.649.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.650.5", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Dollops?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "Would the First Secretary not agree that the restraints on our national sovereignty which would flow from membership of the Common Market are certainly as nothing compared to those which the Government have already accepted as the price of dependence on regular \"dollops\" of foreign credit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.650.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.660.7", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "For the fourth time, perhaps, I may repeat the answer to the same foolish question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.660.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.660.7", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "For the fourth time, perhaps, I may repeat the answer to the same foolish question—[Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"]—I am not, and the Government are not, trying to restrict the rise in incomes. We are trying to ensure, and we are entitled to more help than we are getting from the other side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.660.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman accept that he would be more persuasive in his attempts to get help if he were less consistently offensive and frivolous?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.663.2", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH IRON AND STEEL FEDERATION (PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister just for once give a straight answer to a simple question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.665.4", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL UNION OF SEAMEN (EXECUTIVE COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is it right for the Prime Minister to suggest that I am not capable of taking a Question off the Order Paper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.665.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.666.2", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course, there are many different accounts coming out of Vietnam of what is happening. I have never seen any evidence about saturation bombing of open towns, certainly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.679.3", "colnum": "679", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": ", hon. Members will still have had the opportunity tonight of voting in four different ways: first, for the Opposition Amendment or against it; secondly, for the Government Motion or against it. Hon. Members who have supported the other Amendment on the Order Paper which I have not selected should be able by their votes in one or other of these four directions sufficiently to indicate their views—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.681.3", "colnum": "681", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.681.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.687.4", "colnum": "687", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "called him, inadequate to end a big war.\" I noticed a similar sneer from the right hon. Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain Macleod) in a newspaper the other day. Let me ask the Leader of the Opposition this: if there were in his party somebody who had held junior Ministerial office and who, for any reasons, was able to get to Hanoi and talk to Communist leaders there, and if there were any chance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.687.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was wrong\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "n the far more terrible and serious conflict of Korea it was well understood that there were certain actions which, on a strictly military basis, if one had been concerned only with military victory, one might have said that it was right to carry out, but from which there was pm-dent restraint because of wider considerations. Hon. Members must weigh whether our judgment was right upon this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No point at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "nment choose to do? The right hon. Gentleman was asked that question in the Press, and he said that he would not answer a hypothetical question. If the right hon. Gentleman will use, as he did, words like \"ratting\" about people who disagree with him on this, he should get his own mind a little clearer as to what he would and would not support. Is there any point at which he would withhold support?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.698.3", "colnum": "698", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Having listened to the Foreign Secretary and compared what he said with the Government's Motion, one sees that the right hon. Gentleman's speech was infinitely stronger in its content than the terms of the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.698.3", "colnum": "698", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not very far, is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ation and the bombing of fuel tanks at Hanoi and Haiphong? He refused to answer the question or to make a difference between the two. The whole House objects to the bombing of centres of civilian population. But these are—it has not been challenged by the Foreign Secretary—specific military targets. They are, as the Prime Minister knows, two or three miles away from the actual civilian population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What end?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "f the United States, and of the possibility of getting a conference round the table, is a matter for diplomatic action, and both these things therefore must be done together. The first need, to convince them that they cannot win, presents both a military and a political problem. The first thing is that the Americans themselves must demonstrate that they are prepared to see this through to the end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I want to develop this argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "h, which is the technique to which we have become well accustomed. Then he could have got his vote, and winged his way to Moscow, the whole Left-wing being bemused, and the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale and his friends mentally flapping along with the Prime Minister like a group of old crows. The young eagles are the supporters—we must be quite clear about this—and the old crows are below the Gangway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.708.3", "colnum": "708", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ernment's own Motion carry very much conviction when it calls for a settlement which would enable the peoples of North and South Vietnam to determine their own future and which would ensure that the whole country became neutral …\". It is impossible to reconcile people determining their own future and prejudging it by saying that they must be neutral. If they are to be neutral, they cannot —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.708.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.708.3", "colnum": "708", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"What about Austria?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "peoples of North and South Vietnam to determine their own future and which would ensure that the whole country became neutral …\". It is impossible to reconcile people determining their own future and prejudging it by saying that they must be neutral. If they are to be neutral, they cannot —[ Interruption .]—if neutrality is to be imposed on them, they cannot be determining their own future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.708.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.713.7", "colnum": "713", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kerr", "preceding_text": "Mrs. Kerr rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.713.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.718.2", "colnum": "718", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I know that the Prime Minister has been here for some time, and I know the other engagements he has today. I hope, perhaps, that one of his hon. Friends will call some of my remarks to his attention. Incidentally, I may say that I am answering the Leader of the Opposition, and I am very sorry that he has not been in his place for a single moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I know something of what happened in the five weeks of the bombing pause. I received some new information from interested countries in the course of the last week-end. I say I believe Hanoi would have negotiated if the bombing pause had been prolonged for another two or three weeks. It is only by opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.722.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.724.3", "colnum": "724", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "Who backed him? You.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.725.4", "colnum": "725", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "s casualties. The second was the effect upon the prospects of a political solution. The Prime Minister in his statement the other day said that the bombing of the oil installations might result in heavy loss of civilian life. Like my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, I want to ask why the Prime Minister did not wait to see whether his fears were justified before reversing his policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.725.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ill he reconsider his hasty decision? That is the test of his sincerity. It will show whether he is motivated by humanitarian or political considerations. Frankly—and this is the occasion for speaking frankly on both sides—I do not believe that the Prime Minister is so much worried by the casualties in Hanoi as by the danger of casualties in the ranks of his own party here in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "as never said that; Peking has never said that; but they have said that. The bombing stopped—and negotiations never got off the ground. My right hon. Friend the Member for Derby, South (Mr. Philip Noel-Baker) said that he had evidence that if the cessation in bombing had gone on for another three weeks negotiations would have started. We are entitled to have that evidence. I hope that it is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "ught of the members of both Front Benches in the present situation. The implication—it is a terrifying implication—is that the United States Administration can do no wrong. I would remind right hon. and hon. Members opposite who take that line—they include the Leader of the Opposition—that according to Senator Fulbright power has gone to the President's head and he has stepped into Hitler's shoes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.747.5", "colnum": "747", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is as long in his interventions as he is in his speeches. I do not intend to be deflected or to give way again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.747.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "y to get some result in Moscow when he visits there later this month. I should like the Prime Minister to answer the question put to him this afternoon by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition. Was he really invited? I wonder. I wonder if he did not perhaps suggest that he would like to visit the Trade Fair and then have a talk with the leaders of the Soviet people whilst he was there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.779.3", "colnum": "779", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "r for Derby, South (Mr. Philip Noel-Baker) said this afternoon that if only the cessation had continued for another three weeks, a peace conference could have taken place. I wonder. Some of my hon. Friends a short time ago sent a telegram to some senators in Washington. They are now asking hon. Members who signed that telegram to pay £5 each to send a delegation of backbench Members to Washington.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.779.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.793.1", "colnum": "793", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "n make that sort of speech, why cannot he write a Motion saying what he feels, putting it down in black and white? From these benches we wish to demonstrate firm general support of the United States in Vietnam. The hon. Gentleman the Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton), in his new rôle—a very agreeable rôle, and one which would almost qualify him for a seat in another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.793.1", "colnum": "793", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "is question. But the Foreign Secretary quite rightly said, of course, that r o British Government, no one in the British House of Commons, can say \"We will support everything the Americans do right or wrong.\" What we are saying is that in this question of the American bombing of military targets in Vietnam the American Government were right and the judgment of the British Prime Minister was wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "These questions Lave not arisen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "These questions Lave not arisen—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—if they do we judge these matters on their merits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "These questions Lave not arisen—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—if they do we judge these matters on their merits—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—and we support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "These questions Lave not arisen—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—if they do we judge these matters on their merits—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—and we support—[ Interruption .] I will have to cut in to the Prime Minister's time at this rate. We support the American policy as it has been revealed, and the actions the Americans have taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " questions Lave not arisen—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—if they do we judge these matters on their merits—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—and we support—[ Interruption .] I will have to cut in to the Prime Minister's time at this rate. We support the American policy as it has been revealed, and the actions the Americans have taken—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] We do not know what further action they will take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "letely ruined in the last three minutes when he failed to reply to the question which my hon. Friend the Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton) had addressed to him. I should like to thank the right hon. Member for the good wishes he expressed to me and for his advice and counsel about dealings with the Kremlin. I am sure it was not his intention that his advice should sound so patronising.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "nd for his advice and counsel about dealings with the Kremlin. I am sure it was not his intention that his advice should sound so patronising.— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"]—I recognise, of course, that he has had substantial dealings with the Kremlin. He will recognise that I was dealing with them also successfully seven years before he became a junior Minister. When the right hon. Gentleman asked me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "lings that have been expressed in very graphic terms from different parts of the House and by hon. Members of different points of view about this cruel war in Vietnam. Whatever may divide us—we are divided about the policy that ought to be followed by various of the parties to this dispute, and indeed, by Her Majesty's Government themselves—we are united, every one of us, in our passionate desire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": " policy that ought to be followed by various of the parties to this dispute, and indeed, by Her Majesty's Government themselves—we are united, every one of us, in our passionate desire—[ Interruption .] Perhaps I might appeal to the right hon. Gentleman to rise above his frivolity and take this Vietnam subject with the seriousness which it demands. I was saying that we are united, every one of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " separate obligations—for example, obligations different from the position of the Australian and New Zealand Governments. I do not know whether he feels that we are on the same footing or whether the Co-Chairmanship makes a difference. Let me give an example: they send troops, we do not because we are Co-Chairman. Does he agree that we are right? He owes it to the House to say whether he believes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sorry; I want to put a question to the right hon. Gentleman. I have said that as co-Chairman we are not sending troops. The right hon. Member for Wolverhampton,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "eign troops or bases, this is in accordance with what United States leaders have said a number of times. Unlike the right hon. Gentleman's Amendment, what we say in this statement is what we said in the election. This statement, apart from the last 20 words or so, is taken word for word from the manifesto which we put before the country and upon which all my hon. Friends were elected to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ould hardly have expected more favourable comment from its satrapes in Eastern Europe. Those words were used by the right hon. Gentleman's defence spokesman five day's before polling day and they were never repudiated by the right hon. Gentleman. certainly not before the election was over. It was only after the election that he ordered his right hon. Friend to hold his tongue. But that is not all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "dered his right hon. Friend to hold his tongue. But that is not all. [ Interruption .] This is not a red herring. The right hon. Gentleman also said on 26th March after referring to Vietnam: Over and over again it has been left to the Tory Party and above all to Mr. Hoath himself, to voice the legitimate claim of this country to a rational independence and distinctiveness of outlook and of policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "did it in the election last March. They give the impression at these times, somehow, that the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-07", "file": "debates1966-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "45ec687972f31f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.810.3", "colnum": "810", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They all fail.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n on which we shall be voting represents, thought by thought and word for word, what we said and what we fought on when we were seeking from the country the mandate which we are now carrying out. That mandate was to do everything in our power to seek to bring the fighting in Vietnam to an end. That is what we are doing. We shall expect the usual jibes on any initiative which we take that may fail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-07a.810.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-11", "file": "debates1966-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "890483fea9d7b951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-11a.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Having regard to the fact that since October 1964 national productivity has increased by only 1 per cent. and the cost of living has gone up by nearly 10 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-11a.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-11", "file": "debates1966-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "890483fea9d7b951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-11a.957.2", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "I find that an extraordinary supplementary question in view of the earlier questions raised about the wages councils which exist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-11a.957.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-11", "file": "debates1966-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "890483fea9d7b951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-11a.958.4", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "The position with regard to the trade unions is clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-11a.958.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-11", "file": "debates1966-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "890483fea9d7b951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-11a.971.3", "colnum": "971", "heading": "S.O.E., FRANCE (MRS. HALLOWES AND MRS. SZABO)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. White", "preceding_text": "With great respect to the right hon. Gentleman, he must appreciate that with a book which names an enormous number of individuals, it is clear that it would have been quite impracticable to have consulted every single one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-11a.971.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-11", "file": "debates1966-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "890483fea9d7b951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-11a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "E.L.D.O. (MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I must repeat again that the Government never had any intention of leaving the E.L.D.O. organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-11a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-12", "file": "debates1966-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7cefe0c564ae6293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1213.5", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SEAMEN'S STRIKE (OUTSIDE INFLUENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister also bear in mind that there are many of us in the House who, as we said at the time, are strongly opposed to any such inquiry as the Leader of the Opposition suggested?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1213.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-12", "file": "debates1966-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7cefe0c564ae6293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1214.4", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LAND, HOUSING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman will, I think, be aware that there are abundant signs that the housing situation is improving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1214.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-12", "file": "debates1966-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7cefe0c564ae6293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1216.4", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LAND, HOUSING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If we were to follow the precedent of the right hon. and learned Gentleman's party, when they first increased the housing programme to 300,000 houses a year they stopped all other building, including schools, hospitals and factories. It was in 1952 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1216.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-12", "file": "debates1966-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7cefe0c564ae6293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1255.4", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "But I am talking about a particular form of tax. If someone does not pay any form of tax, he is jolly lucky.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1255.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-12", "file": "debates1966-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7cefe0c564ae6293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1371.7", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "but which has been made far more effectively by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Chertsey (Sir L. Heald) from his great experience. I do not see how we can let the position go without a better statement from the Chief Secretary, for whom I have the greatest respect. We know that he takes a great deal of trouble in these matters. The right hon. Gentleman knows only too well, however—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1371.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-12", "file": "debates1966-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7cefe0c564ae6293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1374.0", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "s not ultra vires and are not the Government seeking to do something which they have no power to do? How can they give directions as to the routes of the hovercraft if these take one outside of territorial waters? I can conceive of circumstances in which Customs dislikes the idea of a hovercraft approaching the shores of the country alongside an area where it would be possible for it to go ashore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-12", "file": "debates1966-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7cefe0c564ae6293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1388.0", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "nefit, so to speak, to the rich operator. I do not think that they realise this. First, there are the big companies which hire out fruit machines on a weekly or monthly basis to clubs or pubs. Secondly, there are those who own the machines and live in a different part of the country from their machines. This devolves into those which are purely seasonal and those which are used all the year round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-12", "file": "debates1966-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7cefe0c564ae6293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1402.0", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. This is a very important matter. We may be reaching a Ruling which we shall all regret. When you read out that quotation from Erskine May, Mr. Deputy Speaker, did you not read out at the beginning,\"… except with the permission of the House …\"?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-12", "file": "debates1966-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7cefe0c564ae6293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1402.3", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": " worst elements in the Government party, and I hope that the Chief Secretary will now be a little more worthy of his better self, make a generous reply to my hon. Friend, and bring the first night's proceedings on the Report stage of the Finance Bill to a much happier conclusion than otherwise might be the case by saying that he has the authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer—who is not here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-12", "file": "debates1966-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7cefe0c564ae6293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "of occasions this evening, that she would have been entitled to ask leave to speak again; that is to say, this was a case where it was permissible for her to make a second contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-12a.1406.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-13", "file": "debates1966-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d0309e04e86f235c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1515.2", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Dean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Dean", "preceding_text": "xceedingly difficult time under present arrangements. They are finding it very difficult to maintain a satisfactory service, and in many cases already the service is inadequate. Their costs and their fares have been mounting rapidly. The Chief Secretary also knows that we are dealing with a comparatively small section of the community who are not well off. Tycoons do not travel by public transport", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1515.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-13", "file": "debates1966-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d0309e04e86f235c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1520.3", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Dance", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Pigs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Dance", "preceding_text": "orms of transport. I gave my support to closures of uneconomic lines and insisted that we must have this alternative form of transport. The ordinary bus is not good enough today. We need a form of goods van such as they have on the Continent, where a woman can pack her pram or her trunk. I have even travelled in France with a thing on top of the vehicle carrying a lot of chickens, ducks and geese—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1520.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-13", "file": "debates1966-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d0309e04e86f235c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1529.3", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "le of this debate which has last for two hours, but also that there have been very few Government supporters present during almost the last two hours and the Whips had to be sent out to fetch them in. Every time they came in we cheered them and approved the fact that at last, willy-nilly and reluctantly, they were showing some interest in this matter, which arouses very deep feelings in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1529.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-13", "file": "debates1966-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d0309e04e86f235c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1534.0", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Not many blades of grass there.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I should immediately incur your displeasure, Mr. Speaker, if I followed that entirely irrelevant intervention. I complete the trinity of speakers from the County of Worcestershire this afternoon. My hon. Friend the Member for Worcester opened the debate and my hon. Friend the Member for Bromsgrove (Mr. Dance) spoke a little later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1533.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-13", "file": "debates1966-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d0309e04e86f235c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1588.0", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" All the easier to accept it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "who work there would qualify for the refund. Of course, the employers of the blind employed in the manufacturing sector will qualify not only for the refund but for the premium, and there will in that case be an actual incentive to employ people in that area. The employers of people in the neutral sector other than the charities will also get the refund. We are not dealing with very large numbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-13", "file": "debates1966-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d0309e04e86f235c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1615.0", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Friends?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "I rise almost rapidly to support my hon. and right hon. Friends in this Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-13", "file": "debates1966-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d0309e04e86f235c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1618.0", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "mittee. The difficulties would be exactly the same. The only way in which we could deal with this problem would be by exemption in a form which I do not think any hon. Member would like to see, which would be by raising the present eight-hour limit below which employers do not have to pay any National Insurance contributions to a 21-hour limit. That would be the only way in which it could be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-13", "file": "debates1966-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d0309e04e86f235c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1621.0", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "ain that there will be a serious damaging effect on our hotels. The House w ill remember that the Chancellor exhorted us to take our holidays in Britain rather than spend foreign currency. The effect of the tax will be this. Someone arriving at a hotel in Scotland and asking for tea to be brought at 7.30 a.m. will be told by the proprietor, \"I am very sorry, but because of the burden of this tax\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-13", "file": "debates1966-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d0309e04e86f235c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1630.0", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "namely, that interest paid in those circumstances shall not be treated in the same way as interest paid to a stranger, but as part of a distribution to the owner of the business. The answer is that it is costly to treat it in the way in which my hon. Friend has in mind. His proposal is that the recipient should pay the normal Income Tax and Surtax which is attributable to him on receipt of income—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-13", "file": "debates1966-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d0309e04e86f235c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1630.0", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "is that it is costly to treat it in the way in which my hon. Friend has in mind. His proposal is that the recipient should pay the normal Income Tax and Surtax which is attributable to him on receipt of income— [Interruption.] Certainly, but what he proposes is that the interest should be deducted for Corporation Tax purposes. That would not be the case if it were a dividend paid to a shareholder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-13", "file": "debates1966-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d0309e04e86f235c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1674.3", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gilt Edge Switching", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman not give us his version of what is the right one? We are all agog with interest, waiting for a constructive suggestion from him suggesting that he should arrest the drift in the gilt-edged market. I need hardly repeat that there are hundreds and thousands of small investors in our constituencies who are holding War Loan at something below 49, and it is still sliding down. Therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-13a.1674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1709.3", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that the new system of investment grants is substantially less favourable to industry than the previous system of allowances, and will he stop quoting\"phoney\"figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1709.4", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "As I have repeatedly explained to the hon. Gentleman, it is his figures are are\"phoney \".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1709.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1714.4", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We are not supplying them indirectly or directly to Vietnam.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1714.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1714.4", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We are not supplying them indirectly or directly to Vietnam. [Interruption.] If arms are required specifically for use in Vietnam, we do not supply them so far as Australia is concerned but, as I said, if we have a long and continuing contract for a particular type of arms, we could not put tags on them and say,\"This particular part of this supply.…\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1714.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1715.2", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS:\"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course, they are not involved. Our position is", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1715.2", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course, they are not involved. Our position is[HoN. MEMBERS:\"Answer.\"] The answer is as I have said. The right hon. Gentleman will recognise that this is a very difficult subject which cannot be dealt with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1715.3", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend received—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1715.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1716.0", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have discussed this matter very fully with the Australian Prime Minister. He fully understands the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1716.0", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have discussed this matter very fully with the Australian Prime Minister. He fully understands the position—[Interruption.] This is really not a laughing matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1716.2", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman always wants to get a difficult situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1717.3", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murton", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact, however, that in this particular broadcast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1717.3", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murton", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact, however, that in this particular broadcast—[Interruption.]—the Minister of Housing and Local Government said categorically —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1717.3", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murton", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact, however, that in this particular broadcast—[Interruption.]—the Minister of Housing and Local Government said categorically —[HON. MEMBERS:\"Reading.\"]—that within the past five years—[Interruplion.] new house prices have never risen less than 8 per cent. annually—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1717.3", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS:\"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murton", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact, however, that in this particular broadcast—[Interruption.]—the Minister of Housing and Local Government said categorically —[HON. MEMBERS:\"Reading.\"]—that within the past five years—[Interruplion.] new house prices have never risen less than 8 per cent. annually—[Interruption.]—and that it has often been 10 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1721.3", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that in guillotining the Selective Employment Payments Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1722.0", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS:\"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1722.0", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is the right hon. Gentleman—[HoN. MEMBERS:\"Sit down.\"] Is the right hon. Gentleman entitled to make a speech dealing with the merits of a particular piece of legislation when he is asking a business question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1722.3", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "It would probably be more appropriate to debate the timetable Motion on Monday, but may I reply to one or two points? There are four precedents for timetabling Finance Bills in the current century. There is also a precedent of a Conservative Government timetabling a Bill in 1952 before the Committee stage was started—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1722.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1725.1", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I submit that this does matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1725.5", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Or in the mornings?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "Would the Leader of the House accept that the only reason—I have put this forward myself as Leader of House—for a timetable Motion is always shortage of time? Would the right hon. Gentleman take into account that we on this side of the House are prepared to sit in August, or in September—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1725.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1726.0", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the right hon. Gentleman's view. I do not know whether it is shared by the whole of his colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1726.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1727.6", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Sir Barnett Janner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1727.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1728.4", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS:\"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "In view of the statement of the right hon. Member for Enfield, West (Mr. lain Macleod) that he is ready, if not eager, to sit in the mornings to discuss the Selective Employment Payments Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1730.4", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Stand up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm to hon. Members on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1730.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1736.0", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is quite wrong to say that it was not the seamen's strike and other short-run factors which caused these recent difficulties. As he will know, the economic situation was recovering rapidly up to the seamen's strike, sterling was strong and the reserves were improving immediately before the seamen's strike in May—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1739.4", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "BANK RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "er of public importance in that both the measures referred to were announced this morning will have major repercussions throughout the economy. I have taken the first opportunity open to me to raise this and I further submit that the urgency of this matter cannot be gainsaid. The effect of a 7 per cent. Bank Rate on the Government's housing problem, already sadly in arrears can only be disastrous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1739.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " problem remains, and neither by the Opposition Amendment nor by the Amendment tabled by some of my right hon. and hon. Friends, can one escape the major longterm problem to which we must try to find an answer. The Government start from one major preoccupation which I know that right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite do not share, and that is to get the highest possible degree of economic activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "at concentration went on the things that needed to be done to keep the fullest economic activity going. That is why there was the changeover from tax allowances, for example, on investments that were not all that effective, to direct grants, which are much more certain, much more real, and much more quickly directed to what we want done. That is why all the work is going on in the\"Little Neddies.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1752.1", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If it were as simple as that, the failure would be as crashing as it always was when the party opposite was in office. The hon. Gentleman must do more than add up sums and try to think how it is done. That is why we are getting further down the road than the right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite got.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1752.1", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " work inside three months. All that they would solve, as I said at the beginning of my speech, is the business of preventing people from having any bargaining power and from being able to buy goods in the shops. They would not solve the problem of how to keep our men, factories and machines at work, achieve stability, and prevent inflation. That is the problem to which we are addressing ourselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1753.2", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER:\"Which movement?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " discuss it informally with the parties concerned. The Government will then have the power, if they wish to exercise it, to refer it to the Board for examination, so it is not the Government acting as judge. If it is referred to the Board, on which at the moment there sit at least five people whose past has been associated with our movement, and with the experience that we understand very closely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1753.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": "inly to ensure the most rapid rise possible in real wages. We in this party fundamentally believe in a high-wage, low-cost economy. As a part of achieving this, an incomes policy can be of great service, but it must be against the right background. It has not been against the right background under this Government, and that is why I say to the First Secretary that his incomes policy has collapsed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Gentleman perhaps regrets the attitude taken by his hon. Friends—I remember it, not bitterly, but certainly with regret-in deliberately setting out to stop the National Incomes Commission from working. The right hon. Gentleman said that there were no trade union members on it. Why not? The answer is because the trade unions would not co-operate with the National Incomes Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1768.1", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maxwell", "preceding_text": " the fact that in the recurrent bouts of balance-of-payment problems we have had, Governments—both Opposition and ourselves—which have put on the brake and deflated, only found themselves later hurting the economy by stifling growth? Is it not also true that we have reached the stage today when, even if we did deflate in the harshest possible sense, we would not be capable of restoring confidence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1769.3", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with that gibe, because I expected it. It is a foolish cry, because reducing demand is what the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been trying to do for the last 18 months, and to reduce it even more is what the Prime Minister announced today he intends to do. How many unemployed does he think he will create? We really should not debate this issue on this silly sort of gibe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1782.1", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "e advocated statutory control of prices, rents, dividends and all forms of private income as a package deal in exchange for an equal freeze of wages and salaries. For that, I still plead and I will accept statutory power behind it. But, having said that, I absolutely reject the Bill as being irrelevant to the economic blizzard which I believe to be about to sweep the whole of the capitalist world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1784.1", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "f the country, that none of us has the divine right to a higher standard of living every year, whether we earn it or not. I would increase to 50 per cent. the deposit paid on all hire-purchase agreements, I would halve the time allowed to pay for goods bought under them, and I would increase the rate of tax so as drastically to reduce the demand on the home market. Fourthly, I would impose quotas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1786.1", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"What about directors?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "If I gave the wrong impression I withdraw. All hon. Members accepted the increase and although the right hon. Gentleman only took half of what was awarded he still received nearly £100 more. If the country is to take any notice of this House, we have to set the example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1786.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1786.2", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the birch?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ness and incompetence. My ninth measure would be to reduce direct taxation and increase indirect taxation, because unless there is an adequate carrot in the economic machine one will not get men to work to their utmost and do their best. Lastly, and this will please hon. Members opposite, I would bring the troops home from Germany and save £100 million a year. These are the things that I would do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cousins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cousins", "preceding_text": "oice is between this pay policy and the dole leaves me stone cold. If this is the basis of our consideration of what our Government should be, that we have only the choice of a statutorily enforceable restriction on wage movements or the dole, we have failed. Where is our planned growth of incomes policy'? Where is our approach to modernisation'? What was the purpose of the Ministry of Technology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1809.2", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I must apologise, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was addressing my remarks to the more intelligent part of the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1809.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1812.4", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I suggest that there is nothing in the Bill which interferes with the principle of claims by voluntary bargaining. This was best put by the First Secretary, when he said that when one considered the long time that wages claims took, why people should object to being asked to pause for four weeks got him down. That is why I say that hon. Members have tended to overstrain this matter. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1812.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1816.1", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "e, just to have voted against it. The First Secretary and his Friends have all along proceeded on the basis that we have two choices—we have the Bill or we have massive deflation and unemployment. I believe that to be an utterly bogus choice. The Bill is not a choice at all. It will not achieve anything and other measures will be called for—indeed, we have been told so by the Prime Minister today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1840.1", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "t. But this time nobody can bail us out except ourselves, and this is the importance of the package which the Prime Minister is going to announce. I ask the First Secretary to please say to the Prime Minister,\"Make this statement soon. Announce this package soon\"for this is a crisis of confidence, as all crises are, and we have been basically in this crisis of confidence ever since November, 1964.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1840.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1841.0", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "further measures are required. I therefore urge the First Secretary to plead with the Prime Minister to do it soon—and this time please can we have no double-talk to accompany it? Do it and say it, and mean it if there is no other way; and indeed I do not believe that there is any other hope. In this context, one sentence in the resignation letter of the right hon. Member for Nuneaton of 5th July—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "d case has crept somewhere round about the norm, that here and there perhaps some attitudes may have been changed, some claim may not have been pushed forward because of the admittedly hard work and passionate belief—for which I have always given him credit—in his policies which he has shown. But the reality is what we must look at. The reality is quite simple. The rise in average weekly earnings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-14", "file": "debates1966-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "cafeda717286f8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1867.1", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fish (Diseases)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "he preservation of sporting rights they will meet with approval in those parts of the country where salmon fishing could provide a useful source of additional income, and where the preservation of sporting rights has inhibited the full use of this natural resource. I was somewhat surprised by the hon. Member in that I waited in vain for some declaration of his own pecuniary interest in the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-14a.1867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "SIERRE LEONE (NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HoN.MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman is a lawyer and I am sure that he would agree with me that, at the moment, it may be unwise for me to make further comment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.38.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.41.5", "colnum": "41", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman cannot recall the business statement of last Thursday. Originally, the Third Reading of the Finance Bill was to have been tomorrow. Of course, it would have been quite inappropriate to have discussed the Third Reading of the Finance Bill the day before the financial statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.41.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We shall, however, no doubt be told this afternoon that the Government are trying to stifle debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We shall, however, no doubt be told this afternoon that the Government are trying to stifle debate—[Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—and to force through a Measure which has not been adequately considered by the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "Four Money Bills have been subject to the Guillotine in the present century. I do not know what happened in the last century. My researches have not gone so far as to show whether any have been guillotined before the Committee stage. It is, in the Government's view, essential that the Selective Employment Payments Bill should receive the Royal Assent before the Summer Recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.56.4", "colnum": "56", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "ime on expert advice. Whose? With respect, whose? Whose expert advice? Who is it who decides what time this honourable House shall allot—as between banking and financing—shall we say?—on one side, and the case of laundries and the Mrs. Mopps on the other? What genius is it who holds these particular scales? Or the scales between Scotland and china clay, or between bakehouses and development areas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.56.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.67.3", "colnum": "67", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": " the Government being obstructed in an important matter such as taxation. The situation today is not like that in the last Parliament, when the Government had a majority of three. The country has clearly expressed the view that it is this Government that it wants. The country may not have expressed a point of view on different aspects of taxation, but it has expressed confidence in the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.67.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How many Government back benchers are there?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "ort period that I have been a Member of the House, the most effective occasions have been when the debates have been short and crisp, and speeches have been to the point. I came here this afternoon expecting to find a House seething with indignation at the restrictions imposed on it. I have come into the House two or three times, and there have been barely 50 Members here., one of whom was asleep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "'s determination in present economic circumstances to proceed with steel nationalisation. It is surprising just how strongly this has impinged on our creditors abroad. I must go no further than that and I say that only as an aside. It may be that one of the things with which Ministers are now wrestling is just how to present to their back benchers that this measure has to be dropped. We shall see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "o make it clear that I still do not believe that the Leader of the House would lower himself to tactics of that kind—I have far too great a personal respect and regard for him. But he must pay attention to the activities of one of those at least metaphorically alongside him and the damage that this does to the understandings upon which this House works. To draw the threads of my argument together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " the argument less one-sided and in that sense it could be argued that hon. Gentlemen will be able to hear more fully what is the view of hon. Gentlemen on this side of the House. I do not think that there can be any quarrel with that suggestion. It is the most innocent accusation that has ever been made against the Paymaster-General. If he was doing nothing else but that for all of the time well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "n was not synthetic and then he never mentioned the guillotine Motion again. He merely went ahead to discuss the Prime Minister in his usual terms. We all know that the right hon. Gentleman is trying to recapture his one moment in Parliamentary history. Everyone in this House knows that the one thing for which the right hon. Gentleman will be remembered for all of his political life, by his party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.105.5", "colnum": "105", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I had the misfortune to listen to the speech of the right hon. Member for Flint, West (Mr. Birch) and after the exhibition, with manifestations of bitter venom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.105.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "er the guillotined Bill. Morning sittings have been suggested, but my proposal is that we should sit on further into August. I am not against the idea of timetable Motions in general, though I believe that they should be used very rarely and with great care. In this case, we should be given more time, and we should be able to agree upon the number of days in which the business could be dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.125.3", "colnum": "125", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": " that is so. I say \"at first sight\" because all hon. Members are aware that the Opposition —any Opposition—feels that their rights are being curtailed—as indeed they are—when a Motion of this character is presented, and any Opposition are bound strenuously to oppose any guillotine Motion. That is what is happening now, and what will probably continue to happen all night—-or may continue to happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "I think that it would be true to say that nearly every hon. Member has got various matters concerned with the Selective Employment Tax and other matters which have been the subject of correspondence, but is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that every hon. Member who has views on this subject should be in a position to speak?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way again to the hon. Gentleman. In common, I am sure, with a number of hon. Members on both sides, I wanted to speak both on Vietnam and on prices and incomes. What is so disturbing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "heir areas wish to take part in the debate. But we need to look at this matter not just in the context of the Selective Employment Tax and this Motion, but in the wider context of the many other important matters of home and foreign affairs on which so many Members cannot catch the eye of the Chair purely because of the limitation of time. I tabled a Question to the Leader of the House a week ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "he short time I have been here, I have found mornings extremely useful to attend to constituency matters, dealing with correspondence, and seeing people. I am by no means certain that morning sittings would provide the solution to our problems. Perhaps hon. Members opposite are concerned not so much with constituency matters in the morning as with dealing with their financial and business affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And on the Government side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "tituency matters, dealing with correspondence, and seeing people. I am by no means certain that morning sittings would provide the solution to our problems. Perhaps hon. Members opposite are concerned not so much with constituency matters in the morning as with dealing with their financial and business affairs. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] There are many hon. Members opposite who have business interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "I shall return to the subject of the debate and leave the symposium on Parliamentary reform to which, apparently, we are being treated by hon. Members opposite. This debate today is one of which the House will, in retrospect, be ashamed. It will be ashamed because only three days are to be allocated to the Committee stage of the Selective Employment Payments Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He had a big majority.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Woolwich, West (Mr. Hamling) must have a singular lack of constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman, with his habitual courtesy, give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.176.4", "colnum": "176", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "It is a question not only of the number of Amendments, but of the Opposition's attitude to the Bill which the Government must take into account. The hon. Member for the Isle of Ely (Sir H. Legge-Bourke) said that we should tell the Chancellor of the Exchequer to amend the Finance Bill and to remove the Selective Employment Tax from it completely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.176.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.176.4", "colnum": "176", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": " I do not misjudge his political attitudes, but when he refers to a Measure as revolutionary I do not think that he intends to pay it a compliment. He is wholly against the Bill and has no intention of amending it. I regret that I was not here to listen to the speech of the hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe), but I am told that he said, \"I want to obstruct the Bill for as long as I can\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.176.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.176.4", "colnum": "176", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "ing (Mr. Onslow) said, \"We shall fight against this as hard as we can\". That represents the general view of hon. Members opposite. I hope that the House will accept that we are reasonable in reaching the conclusion that the Opposition want to obstruct the Bill, as they are perfectly entitled to do. I hope that I have demonstrated that we are being reasonable in the time that we propose to provide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.176.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.176.4", "colnum": "176", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "ployer, that the Bill should become law as soon as possible. The right hon. Member for Enfield, West was good enough to say that there was no gulf of opinion dividing us; there is a difference of view about what is a reasonable period to allot to the Bill. I hope that he will feel, on further consideration, that this is not a matter of principle which divides us. We are agreed about the principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.176.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "re it was published. We all remember how, the day that it was announced, on the major issues of agriculture, the Chancellor told us that it was going to be repaid through the Price Review. Within a few days and possibly because of the threat of another resignation, the poor, dejected Minister of Agriculture already having inflicted the British farmer with one of the worst Price Reviews in history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I shall be delighted to give way if the hon. Gentleman cares to come down and speak officially from the Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "We take endless trouble in this House, guarding people against the haphazard disasters of life, yet here is a Measure which is certainly haphazard and certainly a disaster. It is certainly extremely damaging to the City of London, which earns the money which the Government squanders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": " cripple. Yet it is proposed that we should skate over it and pass it, undigested in three days, in spite of the fact that it affects almost everyone's life in a way which is at yet, quite undiscussed in detail and quite un-thought-out by the Government. It may be said there is a shortage of time. Of course there is. There is a world shortage of time. The Prime Minister is short of time in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Typical.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ck on the Executive, as a scrutineer of legislation—not fractious opposition merely bent on delaying Government business, but ruthless scrutiny of legislation brought by the Government. When we recollect, as I recollected on another occasion a few days ago, the Prime Minister's taunt about the tomfoolery he accused the Opposition of getting up to last year, I think that a most unworthy accusation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter (West Stirling-shire)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter (West Stirling-shire)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of the fact that every speech that I have heard this afternoon has been more or less—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter (West Stirling-shire)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter (West Stirling-shire)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of the fact that every speech that I have heard this afternoon has been more or less— [Interruption.] How dare you speak to me like that. Hold your tongue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter (West Stirling-shire)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter (West Stirling-shire)", "preceding_text": "peech that I have heard this afternoon has been more or less— [Interruption.] How dare you speak to me like that. Hold your tongue. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] All the speeches that I have heard this afternoon and evening have been tedious repetition of an argument which can have no validity at all, in view of the fact that when the decision has to be made there can be no dubiety about the result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have not heard it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "It might be of value to the House if I reply to this debate now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eagles.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "the House is not up to date if that is the line of thought that he has been going on, because there have been considerable changes in the methods by which the Scottish Grand Committee has been conducting its business since the present Secretary of State and the Minister of State left the Opposition benches. One has read in the newspapers about young lions springing up to defend the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.234.4", "colnum": "234", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "ng my remarks directly to the question of time in recess and how we should use it. We are quite prepared to spend two or three days of the Recess discussing the Bill, although we appreciate that even when conditions of great hardship are being suffered Scottish Ministers are not prepared to give up time in the Recess to go and see the people who are suffering. I must not weary the House too long —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.234.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "We must have time", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.247.2", "colnum": "247", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Miss Mervyn Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Mervyn Pike", "preceding_text": "t the imposition of Selective Employment Tax upon the Council can only be interpreted as an indication of the Government's lack of true appreciation of the services rendered to the country by the nursing profession, since the burden will fall upon nurses either under training or at the completion thereof. The Council has therefore authorised its officers to take the most vigorous action possible\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.253.3", "colnum": "253", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pike", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pike", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but the circular concerning the Post Office Sanatorium Society happens to have come from the Head Post Office, Bridgnorth, in Shropshire, which I have never thought of as being the Central Office, but one never knows. The circular dealing with the nursing profession came from the General Nursing Council of England and Wales. It is not Central Office literature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.254.4", "colnum": "254", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pike", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much did the Tories give to the Surtax payers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pike", "preceding_text": "f helping this very category in the Finance Bill—one, for example, giving tax relief to disabled persons by way of an allowance of £ 150 in particularly difficult cases. We had a new Clause for increasing from £ 40 to £ 75 the relief which could be claimed by those who, because of old age or infirmity, had the services of a daughter. We sought to assist the single woman who claimed old age relief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.254.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.264.2", "colnum": "264", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Eric Fletcher)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Diamond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "ental profession in paying the registration fees imposed under the Dentists Act, 1957: this would not appear to be part of the Chancellor's intention and it may be thought to be unreasonable and unjust. I listened to the radio this morning, and I hear that the dental profession is demanding to see the Minister to discuss a whole range of matters affecting the profession. That is the sort of thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "tion of \"salesman\". These represent just a few of the problems, anomalies and uncertainties that the Government are leaving festering in the minds and lives of the people because they will not give proper time for discussion. I warn the Leader of the House that if he persists in denying proper time for discussion the distraction of businessmen will do grave damage to the prosperity of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "tax. We have been told that the Government desire to give the export trade every opportunity. If the Report stage were a little longer, I might find it convenient to put down Amendments calling attention to the fact that it is difficult to understand why couture houses should be exempted while it is to be levied on those delivering milk and bread to old people and thise tending old-age pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I entirely support the remarks of the hon. Member for Twickenham (Mr. Gresham Cooke), who drew attention to yet other aspects of S.E.T. It is vital that we should discuss the way in which this new tax will affect certain interests, particularly the part played by the non-ferrous scrap metal industry to the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.310.2", "colnum": "310", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There has never been a similar Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "t got his argument mounted at all. In his view the Committee stage, which this House has now agreed, is short, in our view it is adequate. In the view of the Opposition when they were in Government it was neither short nor adequate, but generous. As I indicated in my earlier speech, we are allowing a larger amount of time than the Opposition when they were the Government allowed for similar Bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.310.2", "colnum": "310", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "larity. It is not as though there were a wide discrepancy in the amount of time allowed between the shortest and the longest in terms of Clauses. There is a considerable similarity. On average we are being twice as generous as the Opposition were when they were the Government. I gave the details at an earlier stage. We have spent 35½hours discussing the very points which will come up again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-18", "file": "debates1966-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a04f9f845e07b3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.310.2", "colnum": "310", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "Bill. There was a timetable Motion by the Opposition when they were in Government, and the time allotted for Report and Third Reading was one and a half days. One and a half days for the London Government Bill, the most contentious Bill that there has been in this House for some time—one and a half days, I say there is no question of the Committee stage being cut short—indeed, it is more generous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-18a.310.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-19", "file": "debates1966-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "605680427b656fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-19a.352.6", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "The circular applied to all local authorities with housing powers. It will interest the hon. Genteman to know that only 74 have replied that they are unable, for one reason or another, to comply. We are taking the matter up further with them. We are determined that Service men shall be given some help in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-19a.352.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-19", "file": "debates1966-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "605680427b656fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-19a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "wer press is in an engineering factory. If I go to New York and stay at the Hilton Hotel, I expect to find in my air conditioned room an abundance of ice in a modern refrigerator. I expect to find a television set and a radio, a modern bathroom and shower, a com- fortable bed and good furniture. I expect also to have the customary facilities of air-conditioning, living on the 45th floor in August—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-19a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-19", "file": "debates1966-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "605680427b656fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-19a.508.2", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "mittee with what astonishment I heard the President of the Board of Trade say, almost as an aside, that there was to be this three-year limit upon hiring transactions for which the grant would be available. I think that if there is to be some major restriction of this kind, it ought to be in the Bill, because, with respect, if justice is not to be done, at least it ought to be seen not to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-19a.508.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-19", "file": "debates1966-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "605680427b656fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-19a.578.3", "colnum": "578", "heading": "PART I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ce system, yet I do not think that that resulted in such an enormously high level of manufacturing investment in this country compared with others where subsidies are somewhat lower. I take the argument one stage further and say that it is far from evident that the level of manufacturing investment is in any sense related to growth, which is the argument for cash grants. I will conclude my remarks", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-19a.578.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-20", "file": "debates1966-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21bbd9b37b660803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "ECONOMIC MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "e degree of co-operation and restraint which will be required on the part of those affected by it. But, equally, the House, and, I believe, the country, will recognise the urgency of these measures, if we are to get our economy into balance and to keep our costs under control. I should not feel justified in making this demand on industry, if I did not feel that we had done everything in our power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.627.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-20", "file": "debates1966-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21bbd9b37b660803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.640.2", "colnum": "640", "heading": "ECONOMIC MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-20", "file": "debates1966-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21bbd9b37b660803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "ECONOMIC MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer them, then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-20", "file": "debates1966-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21bbd9b37b660803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "ECONOMIC MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he House—and may I say to the Leader of the Opposition that on 25th July, 1961, the column and a half of HANSARD was made up of questions, not a speech—the difference today, as the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Liberal Party will be the first to realise, is that we have exempted, as the Tories never exempted, from the necessary steps which have had to be taken, all the development areas —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.642.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-20", "file": "debates1966-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21bbd9b37b660803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "ECONOMIC MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "May I put to the Prime Minister two questions? He has so far wriggled out of the expression \"a big shake-out\". He and the Cabinet must have some idea of what—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-20", "file": "debates1966-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21bbd9b37b660803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "ECONOMIC MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I welcome the ingenuity and single-mindedness with which my hon. Friend on any and every occasion comes back to the subject he was pursuing with so little support some time ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-20", "file": "debates1966-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21bbd9b37b660803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.648.0", "colnum": "648", "heading": "ECONOMIC MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly answer that. The nationalisation of steel is being undertaken for the sake of increasing efficiency in the steel industry —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-20", "file": "debates1966-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21bbd9b37b660803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "ECONOMIC MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that it will lead to very little increase, if any, in Government staffs to implement the particular policies to which I have referred. When the hon. Gentleman says, with such apparent enthusiasm—perhaps it is just his way of speaking—that there will be an increase in unemployment as a result of the measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-20", "file": "debates1966-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21bbd9b37b660803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.649.5", "colnum": "649", "heading": "ECONOMIC MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We considered this very carefully indeed. It has been considered by successive Governments. I know that it was considered by our predecessors. I have a lot of experience of administering import controls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.649.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-20", "file": "debates1966-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21bbd9b37b660803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. E. Winterbottom", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. E. Winterbottom", "preceding_text": " your displeasure, Sir Myer, and I am not sure whether I am strictly in order or whether the debate can range over the whole Clause as distinct from the Amendment. From what I have heard, it seems that the debate can cover the whole Clause, otherwise there is not much sense in what has been said. I want to deal with the Amendment, which proposes to limit the premiums to firms in development areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-20", "file": "debates1966-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21bbd9b37b660803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Clause 2.—(SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT REFUND.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "of the rarely used drugs and no doubt save a good deal of money to offset the cost of the tax. But do the Government want this important link in the Health Service between the drug manufacturer and the patient to become so very much less efficient? Are they prepared to put the lives of men and women at risk because pharmaceutical wholesalers will be unable to afford a comprehensive stock of drugs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.778.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-20", "file": "debates1966-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21bbd9b37b660803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Clause 2.—(SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT REFUND.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "d then the next difficulty which arises is that he is not willing to have an allocation of about half the amount because of the administrative difficulty, then there is only one simple way out of it, and that is to classify those up to 21 hours as if they were women. This can be done—administratively. We can classify part-timers as women, and we can classify part-time women as being boys under 18—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-20", "file": "debates1966-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21bbd9b37b660803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Clause 2.—(SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT REFUND.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": " the group which we are dealing with on the full amount as going on the half amount and the ones on the half amount as going on the lesser amount. In this way we would be able to see that part-time workers under 21 hours would be paying the half rate. I throw this out as a serious suggestion—although it sounds amusing—to try to get over the administrative difficulty not having to have more stamps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-20", "file": "debates1966-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21bbd9b37b660803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Clause 2.—(SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT REFUND.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryant Godman Irvine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryant Godman Irvine", "preceding_text": "I think that this tax will have a bigger effect in my constituency than in any other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-20", "file": "debates1966-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "21bbd9b37b660803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Clause 2.—(SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT REFUND.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryant Godman Irvine", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryant Godman Irvine", "preceding_text": "o it might be as well to give some reasons why I urge that the Amendment should be accepted. There is a certain amount of dissent from what I have said. I hope that by the time I have finished some of my colleagues will have appreciated that this tax will have a big impact on my constituents, where there are an enormous number of retired people, and as many pensioners as in any other constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-20a.792.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.859.3", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that he has very special responsibilities towards these schools? Will he reject the political prejudice of his hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.859.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.860.6", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "int Committee in everything it undertakes. Assistance is now being given to the Committee on this project. As to the proposal centrally to site this proposed college, I take my hon. Friend's point, but it must be part of the building programme as a whole. I am glad to tell my hon. Friend that the Welsh Joint Education Committee is due to have a meeting with the other bodies concerned on 25th July—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.860.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.860.8", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that this pronouncement should receive such universal approval—or is it because my right hon. Friend the First Secretary has taken his place on the Government Front Bench?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.860.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.863.5", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (PRESS INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The hon. Gentleman is quite wrong about this-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.863.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.864.4", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ces and Incomes Recommendation has been made clear in the House. Inevitably, a number of Ministers are concerned particularly when one thinks of all prices—agricultural as well as industrial. Industrial prices are the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour, but my right hon. Friend the First Secretary is in charge of the general co-ordination of policy on prices and incomes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.864.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.864.4", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the House. Inevitably, a number of Ministers are concerned particularly when one thinks of all prices—agricultural as well as industrial. Industrial prices are the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour, but my right hon. Friend the First Secretary is in charge of the general co-ordination of policy on prices and incomes— [Interruption.] —and is pushing ahead very actively—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.864.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.864.4", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ticularly when one thinks of all prices—agricultural as well as industrial. Industrial prices are the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour, but my right hon. Friend the First Secretary is in charge of the general co-ordination of policy on prices and incomes— [Interruption.] —and is pushing ahead very actively— [Laughter.] Laughter from right hon. and hon. Members opposite", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.864.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.864.4", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend the Minister of Labour, but my right hon. Friend the First Secretary is in charge of the general co-ordination of policy on prices and incomes— [Interruption.] —and is pushing ahead very actively— [Laughter.] Laughter from right hon. and hon. Members opposite [Interruption.] —who talked about prices and incomes all the time they were in office and did nothing about them, is really—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.864.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.865.2", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The policy that was enunciated yesterday is essential for the economic recovery of this country. Many have talked about these policies in the past; we have taken action over the last 18 months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.865.2", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The policy that was enunciated yesterday is essential for the economic recovery of this country. Many have talked about these policies in the past; we have taken action over the last 18 months— [Interruption.] We have had many disappointments", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.865.2", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The policy that was enunciated yesterday is essential for the economic recovery of this country. Many have talked about these policies in the past; we have taken action over the last 18 months— [Interruption.] We have had many disappointments [Interruption.] No one thought", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.868.5", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OFFICIAL CAR (USE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.868.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.868.8", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OFFICIAL CAR (USE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had not withdrawn this morning the Question he had intended to put, he would have had a full answer to the effect that the rules regarding the use of official cars are exactly the same as those carried out by our predecessors. As for Dr. Balogh, as the House knows, he had a very severe heart attack last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.868.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OFFICIAL CAR (USE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.869.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.877.3", "colnum": "877", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It will be too late then.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would ask his question during the economic debate on Tuesday or Wednesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.877.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.878.3", "colnum": "878", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "Is there likely to be time next week for a statement on the doctrine of Ministerial responsibility, since the right hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr. Cousins) was for a long time, and the right hon. Member for Belper (Mr. George Brown) is still, in a Cabinet with whose policy they both entirely disagree?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.878.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.878.5", "colnum": "878", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "That this House congratulates the right hon. Member for Belper on his very wise decision in offering his resignation from the Government .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.878.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "OATH OF ALLEGIANCE (WELSH LANGUAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": " they are entitled to take the Oath in their own language. That is surely a different matter. The hon. Gentleman has already taken the Oath in English and has thereby shown that he acknowledges that English is a common language for us. Nevertheless, as the Welsh language is his language, as it is mine, surely it is a perfectly reasonable request that he should be allowed to take the Oath in Welsh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.909.6", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "My point simply is that in this matter, concerning disabled people, hon. Members opposite have a very unhappy record. However, I am not making a case that any hon. Member is less concerned than I am about disabled people. I respect their views. It is not a good test to have recriminations about political performance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.909.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.958.0", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. P. G. Channon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I am sure they did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. P. G. Channon", "preceding_text": "what is to happen in the operation of this Act, these will still be the principles which govern it. It would be most unfair for them to be abrogated for no reason purely because the Government have introduced a new tax without thinking out the con- sequences. I am certain that when they introduced the tax they had no intention of deliberately setting out to penalise private electrical contractors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "akes the public sector work and we think that we know what makes the private sector work, and certainly hon. Members opposite would claim that; we want to give every inducement to the private sector to be enterprising and energetic and to use all the emotion and drive which hon. Members have been putting into supporting the Amendments. On that first score hon. Members opposite can relax. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.979.2", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong, and he should not get excited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.979.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "o not know whether the hon. Gentleman wants me to go into questions of steam-rollers at this hour, in view of the fact that the debate is guillotined. Perhaps it would be simpler if I wrote to the hon. Gentleman. The situation concerning electrical contractors is not quite as the hon. Lady the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Mrs. Knight) describes it. Here again there is a very small rough edge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.996.1", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You voted against it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend, but I thought it was obvious, not only to this side of the Committee but to the other side, that the Prime Minister has treated the House of Commons with complete contempt. He is quite convinced that with his majority and with his elan he can get away with murder. Perhaps it is a good thing that we abolished capital punishment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.996.3", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" What has this to do with the Clause? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "ed by their Whips. They are pusillanimous, have no backbone and are not prepared to stand for what they believe. The result is that they are allowing the Executive to get more and more power. We had an example this afternoon of an hon. Member saying that he would like to do something, but the precedent in this House was contrary to what he would like. Once Parliament allows permissive legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.996.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1007.8", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "ng the words were confined to the relief of poverty \". I understand that this definition, \"the relief of poverty\", is critical in the establishment of any charitable trust or foundation in Scotland. It follows that if one is to determine what is a charity within the meaning of the Amendment one must be able to determine what is meant by the relief of poverty. I therefore turn to another authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1007.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to support this Amendment, which has been so ably moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Moray and Nairn (Mr. G. Campbell) and supported by my hon. Friend the Member for Perth and East Perthshire (Mr. MacArthur) in a most remarkable speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "at Front Bench at the moment. He has a responsibility, and it is a responsibility which is defined in subsection (4) of this Clause, as my hon. Friend the Member for Moray and Nairn pointed out. I suggest that that responsibility should be extended to the whole of the Clause. A number of my hon. Friends wish to press the point, because it is one of not minimal importance to the people of Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "That explains a great deal. If the hon. and learned Gentleman is an Irishman, it explains many of his attitudes throughout the sittings of this Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1015.3", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Many Members on this side of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1015.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "I have been deeply touched by some of the speeches that I have heard tonight from Scottish Conservative Members—not least that of one of my constituents, the noble Lord the Member for Edinburgh, North (Earl of Dalkeith).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "If any justification were required for the placing on the Order Paper of the procedure Motion in relation to this Measure, I suggest that the last hour's debate provided it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1025.2", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": ". and learned Gentleman said that if the Amendment were accepted it would be an administrative nonsense. The whole tax is an administrative nonsense. In any case, it is an insult for the hon. and learned Gentleman to suggest that something that would be run by the Secretary of State for Scotland would be an administrative nonsense. It need never have been in the days when I was Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1025.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1025.2", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "in dealing with Scottish affairs. This has been a serious debate, at least in its underlying tone. The position, which is agreed upon by hon. Members on both sides of the Committee, is that Scotland has very real problems in coping with this tax, in addition to all the other things which have happened. I do not not believe or accept one word of the arguments put forward by the Financial Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1025.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1025.2", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A poor reply.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "at least in its underlying tone. The position, which is agreed upon by hon. Members on both sides of the Committee, is that Scotland has very real problems in coping with this tax, in addition to all the other things which have happened. I do not not believe or accept one word of the arguments put forward by the Financial Secretary. [Interruption.] I have replied to the only three points he made.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1025.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1028.3", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "He has admitted that this is a very serious problem for Scotland. He agrees that we have had no opportunity of discussing Scottish affairs. Is he denying that the hon. Gentlemen who have spoken, and his hon. Friends, were not doing so because they wanted to express in a comparatively short time their feelings about this? If this is the only method of doing it, does he not agree that this is right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1028.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1028.4", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": " the smiling faces of that cherubic pair, the Secretary of State and the Minister of State, it was quite clear, as it was to most hon. Members, that the case being made by the former Secretary of State and his hon. Friends, was not being made seriously, and that it damaged the very real criticisms there are of this tax in Scotland. I want no part in this sort of argument or this sort of criticism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1028.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1033.3", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are charities.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": ". Then there are another 2,000-odd independent schools which are not recognised as being efficient and will not get anything, either. We have a situation in which about 1,100 independent schools will get the refund and about 2,500 will not. Some independent schools are to get it and some are not. The ones which do get it will be called charities, and I believe that there is a basic injustice here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1033.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1033.5", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "ls state as being their charitable intent. Cheltenham Boys' College, which no doubt some hon. Members know, states that it is \"providing education for the sons of gentlemen\". That is not a charity. The purpose of that splendidly charitable institution at Stowe is \"to educate boys of classes above those ordinarily attending public elementary schools\". That is a splendidly charitable purpose!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1033.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-21", "file": "debates1966-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a2431fb1b8863", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Be charitable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "I have given way once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-21a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-22", "file": "debates1966-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "11cc852bb3247d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "MALAWI(GIFT OF A SPEAKER'S CHAIR)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House would wish me to thank the delegation for carrying out the mission entrusted to it and that the House would wish the Resolution which the right hon. Gentleman has brought this morning to be entered upon the Journal of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-22", "file": "debates1966-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "11cc852bb3247d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "nce of the medical profession. I do not seek to argue more than this, although perhaps more can be argued, that the medical profession is clearly deeply divided about this matter. The B.M.A., for instance, supports change, but not altogether the change which the hon. Gentleman proposes. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists says,\" Let us get more information before we do anything\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-22", "file": "debates1966-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "11cc852bb3247d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1083.2", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": " a shortage of nurses and that a considerable number of the nurses in our hospitals are Catholic girls who come from Ireland, and from a purely practical standpoint the administration and manning of hospitals may become more difficult if the spiritual advisers of young girls in Ireland tell them,\" Do not go and nurse in England because you will have to do things which are against your conscience.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1083.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-22", "file": "debates1966-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "11cc852bb3247d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1083.2", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" They are doing it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": " of the nurses in our hospitals are Catholic girls who come from Ireland, and from a purely practical standpoint the administration and manning of hospitals may become more difficult if the spiritual advisers of young girls in Ireland tell them,\" Do not go and nurse in England because you will have to do things which are against your conscience.\" [HON. MEMBERS:\" Oh.\"] I am not saying this happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1083.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-22", "file": "debates1966-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "11cc852bb3247d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS:\" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "her Christian countries or civilised countries in the past to accept this distinction. It was that robust, anti-Catholic Pope who described abortion as a heinous misdemeanour. The path which the Bill seeks to tread would reverse the trends that we have tried painfully to build up in this and in other countries for respecting all human life as something sacred in itself. I have spoken all too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-22", "file": "debates1966-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "11cc852bb3247d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry.—\" and I have burned six embryos.\" Will the hon. Gentleman really—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-22", "file": "debates1966-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "11cc852bb3247d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "y utterly fail to recognise the inhumanity of abortion itself. If we agree that we should have abortion simply because a mother feels she cannot cope with caring for her child, what about the other end of the scale? And it is important to talk about this because plenty of sons and daughters who are grown up and married feel they cannot cope with their elderly parents. Should they be put down, too?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-22", "file": "debates1966-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "11cc852bb3247d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "aving an abortion all that much better than having a baby which, after all, if the mother wants, will quite easily be adopted by parents who want it deeply and will give it a good life? For goodness sake, let us bring up our daughters with love and care enough not to get pregnant and not let them degenerate into free-for-alls with the sleazy comfort of knowing,\" She can always go and have it out\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-22", "file": "debates1966-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "11cc852bb3247d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "he last Parliament walked through the Lobby in support of the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act outlawing capital punishment could at the same time support the Bill before us today. Had I been a Member of the House then, the same motives which would have taken me into the Lobby in support of my hon. Friend the Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. Sydney Silverman) would make me reject this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-22a.1123.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1193.8", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "Yes. I have some sympathy with this view. At the moment we are cleaning some Government buildings using a new technique by blasting with soft grit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1193.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1198.1", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "That does not arise from this Question, which is about a revision of the National Plan. I have already dealt with that. I do not agree that the economic situation has been caused by the Government's action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Hobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Hobson", "preceding_text": "—two are to be nationalised entirely, not only for their subsidiaries which are steel, but all their subsidiaries, and three are not to be nationalised at all. If one looks at the Government's White Paper of March, 1965, it plainly shows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1219.3", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Hobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Hobson", "preceding_text": "cluded is excluded only because it has, luckily, among its more than 50 subsidiaries 14 dormant companies, and if one did not count these it would be one which ought to be nationalised. How one can say that one is creating properly a class or category by counting up the number of dormant companies that an organisation has, I find it difficult to understand. By way of illustration, let me suppose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "preceding_text": "urteen years in which it could have done this. It could have done it in the same fourteen years as in fact its foreign competitors did. The brutal truth is that it did not even start the job. In the end, the Government, in the last Parliament, decided that public ownership was the only way to ensure that this essential job was done. Hon. Members will remember the debate which took place last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "preceding_text": " State intervention, only the British seem to have succeeded in elevating those arguments to the level of theology in recent years. I have never made a secret of the fact that I do not believe that nationalisation of itself necessarily solves anything. I think that it is frequently an essential means towards the achievement of desirable ends; but it can never be an end in itself. But while I find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "preceding_text": " of itself necessarily solves anything. I think that it is frequently an essential means towards the achievement of desirable ends; but it can never be an end in itself. But while I find— [Interruption.] Hon. Members opposite and the country at large would have been in serious difficulties in recent years without the efforts of the nationalised sector. While I find the view of the very small band—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "investment and raw materials supply. This central control has, however, been largely negative; for example the power of the Iron and Steel Board to veto development projects initiated by the companies. This has created a situation in which the industry has had neither the stimulus of effective competition nor the advantages of positive central policy formation. It has had the worst of both worlds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "ut at the same time an effective manner. The Bill in fact provides for strengthening the machinery of joint consultation in the steel industry; and for experience in the organisation of workers to be among the qualifications for membership of the Corporation. I know that some of my hon. Friends feel strongly that the Bill should provide for a measure of direct workers' participation in management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman fail to perceive that investment in steel companies was often satisfactory from an income point of view? I happen to be the chairman of a unit trust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1240.5", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "I have already said, as the hon. Member will see, that a large proportion of these will come from home sources, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1240.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1245.7", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "o I thought was trying to be fair about the history of the matter, did not even mention the earlier approach. Perhaps he was not told about it by his predecessors. He never referred to the fact that in February of last year an approach was made to the Prime Minister for a com pletely new look at the difficulties of the industry to see whether a decision could be reached to take it out of politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1245.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1248.3", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1248.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1253.0", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "t becoming their stock in trade. I hope that the Chief Secretary will deal with the point made by his right hon. Friend the First Secretary of State concerning compensation terms in last year's White Paper. This is what he said: I am a social democrat and I believe that if you do have sufficient reasons to acquire something you are under moral obligation to pay a fair and just compensation for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1255.0", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I was going to point out that 47 pages of the bill—half the Bill—consists of a Schedule which merely rehashes the old Steel Act of 1949—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1255.0", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "om the existing arrangements. The question remains, what action would the Conservative Party take in the event of this Bill becoming fully operative before the next election? The issue here for us is not one of ideologies. If the right hon. Gentleman doubts my word, I would say that, when we were in office, we accepted, albeit with some reluctance, the nationalisation of certain service industries", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "lse. Why are these powers being taken? If the Bill becomes law in its present form, the State will have power, without reference to Parliament, to engage in any of the following activities—aircraft manufacturing, the manufacturing of motor cars and vehicles, glass manufacturing, the manufacturing of cement, pharmaceutical and medicinal preparations, fertilisers, plastics, engineering of all kinds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1324.3", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has gone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Tory votes and 2,327,000 Liberal votes, a total of 13,745,000 votes against the nationalisation of steel. If one wishes to apply a psephological test as to the positions of the major political parties, there is a majority of 618,000 against the nationalisation of steel. To test this psephological point, I turn to the hon. Gentleman the Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock), who is sitting behind me —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ing at the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot), hoping to goad him into one of his famous interruptions in my speeches. Those are some of the financial consequences of the Bill. I regard the Bill as wholly bad, as destructive of the national interest, as mischievous. I shall oppose it by every Parliamentary means and by the most fractious methods of which I am capable—and they are plenty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "that no case has been made out for nationalisation. Even if a case had been made out on theoretical grounds, we believe that the disadvantages of nationalisation are such that it would still be the wrong solution. Right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite must not believe that, because we passionately perceive the evil results of nationalisation, we base our attitude entirely on ideological grounds.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "arket. Nationalisation concentrates it and maximises the risk of error. It prevents the cross-fertilising process of managers moving from one company to another. I believe that there are many tales in the steel industry of managers who are discontented and frustrated in one company finding opportunities to show their initative and skill in another company. All that disappears with nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "ernment are adopting, we are told that it would be unpatriotic to undertake to repeal the Measure. We take the opposite view. In view of the disaster that this Bill will bring to the steel industry, it would be unpatriotic if we were not to undertake to repeal it. Nationalisation will be a disaster for the efficient management of this industry. Granted that private enterprise steel is not perfect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1343.0", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": " which were put to me. I agree with the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East that, until the last few minutes, it has been an extremely calm debate—muted, as he called it. I imagine that most hon. Members who spent the whole time in the Chamber—I have spent very nearly the whole time here—would agree with me that the debate has been muted because there is really no major opposition to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1342.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1346.0", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The Chief Secretary had three minutes more than he wanted. The system I put forward has not been tried in this country, and he knows it. It has been tried in Europe, and it has succeeded. These are our competitors. What we want to know is what objections the right hon. Gentleman has to the system which operates in Europe. I want to say one other thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "n tried in this country, and he knows it. It has been tried in Europe, and it has succeeded. These are our competitors. What we want to know is what objections the right hon. Gentleman has to the system which operates in Europe. I want to say one other thing. [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman complains that he has too much time, so he will not object to my intervening. He goes harking back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1346.2", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "n under private enterprise has taken place abroad and not here. These are most interesting questions. I have asked myself the same questions many times. I have asked myself often how it comes about that, in a country which is presumably determined on all sides to get a powerful and efficient steel industry and which can see competitive costs coming down abroad, our costs are no longer competitive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "omorrow's debate, that the state of our economy does not permit us to allow the steel industry to continue in a situation in which, because of its private ownership, full efficiency is denied. Full efficiency is made impossible. It is not a question of whether we can do it now i we cannot afford to wait any longer. There is urgency about it, and that is why we are proposing to get on with the job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1352.6", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Like the railways.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman no doubt has in mind the S.C.O.W. Report, and so on. In answering his question, I must first ask how it comes about that this wonderful privately-run steel industry, run under a system which the right hon. Member for Streatham says is the ideal system for running the industry, this private enterprise industry which is the acme of efficiency, has this over-manning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1352.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1352.7", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": " grateful for the hon. Gentleman's comment. If there is over-manning in that industry I invite the House to consider what has happened on both the railways and in the coal mines, where there has been a rundown of labour—a complete rundown in the mining industry—without a major difficulty of any kind, as a result of the improved labour relations which are possible only with a nationalised industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1352.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1352.7", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "the House to consider what has happened on both the railways and in the coal mines, where there has been a rundown of labour—a complete rundown in the mining industry—without a major difficulty of any kind, as a result of the improved labour relations which are possible only with a nationalised industry. [Interruption.] Is it not odd that the hon. Gentleman can never accept an answer to one point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1352.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1353.2", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "ill realise that if there is over-manning in the steel industry, as the right hon. Gentleman alleges, it is in the interests of the nation that we should have a means whereby, through consultation between the two sides, over-manning can be reduced in a humane and efficient way, which has come about both in the nationalised railways and in nationalised coal. Steel is one of the commanding heights —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1353.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALAWI REPUBLIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": "e are one or two other hon. Members who might have made the same effort—we should not have had this interesting debate, because the Second Reading would have gone through on the nod. I am sure, therefore, that I am expressing the gratitude of the House in thanking my hon. Friend for making the point that she did on Friday. Despite some of the remarks of the hon. Member for Reading (Mr. John Lee) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-25", "file": "debates1966-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e0b4926da93f2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALAWI REPUBLIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": "ebate, but I think that for the sake of the whole House we ought to register the fact that, though it is not for me to suggest how the Government should run their business, there is an element of discourtesy, which I ask the hon. Lady to dispel for the sake of the dignity of the House and Malawi, that this Bill is brought forward retrospectively three weeks after the occasion has come into effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-25a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1435.5", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. The Anglo-American alliance does rest upon trust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1435.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1441.6", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENT (SECOND CHAMBER)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of my hon. Friend's feeling about this matter, and indeed I am probably aware of some of the reasons for his feelings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1441.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1444.2", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "AIRCRAFT NOISE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "power the President of the Board of Trade more effectively to limit and restrain aircraft noise; to empower the Parliamentary Commissioner to inquire into and report on all such questions; and for purposes connected therewith. If I may quote the Long Title of the Bill, it is a Bill to restrain nuisance by aircraft noise: to restore freedom to pursue actions against aircraft owners and operators \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1444.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1449.3", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ve that everything was fine, perhaps I might point out that on 2nd March The Times said: So far as the economy was concerned it was all exhortation and no bite. The Daily Mail, perhaps a little more succinctly, said: All bull and no bite. That was the reaction yesterday to the Chancellor's speech … So much for the story that everything was fine, I warned the country throughout the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1449.3", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "and he got back into power, he failed to take action in time, because the Chancellor of the Exchequer gambled in the Budget. Then, when the crisis broke, the Prime Minister was completely unprepared and his response was dilatory and complacent. Finally, he rushed in with the panic measures, far more severe, as I said on Wednesday, 20th July, than they need have been if they had been taken in time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "re are two alternatives. The first is to go deeper into the siege economy. I know that some hon. Members below the Gangway opposite will argue that this is the right course to take. The other alternative is to take action—and nobody will deny the difficulty of taking it—to move out of the siege economy and on to the open plain of opportunity. I believe that that is the road which we ought to take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us yours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "y, including too little competition in tariff reductions. The next trouble is low incentives to people in industry at whatever level, and then the mass of distorted Government spending. Then there is inefficient organisation, the subsidisation of the nationalised industries, and regional imbalance. All these are real obstacles which are facing us, and each must be dealt with by different policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "y about unemployment but sound economic measures and the use of skilled economic weapons, which are very wide-ranging indeed. We need a considerable variety of policies to deal with the situation, and a determination to carry them through. It cannot be done by gimmicks and by short cuts. It can only be done by bringing home the real economic facts to the people and the relevance of their policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1463.8", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Over 70 Members wish to speak and I do not intend to give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1463.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1463.8", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "rwards. First and foremost, confidence cannot be restored only by the short-term measures which the Government have announced. This is fundamental. They must be combined with a long-term programme, a programme which must concentrate not on the blunt weapons which the right hon. Gentleman has been using, but on the more refined weapons, both in timing and in structure, for dealing with the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1463.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1464.2", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have not interrupted all the other items of the right hon. Gentleman's misstatements because, as he says, this is a debate, but he has just thrown at my hon. Friend the Member for Penistone (Mr. Mendelson) a complete travesty of what I said on Wednesday of last week. Will he now quote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1464.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1467.0", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "s telecast, talking to the country as a whole, \"We, the country, are under attack\". He was quite wrong. It is the Prime Minister who is under attack. The loss of confidence in this country abroad is a loss of confidence in him, a loss of confidence in his colleagues, the First Secretary and the Chancellor, a loss of confidence because of their incompetence. That is why we are censuring them today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1466.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1479.3", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "My whole speech is an answer to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1479.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1479.5", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ying measures of the Government that I have been describing, particularly in connection with the regions, that will ensure that we can, in due course, resume the policy that is necessary. I should like now to take up one or two or more of the points made by the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition. It is not true that during the election we failed to warn the country of the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1479.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1479.5", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gamble.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ntleman himself, together with his hon. Friends, who proposed in their manifesto, an increase in social services expenditure of over £800 million. Oh, yes—he warned the nation all right, but the warnings were muted on occasions when he wanted to tell the nation of all the other things he proposed to do. The right hon. Gentleman accuses me of having risked the situation by leaving it to the autumn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1479.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1479.5", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " was so much uncertainty, in the light of the destruction which had gone on before when no risk was taken at all. I certainly do not accept the view that because we leave these measures over they therefore have to be bigger. That is certainly not so. The existing situation results from the factors I have outlined: increased prices of commodities, the seamen's strike and other matters of that sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1479.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1493.1", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" All of them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "If the British Government say that they cannot bring the lads in uniform home because of our foreign commitments, may I remind them of their commitments at home, to our own people, which I would put first? Recently, I went on a visit to West Germany and before I went, thinking of a present for my wife, I asked her what I should bring home from Germany. She told me, \"The British Army of the Rhine.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1495.5", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "preceding_text": "It adds lustre to the honour which I have of representing Carmarthen in the House that I follow so very distinguished, respected and loved a person as the late Lady Megan Lloyd George.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1495.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1495.5", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "preceding_text": ". The aridity of a socialism which is little but bureaucratic centralism makes one despair. At a time when Wales desperately needs expansion, which it has not had in the past, it is having to face further contraction and deflation. Although there is no pressure whatever on Welsh manpower, unemployment in Wales is between three and four times as high as it is in these prosperous regions of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1495.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1507.1", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "preceding_text": "y arranged I should have approved it. I should have approved a straight payroll tax universally applied at a low rate. The present lax is absolutely absurd. Does anyone believe that we shall get an efficient economy, without some competition? We do not get it in this overstrained economy. What is the Government's contribution? To end all competition in steel. This is the maddest possible business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": " difference between what this Government are doing and the Selwyn Lloyd freeze. But massive reductions in public expenditure on electricity, on roads, on local government projects have been made. If the Chancellor turns first to the public sector, which is only 20 per cent. of our economy now, how much better it would be if he could turn to that sector and it was 50 or 60 per cent. of the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1537.2", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The answer is to consider going into Europe, yet 80 hon. Members opposite have signed a Motion against our doing so. The Government and the Labour Party as a whole have to face up to this issue of what they are to do about Europe, because we are not doing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The answer is to consider going into Europe, yet 80 hon. Members opposite have signed a Motion against our doing so. The Government and the Labour Party as a whole have to face up to this issue of what they are to do about Europe, because we are not doing", "preceding_text": "and it is not very healthy. The public and the House have to face a very serious situation. I do not want to overstate the position, but I do not think that it is possible to do so. It is largely a question of confidence. I agree at once that when the Labour Party came to power in October, 1964, it inherited a problem, but it was a problem and not a crisis. The Government changed it into a crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1537.2", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The answer is to consider going into Europe, yet 80 hon. Members opposite have signed a Motion against our doing so. The Government and the Labour Party as a whole have to face up to this issue of what they are to do about Europe, because we are not doing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The answer is to consider going into Europe, yet 80 hon. Members opposite have signed a Motion against our doing so. The Government and the Labour Party as a whole have to face up to this issue of what they are to do about Europe, because we are not doing", "preceding_text": "d really got the \"brushoff\" from the Russians. Mrs. Nehru, who had been there, left that day and the flags were taken down before the Prime Minister arrived. He did more harm than good, and he will no doubt be questioned on this when he visits the United States. What did he do last Saturday? Here was the country confronted with this crisis and he was in Liverpool reopening \"The Cavern\" \"pop\" club.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1543.2", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. Mendelson) could not have been listening. I dealt with that point. The majority of people who buy foreign currency forward are buying to cover the situation when they have to take delivery to pay for goods. That clears up that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1543.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1543.7", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Running away.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "I will not give way again. We have been asked to be as brief as possible. Going back to good housekeeping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1543.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1543.7", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "e. Going back to good housekeeping—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Running away.\"] The hon. Member for Penistone must learn to keep quiet. If he does not like my speech, he can go outside and have a drink. We have had this doctrinaire argument about the nationalisation of steel. If we wanted to get the confidence of the foreign bankers—and the Prime Minister is in for 4½ years ; at least he thought he was-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1543.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "is Conservative policy. It is the policy adopted by the Conservatives over the years, and it will not work for us any better than it worked for them. Indeed, it will work rather worse for us because we inspire rather less confidence in the bankers. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister was distrusted because those bankers thought that he was a Socialist. I think he is distrusted now for himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1560.1", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ational support of all time, and after there has been the most colossal run-down of the true reserves. Perhaps people do not realise the extent to which the Government have lived on capital built up before they came to power. It is as well that previous Chancellors of the Exchequer did not liquidate the dollar portfolio and put it into the reserves., otherwise it would not have been available now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1575.1", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "We said that there was an undue pressure of demand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1575.1", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "We said that there was an undue pressure of demand—[ Interruption.]. If right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite will let me finish, we said that there was an undue pressure of demand after measures had been taken to check imports, and that was what they did not do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "LESOTHO INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "t and early national unity in Basutoland uttered by the two Front Bench spokesmen are practical realities or possibilities. I have grave apprehensions about these matters. I now leave constitutional matters and turn to what I believe to be much more important—the economic situation. I shall give precise figures, as the right hon. Gentleman neglected to do. He hoodwinked the House by his omissions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "LESOTHO INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman prefer not to be sedentary, but to intervene? I am willing to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "LESOTHO INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman prefer not to be sedentary, but to intervene? I am willing to give way. [ Interruption. ] The rudeness of the right hon. Gentleman is unsurpassed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1600.3", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "LESOTHO INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "n clear and unmistakable terms, \"We propose that the taxpayer shall subsidise the people of Basutoland by a minimum sum of £13 million a year for all foreseeable time in future. Probably, the deficit will grow.\"? That would have been truthful, implicit and easily capable of understanding. I should not have quarrelled with him if he had said so. I merely dislike subterfuge on the part of Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1600.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1634.4", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "BOTSWANA INDEPENDENCE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. John Stonehouse)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. John Stonehouse)", "preceding_text": "o not agree with him about that. We think that the full processes were carried through, and it was more than made clear that the people of Bechuanaland and the Chiefs agreed with the constitution that was being made in their name. The House will agree that it is very doubtful whether this progress would have been so smoothly and by such general agreement without the good work of Dr. Khama himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1634.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-26", "file": "debates1966-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "bded5388588efbb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1671.0", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "BOTSWANA INDEPENDENCE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "is remarkable that Seretse has been able to help his people to outstanding political stability. This has been accomplished in the most difficult circumstances imaginable. In asking the House to agree to the Second Reading, I am sure that I can, on behalf of all in the House, express our congratulations and appreciation to Seretse Khama and his colleagues and wish them the very best for the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-26a.1670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1693.3", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows well that we have debated this over a number of months now and he has had the answers to all these questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1695.4", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes. Election manifesto.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member will know that no one has said, apart from himself, that we are going to build 40,000 houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1695.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1696.3", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "I cannot make any estimate either way, up or down, because I do not know to what extent the tax will secure its main object of having increased efficiency in the use of labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1697.4", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "I would not dissent from what the right hon. Gentleman has said, but it is a matter to the credit of the Government that we have gone thus far, which the right hon. Gentleman did not go when he was in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1697.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1700.5", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I think that I should advise the hon. Gentleman to read the Bill. He will then know what should and should not be taken into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1700.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1715.0", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "preceding_text": "sion? Is the Lord President also aware that our request for a Select Committee on Science and Technology does not raise the wider issues of principle that are involved in the important proposals that hon. Members on both sides of the House have for extending the Committee system? This is within the general principles established in the Select Committee on Nationalised Industries. Is he also aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1721.4", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cordle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cordle", "preceding_text": "y perusing and choosing their favourite erotica. That was the situation a few years ago. The majority of decent families were not exposed to such sordid rubbish and the filth when the only dangers were from those curiously antiseptic naturalist magazines. That is not the case today. First, most of this cheap pornographic trash, lurid covers and all, is now being openly displayed and sold in every—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1721.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1725.16", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "or smaller impact on the reality may loom very large, perhaps disproportionately large, in the world's calculations about our propects, and, therefore, in the world's willingness to await in patience the results of what we are trying to achieve. However, there are these three basic factors affecting the balance of payments, which is what we are debating, and I will distinguish these three factors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1725.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1725.16", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "e have both had the direction of the nation's affairs since the war. Having said that, the House will agree that there is very little that we could have done in 21 months to build the new factories that are needed, to get them into production—to get modern plant and machinery built and installed—and to create and get into production the new science-based industries that hold the key to the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1725.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1725.16", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "cluding inquiries by E.D.C.s have shown to be putting us at a disadvantage compared with our overseas competitors. A report over a wide range of industries surveyed by the N.E.D.C. showed that there are too many small firms, too many firms not strong enough to provide the management skill or finance needed to compete in the modern world. There are too many family firms. The I.R.C. will concentrate", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1725.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1725.16", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": " the modern world. There are too many family firms. The I.R.C. will concentrate [ Interruption .] Not all the family firms have expanded with that degree of efficiency that others in our industries have shown, and every independent review of our industries has shown that too high a proportion of our output is in small family firms, and the fourth generation hardly rivals the founders of the firms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1725.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1735.1", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman was wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " now revolves round expectations on the balance of payments and inevitably the effects in terms of world psychology, world confidence goes far beyond the worsening in the real situation as measured by balance of payments this year. What are the factors that have led to this worsening in the estimates? I will go through them very frankly and give the Government's understanding of what is happening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1741.4", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s not only to working practices, but more particularly, as the right hon. Gentleman said yesterday, to the overmanning of individual jobs. At this point, perhaps I might correct something that I said to the right hon. Gentleman yesterday when I interrupted him on the question of the T.U.C. evidence to the Royal Commission. I thought from what I had read in the Press that that evidence had gone in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1741.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1741.4", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And our salesmen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " considerable time ahead, we will create a freeing of resources for getting our house in order and for a permanent strengthening of our economy by increasing our investment and our modernisation programmes. At the end of the day our balance of payments depends more than anything on our manufacturing industries, their efficiency and the extent to which they are deployed on exports or import saving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1741.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1741.4", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " elements in the economy which can make the biggest contribution to exports and to import saving in industry by all the means which I have mentioned. It is the only basis on which we can get sustained industrial expansion, the only basis on which the National Plan, or any national plan, can be realised, the only basis on which we can look forward to sustained public investment. I claim, therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1741.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1747.0", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it right for the right hon. Gentleman to accuse hon. Members on this side of the House of frivolity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1747.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1748.3", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Rodgers", "preceding_text": "Sir John Rodgers (Sevenoaks) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1750.1", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": "the Observer on Sunday when he said: Unless the Government is very lucky, go-stop-go will be replaced this time by go-stop-reverse. The Prime Minister confirmed that very clearly this afternoon when he said that not only were these measures introduced in the short-term but they would be persisted in. He had no intention, he said, of making the mistake which we had made of reversing the restraints.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1750.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1755.3", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Are they?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1755.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "nefit to all concerned. We must reshape the social services to concentrate on priorities where need is greatest, encouraging people to stand on their own feet and provide for themselves. We must encourage investment, and not discourage it by abolishing investment allowances and by this silly little side-swipe at Surtax, which means so little to the economy and so much to people who have to pay it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1789.1", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the lawyers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "on, which vitiates those statistics. The State receives a very large cut on dividends. Dividends depend on profits, and the hon. Member need not be worried on this point because profits are falling very seriously at the present time. The Government should push on with reform of trade union law. This must be done delicately. One would want to take responsible trade union officials with one on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1796.1", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dynamic policy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "these matters than the Chancellor did at that time, or than he, I suspect, knows now. Indeed, there has been a very curious change in the speeches from the Dispatch Box this afternoon compared with what we heard 20 months ago or even three or four months ago. Then all the troubles were due to the \"terrible inheritance from the Tories\", and they were all going to be put right by purposive planning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1796.1", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gritty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "now. Indeed, there has been a very curious change in the speeches from the Dispatch Box this afternoon compared with what we heard 20 months ago or even three or four months ago. Then all the troubles were due to the \"terrible inheritance from the Tories\", and they were all going to be put right by purposive planning. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Dynamic policy.\"] Yes, by dynamic policy and purposive planning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1801.0", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ion that the Government expect this emergency to last at least that long? When my hon. Friend the Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Mr. Maude) asked a Question about this yesterday, the Financial Secretary tried to argue that Surtax payers would cut back expenditure now in order to meet this liability. But it is not the habit of any taxpayer to collect money in a little plastic bag labelled \"For Jim\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1801.0", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "t be payable until 15 months hence. One of my hon. Friends says, \"With love\", but I doubt that in this case. Apart from the time factor, is increasing taxation to the level of 19s. 3d. in the £on certain incomes likely to help us out of this emergency, when one remembers that we are already the highest-taxed nation in the world and that the tax falls upon extremely useful members of the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1801.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1810.0", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "xample. I remember that recently the clearing banks responded to a directive from the Bank of England to limit lending and in so doing suggesting that it might be desirable that public expenditure should also be restrained. Immediately they did so some hon. Members opposite tabled a Motion denouncing this—as they called it— blatant and insolent incursion into matters of party political controversy", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1809.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "' constituencies. We endure ever-increasing taxation, ever-deepening austerity and restriction upon restriction. Yet I do not see these latest measures helping, although they may be a palliative. As my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition has pointed out, this crisis is a crisis of confidence in the Labour Government. So long as this Government continue, so long will the crisis continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What, again\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": " Opposition has pointed out, this crisis is a crisis of confidence in the Labour Government. So long as this Government continue, so long will the crisis continue—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] Oh, yes. As yet, we have felt only the first drops of rain. The £is on the dole and our prospects are damaged—this must be faced—for years ahead. I see only one solution, and that is a return to the ballot box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption—.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "First Secretary is dead. Let us consider for a moment, because this is a matter which affects the whole House, the shambles which Government business is in at present, as we move towards the Summer Recess. Tomorrow, we are to have the Third Reading of the Finance Bill. But the Finance Bill is out of date now. It has no relevance whatever to this debate or to the measures which were produced before", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": " to hear that on his return from Germany, when he was asked his views on the Chief Secretary's withdrawn resignation, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that he was pleased that he had withdrawn his resignation as he did not wish to change a winning team. Would the First Secretary please, for heaven's sake, tell us what they are winning? The third guilty man is, in our view, the Prime Minister.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": " prices would be £250 million. This Government and this Prime Minister are embarked on a course twice as severe as that put forward by my right hon. and learned Friend in 1961. And the reason why they have to make it twice as severe is because in 1961, when the present Prime Minister spoke, my right hon. and learned Friend was believed, but nobody believes this Government. Both Peter Thorneycroft—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "preceding_text": "egarded as valuable the speech of the right hon. Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain Macleod) will earn its reward, but in the country as a whole, which at this moment in our history has absolutely no such regard, it will be looked on as one of the most disastrous speeches that the right hon. Gentleman has ever made. I have now heard during this debate three allegedly major speeches from that side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "preceding_text": "oring the kind of party points one would expect them to score in this situation. The right hon. Member for Barnet distinguished himself by doing all that—and, if I may say so, doing it rather better than the other two—but in the middle of his speech there were 10 minutes of real constructive thought. Not one-third of the hon. Members opposite who are now present heard the 2G2 right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "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": "te who are now present heard the 2G2 right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] I advise the other two-thirds to read his speech. As for myself, as a Minister, clearly I cannot espouse it, but I must say that members of the Conservative Party ought to read what he said and decide whether they can go along with him. The froth we can push aside. The country outside is not the least interested —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "preceding_text": "—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] I advise the other two-thirds to read his speech. As for myself, as a Minister, clearly I cannot espouse it, but I must say that members of the Conservative Party ought to read what he said and decide whether they can go along with him. The froth we can push aside. The country outside is not the least interested —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—in the kind of party points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "preceding_text": "e can push aside. The country outside is not the least interested —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—in the kind of party points—[ Interruption .]which was all the Leader of the Opposition and the right hon. Member for Enfield, West thought they only had to make, but the country is interested in that 10 minutes in the middle of the speech of the right hon. Member for Barnet. May I come to our position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "preceding_text": "opposite know what they really believe. They think that the only way they could do this is to put a lot of people out of work and not use lost of factories, whereas we still believe that the economy can be managed. I now speak to my trade union friends as clearly as I speak to management. For almost two years now we have tried to manage the economy in a way that no economy has been managed before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1848.1", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "blem, which we alone, in a way, share. Right hon. and hon. Members opposite must make up their minds about this, whether they are for it or against it. The additional problem is whether we are to maintain the rôle we play in the world, partly by our physical presence in some places, partly by the banking facilities we make available. It is easy, if one does not have to answer this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1848.1", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "is easy, if one does not have to answer this question—[ Interruption .] The right hon. Member for Streatham (Mr. Sandys) should shut up or get up, whichever he likes. He thinks that we must keep our presence all round the world. There are other right hon. Gentlemen who do not believe that at all. The Opposition must make up their mind, just as we have had to make up ours. We have made our mind up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1848.1", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " Opposition must make up their mind, just as we have had to make up ours. We have made our mind up. [ Interruption .] This is not the night I am fighting. I am trying to develop an argument. If the Opposition do not want to hear it, I am not fighting. They make up their own mind. We have made our mind up. It is no secret from anybody, in the House or outside the House, that I had a lot of trouble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1848.1", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "m trying to develop an argument. If the Opposition do not want to hear it, I am not fighting. They make up their own mind. We have made our mind up. It is no secret from anybody, in the House or outside the House, that I had a lot of trouble—[ Laughter .]—in deciding whether we were right. If any hon. Member opposite facing these problems could make up his mind just like that, he must be an idiot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1849.3", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " all—is: how does this affect the National Plan? I will be absolutely frank with the House. It means that the rate of growth we intended to get, and were set to get, and on the basis of which we predicated all other things for 1970, is no longer available. Therefore, I must sit down again with my advisers, with industry, with the men who used to pay for the Conservative Party, but no longer do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1849.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1849.3", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is beyond me.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "is no longer available. Therefore, I must sit down again with my advisers, with industry, with the men who used to pay for the Conservative Party, but no longer do so—[ Interruption .]—and with the trade unions, and have a new look at the rate at which we now think we can go, and the changes we now think we can make. But it does not destroy the idea of a plan to which the Government are committed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1849.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1850.3", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "But this afternoon the right hon. Member for Barnet regretted that it had failed, and when I interrupted him at his express wish, and asked whether the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West went along with him, I was jeered at by hon. Members opposite for daring to ask such a silly question. We now have an answer, almost 12 hours later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1850.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1851.1", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO compulsion?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " one man over there who knows that is the one who tried very hard to get it, and may well have been let down. I shall not comment on that. But the rest of them over there have not yet got the understanding. We shall go on trying to get it. We shall work for a prices and incomes policy which can work by voluntary acceptance and agreement because, at the end of the day, that is the only way it will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1851.1", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " support, to say to the unions that there will have to be some compulsion in the meantime, and I am prepared, with my right hon. Friend's support, to say to the price fixers, to the manufacturers, that there will have to be some compulsion in the meantime, so as to give us what everyone opposite knows we must have—a breathing space. We must have a period while we get rid of what has been going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1852.1", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I was a bit doubtful about some of them over there. We, the nation, need a period in which we can recover from things that people, good people, have done last year not quite realising what they were doing. So we shall face the trade unions, the manufacturers and everybody else with the need to enforce, I trust by voluntary agreement, a standstill while we recover from what has been done this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1852.1", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " this afternoon was that when it was announced that the T.U.C. had decided to give us, to give the Government, not really the Government but the country, its co-operation in something that must have gone very deep to its heart, something which means tremendous interference with all its traditional thoughts, habits, beliefs and makeup, we did not get even the thinnest of sounds from the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-27", "file": "debates1966-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5a3f9959e99cb9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1852.1", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "t even the thinnest of sounds from the Opposition. [ Interruption .] I trust that right hon. Gentlemen opposite will ensure that we get the same forthcoming noises from the C.B.I. tomorrow. We have not had them yet. The T.U.C., not for the first time, is ahead in saying, \"We will surrender for the good of the country\". This is what this party and this movement is always doing. We are always ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-27a.1852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-28", "file": "debates1966-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e497a03da5426979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1890.6", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMS SALES (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This has nothing to do with the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1890.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-28", "file": "debates1966-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e497a03da5426979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1892.0", "colnum": "1892", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS (CHINA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman recognise that, whatever the merits of Communist China getting a seat, the Nationalist Government in Formosa at least has the same right to remain there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1892.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-07-28", "file": "debates1966-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e497a03da5426979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1897.5", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "RHODESIA (ARREST OF UNITED KINGDOM CITIZENS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Will it be possible for consultations to take place between the Government and the Leader of the Opposition about the way in which certain Tory M.P.s attend public meetings with the aim of giving comfort to the illegal regime in Rhodesia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1897.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-28", "file": "debates1966-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e497a03da5426979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1903.3", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend give an assurance to the House that we shall have an early debate on the transport White Paper, because the whole country will acknowledge that this is a remarkable piece of work by my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1903.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-28", "file": "debates1966-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e497a03da5426979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1907.3", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That question has been asked already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "There is no doubt that the Government are drastically altering the purpose of the Prices and Incomes Bill. Will the Leader of the House consider recommitting the Bill to the House so that the House can have an opportunity of debating these alterations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1907.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-28", "file": "debates1966-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e497a03da5426979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1923.3", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "I shall make one point in following the observations of the hon. Member for Manchester, Cheetham (Mr. Harold Lever) on the question of devaluation, and I think that it will not be too unwelcome to the Chancellor. I want the Chancellor to make clear to the House and the country that devaluation is of itself no easy way out of our troubles. It would make our imports dearer and our exports earn less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1923.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-28", "file": "debates1966-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e497a03da5426979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1925.3", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Then I shall stick to the 18s. 3d. The 18s. 3d. is a ridiculous rate to impose on top Surtax payers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1925.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-28", "file": "debates1966-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e497a03da5426979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1930.0", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "amp which includes the Selective Employment Tax so that when we do away with the proposed method we can do away with the stamp altogether and have on the P.A.Y.E. card the figures, one for the employee showing the amount to be deducted under National Insurance.\" This would not be difficult because already, on wage sheets, under many systems for deducting P.A.Y.E., which is referred to in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-28", "file": "debates1966-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e497a03da5426979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1960.3", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "Recess is only a few days away, and how the Chancellor must be longing to get away if only he can get through the mess which still lies ahead. The Government have tried to hustle and curtail debate on the Bill and on others. We have wasted ten weeks of discussion. We have been here night after night watching the dawn come in through those windows or the others—depending on which way one is facing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1960.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-28", "file": "debates1966-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e497a03da5426979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1966.1", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "oyment of the disabled, and, if necessary, it will be possible to take action accordingly. I must conclude. There is a number of other points that should be dealt with, but we have rather done the Bill to death at the moment. I understand that the Opposition—and, apparently, the Liberals—are about to vote on the Bill. When they do so they will have reached the nadir of financial irresponsibility.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.1966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-28", "file": "debates1966-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e497a03da5426979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.2011.1", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEES VALLEY AND CLEVELAND WATER BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And still going on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": "s country is in my constituency, Graffham Water, made entirely by flooding farmland. With great respect to the Minister and to hon. Gentlemen on both sides of the House who have spoken, I do not think that the true issue has yet been pinpointed in the debate. I do not think that we have the facts, in the first place, in spite of 13 days in Committee and in spite of test borings having taken place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.2011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-28", "file": "debates1966-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e497a03da5426979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.2017.1", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEES VALLEY AND CLEVELAND WATER BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "we have encroached on valuable land. It has gone on far too long, and in that context I welcome the remarks of my right hon. Friend the Minister for Land and Natural Resources, who happens to be my own Member of Parliament. We are presented here with a decision which must be made now. If we throw out the Bill, we shall impede very necessary industrial development in an area which needs it so much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.2017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-07-28", "file": "debates1966-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e497a03da5426979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.2026.1", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEES VALLEY AND CLEVELAND WATER BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": " an extremely interesting one. I came down on the side of the evidence against the Bill because, if I.C.I. is stopped, it will suffer only inconvenience—which, although awkward, can be got over—whereas if Cow Green is destroyed, the loss will not be simply an inconvenience but will be total and irreparable. In effect it is a choice between a dip in I.C.I.'s profits which they would have to accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-07-28a.2026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-01", "file": "debates1966-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "57a25f2c4a74b83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-01a.7.6", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that that news gives a little measure of satisfaction? Is he also aware that I am concerned just a little at the fact that he talks about deferring the scheme for St. James's Palace? Why not stop it altogether?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-01a.7.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-01", "file": "debates1966-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "57a25f2c4a74b83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-01a.27.9", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PAYMASTER-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "That, again, is a question which should be put to the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-01a.27.9"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-01", "file": "debates1966-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "57a25f2c4a74b83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-01a.42.3", "colnum": "42", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That again, as the hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe) knows, is not a matter for Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-01a.42.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-01", "file": "debates1966-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "57a25f2c4a74b83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-01a.44.2", "colnum": "44", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Clerk will now proceed to read the Orders of the Day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-01a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-01", "file": "debates1966-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "57a25f2c4a74b83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-01a.114.2", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "the voluntary services, notably the W.V.S., which every Member of this Committee ought to recognise does such helpful work throughout our social services. For these reasons, though I am a stranger to debates on geriatrics—only once in 16 years as a Member of the House of Commons have I here made a speech within the ambit of health, and that was on a maternity home—and perhaps that comes into this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-01a.114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-01", "file": "debates1966-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "57a25f2c4a74b83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-01a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir. G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir. G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "cross's Minority Report advocated to encourage the continuance of full-time employment of men over 65 years until 70 years and women over the age of 60 until the age of 65, the total abolition of the earnings rule. I am glad to see assent nodded by an hon. Member on the Front Bench opposite. These are matter of history and fact, but this Government never take any notice of their economic advisers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-01a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-01", "file": "debates1966-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "57a25f2c4a74b83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-01a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir. G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir. G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "n industry and the services of men and women who are no longer young enough to be agile, nimble-fingered, mobile and rapid in piece work. That is the principle. In factories, and in times of normal competition for labour, a young woman of 21 or 22 will invariably secure a job in competition with a young man of 21 or 22 because she is more nimble-fingered and agile and is capable of producing more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-01a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-02", "file": "debates1966-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d6f126d6f66ab0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.252.3", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT JOHNSON (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have always maintained that British officials ought not to be attacked by any Member in this House when they are unable to defend themselves. I am glad to see that the right hon. Gentlemen opposite are nodding agreement with this now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-02", "file": "debates1966-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d6f126d6f66ab0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.253.2", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT JOHNSON (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nment. I am happy to inform the hon. Gentleman that the issue which hon. Members have pressed so hard in recent weeks was not even mentioned by President Johnson. He at least understands the position, although I can well understand why right hon. Members opposite have pulled out their Motion for tomorrow in the light of the fact that there is no difficulty between our two countries on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-02", "file": "debates1966-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d6f126d6f66ab0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.253.4", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT JOHNSON (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "One of the main purposes of my recent visits to Moscow and Washington has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.253.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-02", "file": "debates1966-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d6f126d6f66ab0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT JOHNSON (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I have told the House, this matter was explained several weeks ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.254.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-02", "file": "debates1966-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d6f126d6f66ab0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "PLEASURE BOAT \"DARLWIN\"", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Douglas Jay)", "preceding_text": "e Lighthouse. A search took place throughout yesterday, and has been resumed by the R.A.F. and ships in the area today. I have appointed a Board of Trade surveyor to hold a preliminary inquiry and I shall decide, in the light of his report, whether to order a full public investigation. I am sure that the House will join me in expressing deepest sympathy with the relatives of those who are missing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.255.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-02", "file": "debates1966-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d6f126d6f66ab0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.259.4", "colnum": "259", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the Leader of the House has said that the new Amendments to the Bill are sufficiently material to facilitate a debate tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.259.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-02", "file": "debates1966-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d6f126d6f66ab0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS (AIRCRAFT PURCHASES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "s other than high-density ones, and whether any consideration has been given to the purchase of DC8s with British engines for this purpose? What is the freight capacity of the 747s which B.O.A.C. proposes to purchase, and was any consideration given by B.O.A.C. to leasing the 320C instead of purchasing it, because it appears that it will be required for only about two years. Finally, I would ask——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.266.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-02", "file": "debates1966-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d6f126d6f66ab0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "KENYA (GIFT OF A BOOKCASE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House would wish me to thank the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues for the way in which they carried out the mission which we entrusted to them, and I am certain that the House would wish me to direct that the Resolution which has come from Kenya should be entered in the Journal of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-02", "file": "debates1966-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d6f126d6f66ab0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Be reasonable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend, but I must get on with my speech. With respect to the right hon. Gentleman, he has had his fair share of interjections by now. Confining myself to Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-02", "file": "debates1966-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d6f126d6f66ab0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "embers opposite are freed from their slavish silence. Are they making today the sort of speeches they should have made in 1952, 1954, 1958 and 1961? Today we have heard again the speeches they made about a year ago. They cry \"Wolf\" so often. The Scottish Tories have almost populated the political Highlands with wolves. If anyone should beware of crying \"Wolf\", it should surely be the sheep farmer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-02", "file": "debates1966-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d6f126d6f66ab0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That the Government have ignored.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "ess understood. I believe that it was the hon. Member for Ayr who, seven days after the Plan was issued, announced, \"Now it has failed\". The hon. Gentleman might at least have waited until the Scotland Magazine was published. It might not be their bible, but it is the publication of an organisation that hon. Members opposite are very fond of quoting—the Scottish Council (Development and Industry)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-02", "file": "debates1966-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d6f126d6f66ab0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "n… The report describes what we did last year. It shows how we were able to override this and get increased production and reduce unemployment. It describes this as even tougher than what it calls the \"Selwyn Lloyd Squeeze\". The right hon. Gentleman may rest assured that we do not take our sheltering of the development areas in the same way as they sheltered those areas by complete neglect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-02", "file": "debates1966-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d6f126d6f66ab0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. The hon. Member should have organised his Welsh forces. The hotels in Scotland have had their most properous year ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-02", "file": "debates1966-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d6f126d6f66ab0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.377.10", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "g things about this, if one wants some history of the area, is to be read in the pamphlet put out by Wiggins Teape. There was no word of thanks to the Tory Government in that. The pulp mill story goes back about 10 years, long before we had the Bill. There would have been no pulp mill if there had been no Forestry Commission, if there had been no trees. The right hon. Gentleman did not help there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.377.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-02", "file": "debates1966-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d6f126d6f66ab0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.392.14", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR SERVICES EXPENDITURE, 1964–65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "se now. If I recollect aright, you were at that point on Vote 10. On that Vote, on the last Vote, on the previous one and on two earlier Votes, you failed to use the generally accepted form of words, \"I think the Ayes have it; the Ayes have it\". You merely said, \"I think the Ayes have it\". Perhaps you did think it, Sir Eric, but you never specifically said, \"The Ayes have it\". I submit, therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-02a.392.14"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.453.3", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Minister of Defence for the Royal Navy gave a very full answer to that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.463.7", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitaker", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there was one unfortunate example only last week when the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy was segregated from his secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.463.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure whether that is an advantage or a disadvantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.464.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure whether that is an advantage or a disadvantage. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] The position is that the Distinguished Strangers' Gallery is restricted to men, and ladies are not admitted to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.464.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "BROADCASTING ENABLING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins (Putney) rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.473.4", "colnum": "473", "heading": "BROADCASTING ENABLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Radio Programme and acting as parent station to local radio stations and to abolish pirate radio whether operating within or without territorial waters. This proposal is firstly to enable the Postmaster-General to set up a National Popular Radio Programme, which will replace the pirates. One of the important functions which the new Television and Radio Authority envisaged in the Measure will have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "that on that occasion we were not supported by hon. Members on the Liberal Bench. I understand the position to be that Standing Committee B has completed consideration of the first three parts of the Bill, together with the Schedules, and did so at lunch-time after being kept sitting by the Government for 20 hours yesterday and today. I think this must be the longest Sitting probably for 20 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "Why does the right hon. Gentleman assume that there will be a Report stage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did not the Tories do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " the Government often enough, and we have warned the country that this was the direction in which they would lead. It solves none of our long-term problems and damages most of our prospects. But that is always the way with right hon. Gentlemen opposite. We believe that it is possible—no one has ever disguised the difficulties—to reconcile a free economy with stable progress and individual liberty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.506.0", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "examine that. My right hon. Friend explained in that statement why a standstill on prices and incomes is inescapable if the nation is to have the breathing space it needs. I suspect that this may be a question upon which the views of ordinary people are more sensibly and more soundly based than the views of many politicians or of many office holders and officials in the big national organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ons. I believe that the distinction that we are making there is a right one and that we have to give effect to it, and we are doing so in the part of the Bill which the right hon. Gentleman found so offensive. Dividends are at one and the same time a form of profit—that part of it which is distributed—and a form of personal income. As such, we are putting to the House that it is clearly essential—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "s get on with our work upstairs, but I make it clear that, if it appears that the standstill for dividends is not being observed, we shall not hesitate to propose further action either in the form of further legislation or of fiscal measures. I want to turn to whether, having called for a standstill of prices and incomes, we are justified in seeking from Parliament, through the Committee upstairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "the House. I make no complaint of that. At the end of the day, we shall have had a debate which, whatever we say, will have served as something like a Second Reading debate on the new Clauses which we shall discuss in greater detail in Standing Committee. However, in the light of the situation and what I believe to be the rights of Parliament, in the light of what I believe to be the requirements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kirk", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kirk", "preceding_text": "erfectly democratic fashion. This is a national crisis and in a time of national crisis we have to make sacrifices, even for our own convenience. If he had proceeded in the normal way, I, at least, and I believe that a large number of hon. Members of this House were perfectly prepared to go on sitting until he had his Bill. We would have sat for the rest of this month if he had wanted us to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.518.1", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Committee does not like them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "etent. He called me incompetent when I arrived in the House two minutes late on a famous occasion. I would have called myself a lot of things that day, but not incompetent. In his own job the right hon. Gentleman is notoriously incompetent and casts a feline slur over everything he says. On procedure, I dislike the monstrous charade going on upstairs. I dislike beds being brought in for tired men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.518.1", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "hemselves will allow them to have the Government of their own choice. Nobody can doubt that our present weak position in the world impinges strongly upon our right to have a foreign policy. I remember one of the famous Gaitskell conditions about going into Europe—I disagreed with him—\"an independent foreign policy of our own\". In this present concept we have not got an independent foreign policy.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "f statutory powers to enable the Government to enforce one, no matter for what period. Those assurances were freely given. I notice on the Government Front Bench the Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. He was my neighbour at the last T.U.C. Conference. I sat next to him in the gallery. I will not disclose what he whispered in my ear and what I whispered back, but I think it fair to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "ity will there be in the months to come for such productivity bargains to be made? We would wish to ask what the position of the trade union leaders is to be, left isloated, though acquiescent, and what power the Government have given to the militants on the shop floors by their clumsy policy. We would wish, though it is a sad subject, to examine the results of the Government's clutch of Measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.597.3", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "tion have repeatedly made the point that these new Clauses should have been brought to the Floor of the House for a Second Reading type of debate. But, as I have said, the inclusion of the new Clauses is in order. There is no break with precedent in adding them to the Bill in this way. The reason for doing it, therefore, is that it is the normal practice to introduce major Amendments of this kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.597.3", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ld have been brought to the Floor of the House for a Second Reading type of debate. But, as I have said, the inclusion of the new Clauses is in order. There is no break with precedent in adding them to the Bill in this way. The reason for doing it, therefore, is that it is the normal practice to introduce major Amendments of this kind—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and that there is nothing improper in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why have a Second Reading?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": " character—they are in order and there is nothing wrong with the procedure. One argument which we have heard today is that, because the Amendments to the Bill were introduced in Committee, many Members will be excluded from debating their provisions. Every hon. Member knows that if they had been before the House on Second Reading the majority of Members would have been excluded from debating them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": " majority of Members would have been excluded from debating them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why have a Second Reading?\"] I do not know whether the House is suggesting that on every Second Reading, of any Bill, whichever Government are in power, everyone who wishes to speak should be allowed to do so. It has been suggested that the action we have taken is undemocratic. That word has been used this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "ittee. Well, where are we getting to if we begin arguments in this direction? The fact that a certain number of Members are excluded, either on the Floor of the House or in Committee upstairs, is general and usual. If we were to accept some of the arguments we have heard this afternoon, that would imply that no Bill should go upstairs but that every Bill should be taken on the Floor of the House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not discussing the Finance Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "ite a commonplace of debate these days, and one hears the argument, one heard it again and again today, that there should be taken upstairs certain Bills which occupy a great deal of time on the Floor of the House. I am thinking particularly of the Finance Bill. This argument occurs regularly, whichever Government are in power. Is anyone in the House arguing that the Finance Bill is not important?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "hat the Government have done is to use the Standing Orders and procedures of this House correctly and accurately. They have not been engaged, as has been suggested this afternoon, in any form of sharp practice whatsoever. For those who have listened to the debate this afternoon—and at times the House was pretty thin—it is obvious that in fact all the new Clauses have now been debated in principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "der to free resources for export production, to damp down imports and, by providing an increased margin of spare capacity, to moderate the rise in costs and prices to the advantage of our competitive position. That has been our objective, but, as the House knows, the major economic difficulties of the past few weeks have supervened and the Government have decided to take a number of drastic steps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.603.5", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "That is right. We should have to come back. On one or two occasions in the debate, my right hon. Friend the First Secretary has been referred to as \"an economic dictator\". How anyone could refer to a man as benign as my right hon. Friend as an economic dictator I do not know. For a dictator, he is an unusual type of dictator, who within a period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.603.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.603.5", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "e debate, my right hon. Friend the First Secretary has been referred to as \"an economic dictator\". How anyone could refer to a man as benign as my right hon. Friend as an economic dictator I do not know. For a dictator, he is an unusual type of dictator, who within a period—[ Interruption .]—let me complete my sentence—who, within a period of six months, partly destroys himself and within another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.603.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.603.5", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, they are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "nths, partly destroys himself and within another—[ Interruption .] Perhaps, for the benefit of the majority of the right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite who have not read the Bill, I would say that the position is that the statutory provisions fall at the end of 12 months. Although the Motion is a procedural one and these things are important, they are not generally understood outside Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.603.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.603.5", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "n in the street were asked what the Motion means, they would be unable to say. However, despite the lack of detailed knowledge outside of the procedure of the House, I believe that there is a great awareness in the country of our economic difficulties and the action which the Government are taking to deal with them and that the atmosphere is completely different from what it was in 1961–62.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.603.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.603.5", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rearm?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": " minds of everyone who is capable of doing a job that increased production, and only increased production can get us over this hurdle. The Bill is indeed tough. There is no doubt about that. Some anomalies will arise, and there is no doubt about that, too. But a standstill, either voluntary or resulting from statutory action, if we have to take it, will give this country time to reflect and rearm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.603.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.603.5", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1966\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "ry time to reflect and rearm—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rearm?\".] I forgot for a moment that \"rearm\" is a word which, perhaps, I should not use—to regear ourselves to tackle the vital problems affecting our balance of payments. Given the support of the country we should, as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has said more than once, be in balance in 1967 and get the economy on an even keel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.603.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.603.5", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": " MEMBERS: \"Rearm?\".] I forgot for a moment that \"rearm\" is a word which, perhaps, I should not use—to regear ourselves to tackle the vital problems affecting our balance of payments. Given the support of the country we should, as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has said more than once, be in balance in 1967 and get the economy on an even keel. [HON. MEMBERS: \"1966\".] No, 1967.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.603.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.603.5", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "ting our balance of payments. Given the support of the country we should, as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has said more than once, be in balance in 1967 and get the economy on an even keel. [HON. MEMBERS: \"1966\".] No, 1967. [ Laughter .] I do not find this a matter for humour. Nor does the nation. We will regard this standstill not as a clamping down but as a launching pad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.603.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "I was not going to mention the World Cup—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.609.1", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of this very large demonstration by the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.609.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.609.8", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "You poor fish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "—and bringing Part IV of the Bill down to the Floor of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.609.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "This is a point for the Leader of the House and not for Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.610.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-03", "file": "debates1966-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7f0d1feb651d58c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.610.3", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL (COMMITTEE STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "The answer is, No, Sir, The House has just taken a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-03a.610.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.680.4", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS (PECUNIARY INTERESTS AND EMOLUMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "While dissociating myself from the impurities alleged by my hon. Friend, may I ask whether the Prime Minister would agree that useful progress could be made in this matter if the financial subventions of Members of this House acting on behalf of and with trades unions were publicly declared?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.693.4", "colnum": "693", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Rowland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Rowland", "preceding_text": "Without wishing to press the Leader of the House for a debate on Rhodesia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.693.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.697.2", "colnum": "697", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that, whatever he may say, this is an interference with the freedom of Parliament? He cannot claim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.697.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that many members of the general public really feel aggrieved at the prices freeze—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that this whole proposition for a Parliamentary Commissioner has caught the imagination of the public?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.701.4", "colnum": "701", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Sir Edmund fully understands the position. No one understands the working and practices of Parliament better than he.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.701.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Before I call—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "ns Tax system and decides not to make it retrospective. If it is to operate only from the date when it is introduced, it is bound to produce very small returns for quite a long time. Meanwhile, of course, one has to set up the administrative organisation. Hon. Members have criticised the details ad nauseam , but the principle of the Capital Gains Tax system was accepted on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "er in saying that it is not true, and that I know that it is not true. I do not want to bandy words, but the hon. Gentleman is probably still capable of reading and perhaps he would read my right hon. Friend's Budget speech, my own Budget speech, my right hon. Friend's repeated statements about pre-Budget buying and the expectation, therefore, that demand would be considerably lessened after that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The Chief Secretary's reply was most unsatisfactory. I have spent my commercial life entering into fixed-price contracts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "t of the Board of Trade—and, while I do not agree with the right hon. Gentleman politically, I and most hon. Members consider him to be a man who is concerned with what he believes to be the proper performance of his duties and the best interests of trade in this country—that they would get exemption. As a result of this wonderful guillotine procedure, we have not been able to discuss this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Or Mr. Brown.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "preceding_text": "hat will happen when the Bill gets to the country, if this is what happens in the House, when 50 million people will be directly concerned with the question of how to avoid paying perhaps 25s. a week if they employ one person, or thousands of pounds a week? If we cannot interpret the Bill after days of careful study, what will happen to Mr. Jones or Mr. Smith, whose businesses it directly affects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.839.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " on this matter is that the Selective Employment Tax is nothing to do with Income Tax and that it is perfectly reasonable to classify a Member of Parliament as self-employed for purposes of Selective Employment Tax, but as an employed person for purposes of Income Tax assessment. Further than that, the Treasury will not go. Bias, bigotry and discrimination run through every provision of this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.844.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.844.7", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will not be long now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "nister to have cases of genuine dubiety referred to an arbitration tribunal. Neither is there any provision in the Bill for Statutory Instruments to set right the obvious difficulties which will arise from the looseness of the classifications. My party has not yet declared its future intentions towards to the Bill. For myself, I shall urge it to issue, I hope well before the next General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.844.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": " shall develop the point so ably put by my hon. Friend the Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro). The only reason why the nationalised industries are to be exempted from the Selective Employment Tax is that that is the only way by which they can be helped to compete against private enterprise. There are three golden rules which are never broken by these moronic nationalised industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.852.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "preceding_text": "ers have been forced to admit. Within a short time my right hon. and hon. Friends were saying that the method of repayment for agriculture was nonsense. I remember my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Sir A. V. Harvey) saying that. Yet this had gone through the Cabinet, when the Minister of Agriculture and the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales were silent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.855.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "preceding_text": "ressed by the Opposition, resisted by the Treasury Bench and finally conceded by it in response to the overwhelming case that we have been able to make. Now we come to the last stages, and only the Treasury team are left to us. We are faced by a Treasury team that has been utterly discredited over these last few months. They have been wrong, both from and before the Budget and both on and before——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "preceding_text": " the allocation of time Motion, knowing very well that it would close out—and they wanted to close out—discussions of the retail and part-time workers and all the other aspects which we were told they held so dear. We knew they would run away; they did run away, and they will answer for it, each one of them, in their constituencies. They will, of course, get this shabby Bill. Look at them !", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "re, as I have done, hour after hour, I have often wondered whether I was not suffering from the neurological disease called deja vu where one feels that one has been through it all before, because we have had to listen to the same arguments being brought up again and again. The criticism that there has not been ample opportunity to debate the Selective Employment Tax is really too silly for words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "want to use their time, but once they have chosen to use it that way it hardly lies in their mouth to complain that there are other matters which have not been debated, many of which I have been asked to reply to—they having been raised for the first time in this debate. The truth is that the Opposition do not want to discuss the Bill. They do not want to improve the Bill. They want to strangle it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.859.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.866.5", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "I am amazed that the right hon. Member, with two minutes——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.866.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.866.7", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Mr. Macleod rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.866.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-04", "file": "debates1966-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "25755e04b853c6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.866.8", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr MacDermot", "preceding_text": "With two minutes——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-04a.866.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-08", "file": "debates1966-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "db1eb7a601573b4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-08a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister explain how the effective date of this award, which was first 1st April—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-08a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-08", "file": "debates1966-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "db1eb7a601573b4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-08a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "SIERRA LEONE (EXPULSION OF MR. DAVID LOSHAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "I was unaware of that and I unreservedly withdraw my imputation so far as the hon. Gentleman is concerned. He is very much an exception on the opposite benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-08a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-08", "file": "debates1966-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "db1eb7a601573b4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-08a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "SCOTLAND (BORDER DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": " what was the finding of the group which studied this topic in great detail. The hon. Gentleman also raised questions about agriculture and in particular the 1958 Act. He spoke of tenant farmers, but that is a subject for consultation between the Department of Agriculture and the Scottish N.F.U. and the Scottish Landowners' Federation. Whether he likes it or not, we have to consult the landowners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-08a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-08", "file": "debates1966-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "db1eb7a601573b4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-08a.1299.0", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What does that mean?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "I have absolutely no idea. As far as I know, these discussions were private and will remain private. But I have heard the hon. Member talking about the construction put on his words on other occasions, and I have heard the expression that a nod is as good as a wink on many occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-08a.1299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1387.5", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It leads to no such conclusion. The right hon. Gentleman had better await the outcome of the negotiations. Once again he will find that he has gone a little too far ahead of himself. I repeat to the right hon. Gentleman that his position would have been stronger if, when I attacked the frigate deal because of the Gibraltar situation, right hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1387.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1399.1", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "MORTGAGE INTEREST RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rates?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I appreciate this. That is the view not only of mortgage holders. We are aiming at an overall freeze of prices as well as incomes. Therefore, rents and mortgages form a very important part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1400.4", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Douglas Jay)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Douglas Jay)", "preceding_text": "om both the employer and union organisations reporting the conclusions that they had reached on the main recommendations which the Report addressed to them, and indicating the action which they were taking. The Government are now satisfied, both from knowledge of what has already been achieved such as the recent important demarcation agreement, as well as from the memoranda submitted by each side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1400.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1409.6", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Ought not the position to be made absolutely clear that Gibraltar was one of the subjects notified to you for discussion on the Consolidated Fund Bill, but not reached because the Government closure of the debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1409.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1434.4", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And a good job!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "debate—and you have already called him—would it not be possible for you, with great expedition, to dispatch a messenger to Mr. Speaker and ask him whether he proposes to call the Amendment later? There is plenty of time to go the 50 yards to the Speaker's House and get an answer, so that I know what to do on new Clause 1. Otherwise, Mr. Deputy Speaker, you are putting me in an impossible position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1434.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1441.1", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ntary phase there will be no power of compulsion. There will be no enforceability in the agreement; it will be a matter of agreement between the parties. It has been rightly said that rights that exist in that phase will not by statute be interfered with. We are saying to employers and employees in this phase, \"Please, in this period of trial and testing of the public-spiritedness of the people \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1444.6", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "may have leave of the House to make a final and very short intervention before my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Sir T. Brinton) seeks leave to speak again. We shall reserve our rights strongly to vote on Clause 30 which—and I hope that the House will take seriously what it does—should be entitled, \"A Clause to authorise employers to steal some of their employees' money and to keep it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1444.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1527.0", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "Renfrew, West (Mr. Buchan) and his hon. Friends may be tempted to equate price control with social justice, but this is a very naive view. Price control is far more likely to produce poverty, to lead to a creaking economy, and, in due course, if continued long enough, to lead inevitably to what the hon. and learned Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) has already prophesied, the return of rationing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1527.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1537.1", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hordern", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": "on to dividend increases. As it stands the Government have perfect power to compare an increase in dividends for the current year with any previous year. We are saying in this Amendment that the increase, if there be any, in the current year shall be compared either with the previous year or with the average of the dividends over the five previous years, whichever is the higher. If the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1554.2", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": " an employer says, \"I know you are worth ten bob more Bill and I want to pay you that extra ten bob \"—indicating that there is agreement that the commodity is being under valued; that there is an attempt to buy it for below its proper value—then, even though there is agreement, they both become criminals under the terms of the Bill. How on earth can one logically sustain an argument on that basis?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1554.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1557.2", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "pe of legislation. This adds a new dimension in our movement. I am told that there is no need to worry because action cannot be taken without the decision of the Attorney-General. I know that the Attorney-General is a benevolent as well as a learned right hon. Member of this House. Everybody likes the Attorney-General. But even in the present Government he may not be the Attorney-General for ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1574.0", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He never spoke.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "n why a Labour Government put in these provisions which may result in £100 fines or imprisonment for miners, I cannot. The Scottish miners are strongly opposed to the Clause. How will it work? We have heard that the Attorney General is benevolent and will apply this provision gently in England but we have not heard about Scotland. There was one Scottish hon. Member in the Standing Committee of 25—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1575.1", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "This is something which might happen again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1619.0", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lomas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lomas", "preceding_text": "gest that the Clause would be invoked only if all else failed. When the Conservative Party link up with this side of the House, I begin to wonder what has gone wrong. When they want to get rid of a Clause and some of those on this side have the same intention, we must look at the matter a little more closely. The Conservative Party seem to be convinced that our prices and incomes policy will fail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1619.0", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lomas", "preceding_text": "nd some of those on this side have the same intention, we must look at the matter a little more closely. The Conservative Party seem to be convinced that our prices and incomes policy will fail. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Hon. Members opposite are concerned with the Bill and its effect upon prices; they are more concerned, perhaps, with prices than with wages. We on this side take the reverse approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1619.0", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Progress backwards.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lomas", "preceding_text": "ere is a world of difference between a Tory Government and a Labour Government? Hon. Members opposite can ask any of the pensioners or anyone else what is the difference between the two parties. The pensioners and others have benefited from what the Government have done. When the trade union movement wakes up to the fact that there has been a change and that we have made great progress since 1964—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-09", "file": "debates1966-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "da2589c4f7bc3d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1654.0", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Rodgers", "preceding_text": ". The right hon. Gentleman will be aware of the statement in the House this afternoon by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Housing and Local Government. I think his words on that occasion made the position quite clear. He said in his statement that we did not intend to use compulsory powers as far as mortgage rates were concerned. He also said that this emphasised the need for voluntary action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-09a.1654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1698.1", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": " for Portsmouth, Langstone (Mr. Ian Lloyd) describes as a cut in dock investments is a reduction in the amount, a reduction in the programme over these years for capital investment in the docks. The figures I have given, taking account of the emergency measures, are the definite figures of investment. Shall I give it again? I apologise for doing so, but I have been asked. It rose from £18 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1700.2", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that nowhere outside this House can one get such a meal at such a price?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1704.0", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "RAILWAY WORKSHOPS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " the equipment available in the British Railways' workshops which was paid for by taxpayers' money and much of which has been lost by the severe curtailment of their activities which has been called for under successive transport policies? Will my right hon. Friend accept from me the thanks of my constituents in Horwich, the prosperity of which depends entirely on the success of railway workshops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1707.2", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "CABINET AND OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS (CLOSED PERIOD)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that we welcome the fact that it has been possible to reach agreement about these proposals? Will he confirm that there is no change in procedure for the publication of selected Foreign Office documents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1707.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1729.7", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "I regret anything I may have said that was out of order. The point I was trying to make was that opportunities were available earlier to advance alternatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1729.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1730.2", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "This really is my final sentence——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1730.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1735.1", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Mr. Winnick rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1752.6", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I should like to ask for your guidance. I was away at the Council of Europe's Political Committee, having been appointed to that Committee by this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1752.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1754.1", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Physiotherapists through the S.E.T. These are all bodies which serve the public devotedly. It is all very well when it suits the right hon. Gentleman to throw out these words, but he did not convince his own Cabinet of the need to support these bodies. He has made them pay, so let us have no more argument from the right hon. Gentleman about what the Conservatives did about the nurses. What we did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1754.1", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "of the need to support these bodies. He has made them pay, so let us have no more argument from the right hon. Gentleman about what the Conservatives did about the nurses. What we did—[ Interruption .] It is no good trying to do this, What we did for the country was to give it a much better position, without imposing increased taxation or curtailing liberty. There is no argument about that at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1754.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1767.0", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Exactly.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "hich would deal with what is the basic problem in this country, the problem of productivity. It is all very well for the Prime Minister to go to trade union conferences and talk about putting rule books into museums, but the Government of which he is head, and which have a very large majority, must accept a responsibility to do something about productivity. There is nothing in the Bill about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1767.2", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": ". These assumptions are now completely \"bust\" by this Bill. I would like to ask the right hon. Gentleman and his right hon. and hon. Friends what they have been doing in the last two years, following up our policy, in providing wage-related unemployment benefit if we were not going to have some unemployment. What is the point of wage-related unemployment benefit if we do not have any unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1767.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1771.1", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including the doctors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "we will not be able to make such bargains so readily or advantageously for the community in future. In any case, we have no right to break these bargains and Parliament should not be a party to it. Yet that is what we are doing, and I object. The proposition that the House should agree under a wage freeze to break bargains with the railwaymen and others involved, totalling about 6 million workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "uts on the stalls have got smaller and, if they have, bringing that fact to the attention of the Prices and Incomes Board. I thought that the right hon. Gentleman was preparing for the party conference season, but as he added nothing to his many contributions on this subject I shall not seek to follow him. The one thing that comes out of all the speeches from hon. Members opposite is their fear of", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "rivilege fairly. Nevertheless, they will even accept hardship or sacrifice provided they feel that no one is getting away with it. This is a real challenge to the Government. It will not be answered just by slick contributions by too many economists. We have a spate of them on our side. I do not speak for the other side, but I think we have more economists in the Cabinet now than we have ever had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "ssurances given to some financial organisation, which means the international bankers. We are entitled to know whether this policy has been forced on the Government, as the right hon. Member for Nuneaton alleged. This piece of Government legislation will not work. It is a tragedy for us and it does not in any way relate to our problems. If there were a free vote tonight the Bill would be defeated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-10", "file": "debates1966-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "b258d9df958a6416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1816.3", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "preceding_text": "try about voting. He says, \"Do not bother whether you go into the Ayes or the Noes Lobby; just vote according to your intellectual conscience.\" I say to him that I do not believe that kind of political nonsense. I say to those who, like me, are not exactly enamoured of the Prices and Incomes Bill and may be thinking of abstaining, that what they are voting for tonight is the whole Labour movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-10a.1816.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-11", "file": "debates1966-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "fd8ec783c1d68cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1860.5", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that the responsibility for a large part of the unemployment in Northern Ireland is that of the Unionist Stormont Parliament and that we are prevented in this House from in fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1860.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-11", "file": "debates1966-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "fd8ec783c1d68cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1880.6", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PAYMASTER-GENERAL (DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is not usual to give details of the methods of vetting, but I can say that everything done before in respect of every member of the Downing Street staff is still done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1880.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-11", "file": "debates1966-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "fd8ec783c1d68cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1891.4", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER) AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "This is not exactly a point of order, but I think that it commands the wholehearted support of the whole House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1891.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-11", "file": "debates1966-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "fd8ec783c1d68cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1891.5", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER) AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "t Dispatch Box and openly admit that they have failed. On the incomes policy, the right hon. Gentleman the former First Secretary, in the course of many eloquent speeches on the Prices and Incomes Bill, has constantly reiterated that his policy has failed. He wants us all to know it. The housing policy has failed. No one knows that better than the Leader of the House. He has got out from under it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1891.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-11", "file": "debates1966-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "fd8ec783c1d68cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1891.5", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER) AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "housing policy has failed. No one knows that better than the Leader of the House. He has got out from under it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] The National Plan has now to be rewritten. In Rhodesia, the Government's policy has failed. Every prophecy which the Prime Minister made about the timing of the Rhodesian policy has been proved to be absolutely wrong. The Government's policy on Europe has failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1891.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-11", "file": "debates1966-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "fd8ec783c1d68cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1893.0", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER) AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. George Wigg)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. George Wigg)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-11", "file": "debates1966-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "fd8ec783c1d68cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1893.0", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER) AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. George Wigg)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. George Wigg)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"]—On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1893.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-11", "file": "debates1966-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "fd8ec783c1d68cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1893.1", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER) AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. George Wigg)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"]—On a point of order. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"]—I shall stay here all day if hon. Members keep up that noise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-11", "file": "debates1966-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "fd8ec783c1d68cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1896.1", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER) AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman has said all this.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "entleman will be able to give the House so that he may get his Motion through, but, of course, it must be recognised that even these undertakings will come from a discredited Government whom last night's changes certainly cannot save. What the Prime Minister has done is to compound failure with failure. The First Secretary's incomes policy has failed, and so he is moved on to be Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-11", "file": "debates1966-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "fd8ec783c1d68cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1900.2", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER) AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. As this afternoon the right hon. Gentleman has written a new chapter in Erskine May—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1900.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-11", "file": "debates1966-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "fd8ec783c1d68cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1901.3", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER) AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I was just warning the House that if, as a result of accepting the assurances that we may be given by the right hon. Gentleman, we give the Government this Motion today, we shall still have our doubts about the assurances because of the discredited nature of so many of the Ministers, and, in particular, because they have failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1901.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-11", "file": "debates1966-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "fd8ec783c1d68cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1901.3", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER) AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Surely the right hon. Gentleman did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " most political animal on the Government side of the House, barring the Paymaster-General. In fact, when we ask for these assurances, and want to put our faith in them, what is the position? There are some people who thought that after the General Election, and perhaps some who thought that after the first shuffle, the Administration would devote themselves seriously to the business of government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1901.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-11", "file": "debates1966-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "fd8ec783c1d68cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1928.0", "colnum": "1928", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER) AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "r which I and my hon. Friends have been receiving. There is considerable apprehension in Gibraltar at the moment, and there has been for some time, about the outcome of these resumed talks. I am perfectly well aware that this is not the occasion to argue whether there should be talks with Spain. For all of my political life I have laboured for better relations with Spain. I have a deep admiration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1928.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-11", "file": "debates1966-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "fd8ec783c1d68cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1946.2", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER) AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "l dissociate themselves from any further escalation in the direction suggested by the present so-called Government of South Vietnam. If they do not give us such an assurance, they are asking the House to go away for two months in circumstances which conceivably—I do not say \"probably\"—could mean that we would, against our will, be involved in a world war on the wrong side, without being consulted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-11a.1946.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-12", "file": "debates1966-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "10304445f9ab6a09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-12a.2012.5", "colnum": "2012", "heading": "SERVANTS OF THE HOUSE (MR. SPEAKER'S THANKS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " Serjeant at Arms, and the Clerk of the House. I would especially thank those who, through the day and night, prepare, on the one hand, and print, on the other, the vast documentation without which we could not carry out our work efficiently and who do so with such splendid accuracy. Parliament is truly well served, and I am certain that in saying this I speak for every hon. and right hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-12a.2012.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-08-12", "file": "debates1966-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "10304445f9ab6a09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-12a.2109.0", "colnum": "2109", "heading": "SOUTH-WEST (REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Joan Vickers", "preceding_text": "ker, on behalf, I am sure, of all hon. Members our sincere thanks to him for the way in which he has presided during this very difficult period, especially when we know that he has had particular personal grief. We are very grateful for what Mr. Speaker has done and for helping us during this historic Session. Therefore, I should be grateful if you would be kind enough to convey our thanks to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-12a.2108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-08-12", "file": "debates1966-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "10304445f9ab6a09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-12a.2124.1", "colnum": "2124", "heading": "SOUTH-WEST (REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. William Rodgers)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. William Rodgers)", "preceding_text": "Joan Vickers) and in your presence by the hon. Member for Bodmin (Mr. Bessell) in saying how greatly we have appreciated the opportunity of being under your guidance during the past very difficult and trying months. If any of us go away somewhat exhausted to our holidays, we shall all remember that however tired we may be, your job has been more continuous and more exacting than that of any of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-08-12a.2124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-18", "file": "debates1966-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7c7535e767f9f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-18a.35.5", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "There is no witch-hunting here at all. Can he say whether this girl—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-18a.35.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-18", "file": "debates1966-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7c7535e767f9f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-18a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "TIMOTHY JOHN EVANS (FREE PARDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that although the Report indicates that in all probability Evans was not responsible for his daughter's death, it is nevertheless probable that he was responsible for his wife's death?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-18a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-18", "file": "debates1966-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7c7535e767f9f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-18a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Hobson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Hobson", "preceding_text": "llegations about the way in which the Administration was carried on. This is a completely different concept from what is in the Bill. It is a completely different from the Scandinavian systems and the system in New Zealand, but it is one of considerable interest. I am sorry that my hon. and learned Friend did not have an opportunity of expressing that alternative method of approaching the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-18a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-18", "file": "debates1966-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7c7535e767f9f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-18a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Niall MacDermot)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I should hope so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Niall MacDermot)", "preceding_text": " have not looked up the records but I have no doubt that when Mr. Gladstone proposed to this House the setting up of the office of Comptroller and Auditor General there were some voices to be heard saying that this would undermine the authority of Members of Parliament in their historic rôle of controlling the Executive. If there were such voices. I should think that they are very dead now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-18a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-18", "file": "debates1966-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7c7535e767f9f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-18a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "carefully in Committee, but that is the general principle underlying the exclusion. Exclusion of personnel matters in paragraph 10 of Schedule 3 was referred to by a number of hon. Members. Again, the principle here is that what we are concerned with is the relationship between the Government and the citizen, the Government and the governed, and not the internal relations of employer and employee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-18a.169.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.199.4", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that the services provided by pirate radio are based entirely on gramophone records? Will he resist any pressure from commercial radio which would mean that any new service provided would also be based on gramophone records?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I would remind the hon. Gentleman of his Question. He asked about a return to the conditions of the 1930s. This is something to which I replied fairly by saying that in my view there is only a very remote danger of this, partly because all nations are now fully forewarned about these dangers and far more ready to prepare against them than they were before the war and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " is, therefore, inevitable that our differences with the right hon. Gentleman will be more pronounced. That is certainly the case with this Bill. The effect of the Bill can be simply and factually stated. It empowers the State, without reference to Parliament, to acquire shares, including a majority holding and so a controlling interest, in any company throughout the length and breadth of Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "d the right hon. Gentleman's predecessor whether the C.B.I. was in favour of the proposals now in the Bill. The right hon. Gentleman's predecessor replied with the words which I quoted, that Mr. Davies had been consulted throughout. I ask the right hon. Gentleman now, after this lapse of nine months, if the C.B.I. is now in favour of the proposals in the Bill. Will the right hon. Gentleman answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.237.2", "colnum": "237", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Exactly. We knew then what the view of the C.B.I. was, but the First Secretary had not even read this at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.237.2", "colnum": "237", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Exactly. We knew then what the view of the C.B.I. was, but the First Secretary had not even read this at that time. [ Interruption .] I will show how the First Secretary misled the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.237.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Stewart", "preceding_text": " of January and in February with the C.B.I., and in the middle of February, after those consultations had taken place, my right hon. Friend my predecessor said that they had taken place. There is no substance, therefore, in the suggestion that he misled the House. The C.B.I. has been further consulted since on the drafting of the Bill and has not expressed a recent view on it one way or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.237.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.238.3", "colnum": "238", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "preceding_text": "No. The point has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.238.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.238.4", "colnum": "238", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I am certainly not going to withdraw because what the right hon. Gentleman said was untrue. I will leave it at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.238.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.238.6", "colnum": "238", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "All I am saying as the Prime Minister knows full well is that there has been very considerable criticism of his Government for not consulting industry more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.238.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.238.6", "colnum": "238", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "r knows full well is that there has been very considerable criticism of his Government for not consulting industry more—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I will answer the question; I am about to answer it if the Prime Minister will allow me to do so. There is no reason why on a number of taxation matters which are being considered generally by the Government industry should not be consulted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.238.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will not answer the question—Corporation Tax was announced in this House before consultation, that was right—if he will not answer whether on two of the three things he referred to there should have been prior consultation, will he answer this? In view of the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "will repeat what I said, word for word. I said that the investment grants, the Corporation Tax, the Selective Employment Tax and the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation were all introduced either without the knowledge of industry or against its advice. That is what I said. I have repeated it word for word and that is true and the right hon. Gentleman knows it. I now turn to Clause 2 of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.246.3", "colnum": "246", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER: \"Or both.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "ot have thought that many people would disagree that that was what we want in this country. My worry is whether, without compulsion—and there is no compulsion in the Bill—we shall achieve the objectives which we have in mind. For example, how will pressure be exerted if there is an unwilling seller? How will the merger which is needed be effected if one of the two parties does not wish to proceed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "preceding_text": "ch was rather muddled. I return to the subject of market forces and the right hon Gentleman's illustration about resale price maintenance. It seemed to imply that the abolition of resale price maintenance was interference with market forces. That is rather like saying that the referee in football who blows his whistle because someone is offside is interfering with the game of Association football.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "preceding_text": "or Macclesfield (Sir A. V. Harvey) said. The hon. Member for Chislehurst drew attention to the wide range over which the Bill could operate, not only in industry in narrow terms. Will the Minister of Technology, who I understand will reply to the debate, tell us whether the definition in Clause 2 includes agriculture? Is that \"commercial or financial activity\"? In Russia and other Communist States", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "lising more and more industry in one form or another. So long as the Government believe in this, the Corporation is yet another organ for them to use to pursue a policy of State take-over. Many people say that the Prime Minister is a difficult man to trust. Some people doubt his sincerity. I have never for a moment doubted that he is dedicated to Socialism. I know that he is a dedicated Socialist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "In exactly the same way that when Hitler published \"Mein Kampf\" all too few people read it and all too few people understood what it meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, we are laughing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "e the full meaning of that document. I say that unless this country wakes up pretty quickly, unless industry especially wakes up to what this Government are really at, we shall find the State having taken unto itself powers of which subsequent Governments will find it difficult to rid themselves, even if those Governments turn out to be in favour of private enterprise. Hon. Members opposite laugh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Kerr", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Kerr", "preceding_text": "state of considerable suspense. If one were to follow the logic of the Bill, would it not be possible for the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation to take a hand in The Times newspaper? We never regard it as a Government organ, but everywhere else in the world it is always assumed that The Times speaks for the British Government. Is it not about time that we set up a corporation to run The Times?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has gone to the I.R.C.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": ". A job needs to be done. The task is there. But mergers, amalgamations and rationalisation only come about through good managements and men. For example, one can think of Viyella International, Courtauld and Albert E. Reed as companies which have rationalised their industry during the last few years—and they have done so because they have had men like Hyman, of Viyella, and Kearton, of Courtauld.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.327.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In motor cars.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "gned to guide his party on its way through the next few months. Let us take the argument advocated by the party opposite, which is that the market will do the job, and is doing the job. How does this fit in with the right hon. Gentleman's article in which he says: Believe me: Without adding a single penn'orth of machinery or plant to British industry, we could turn out 30–50 per cent. more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.346.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-19", "file": "debates1966-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "51fe96ad86d97f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "How?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "e regular merchant banks, but using the usual well-tried means of the merchant banks to achieve what it is hoping to achieve for our competitive strength. It will have the right, and, indeed, the duty, to look at certain exporting firms to see that they get the support they need by reorganisation to put them in a dominant position for dealing with large international corporations in third markets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-19a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-20", "file": "debates1966-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "76d5f4301b71ecb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-20a.386.9", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "I am not sure exactly what the right hon. Gentleman said", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-20a.386.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-20", "file": "debates1966-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "76d5f4301b71ecb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-20a.397.3", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Apart from the legalities, has the Prime Minister observed that the High Court in Salisbury which we all respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-20a.397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-20", "file": "debates1966-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "76d5f4301b71ecb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-20a.400.2", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTTISH TRADE UNIONS (DEPUTATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will be aware now that he has left Blackpool and is in the House of Commons. He will also be aware that that might have been the one place where he could get away with, but not here, the statement that everything good that has happened in the last two years is due to the things he left us with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-20a.400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-20", "file": "debates1966-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "76d5f4301b71ecb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-20a.400.2", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTTISH TRADE UNIONS (DEPUTATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the increase of 15,000 in unemployment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I was asked three questions. I am answering them in turn. The right hon. Gentleman's suggestion in his supplementary question was that the improvement in the unemployment situation in the last few years was due to his beneficent work at the Board of Trade. In fact, the advance factory programme, which he did not build but which we have, and the other measures we have taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-20a.400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-20", "file": "debates1966-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "76d5f4301b71ecb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-20a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTTISH TRADE UNIONS (DEPUTATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is perfectly right and I think that the concern that he has expressed—concern about what is happening, about the transitional situation, what is happening in regard to unemployment until redeployment is more effective—is a concern we all share in all parts of the House. I can certainly assure my hon. Friend that the position is being very closely watched.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-20a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-20", "file": "debates1966-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "76d5f4301b71ecb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-20a.408.2", "colnum": "408", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "to the question asked by the hon. Member for Barking (Mr. Driberg), does the Leader of the House recall that in the Report of the Select Committee on Broadcasting the Proceedings of the House of Commons all three Chief Whips gave their opinion that an experiment of this kind would be favoured? Is it not therefore a fair inference that the House will come to this decision when the mater is debated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-20a.408.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It just happened.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "The Conservative Government deliberately created it in 1963.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.636.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "ABERFAN DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Cledwyn Hughes)", "preceding_text": " of the thousands who, since last Friday morning, have been engaged on the appallingly difficult tasks of rescue, recovery and reclamation. The House will wish to express its own deep sympathy with the bereaved. The House will also wish to record its appreciation of the work of Merthyr County Borough Council, other local authorities and national and local organisations and services and the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.649.3", "colnum": "649", "heading": "GEORGE BLAKE (ESCAPE FROM PRISON)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": " have been supplied from outside. Blake had been in Wormwood Scrubs since his conviction in May, 1961, in a wing for long-term prisoners. He was taken off the escape list in October, 1961, but remained subject to a number of special restrictions—for example, he was allowed no visits except in the hearing of a prison officer. This and other prison escapes are necessarily causing widespread concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "GEORGE BLAKE (ESCAPE FROM PRISON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "m prisons which occurred during the 13 or 14 years that the Conservative Party was in office? Does he realise that the sentiment on this side of the House, at any rate, and, I believe, in many parts of the country, and even on the benches opposite, is that it is disgraceful that the Leader of the Opposition, because he is so hard up for an argument, should make political capital out of this issue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.654.2", "colnum": "654", "heading": "GEORGE BLAKE (ESCAPE FROM PRISON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Home Secretary three questions? First, does he agree that it is highly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.654.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.655.5", "colnum": "655", "heading": "GEORGE BLAKE (ESCAPE FROM PRISON)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "This can certainly be done, and, I hope, will be done, as an integral part of the inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.655.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.655.9", "colnum": "655", "heading": "GEORGE BLAKE (ESCAPE FROM PRISON)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.655.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.655.11", "colnum": "655", "heading": "GEORGE BLAKE (ESCAPE FROM PRISON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Mr. Shinwell rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.655.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "GEORGE BLAKE (ESCAPE FROM PRISON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "into the specific instance of the escape of George Blake from Wormwood Scrubs. Among the rules governing the acceptance or otherwise of an application under the Standing Order is that which prescribes that when a full day's debate has been arranged on a Motion for the Adjournment, the Adjournment under Standing Order No. 9 cannot be moved since a Motion to adjourn will already be before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REDEPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. R. J. Gunter)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. R. J. Gunter)", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend the Prime Minister, which has been variously interpreted, when he referred to the future level of unemployment and suggested that 2 per cent. might be an acceptable limit. I would point out that the Prime Minister was here referring to the unemployment level after redeployment had taken effect: he was not referring to the winter peak of unemployment in January or February of 1967—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.687.2", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REDEPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gunter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gunter", "preceding_text": "eful way with new procedures, new patterns of organisation and new specialised services which, I hope, will fit the Ministry more than ever in the past to aiding that redeployment of our manpower which is one of our basic economic needs. Here—I know that there are hon. and right hon. Gentlemen on the Opposition Front Bench who will join with me—I pay tribute to the staff of the Ministry of Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.687.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REDEPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ries. The experience in my constituency does not arise, it seems to me, from the actions of the Government. That is not to diminish the consequences of the Government's actions, but I am getting a little sick and tired of hearing, day in and day out, in the House of Commons and elsewhere, private industry and private enterprise pass the buck to the Government for their own failures and weaknesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REDEPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.705.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.754.0", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REDEPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is fair enough. No Government have to borrow.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "nt knows as well and probably much better than we what's good for the United Kingdom. When we put all this money at your disposal, we just agreed with your Government on what was our common view of desirable policies in the United Kingdom. There was no force. They merely agreed after discussions, which means that we were told, \"Either you agree, or you do not get the money.\" That is the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.751.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.767.4", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REDEPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "many seasonal ups and downs. This is, in part, reflected by the interesting fact that more than half the workers laid off by B.M.C. alone have had less than two years' service with the industry. They are men who have gone into it in the recent excellent years. Some of them had left the industry in earlier years when the party opposite was in power and came back again in 1964 for a new boom period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.767.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.767.4", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REDEPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "dress the tax balance between the manufacturing and service sectors of the economy. In the longer term it has the additional aim of making more manpower available for manufacturing industry by encouraging economy in the use of labour in the services.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 23rd June, 1966; Vol. 730, c. 932–3.] In our Ministry we are making a study of the effects of the Selective Employment Tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.767.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REDEPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "I have given way before, but I have no intention of giving way at this moment. We cannot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-24", "file": "debates1966-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "303ddad87a5239ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.781.4", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIXED FRUIT AND PLAITING MATERIALS (DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Stainton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Stainton", "preceding_text": "ve, perhaps I might put a few questions and comments to the Government in the hope that, in due course, we might have some reply and clarification. I stress the word \"clarification\" because these Orders tend to become extremely obscure and, unless one is highly conversant with the technicalities of the trade involved, what is headed \"Explanatory Note\" does not progress the situation at all. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-24a.781.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.804.2", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend acknowledge that, if there is a sudden upsurge of dividend releases during the severe restraint period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.804.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.807.8", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, it is not anomalous. No, the Schedule D taxpayer is not so entitled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.807.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Tories do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will realise that, for two reasons, I cannot foreshadow what will happen immediately. The first is that my right hon. Friend has not received in detail and in writing the commentary of those with whom Sir Morrice James was talking, Mr. Smith and his party, so we do not yet know what their final position is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.828.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "MATRIMONIAL CAUSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to divorce. On two occasions in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.834.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABERFAN DISASTER (TRIBUNAL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ouse would think it appropriate that from this Box I should pay tribute to the Secretary of State for Wales and his colleagues, whether Ministers or officials in the Welsh Office, for the immense efforts they made personally at the scene of the disaster during those days. It is right that the House should recognise the splendid work which both Ministers and officials did on this terrible occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.847.0", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Since my right hon. Friend accepts that alternative policies were urged upon the Chancellor and the Government in 1965, will he not allow for the possibility that if those alternative policies had then been adopted the Government and the country would not have faced a crisis on 20th July?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. To judge from the public response, the suggestion made in certain quarters that the public would reject or dislike this is completely without foundation. We have received a considerable number of letters, although I will not say that all of them have been reasonable. Some of them, like hon. Gentlemen opposite, complained about the postal charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "it?\" But the Order is flexible the other way. It is possible for them to make representations about why their prices should be allowed to exceed the prices when the Order was made by such amount as may be specified. We preserve a flexible position, but, meanwhile, we have decided to halt a further increase in laundry prices. Some have objected to this as a blanket way of dealing with the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "No. This applies not only to price Orders vis-à-vis the C.B.I. but to wage Orders vis-à-vis the T.U.C. I should also say that I do not propose in any sense to make reckless use of this power. It must be selective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "less use of this power. It must be selective—[ Interruption .] I answer this because these were the kind of accusations that were thrown at me. I propose to proceed by consultation. I must admit that I am sometimes tempted, as when one of my hon. Friends drew my attention to the fact that the Glasgow Conservative Club has raised its subscription by an amount that S.E.T. could not possibly justify.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But not in agreement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "the National Plan and the appeal of the Prime Minister. It is hard to say which of those two has been more completely discredited by the events of the past few months. I am not concerned with how other parties may vote or abstain. It is a reproach sometimes to us and sometimes to those below the Gangway opposite that they and we find ourselves in strange company. Such a reproach leaves me unmoved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ears—is that we have a much too great base and substructure of unskilled and semiskilled men and a deficient superstructure of skilled men. That is not because of inadequate provision for training or technological education, although that might be one of the points. The main point is that in this country the skilled man does not receive an adequate reward for his labour and for his responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They never get the chance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, was perhaps too starry-eyed in thinking that it would work. I do not think that it will. I should like to see it work in the field of Income Tax, but it certainly will not. Even with the present compulsion it does not work. We still find \"fiddling\" going on and that \"fiddling\" is not being done by those who pay their taxes by P.A.Y.E.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cousins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cousins", "preceding_text": "it will be after 1st January. Another says that it will be next April. Still another says that it will be after 11th August, 1967. Sometimes the issue is whether it will be four months after 11 August before we get the freedom to do what we would like, despite the Act, or whether we will then be told that a permanent feature of our economic situation is that the Government will tell us what to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "e voluntary wage principle. The Prime Minister said on 20th July: It is not our intention to introduce elaborate controls over incomes and prices.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 20th July, 1966; Vol. 732, c. 636.] What could be more elaborate than the powers which have been given to the First Secretary of State in this Order? It is no wonder that confidence has been undermined. When the Government first came—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are on the slopery slip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "nk anyone wants to go to the point of prescribing wages by law. As to the idea of freezing all wages and claims, salary claims, I suppose, dividends and rents … I think that would be monstrously unfair\". Many similar statements were made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Secretary of State and others. Let us realise that other countries have been down this slippery slope before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Part IV.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "round which makes the Government in the Order appear to be hostile to profits and even if they are secured they will merely attract even higher taxation. I attack the Government for not having acted earlier to prevent such a severe totalitarian freeze as we now have. The danger is that Clause 4, while suppressing the temperature, will not cure the disease. Clause 4, combined with the deflationary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.952.2", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "own agreements, whether collective or otherwise, as invariably binding but that those entering into commercial agreements fear that they too may be exposed to Government interference in their contractual arrangements\". In other words, the Government are undermining everything with regard to the sanctity of contracts. The words I quoted are from a former Labour Attorney-General, now Lord Shawcross.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.952.2", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "tructions have been given to the Confederation of British Industry, and it has circulated them. In some cases the instructions have been so pernickety that they are indicative of the kind of bureaucracy that we should get if Part IV were invoked. I think that some of the instructions have gone much too far. For example, employers have been asked not to pay increased pensions during the standstill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.952.2", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": " the Ministry of Pensions and he was always talking on pensions from this side. Then he went to housing. I followed him \"shadowing\" housing. Now, somehow, he has come right out of his present position and is replying on an economic subject. We are all used to the right hon. Gentleman's ebullient, effervescent style. It is always extremely attractive. It is often something of an Oxford Union style.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I have given the hon. Gentleman the full amount of time spent and pointed out to him that it is very rare to have a Bill of this kind, of a highly controversial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "nd, of a highly controversial—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—I have told him that it had to be recommitted. We spent a day on that, and the total time spent, including Part IV, was that time. All I say to the Opposition is that it is slightly idiotic to suggest that it was stream-rollered over them, when it went through without a Closure or Guillotine. I come now to whether its content is totalitarian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "d by the second six-monthly period—but after that the Act will disappear and all these powers will go. In the period of 10 months we must have solved the problem which hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite failed to solve during 13 long years and which the previous Labour Government failed to solve. If we do not solve it the only alternative is to use unemployment as the method to cure inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "demic and that it is something that must always exist in the economy\"? It is a fair question and the answer I have to give on behalf of the Government is simply that the whole purpose of the present drastic operation and our sole concern is to create conditions whereby we can have full employment and sustained growth. That is something we must achieve. If we cannot do this we will stand condemned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.960.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Silkin)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.963.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.963.4", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Next year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that there is no question of that. The Act stays, but Part IV lapses automatically on 11th August last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.963.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.964.4", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Then I will repeat it. This is not the figure for any particular week in the winter—we might have a bad freeze—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.964.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.964.5", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ans. It means that during this year ahead we have two stages; first, we have the stage of severe restraint from 1st January, when we have to work out the priorities, and then we have to be ready with the final solution. I am confident that when this Order is looked at in retrospect we shall find that we have demonstrated that this was a justified expedient which we needed in order to get the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.964.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.987.6", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HELL AND UPLAND FARMERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Mr. George Willis)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Mr. George Willis)", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Dumfries (Mr. Monro) on having secured the Adjournment debate and on raising this question because, clearly, it is a matter of concern to both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.987.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.987.6", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HELL AND UPLAND FARMERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Mr. George Willis)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Mr. George Willis)", "preceding_text": "House that not only is the Scottish hill farm by far the major part of the British hill farming industry, but problems affecting hill farmers tend to be felt earlier and more acutely in Scotland than elsewhere in the United Kingdom because of the altitude, latitude and remoteness. This Government, from their very earliest days in office, have shown an appreciation of the needs of the hill farmers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.987.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HELL AND UPLAND FARMERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "l estimate is that ewe losses have been higher than usual but not abnormally high and lamb numbers are down by about 5 per cent. The hill cattle herd has continued to expand, the 4th June figures being 6 per cent. up on 1965. Marketings of weaned calves since August are between 5 and 10 per cent. higher than last year. Winter during the past year started earlier and continued well into the spring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-25", "file": "debates1966-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a9be4362a1d8491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HELL AND UPLAND FARMERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "s something humorous about it. The condition of lambs, particularly at early sales, was below normal. Rather better weather in late August and September led to an improvement in marketings. Lamb prices at the early sales were down by 10 per cent. on last year, but recent sales have shown an increase. Cast ewe prices have been lower. Calf prices have been on average about £5, or 13 per cent., down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-25a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-26", "file": "debates1966-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "44537b3490a34517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.994.7", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not very bright at this time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I cannot agree that it is despicable that Post Office workers should have an extra half-hour of leisure a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.994.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-26", "file": "debates1966-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "44537b3490a34517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1002.4", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the next Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "Is the Postmaster-General aware that in his worthy efforts to defend his Department he is beginning to sound rather self-satisfied? Would he tell the House to what extent he has gone into the report of the Sun newspaper published on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1002.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-26", "file": "debates1966-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "44537b3490a34517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "in charge of the Bill, but seems to be quite unable to explain to the House what is meant by the new Clause. I do not mind if there is some difficulty over this, because there are limitations to what he can say about the Schedule. My hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Sir E. Errington) told us that five roads would be covered by the paving Clause. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-26", "file": "debates1966-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "44537b3490a34517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1048.0", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Two.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": " the phrase \"a paving Clause\" is a term of art. In a sense, it is a paving Clause. Paving Clauses take various forms. I was not here when Mr. Speaker gave his Ruling. Therefore, it is not competent for me to say whether he was misled. As I understand, the Schedule cannot be discussed with the new Clause, except with the consent of the whole House. Certain hon. Members have objected to that course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-26", "file": "debates1966-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "44537b3490a34517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1057.3", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Foster", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I ask your Ruling, Mr. Deputy Speaker, on new Clauses 3 and 4. I submit that no one can maintain that they are paving Clauses but are substantive Clauses. I ask whether the Ruling of Mr. Speaker with regard to new Clause 1 does not apply to this case, because his Ruling was given on the basis that new Clause 1 was a paving Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1057.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-26", "file": "debates1966-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "44537b3490a34517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1062.0", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "I accept the invitation of the hon. Gentleman the Member for Central Ayrshire (Mr. Manuel) to say something about the new Clause and about the Schedule. The new Clause deals with two Schedules. Is this what the right hon. Gentleman meant by linking? There is no linking at all between the two Schedules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1062.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-26", "file": "debates1966-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "44537b3490a34517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I have seldom known, in the time I have been a Member of the House of Commons, an occasion on which a back-bench Member of the Opposition got up and gave such a lucid explanation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-26", "file": "debates1966-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "44537b3490a34517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1133.2", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mannel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mannel", "preceding_text": "e has spoken about freeze and squeeze, mixing his economic position with his courting life probably. Nevertheless we appreciate that he has at least found something in this Measure which he could copy. But the whole effect is rather lost when the Parliamentary Secretary tells us what this would do. These five luminaries and additions brought in at the last election, who are doing very well indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-26", "file": "debates1966-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "44537b3490a34517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "prove it, but I would much rather he threw it out. Now there is this mass of Government amendments on Report. It is a disgrace that the Minister, with the massive army he has behind him, could not have produced something better at the beginning. I take the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire seriously to task for grumbling at my hon. Friends for producing this simple Clause. I turn now to the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-26", "file": "debates1966-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "44537b3490a34517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1145.2", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Get back to the Foreign Office.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Intervention, like speeches, must bear relation to the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-26", "file": "debates1966-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "44537b3490a34517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1155.0", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "I support the Amendment. The Opposition is indeed the watchdog of the Government. My hon. Friend the Member for Banff (Mr. Baker) need not have used the prefix \"we are supposed to be\". It is our job and duty to observe what the Government are doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-26", "file": "debates1966-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "44537b3490a34517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1161.4", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "The great difference is that the proposals in those days were carefully costed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1161.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-26", "file": "debates1966-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "44537b3490a34517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1161.4", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because they were not costed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "The great difference is that the proposals in those days were carefully costed. [ Laughter .] Then why did the Labour Members at the time support those proposals in this House? It was because they were costed; they were realistic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1161.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-26", "file": "debates1966-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "44537b3490a34517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1194.2", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1194.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-26", "file": "debates1966-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "44537b3490a34517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1196.2", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman mean by that that he does not regard the invoking of this procedure as a highly important matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-26a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-27", "file": "debates1966-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "587b8953cd1058ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1297.4", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "So far as the right hon. Member for Streatham (Mr. Sandys) is concerned, his actions up to 16th October, 1964, need no defence; since then, his actions are incapable of defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1297.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-27", "file": "debates1966-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "587b8953cd1058ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1297.7", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of many of the reasons why we should proceed with the utmost caution and this is what we have done. There have been broken pledges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1297.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-27", "file": "debates1966-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "587b8953cd1058ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1303.3", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "HONOURS SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that many of us on this side of the House will be appalled by the characteristic timidity and conservatism of my right hon. Friend's approach to this and other matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-27", "file": "debates1966-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "587b8953cd1058ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1304.2", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "HONOURS SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I did not actually rise then, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1304.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-27", "file": "debates1966-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "587b8953cd1058ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1341.0", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "One defect?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "ert: 'appearing to the Commission to be the amount required to make good the deficiency, after taking into account the principal amount specified in the original notice and in any previous notice served under this section and any relief (whether by way of repayment or otherwise) given or required to be given in respect of the levy in question'. This Amendment is to put right a defect in the Bill——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1340.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-27", "file": "debates1966-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "587b8953cd1058ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1355.0", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have not said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "e, to voluntary organisations. It is my belief—I hope that the right hon. and learned Member for Hexham (Mr. Rippon) agrees with me thus far—that a good deal ought to be done in the Welfare State through the association of public and voluntary bodies. Having said that, I must emphasise that, if a charity carries out any development for charitable purposes, there is no question of the levy arising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1355.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-27", "file": "debates1966-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "587b8953cd1058ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1376.3", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clegg", "preceding_text": "d intentions put forward by the right hon. Gentleman and the other part of that dynamic duo, the Parliamentary Secretary. I think that we ought to press the right hon. Gentleman for an answer to the simple question put by the hon. Member for Cheadle—a simple yes or no. It will not take long and it will not hurt the right hon. Gentleman to do it. Please let us have an answer to a specific question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-27", "file": "debates1966-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "587b8953cd1058ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "preceding_text": "I do not altogether understand the question of the hon. Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Costain). Perhaps I can repeat what the position is. It is always the best way of dealing with matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-27", "file": "debates1966-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "587b8953cd1058ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Schedule.—(CREDIT CARRIED FORWARD FROM PREVIOUS CHARGEABLE ACT OR EVENT.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sometimes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "I understand my hon. Friend's attitude, and I fear that that may be true. But as in the workings of a democracy the party opposite has a majority of 95 or 97—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-27", "file": "debates1966-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "587b8953cd1058ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1458.6", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Schedule.—(ALLOWANCE IN RESPECT OF ESTATE DUTY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "preceding_text": "value and which will also be subject to levy is to be set off as a deduction from market value when assessing levy on the first chargeable act or event after the death in respect of which the Estate Duty is leviable. Part I sets out the conditions in which the allowance is to be made and the way in which it is to be taken into account. I have already said that it is by deduction from market value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-27a.1458.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-28", "file": "debates1966-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "982e1e26fffc9d43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-28a.1590.1", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Allason", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Allason", "preceding_text": ", is in their atti- tude towards owner-occupation. It is necessary to have a substantial number of owner-occupied houses in new towns, because there is a natural desire to own one's own house and the best residents in these towns are the people who are likely to become the pillars of the town's society in the future—to provide the mayors, the heads of charities, and the people whom we really need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-28a.1590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-28", "file": "debates1966-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "982e1e26fffc9d43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-28a.1665.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "BARBADOS INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will be able to change it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": "e the immediate concern of the House and I hope that the Opposition will be able to negotiate agreement on these difficulties, but it is a risk which it would be wrong not to mention. I think that this is what my hight hon. Friend the Member for Taunton had in mind. If the Opposition win, something of a paradox arises, as they will inherit a constitution which, in some respects, they did not want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-28a.1665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.19.0", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gunter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gunter", "preceding_text": "What this has to do with the Question before us I have no idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.19.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.29.4", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Old Etonians?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "While thanking my hon. Friend for that reply, may I ask her whether she is aware that in my constituency the youth employment officer expresses concern whether he will find difficulty in placing school leavers when the next batch leaves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.29.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. If the hon. Gentleman weekly makes the same allegation and never on one single occasion seeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.32.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have had it\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "preceding_text": "That is all right as far as it goes, but is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the people of Gibraltar want a clear-cut assurance from Her Majesty's Government about their future?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.37.4", "colnum": "37", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "To answer the first part of the right hon. Gentleman's question, what he said could be said about many statements which the right hon. Gentleman himself made in this House as well as outside. As a matter of fact, a lot of trouble would have been saved the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.37.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to my right hon. Friend. If hon. Members opposite who sounded so bellicose the other day—and perhaps I may say that I think that my hon. Friend the Colonial Secretary had a pretty rough time and a pretty unjustifiably rough time then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am not at all sure that that will be a very helpful question for me to answer at this stage of the talks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am not at all sure that that will be a very helpful question for me to answer at this stage of the talks—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am sure that when the right hon. Gentleman considers it, he will see that it is not a very helpful point to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.41.9", "colnum": "41", "heading": "GEORGE BLAKE (ESCAPE FROM PRISON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it in order for the right hon. Gentleman the temporary Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.41.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.54.3", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman will have the chance to reply. I was merely calling attention to the fact that the bitterness is there as a result of the actions of the previous Government. On the contrary, we find this absolutely intolerable. The sooner the Bill is effective the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.54.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that in dealing with the local authorities. At least, it will not go into the one big private pocket of someone who, possibly, could not produce the title deeds of the land, about which the hon. Member for Crosby spoke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "le deeds of the land, about which the hon. Member for Crosby spoke. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] When we are talking about title deeds and land ownership, we should remember that the Bill will deal somewhat better with the great land anomalies we have and questions of ownership of land in respect of which it would be very difficult for the present so-called owners to produce title deeds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.68.0", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Still it does not make the land cheaper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to prolong this, but the hon. Gentleman knows as well as I do that the main facet of this is that the price is not going into the private pocket. If the use value is £300 and he gets £2,000 there is a levy, between £300 and the £2,000, to be paid by the seller.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.68.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.115.4", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "k about this problem, however, the more I am convinced that what is needed to solve the general problem of prison security is not an investigation under an eminent personage to report, to use the right hon. Gentleman's own words, in a few months, but a programme of action operating, as all programmes should operate, under the responsible Minister and not under a close relative of the Royal Family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.115.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.116.2", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "and now, in view of something which fell from the hon. Member for Pontypool (Mr. Abse), that whatever anyone else may think I mean no discourtesy whatever to Lord Mount-batten. I acknowledge his public spirit, and I am sure that the whole House will acknowledge his public spirit, in undertaking what must be an onerous and, perhaps not unlikely, disagreeable and exacting task. But the more I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.116.2", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ember for Pontypool (Mr. Abse), that whatever anyone else may think I mean no discourtesy whatever to Lord Mount-batten. I acknowledge his public spirit, and I am sure that the whole House will acknowledge his public spirit, in undertaking what must be an onerous and, perhaps not unlikely, disagreeable and exacting task. But the more I think—[HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"]—about the nature of the inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.118.4", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "Well, I am glad exactly to know the division of responsibility in this matter, and, of course, I shall accept what the right hon. Gentleman has just said, but it is a curious reflection upon how experience of office sometimes develops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.118.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.118.4", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "Well, I am glad exactly to know the division of responsibility in this matter, and, of course, I shall accept what the right hon. Gentleman has just said, but it is a curious reflection upon how experience of office sometimes develops—[ Interruption .]—sometimes develops, that on 10th May, 1965—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.118.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why were you not there?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " this exercise is to shroud, under billows of smoke engendered by a public inquiry, the sharp outlines of a national scandal which emerged starkly as the result of a particular occurrence. Now George Blake was, at the time of the right hon. Gentleman's appointment and of the appointment of the Government in October, 1964, probably the most important single prisoner we had in Her Majesty's prisons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.119.2", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly sure that the public will notice the frivolous attitude of hon. Gentlemen opposite, but I have been too long in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.119.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.121.2", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Mr. Silverman rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.121.4", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "No. I will not give way at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.121.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.121.4", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " the public interest if we allowed ourselves to be deterred by the fact, if it be a fact, that a former colleague had been guilty of an error of judgment? But I doubt whether, on mature reflection, the right hon. Gentleman will consider that what he said to the House on Monday last reflected the whole of the information in his own possession or really constituted a candid admission of all he knew.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.121.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Sandys", "preceding_text": "oralising effect of the Home Secretary's attitude to crime and punishment. I do not believe that anything I said was either untrue or unfair. Have we not good reason to be worried when we read that the Home Secretary has been booed and jeered at by the police and that the prison warders are threatening to go slow as a protest against his decisions? I am not commending these deplorable occurrences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.133.0", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "and should have been kept entirely separate. It is more in the nature of a tribunal. It will have to cross-examine witnesses, weigh evidence and pronounce opinions which will affect the reputations and careers of officials in the Home Office and prison service. I am sure that Lord Mountbatten would be the first to agree that this aspect of the inquiry is a job, not for an admiral, but for a judge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "preceding_text": "or law and order is something else. These are taught through our institutions to our children on their way to adulthood. What the Home Office—and, to a lesser degree, the police—have been unable to tackle adequately and to take adequate measures to achieve is the tempo of life and Britain's crime rate, which is ever rising and becoming more violent. The Home Secretary is a man of very little love—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He paid a visit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "preceding_text": "ice—and, to a lesser degree, the police—have been unable to tackle adequately and to take adequate measures to achieve is the tempo of life and Britain's crime rate, which is ever rising and becoming more violent. The Home Secretary is a man of very little love—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—When the three policemen were murdered in my constituency I expected either a letter or a word of sympathy from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "preceding_text": "ly and to take adequate measures to achieve is the tempo of life and Britain's crime rate, which is ever rising and becoming more violent. The Home Secretary is a man of very little love—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—When the three policemen were murdered in my constituency I expected either a letter or a word of sympathy from him. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He paid a visit.\"] I am sorry to say that nothing arrived—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "preceding_text": "ladly, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I thought at the time that the Home Secretary's decision, taken almost on the spot, not to recommend a change in the law had been given with undue haste. I still think so. The Metropolitan Police is 6,000 recruits short and resignations are occurring every week. A new type of criminal is before us. For the first time, the British policeman appears to be losing his nerve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.136.2", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who put him there? \"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "At Question Time last Monday week I said that Blake should not have been at Wormwood Scrubs. It is not a maximum security prison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.136.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "McCarthy.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Gentleman has any direct allegations to make, he should make them openly and not by innuendo. He should let the Mountbatten inquiry go fully into the matter. It might be a new principle, one we might have to consider, to apply political tests of the sort of which he is speaking and which certainly none of my predecessors have applied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.141.2", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Rawlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Rawlinson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is attempting to excuse a fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.141.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Rawlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Rawlinson", "preceding_text": "e Cabinet for police officers and for warders. He hears the responsibility for these services. He has been failing, and because he has been failing it has led to this dispirited service. I think that the Home Secretary is a person who could and should adorn every single office in the Cabinet, save for one. The office that I do not think that his particular talents lie in is that of Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.147.6", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I believe that I have only three minutes in which to speak, but I want to get in as much as I can. The hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Mr. Victor Yates) said that he had been in the House for 21 years. I have been here only seven years, but I find this the thinnest ground upon which I have ever heard a censure debate mounted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.147.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.147.6", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Brighton bomber again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "censure debate mounted. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I appreciate the interjections, but they take time. It was almost as though the Opposition Chief Whip said, \"We were told at Blackpool that we have got to bash 'em, so let us put up Quintin to 'blow his top.' It will not matter if Duncan joins in, too, and we can bring Enoch back on to the Front Bench.\" What is of significance is that the Tory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.147.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.147.6", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The former Solicitor-General.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "quiry into that and that alone. Yet on Monday last the right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg) said that he would settle either for a specific inquiry into that or for the matter to be included in the Mountbatten report. That appears in col. 655 of HANSARD. The same was said by the Leader of the Opposition. What I thought disgraceful was the suggestion by the Solicitor-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.147.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "nt of the way in which a prison magazine of which one page was forged—and I will come to the word \"forged\" in a moment—had been produced and sent out of the prison with a covering letter to an organ of the Press. This is the Home Office letter to the Press Council: It appears that the perpetrator must have recovered the stencil of page 20 after the official issue of the magazine had been run off\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.153.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Anti-climax?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " a day or two of those events we were able to read that \"on the instructions of the Home Secretary the location of all prisoners undergoing sentences in connection with activities against the State has been reviewed, and as a result of this review several transfers have been made\". Nineteen sixty-four, 1965, 1966, the mounting crescendo and then the climax, and after the climax the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "It will bear saying a good many more times. We are not at this moment asking for the resignation of the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for The Home Department (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Blake?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for The Home Department (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": "r St. Marylebone, who indulged in a good deal of hyperbole, particularly in the latter part of his speech, excelled himself when he said that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister had exposed this country in a way which was without comparison under the previous Administration. I have in my hand a list of security scandals so long that it would take me most of the rest of the debate to read them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.156.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Mr. Sandys rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.158.9", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "policy made by arms manufacturers; and this House might as well give up any attempt at being a deliberative assembly or any of us believing in the sovereignty of Parliament. I cannot for a moment believe that the Front Bench opposite accepts this point of view, and if the right hon. Member for Bexley were not so frightened of his right hon. Friend the Member for Streatham he would get to his feet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.158.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about Blake?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Speaker wants to hear the cut and thrust of debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.159.4", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ould not have taken the steps which I thought necessary this week; to re-allocate the other spies we have in custody. Nor would I have undertaken an urgent review of all security prisoners, and that review is nearly complete. I am bound to say, however, that if I am to listen to lectures on this subject, the last source from which they should come is from representatives of the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.159.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.161.5", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE HOME SECRETARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has at last been able to deliver one sentence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.161.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (TORBAY)", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. James MacColl)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. James MacColl)", "preceding_text": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. James MacColl) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (TORBAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ministers change.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "ernment finance is never easy and today it is probably more difficult than at any other time. It is no good people saying that all will be well and that it will be covered by rate deficiency grants. Who knows how long that will continue? Without being rude to the Minister, I would say that I do not think any assurances from him are worth having on this point. Times change and circumstances change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.189.3", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (TORBAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It was the Devonshire cream.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "n regard to the police because we have to have larger administrative units, and the same was the view of his predecessor, Lord Stow Hill, in regard to the fire services. But here in this case we have fragmentation. I think that, when the right hon. Gentleman was entertained in the Tory last stronghold of Torquay as, perhaps, no Labour Minister has ever been entertained before, it went to his head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (TORBAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "ction, Mr. Deputy Speaker. However, that subject has been introduced into the debate. If the new borough is to be viable and tourism is its main industry—and, presumably, the tourists will not all come by sea—communications are vitally important and the Government must have proposals for dealing with that problem. All that they have done so far is to cut back what we did during our term of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.193.5", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (TORBAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member came only halfway through the debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "on this subject and that it was to be discussed here tonight. As someone who cares about the West Country and can look at the matter objectively, I came here to make up my mind on the merits of the speeches, which I have now heard. This causes considerable amusement to the Lord President of the Council, who used to be the Minister of Housing and Local Government and is responsible for this Order.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.193.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-10-31", "file": "debates1966-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b36b99f999a6a009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.193.5", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (TORBAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": " look at the matter objectively, I came here to make up my mind on the merits of the speeches, which I have now heard. This causes considerable amusement to the Lord President of the Council, who used to be the Minister of Housing and Local Government and is responsible for this Order.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member came only halfway through the debate.\"] He came only halfway through the debate?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-10-31a.193.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.221.6", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "Does he not think that the £75 million being given to the Land Commission to acquire private property would be better spent in enabling ordinary men and women——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.221.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.221.8", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "—to become the proud owners of their homes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.221.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "Is not the Joint Parliamentary Secretary aware that the figures in those statistics reveal the fact that, if the rate of deceleration in starts, namely, twice fewer houses being started than in the year before, is maintained, half of those being public authority houses, by 1970, instead of reaching 500,000 houses a year, we shall reach nine—I beg the House's pardon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.230.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.238.7", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that on the same assumption it would be wrong to raise rates?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.238.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Commonwealth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I said that we must continue to have the right to buy cheap Commonwealth food as we always have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.245.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.252.2", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "ABERFAN DISASTER (TRIBUNAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " and hon. Members and many people outside the House will wish to give further consideration? Is the right hon. Gentleman further aware that what aroused the greatest criticism in the Attorney-General's statement—and the Attorney-General is not the legal adviser of the country—was that any comment—any comment—on these matters was highly undesirable and that this was followed by ill-defined threats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "ABERFAN DISASTER (TRIBUNAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman has quoted the specific case of witnesses being cross-examined on television and from that has drawn the conclusion that any comment of a general nature must be stultified. That is not a situation which those outside are prepared to accept. Is the Prime Minister aware that he may try to bully the Press and may try to bully us in the House, but that however much he tries to prevent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.259.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.278.3", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "ew weeks ago when considering the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation Bill, there cannot be any suggestion that the National Coal Board is too small. It is a positive boast of the Board that, outside the Civil Service, it is the largest employer of labour in the world second only to General Motors. It is its boast that it is the third largest concern outside the United States in terms of assets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.308.5", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e foisted on an unsuspecting nation after the General Election of 1945. So foolish were some of the electorate at that election that they even thought that, when coal was nationalised, they would get their household coal free of cost. So stupid were some of the electorate in 1945 that they thought when the railways were nationalised, they would travel on \"puff-puff trains\" without buying a ticket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.308.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.314.4", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman once again displays his abysmal ignorance of industrial matters. Hon. Gentlemen opposite cannot nationalise the oil companies, because all the oil companies are international concerns and are owned in many countries. But the Labour Party wants to nationalise North Sea gas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.314.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.338.5", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "nal Coal Board would exceed its borrowing powers of £700 million at a much earlier date than otherwise it would have done. Then the Coal Board would have to come to Parliament and ask for legislation to increase the limit of its borrowing powers thus unnecessarily taking up the time of the House. The Minister said that only £6½ million would be invested by the Coal Board in this enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.338.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.344.4", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It would be out of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Competition between the gas and electricity boards has been harmful to the consumer rather than the reverse. This applies on a national and on a local scale. It may be that we are coming to an era when thought could be given to this question by the Government. Perhaps the Minister would care to touch on it in winding up, as it has been raised by many hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.344.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.347.2", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "t was imported. Would private enterprise have done that? No. It takes public money to benefit itself. A lot of money spent on research goes to the benefit of private enterprise, and right hon. and hon. Members opposite never express appreciation of this, because they are happy to receive the benefits that can be derived and to know that their friends on the Stock Exchange will derive some benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is public competition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": " and also from the Coal Board plants. When steel was in less demand they said that they did not want the Coal Board's coke. It was used as a buffer. The hon. Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro) spoke of about 20 per cent. of road haulage being kept under nationalisation. That was an attempt to have it as a buffer to bolster up private enterprise and use it only when it was necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is already there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborn", "preceding_text": "Industries? It is this kind of issue on which we should satisfy ourselves when money is to be put into a project, because we want a satisfactory return for it. What is the National Coal Board in business for? Is it to supply energy? If it is, why does it not supply electricity or go into nuclear power production? Is it there to mine and distribute coal? Is it to enter the petrol chemical business?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "Nobody applies.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "preceding_text": " questions to the hon. Gentleman in the light of what he has been saying. Unless it be the view of the Government that the State should diversify and enter into nationalisation projects in almost every field of activity, then the onus is on the Government to show that this is a reasonable form of activity for a nationalised industry to engage in. Will the hon. Gentleman answer these two questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-01", "file": "debates1966-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1eedf6ae8472750d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "BUILDING CONTROL (COST LIMIT EXEMPTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Public Building and Works (Mr. Reginald Prentice)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Public Building and Works (Mr. Reginald Prentice)", "preceding_text": " that because economic changes come along at such a pace decisions made in the construction industry in one year may not be appropriate in the following year. This is a case logically for the whole Act and the policy under it although the hon. Gentleman has never seen that and always seemed to argue the reverse. That because planning is difficult we should not plan seems to be his outlook on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-01a.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-02", "file": "debates1966-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6b02afa5ea15717d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "In a friendly way, and in the interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-02", "file": "debates1966-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6b02afa5ea15717d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I cannot say that that is the situation without possessing all the facts. I recognise my hon. Friend's interest in this and also his knowledge of the legal implications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.441.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-02", "file": "debates1966-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6b02afa5ea15717d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.454.2", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is already.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman resist this preposterous suggestion and see that the House of Commons is not turned into a street corner cafeteria?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-02", "file": "debates1966-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6b02afa5ea15717d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.456.8", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "While agreeing with the Leader of the House in his desire to resist this suggestion, may I ask whether it would not help the House if he persuaded Ministers from top to bottom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.456.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-02", "file": "debates1966-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6b02afa5ea15717d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.457.9", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "May I tell my hon. Friend.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.457.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-02", "file": "debates1966-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6b02afa5ea15717d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.457.9", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "May I tell my hon. Friend.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] May I tell my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.457.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-02", "file": "debates1966-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6b02afa5ea15717d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "TITLES (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": " living and they add needlessly to confusion. Although the House of Lords has had its value over the centuries, there is no sense in a hereditary second chamber today and the monarchy, which still has a genuine political value in limiting political ambitions and acting as a symbol of communal unity, can get along perfectly well without an aristocracy as is shown in Scandinavia and the Midlands \"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.467.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-02", "file": "debates1966-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6b02afa5ea15717d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.524.3", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREENWICH HOSPITAL AND TRAVERS' FOUNDATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence for the Royal Navy (Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu)", "preceding_text": "litical outlooks during that time, we never had any disagreements about the merits of the Foundation, or the way that the school which it serves should work. Unfortunately, I have never had a chance until now to say a public \"Thank you\" to Sir John for his service, but I assure him that the management committee, the whole school and, indeed, the House are extremely grateful to him for his service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.524.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-02", "file": "debates1966-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6b02afa5ea15717d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREENWICH HOSPITAL AND TRAVERS' FOUNDATION", "cue_speaker": "Commander Harry Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Harry Pursey", "preceding_text": "These annual Estimates of this two-centuries-old wealthy—I underline the word \"wealthy\", in view of the remarks of the hon. Member for Merton and Morden (Mr. Humphrey Atkins)—nautical charity—not naval charity—Greenwich Hospital, have provided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-02a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MOTOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, and that is certainly not part of our policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.655.3", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d imports to our trade with the Commonwealth. As I told the House on Tuesday, I was speaking from memory and I did not have the text in front of me. I have now checked the exact words. They were as follows: … we must be free to go on buying food and raw materials, as we have for 100 years, in the cheapest markets—in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other Commonwealth countries … —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman may claim the right to speak for Europeans in this House, I do not know whether he does, but if three years ago he had spoken for Britain we should not have been in this mess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "en our study of this in very great depth is completed I shall certainly make a full statement in the House on the Government's position. The hon. Gentleman asked whether this would mean a declaration of intent like 1961. He had better wait until I can make the statement, but I can tell him that on that occasion the declaration of intent was made with no thought of the consequences, and no thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.659.2", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was certainly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.659.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.662.6", "colnum": "662", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sandys the Leader!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Mr. Sandys rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.662.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Bombing.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "May I revert to the question of Thursday's business, discussed by the Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of the House? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the suggestion that these matters should be taken formally does not necessarily commend itself to the whole House? Is he aware that there are some who would wish to have a discussion of sanctions with particular reference to——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.665.2", "colnum": "665", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Just a tiny bomb.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Indeed, from the tribal noises around me, it is clear that there are high feelings on this matter. Is the right hon. Gentleman further aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.669.6", "colnum": "669", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "cord straight. The statement was made not by the hon. Member for Yeovil, but by his right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd), who followed him in the debate from which I was quoting. I apologise to the hon. Member for Yeovil for ascribing to him views that he did not express; and to the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield for not having attributed the words to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.669.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "t that farmers did not get the premium, though many of them could do with it. They were classified as being a second-class industry when they believed they could and should be in the forefront of import saving. The general impression has grown among farmers that the Government has little interest in or sympathy for British agriculture. Now a word about the much-debated question of farmers' credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.676.3", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We shall not get it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "l not have forgotten either the very strong case made by my hon. Friend the Member for Dumfries (Mr. Monro) in an Adjournment debate the other day. Cattle rearers, wherever they are, have lost confidence and money. The House will expect from the Minister today a clear statement of what he intends to do to honour the Government's pledges and to make some reality of the pledges in the National Plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.690.2", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "I always accept your advice, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but I wish that you had given it at the beginning of the debate. Many hon. Members wish to speak and I am sure that hon. Members opposite and even the right hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Godber) will agree that it is important that I should state the Government's policy and survey the position of agriculture. I welcome the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.690.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.690.2", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "er the country but I do not think that that matters. I would not worry about that in any case. What matters is that my speech was welcomed by the producers. Since then, the arrangements for bank credit to agriculture in the difficult national economic circumstances have been working satisfactorily and this has been confirmed by the Bank of England's statement on Tuesday which recognises this fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.690.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.692.1", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are the Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "rborough (Sir Harmar Nicholls)—he was once attached to the Ministry—and I am sure that he will agree that the Government's policy for agriculture should be judged in the light of the facts. First, I want to give the facts about the objectives the Government have set the industry and about the progress the industry is making towards them. Great play was made by the Minister about the National Plan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.692.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Did you?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "producer at a time of falling prices. Of course the additional fat cattle from Ireland have made the position worse, and since here too the facts have been misrepresented, let me state what has happened. The right hon. Gentleman responded to my challenge about the Anglo-Irish Free Trade Agreement. His opposition to it was pretty poor. The Tories never really made a major attack upon the agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.703.5", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I have been challenged by the right hon. Member for Grantham on a wide range of commodities such as pigs and fat cattle. I have dealt with other matters—cereals, the egg industry, the poultry industry. There is no lack of confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.703.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "ertaking, which is not very large but passably so, has lost about £26,000 in the past six months. The farm marketing corporation has lost about £¼ million over the past six months in this operation. It is imperative, if we are to keep this industry in being—and it is absolutely essential to do so for the nation's well-being—that we do something immediately to look at the problems before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander S. L. C. Maydon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not know what they are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander S. L. C. Maydon", "preceding_text": "stress is that not one of those branches of agriculture which we practise widely in the West Country is profitable today, let alone prosperous. I know the Minister well enough, as I have said. We spent some happy weeks together in the United States some years ago. He is a nice easy-going chap for a trip like that, but I doubt if he knows how to put the interests of the agricultural industry first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.759.1", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "e that the emigration rate from Scotland is from the agricultural areas even more than from the industrial areas. I, therefore, hope that he will take note of this matter. I hope that in winding up the Secretary of State for Scotland will not tackle the Opposition, because that is too easy. To wrap them up would be too easy and my right hon. Friend has done it often to everyone's general pleasure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.759.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alasdair Mackenzie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alasdair Mackenzie", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the opportunity to take part in this very important debate, not only because I represent an agricultural constituency but also because most of my hon. Friends on this bench also represent agricultural constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.763.3", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Fowler", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is his job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Fowler", "preceding_text": "n said, the situation showed no signs of changing. It has changed dramatically, but the industry foresaw no change and could not be expected to. The National Farmers' Union does not exist to be a latter-day Cassandra, but to represent the farmers. It is unfair to expect the Minister, any more that the N.F.U. to foresee such changes in agriculture's future which are not in the Government's control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.763.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is getting late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will allow me to reach it in my own time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Noble", "preceding_text": "mage to confidence which had been created in the farming industry. That was no excuse for the Minister making what was certainly the most totally complacent speech that I have heard for a very long time and it was certainly no excuse for him, during the whole of his 45 minutes, when every speaker on this side has accurately represented the representations made to them by their farmer constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.776.5", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "That does not alter the fact that it is the normal courtesy of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.776.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.777.3", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "I am awfully sorry. The Minister spoke for 45 minutes without giving way more than once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "iform wherever one goes. That being so, it is difficult to see how the industry can have any real confidence. I do not believe that this is entirely due to the credit squeeze—it is not. One problem was the weather—and even the Secretary of State for Scotland at his best cannot control that. The lambing percentage, down 15 per cent. this year, is not to be put at the door of the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "If the tone of the speech from the Front Bench opposite which opened the debate had been the same as that of the speech at the end, we might have had a much more constructive debate. It was unfortunate that the right hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Godber) began his speech in the way he did. \"Waffle\" is not the word, because what he did was to ascribe to the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "replied to the Question—and refreshes his memory, he will see that the Prime Minister did make actual reference to the importance of agriculture as one of the interests we could not let go. Secondly, the right hon. Gentleman quoted in reference to Ulster Unionist hon. Members who are not present some incident about an interview they wanted with my hon. Friend the Minister of State, Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.782.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "d, a copy of which I have now, written on 30th November by the two Members in question. The first sentence says: Dear Mason, We regret that you were unable to meet us on the subject of Anglo-Eire trade on Thursday and so we are adopting the only other course open to us, namely your suggestion that we should send you a memorandum. They got no reply to that until after the agreement had been signed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.782.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.783.2", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get on with it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The only person who has anything to withdraw is the right hon. Gentleman. One does not read letters \"in passing\". It was not just a case of happening to have it with him, and it would have been fairer to the Minister whom he mentions if he had given him notice, and the Minister in question would rightly have been there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.783.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.783.6", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ss of confidence spreading through the agricultural industry—not one section of it, but the whole of it. There is a spate of censorious motions on which the party opposite has been coming unstuck. The National Farmers' Union says that it is anxious not to exaggerate or encourage loss of confidence in the farming industry\", but the speech of the right hon. Gentleman was designed to lose confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.783.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.783.7", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the abatement scheme?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": ". Their concern at that time was not for the farmer but for the Chancellor, and it might well be that today's falling prices in the stock market is related to the fears of what happened then. After all, it is not prices that the fat stock men are entirely dependent on. We have to take into account what they get under the guarantees. The guarantees have not been reduced. What they may be afraid of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.783.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.783.7", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "r, and it might well be that today's falling prices in the stock market is related to the fears of what happened then. After all, it is not prices that the fat stock men are entirely dependent on. We have to take into account what they get under the guarantees. The guarantees have not been reduced. What they may be afraid of—[An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the abatement scheme?\"] I will come to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.783.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hot air.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "e of shock, and he went on to prove it. The hon. Gentleman said that they would not get the guarantee because of the abatement system. It was the right hon. Member for Grantham who introduced the abatement system. My right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food said that, in agreement with the unions, he would concentrate the end of the year payment on those who suffered loss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.784.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The hon. Member is an auctioneer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Hawkins", "preceding_text": "Mr. Paul Hawkins (Norfolk, South-West) rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.787.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.787.3", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is an auctioneer, and disagrees with these named auctioneers, I suggest that he takes it up with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.787.4", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Windy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "It must be appreciated that, quite apart from credit, the weather has played a considerable part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.787.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.787.4", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "It must be appreciated that, quite apart from credit, the weather has played a considerable part. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Windy.\"] We had a protracted winter and a cold wet spring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.787.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.787.6", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Then help the hill farmer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Member for Berwick and East Lothian (Mr. Mackintosh), that this must be our concern. We are seeing a breakdown in the interdependence of the hill man and the lowland man. If the lowland man will no longer fatten sheep, if he is going in for barley, this is a change in the pattern of agriculture which will throw us into considerable difficulty in maintaining the position on the hill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.787.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.787.6", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What does the Secretary of State propose to do for the farmers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " in the structure of agriculture. It is to this that we must pay attention. This is why I regret that the Bill now in Committee, through which we might be able to do something in respect of marketing, structure and co-operation, has taken so long. The reputation which used to be given to the Scottish Grand Committee has now passed to Standing Committee A, which is considering the Agriculture Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.787.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.787.6", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "oubt whether the saving would be any more than a few weeks. But what we learn from the inquiry will be taken into account in the Price Review next year. The right hon. Gentleman attacked us when he suggested that the scheme for levies would only cost £80 million a year. What he failed to make clear was that this sum is cumulative—£80 million in the first year, £160 million in the second and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.787.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I have only four minutes left to me. Some hon. Members asked questions and have a right to answers. My hon. Friend the Member for Merioneth (Mr. William Edwards), in a very good speech which was careful and well-balanced, spoke of the difficulties in the same kind of lands in Wales that we have in Scotland. We appreciate the capital difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "What the Opposition have failed to do is to convince even themselves that what they are saying is true. There may be temporary difficulties. The problem, however, has been with us a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-03", "file": "debates1966-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "11d45567da104d4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was a Whip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "There may be temporary difficulties. The problem, however, has been with us a long time. [ Interruption .] Right hon. and hon. Members opposite did nothing. The silent sentinels never opened their mouths. How many speeches did the right hon. Member for Argyll make on the back benches through 1961 and other years? He only made one speech in the House before becoming Secretary of State for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-03a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-04", "file": "debates1966-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4fa19c59c17ad5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-04a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "mage and destruction of schools and the creation of new centres of population. Yet all the time it has paid care and attention to the needs of its own community, of the Catholic community and the Anglican community The authority deserves our grateful thanks and tribute for the way in which it has been able to ensure this understanding and cooperation. One point which I think important is Clause 4—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-04a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-04", "file": "debates1966-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4fa19c59c17ad5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-04a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael McGuire", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is he a humanist? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael McGuire", "preceding_text": " parent—who will say, \"We want to preserve for our children that which we believe is best\". If I can add a touch of humour, this clash is about as easy of solution as some well-meaning people who say, \"We want elections, but keep politics out of General Elections\". The only person who successfully keeps politics out of General Elections is the hon. Member for Manchester, Ardwick (Mr. L. M. Lever)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-04a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-07", "file": "debates1966-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d631ff12eb44da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.950.4", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend cannot stop criticism in relation to this matter, because it concerns the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.950.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-07", "file": "debates1966-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d631ff12eb44da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.955.7", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATLANTIC NUCLEAR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Is this a polite way of saying that the Atlantic Nuclear Force is dead?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.955.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-07", "file": "debates1966-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d631ff12eb44da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.959.4", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ADEN DETAINEES (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "But I am taking very much more direct action about this matter than the hon. Gentleman took about the issue then. I cannot publish the report of the International Red Cross, because there has been no such report from the International Red Cross to Her Majesty's Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.959.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-07", "file": "debates1966-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d631ff12eb44da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.970.5", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "If I could be as accurate a reader of the signs as the hon. Gentleman suggests, I should be much better off than I am. I did not know that this supplementary question was going to be asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.970.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-07", "file": "debates1966-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d631ff12eb44da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.971.4", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "If I consulted notes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.971.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-07", "file": "debates1966-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d631ff12eb44da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.971.4", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "If I consulted notes—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Point of order.\"]—Further to that point of order. If any hon. Member thinks that I consulted notes he is entitled to look at them, and I pass a copy across the Table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.971.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-07", "file": "debates1966-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d631ff12eb44da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "oday, if it is unbacked by public consent often leads to social evils far worse than originally contemplated. Prohibition in America is a very good example. The trouble with right hon. and hon. Members opposite is that they have not realised that the road to hell is often paved with good intentions. The black market which flourished the last time the party opposite was in power is another example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-07", "file": "debates1966-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d631ff12eb44da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": " fair or in accordance with his sense of natural justice. However, by abandoning random checks, the Minister has at least seen the red light, and we are glad of that. She has thereby given the objective test a real chance of working successfully. Nevertheless, we remain somewhat suspicious. The Government are, after all, a Socialist Government. They believe in the State rather than the individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-07", "file": "debates1966-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d631ff12eb44da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "pected it to be. The right hon. Lady should think of more constructive ways to help. Why should not there be \"courtesy cops\" supervising lane discipline instead of ordinary policemen, who are in short supply, enforcing speed limits many of which are unrelated to modern traffic conditions? If the right hon. Lady really is looking for a revolution in social habits, what is she doing about education?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-07a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1124.4", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "Bearing in mind that the I.D.I. is nearly 12 months old, will my right hon. Friend consider that Smith is now in a stronger political situation than he was a year ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1124.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1130.9", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State will recall that, in answer to an earlier supplementary question, he said that he would not lightly change his policy on the matter of the use of force. Will he make it quite clear that in no circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1130.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1131.2", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Where are the pacifists now?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree that the very fact that Her Majesty's Government have made it clear throughout that we would not use force has led us into the present very difficult situation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1133.5", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the hon. Gentleman wishes to reflect on an individual Member of Parliament, he must do it by Motion and not at Question Time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1133.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1141.8", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONG KONG", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Do not abuse it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1141.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1144.6", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS' CONSTITUENCIES (MINISTERIAL CORRESPONDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "on under the previous Government about correspondence between Ministers and prospective Parliamentary candidates where these things may be involved, particularly in regard to Service Departments. The particular case to which the right hon. Member has referred and which I have studied is a very difficult one. I think it is a case in which he had not shown very much interest in the last year or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1144.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS' CONSTITUENCIES (MINISTERIAL CORRESPONDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I said, I recognise the difficulty here. My right hon. Friend has not been able to trace any correspondence since 1962. If the right hon. Member has files later on than that, I will, of course, readily acknowledge his more recent interest. I recognise that there is a difficulty here in these matters, and I had to give a ruling recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gray", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend consider that the taking of privately-owned water undertakings into public ownership is urgent? As an example of this, the Blofield and Flegg Rural District Council installed bathrooms and lavatories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1154.2", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "TOURIST TRADE FACILITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to permit a circus in Royal Parks at appropriate seasons. History has shown that it is commonplace for Britain to recognise the need to change, and it is equally commonplace that we are so often dilatory in doing anything practical about it. I should have thought that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1154.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1154.4", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "TOURIST TRADE FACILITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "wn that it is commonplace for this country to recognise the need for change. It is one of our traits that we are rather dilatory in doing anything practical about it. I should have thought that by now everyone would have recognised that it is quite right that if we are to remain a solvent country, and a leading Power, we have to make use of all our talents and possessions to earn foreign currency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1154.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1167.7", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "This question was raised last year, when it was pointed out that these two Acts raised distinct points. There is the possibility of some confusion, but if it is the unanimous wish of the Committee that the two Amendments be discussed together, they can be so discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1167.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1191.0", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "The problem of assimilating people from the Common Market will not present altogether the same problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ther, which I had intended not to do because of the time factor. No, it does not work that way. If we have a few immigrants as nurses or doctors in hospitals, I do not think that it has much effect on individual recruitment. To be frank, if we have more than a certain proportion in hospitals of immigrant personnel—horrible word—we find a diminution in recruitment either of nurses or medical staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that my intervention was above the head of the hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley). He said that he did not understand it. I am not quite sure now, knowing him as I do, whether the hon. Gentleman did not understand it or did not want to understand it. I shall try to put it in simple terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1219.0", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ry the whole world over, wherever one goes, that there are problems of racial hatreds, black against brown, yellow against black, black against white, white against white, black against black. As far back as 1952 in my speeches I was asking why we should bring those problems to this country. Good men and fine women of every race over the centuries have devoted their lives to tackling this problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1219.0", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Will he make Englishmen do them? Who will do them? Hon. Gentlemen can look at what I said 12 years ago. I said that when the children of these people grew up they would not be prepared to do menial jobs and this is proving to be true. I am immensely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the promise he made that the regulations will be tightened and not loosened, as some of his emotional friends hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "people in this country. Some hon. Members may want that. I do not. I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman does, either. Therefore, there must be some absolute restriction at some time. The greater the number of Commonwealth immigrants who settle here, the more difficult it will be to impose further restraints because they will have more relatives they can legitimately drag in under the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-08", "file": "debates1966-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "41bb5bfc917ab6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1225.2", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not before time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I was provoked to say that, Sir Myer. I will now conclude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-08a.1225.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-09", "file": "debates1966-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4cb18a80de82eb2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "Would my hon. Friend direct his attention to the Scottish Plan, and particularly to the missing paragraphs following the section on education, with a view to filling in this missing space by writing in projects for a much-expanded educational effort for the Scottish Highlands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-09", "file": "debates1966-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4cb18a80de82eb2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1292.4", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "Is not the Secretary of State's original Answer a prime example of Government inaction? Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe that S.E.T. will bring industry to the Highlands and the North-East of Scotland? If so, will he examine the facts, one of them being that unemployment in these areas has been consistently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1292.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-09", "file": "debates1966-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4cb18a80de82eb2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is misinformed. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland sits in during the Review discussions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-09", "file": "debates1966-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4cb18a80de82eb2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1304.4", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister of State aware that it is not the hon. Gentleman's estimate but one provided by the Government themselves, who said that £2 million a year would be removed from the Highlands by the Selective Employment Tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1304.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-09", "file": "debates1966-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4cb18a80de82eb2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS CATERING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut-Commander Maydon", "preceding_text": "Whilst thanking my hon. Friend for that reply, may I take this opportunity on my own behalf to thank Mr. Roberts, who has just retired, for the great service he has done for hon. Members of this House? I am sure that many other right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House will echo my thanks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1308.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-09", "file": "debates1966-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4cb18a80de82eb2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1308.3", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS CATERING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give them more pay.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Lady appreciate fully that there is a fantastic turnover in the catering staff? Is there anything more that can be done to arrest this unfortunate trend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1308.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-09", "file": "debates1966-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4cb18a80de82eb2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1311.10", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JOHN BLOOM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Arthur Lewis—Question No. 44.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1311.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-09", "file": "debates1966-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4cb18a80de82eb2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1328.0", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Campbell", "preceding_text": "access, is not sufficient for a great many persons who are not in the property business. The Under-Secretary accepted this to a certain extent by advising that, in addition, local authorities which adopt this system should notify property associations and factors in their areas. The people about whom I am thinking are home owners who, for one reason or another, will have had to leave their houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1328.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-09", "file": "debates1966-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4cb18a80de82eb2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1356.2", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What do they want it for?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "rities they protested that they lacked information and lacked the ability or the statutory right to get it. They can get it in retrospect, admittedly, but we are not talking about getting it in retrospect. We are talking about the moment of action. The purpose of the Clause is not financial. The local authorities recognise that. They are not primarily concerned with getting money out of landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-09", "file": "debates1966-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4cb18a80de82eb2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1397.2", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member seeks to do by the new Clause is by mandate, by dictate of Parliament, to tell local authorities that, without their having a discretion, they would have to give rating relief, no matter who applied as long as the application qualified under the definition. I admit that I would like to see many clubs getting rating relief, but we must remember that many clubs are rich and successful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-09", "file": "debates1966-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4cb18a80de82eb2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "POST OFFICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": "y that factual statement the Postmaster-General revealed quite plainly that these charges had nothing to do with the economic crisis into which the Government had led the country. The contrast between the way in which the launderers are being treated—with the full rigmarole of the Prices and Incomes Act being thundered out against them—and the way in which the Post Office behaves is marked indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-09", "file": "debates1966-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4cb18a80de82eb2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1485.1", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "POST OFFICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "services were already making a substantial loss. Meanwhile, in a Written Answer which the right hon. Gentleman gave me today, it was shown that his forward estimates for these four services in the postal sector would show a loss in 1966–67 of £17 million. Was any hint given in that White Paper published 27 days before the General Election that we would see these increases in postal charges?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-09", "file": "debates1966-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4cb18a80de82eb2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1486.3", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "POST OFFICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I shall reply in the time I have left. The hon. Member for Totnes has called me a pawn. But he is the classic pawn—the trade union pawn in the hands of the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1486.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-09", "file": "debates1966-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4cb18a80de82eb2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1486.3", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "POST OFFICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Prime Minister announced on 20th July were aimed at two objectives. The first was to relieve excessive pressure on demand and the second was to prevent that pressure building up again. The postal rate increases are helping towards the first of these objectives. The freeze is part of a comprehensive policy covering both prices and incomes and designed to achieve the second objective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1486.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-09", "file": "debates1966-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4cb18a80de82eb2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1489.3", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "POST OFFICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"After the election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "ed to have reached as much as £5½ million and this on only £40 million worth of business and on inland parcels the loss was over £9 million. To continue with this policy of gross under-pricing and subsidising certain sectors of the business community was, in my opinion, out of the question, and it was to these services that I principally turned for the extra revenue. Indeed it is only fair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-09a.1489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1530.5", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "is of present information without speculating too much about the future. As for food prices resulting from Government policy, I remember the very strong pressure from right hon. Gentlemen opposite in the debate on the censure Motion on the Agricultural Price Review in 1965 to increase food prices. In fact, since then, in the past three or four months, food prices in this country have been falling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1530.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1533.3", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "that investment allowances and investment grants are not going to be sufficient? Is not the main obstacle to further investment and the reason for the cut-down in investment, the policy of deflation and the fear of so many industrialists that they might not be able to sell their goods if they increase investment? Is there not a need for a root and branch reform in the Government's economic policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1533.4", "colnum": "1533", "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": "I think that the root and branch reform that my hon. Friend wants is not the same as that which hon. Gentlemen opposite want. I do not think that I had better add to what I have already said about investment policy. We were told that the biggest impediment was the shortage of immediate cash for investment, and this has been dealt with by the statement of the Governor of the Bank of England", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1533.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1535.6", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend now agree that following the excellent policy initiated by the Treasury in introducing the Selective Employment Tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1535.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1542.0", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "h questions of European defence. In the past, many of the difficulties arising about the economic negotiations have been clouded by defence considerations. Some of the very large difficulties which the right hon. Gentleman himself faced were due to certain conditions at that time being laid down on defence issues which no longer apply. N.A.T.O. is the right place for talking about those questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1544.2", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Certainly, it is a total cost for as long as it is required to do it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1544.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1544.2", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Certainly, it is a total cost for as long as it is required to do it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I gave the figures which I was asked for. I said that it would mean 10 to 14 per cent. on food prices. Those are the \"neat\" figures. They do not take account of increases in distributors' margins—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1544.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1545.0", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that his announcement will not only have overwhelming support on both sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1545.1", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend. I am not going to make any contrast between this operation and what happened four or five years ago. There were difficulties then which do not exist now; there are difficulties now which did not exist then. The right hon. Member for Bexley faced great difficulties, and no one said that sooner than I did when negotiations broke down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1556.5", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Leader of the Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Reverting to the question of the Leader of the Conservative Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1556.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1556.6", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Reverting to the question of the Leader of the Conservative Opposition—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Leader of the Opposition.\"]—Leader of the Conservative Opposition. He is not my leader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1556.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1558.5", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "On the question which has just been raised, is my right hon. Friend aware that nobody who sat in Standing Committee D on Tuesday morning could have been in any doubt whatever that the observations of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber) did constitute an attack going beyond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1558.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1562.5", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend look again at the question of the personal attack which took place in Standing Committee B in view of a certain incident which I observed in the House, namely, that the Leader of the Opposition indicated approval of the remarks of his right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1562.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1562.7", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Speaker, I am requesting the Leader of the House, in view of what I observed, to say that, since the right hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber) has not got the guts to withdraw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1562.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1563.3", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I understand that an agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1563.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1564.0", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "blished and that this may come at a very difficult moment. However, there are matters which are cause for considerable disquiet. For example, it has been strongly suggested that one senior civil servant was very recently on the brink of resignation because of the extent of the concessions to the six principles which Her Majesty's Government were prepared to make in their negotiations in Salisbury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1563.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1564.2", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members ask \"who\", but I do not think it is the practice to disclose the name of a civil servant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1564.3", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "It is not without significance that those who are connected closely by reason of their Ministerial positions—their Civil Service occupations in Ministries—should have expressed grave disquiet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1564.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1569.1", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "he Prime Minister may even have reached the stage of years, not decades. At any rate, there is no question but that the Government were hopelessly out in their timing on these sanctions. What have these sanctions achieved? First, economically there is no doubt that they have had an effect in regard to tobacco. Only 30 per cent. of Rhodesia's tobacco has been resold, to the best of one's knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1569.1", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bombing?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "over the world, and if they intend to give their support to the Order, as I hope they will, they should be under no illusions as to what it can, and possibly will, lead to. It may well lead to mandatory sanctions under the United Nations. For reasons which I shall state in a few minutes, I hope that it will, because I believe that this is the only bloodless way of bringing the rebellion to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1569.1", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " exporting countries since U.D.I. But one must not set upon a course like this without having the intellectual honesty to ask how far ultimately one is prepared to take it. Are we going into something, and shall we then wash our hands of it? I would much rather not be set on that course. I would much rather look at something and take it through to its logical conclusion or not go in for it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1569.1", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"South-West Africa?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "s and would breach them, I would say straight away, first in regard to South Africa, that, although I profoundly disagree with almost all her Government's policies, they have a clean record on abiding strictly by the letter of international law. I do not think that one can point to any legal decision or obligation put upon them which they have breached. I may be wrong, but I believe that to be so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "oo fast. The last thing we want to see is the kind of get-rich-quick development which we have been experiencing\". That, of course, is the rural point of view. The Rhodesian Front is basically a rural party not in the least interested in the distress of business men in Bulawayo and Salisbury. They are interested in the countryside, and certainly the countryside of Rhodesia has never been so happy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about detainees?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "in Rhodesia there will be great celebrations in all the tribal areas. There will be fireworks, and I am afraid that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is apt to be featuring in a Guy Fawkes rôle. That is the atmosphere. There is no alternative Government in Rhodesia, and I think that everybody recognises that. There is almost no opposition, and here I am quoting black as well as white.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is every reason to believe that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I can only say that things of this nature acquire an impetus of their own. If one creates an agency and it receives payments from two Governments, and it takes over a job and reports to the Governments, then I think that it would acquire this impetus. It is no good dealing with anyone if one is to assume that the other person is acting in bad faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By selling out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " assume that the other person is acting in bad faith. [An HON. MEMBER: \"There is every reason to believe that.\"] The Rhodesian Government make the same answer and one gets nowhere at all. This is why I feel a certain sense of frustration about this. I have such a tremendous feeling in my own heart that I could negotiate this if I were given the chance because, there is mutual agreement about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. and learned Gentleman hopes it will not succeed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "uld negotiate this if I were given the chance because, there is mutual agreement about this. [An HON. MEMBER: \"By selling out.\"] This would be an advance on the sterile frustration of constitutional protocol, getting nowhere, taking us further to economic and political humiliation, a policy which, in our hearts, we know cannot succeed and which South Africa has no intention of allowing to succeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1604.3", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "told that obstruction on the landward side was a probability, although one did not have to be in power to know that. Yet hon. Gentlemen opposite were willing to sell to Spain the means by which Spain could obstruct us on the seaward side. When we were in Opposition we opposed the Government on this matter and said that we should keep at least one side open. When we said that, they were rude to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1606.1", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "hat were the position of the Opposition when they were the Government, I do not see that it squares with the position which they are adopting today. Having been willing, at a time when Spain was already embarked on this course, to sell her frigates, now they come into opposition they cry out for much tougher measures—not only no frigates; they now want us to send gun boats to deal with the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1606.5", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "With respect, I cannot see what that has to do with Gibraltar. I am not here talking to back bench Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1606.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1607.0", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "s doctrine that the right hon. Gentleman is speaking to ex-Ministers and not to backbench Members. I have not heard that before in the House. Is not the point that during the whole of the time that we were in office we did maintain friendly relations with Spain so that they never pushed this question to the point of active dispute? No question of strength arose or the use of force. We were hoping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1614.2", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "culate about all the variety of judgments which the Court could in theory deliver, and they invite us to announce how we would deal with each hypothetical judgment. I do not believe this does any service to Britain or to Gibraltar. I think it is unreal, and I think it is irresponsible, and I think it could have—this refers particularly to the recent intervention—very dangerous effects on our case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1616.0", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ersy are 20,000 people who depend upon us. They do not depend upon the Labour Party or the Conservative Party; they depend upon this country. I do not think this should be a matter of party feeling, either in this country or in this House. I am not myself concerned with anti-Franco feeling. I do not believe in making foreign policy according to whether one likes or dislikes a leader of' a country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1618.1", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "On the contrary. Neither in anything that my right hon. Friend said in opening, nor in anything that any of us on this side of the House will say, will a single anti-Spanish statement be made, except in the context of the dispute over Gibraltar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1665.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Frederick Lee)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Frederick Lee)", "preceding_text": "Many of the matters raised during the debate fall within the province of my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1671.1", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "cident happened. Has the right hon. Gentleman looked at the question I was asked? I was asked to give an utterly unconditional assurance that under every conceivable set of conditions we would hang on to sovereignty. What happens if I say \"Yes\"? The right hon. Gentleman either knew that he was being utterly mischievous, or was not very particular whether we won the case at the International Court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1673.1", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "d go on and on, rather than that we should take the matter to the International Court and have the full light of world opinion thrown upon the matter? I would have thought that this was easily the best way to ensure that the restrictions are raised. It is all very well for hon. Members opposite to sit smugly back when they are not suffering from the impositions placed upon the people of Gibraltar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1675.3", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "jesty's Government will stand by Gibraltar. While it is unlikely that the International Court's decision will go against Her Majesty's Government, what do the sort of assurances the right hon. Gentleman has given mean? What is meant by \"standing by the people of Gibraltar\" in this context? I challenge the Foreign Secretary, with four minutes to go, to answer that question or be damned to eternity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1675.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1677.0", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-10", "file": "debates1966-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba44c51ef2fe2ed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1677.0", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of that. [ Interruption .] I prefaced my remarks by saying that I listened to the opening and closing speeches. My hon. Friend the Member for Cheadle (Dr. Winstanley) heard all the speeches that I did not hear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-10a.1677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-14", "file": "debates1966-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "53a7d03af9297adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.9.8", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brewis", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that private landlords always provide houses for their retired workers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.9.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-14", "file": "debates1966-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "53a7d03af9297adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How much was it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "preceding_text": "As I say, that was inaccurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-14", "file": "debates1966-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "53a7d03af9297adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.24.3", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "Would my hon. Friend not agree that it is quite appalling for a Member of this House to bring out this kind of confidential information by way of Question and Answer instead of dealing with it by correspondence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.24.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-14", "file": "debates1966-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "53a7d03af9297adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.27.4", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PAYMASTER-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is it Parliamentary language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.27.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-14", "file": "debates1966-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "53a7d03af9297adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.27.9", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PAYMASTER-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "If the Minister seriously has no proposals for improving the coordination of home information services, does he think that possibly there is room for some improvement about the Answers to Questions for which he is answerable in Parliament? Would not an improvement be started if he were to withdraw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.27.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-14", "file": "debates1966-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "53a7d03af9297adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "WALES (TRADE AND INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "s—the one fundamental thing which the industry in Wales, as in other places, faces, is the level of private investment. The Chancellor, indeed the Prime Minister, has been asking for higher private investment, but that is not easy under a Socialist Government. For two years we have had a Government who have been openly anti-private enterprise and have treated profits as something with a bad smell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-14", "file": "debates1966-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "53a7d03af9297adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "WALES (TRADE AND INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "If the Chancellor really believes that about his tax he had better consult the gentlemen in the Treasury, who know more about it than he does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-14", "file": "debates1966-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "53a7d03af9297adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.77.3", "colnum": "77", "heading": "WALES (TRADE AND INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "been brought about almost artificially by the creation of roads and by the planning of certain developments. In an area of high amenity such as California there has been the great development of the brain industries, and people have moved there because they enjoy the high amenity value of California. I remember being in Finland a few years ago, and seeing a new town with a motorway made specially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.77.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-14", "file": "debates1966-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "53a7d03af9297adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.77.3", "colnum": "77", "heading": "WALES (TRADE AND INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": " for it. However, if one bears in mind that Wales is a nation and that there are vital social and cultural aspects involved, the problem becomes much more difficult. I have always stated that there is everything to be said for a massive investment in Mid-Wales, and the problem will not be tackled without that kind of investment. My difference of opinion arises largely over the siting of this town—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.77.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-14", "file": "debates1966-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "53a7d03af9297adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "WALES (TRADE AND INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "No, the bulk of those years were Conservative years. The bulk of those years after 1945, and the years of greatest growth, were Conservative years. I should have thought that we could start with agreement on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-14", "file": "debates1966-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "53a7d03af9297adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "WALES (TRADE AND INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Welsh Office (Mr. George Thomas)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Welsh Office (Mr. George Thomas)", "preceding_text": ". There is a strong case for a third Government training centre in Wales, and I hope that it will not be long before my right hon. Friend is able to announce his expansion plans. I must, therefore, ask the House to be patient on that question. Today has been a reminder to us all that Welsh day in the Commons has a new significance, since we have a Welsh Office with a Secretary of State in charge.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-14a.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.195.9", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend appreciate that this is an extraordinarily serious matter, because during the period of severe restraint, if there should be any unjustifiable increases in coal and fuel prices—and sometimes increases are erroneously said to be the fault of miners and the National Coal Board—if there is not severe restraint—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.195.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.204.2", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "On the latter part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question, it is not customary to give details of Cabinet Committees and their availability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "preceding_text": "That is an entirely different question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.218.9", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister is satisfied with existing arrangements could he explain precisely what benefits accrue to Scotland from his consistent devaluing of the position of the Secretary of State for Scotland and, in particular, from the reported exclusion of the Secretary of State from discussions which are vital to Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.218.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.218.9", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ents could he explain precisely what benefits accrue to Scotland from his consistent devaluing of the position of the Secretary of State for Scotland and, in particular, from the reported exclusion of the Secretary of State from discussions which are vital to Scotland—[ Interruption .]— in the recent Chequers talks on the Common Market and the recent meeting of the Cabinet Economic Committee, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.218.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.222.5", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (STAFF)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. Economy must be measured in relation to the job which has to be done. Whether hon. Members opposite approved of these matters or not, there have been substantial changes in the taxation system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.222.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (STAFF)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have tried where possible—as our predecessors did: like them, we have had some success—to decentralise offices from London to other parts of the country. However, as I said, when this work has to be done, one cannot provide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (STAFF)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"S.E.T.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have tried where possible—as our predecessors did: like them, we have had some success—to decentralise offices from London to other parts of the country. However, as I said, when this work has to be done, one cannot provide—[ Interruption .] Most of these have been the result of decisions taken by the House after very prolonged debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT OF NORTHERN IRELAND (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sure that Captain O'Neill is well aware of the facts brought out from time to time by my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.227.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "iming 27 out of 32 for the change that he was proposing, and in another case, in response to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg), when he said: seven Conservative Boroughs requested this change with equal enthusiasm. Both of those statements, as the Home Secretary will admit—I think that he should have told the House so this afternoon—were entirely inaccurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.241.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "s news to it, but that it would ring up the Home Office and also ring up the Labour Party Co-ordinating Committee. It did both these things. The Home Office said that it knew nothing about it; and, of course, I accept that. But the Labour Party Co-ordinating Committee said that this measure had been passed by the Coordinating Committee and at that time was in the hands of the Minister responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Wing Commander Sir Eric Bullus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By the hon. and gallant Gentleman's own Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing Commander Sir Eric Bullus", "preceding_text": "e Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain Macleod) but in relation to my part of the country. I hope to show how a postponement of these elections would give tremendous political advantage to the Labour-controlled council of the London Borough of Brent. In revealing this, I will also show something of what Socialism and a Socialist Government have meant to Wembley. Before Wembley was merged, unhappily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "I am trying to follow the hon. Gentleman's incredible argument. I do not wish to comment on the ghastly slur which he cast on people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "t scheme for their children. It may be decided that this is the scheme they want. If so, all well and good. Let them say so. They may not like it. Equally, let them say so. But we should not deliberately put off elections for a whole year so that the scheme is a fait accompli before the parents have a right to any say whatever. This is completely untenable and this is the sole purpose of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "I will not go into the argument at this time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "ng consisted in the marginal relevance of Members of Parliament to local authorities performing their duties. I was not presuming to comment on the importance of Bromley or any other authority building houses in Bromley or any other place. If the hon. Member will bear with me he may in the end agree that even the important matter of public authority housing, which I believe has had its day anyway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.330.2", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "torate who went to the polls in 1964, \"You are electing this council for two years,\" and then, at the end of the two years, telling them that they had elected the council for four years. That is the difficulty which the Home Secretary ought to overcome, not the difficulty of carrying ballot boxes, which the hon. Member for Walthamstow, East (Mr. W. O. J. Robinson) said was such a great difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.330.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.330.2", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": " on which the fate of the Government need hang. I should like to feel that hon. Members on the back benches opposite would say that this was simply \"not on\", that Parliament itself and the House of Commons will not accept the Bill. We should ask the Home Secretary to withdraw it and, in recognition of the insult which he has paid to the House and the constitution, that he should resign his office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.330.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "Ancient\" arrogance—they have always had the arrogance. It is the power which they have for a short time only, every 50 years—and that is too often. It ill becomes them to treat this as a short Bill, a little Bill, and a harmless Bill. I hope that some at least—the hon. Member for Putney (Mr. Hugh Jenkins), for instance, a man of great intelligence and integrity—will treat this as a serious matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.337.2", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "Conservative, Liberal or Communist candidates—and, as in Lambeth, Independent Monarchists. One sees all sorts of things on ballot papers. If one's name is high up the alphabet, beginning with A, B, C or D, for example, one's chances of being returned are higher than if it is at the end of the ballot paper. There is the possibility that sometimes ballot papers could say, \"Perm any four from eight\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Scott", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Scott", "preceding_text": "ot taking this line, but its attitude stems not from any non-partisan approach but from its clear understanding of what the trend of results in the local elections next spring will be. Labour-controlled local authorities which have put ideology before the interests of the ratepayers and electors, whether in education, housing or anything else, know that their \"come-uppance\" would come next spring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Scott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, we do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Scott", "preceding_text": "l are more earthly or more grubby—that is the appropriate adjective—than the word \"miraculous\" might, perhaps, imply. No one will accuse the London Labour Party of being insensitive to party political advantage. Its whole approach to the London Government Act of 1963 was dictated by these considerations and these alone. The Labour Party in the boroughs does not now argue that the 1963 Act was bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "d thoughts, no doubt prompted from other sources, and voted against it. The sequence of events and the letters I have quoted shows that there is no justification whatever for the accusations that have been levelled against my right hon. Friend today. It has been said by several right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite that my right hon. Friend was pressurised by party political pressures. He had no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.361.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.364.4", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Enfield, West said that, if the elections were held in 1967 and the Tories won they would upset the schemes for comprehensive education. He said that it is the people who must be allowed to decide these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.364.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-15", "file": "debates1966-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "91d8ba854b343210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.366.2", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "In this most jiggery-pokery manoeuvre there is one obvious thing sticking out a mile, which is that the Labour Party is afraid of facing the election next year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-15a.366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.411.3", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the withdrawal of these troops would be a major contribution to peace in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, contrary to what he told my hon. Friend, we on this side of the House are delighted when sales are made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.435.3", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the whole House is grateful to Mr. Speaker for the offer of his Library. Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is a widespread wish to have personal research assistants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.435.5", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "preceding_text": "Surely the Library must remain for the exclusive use of hon. Members?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.435.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that those of us who believe that we must come to a television edition of \"Today in Parliament\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.437.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "er we become members of the Community the more we will be able legitimately to influence the outcome of these discussions. It is sometimes suggested that if Britain is to join the European Economic Community we must change our relationship with the United States, particularly in defence, and abandon the rôle which we play in the outside world. To this, the Government are resolutely opposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Ginsburg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Ginsburg", "preceding_text": "y is the end of the negotiations for all time, but all the evidence points to the Common Market taking itself the form of continuing almost permanent negotiations. Criticism has already been made by the right hon. Member for Kinross and West Perthshire—and it will no doubt be repeated during this debate—that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has changed his mind. It is a misplaced criticism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "preceding_text": "enerally the Government would move when the time was right both politically and constitutionally. I must say quite sincerely that the situation worries me tremendously. I fought the General Election largely on this matter. I included a reference to it in my election address. I say tonight what I said on my election platforms. In 1961, I was a Tory rebel on this issue. I make no apologies for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.496.2", "colnum": "496", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Those are my worries. A Tory rebel, yes. Whom am I rebelling against if I am rebelling? Against the Tory twins, or should it now be the Liberal triplets?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.496.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.496.2", "colnum": "496", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Those are my worries. A Tory rebel, yes. Whom am I rebelling against if I am rebelling? Against the Tory twins, or should it now be the Liberal triplets? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"] Things have come to a pretty pass in politics when a Tory is called a rebel if he either questions or disagrees with the proposals of a Socialist Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.496.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.496.2", "colnum": "496", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Join the Left wing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "y twins, or should it now be the Liberal triplets? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"] Things have come to a pretty pass in politics when a Tory is called a rebel if he either questions or disagrees with the proposals of a Socialist Prime Minister. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am glad that at last it has sunk in to some hon. Members that I am now being essentially a Tory and not a pink Socialist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.496.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "ccept the Treaty of Rome as it is written, with all the small print—most of which I find extremely alarming, including many articles which were referred to by the right hon. and learned Member for Hertfordshire, East (Sir D. Walker-Smith), which refer to the power of the Commission to issue directives to member States as to what they should do about their economy. There are many of these articles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "Government will run its full course. In terms of Parliament, they probably will, but when the British people really set about them, it will be quite another story. We should not underrate public opinion. It has an enormous effect and an effective way of showing itself when the time comes. The Government on this occasion have most of the Opposition with them and some hon. Members on their own side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "pair at Socialist measures for getting the economy right, having seen the Labour Party in office in the immediate post-war years and in the last two years. The hon. Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton) said that Britain had suffered two world wars. Britain has also suffered two Socialist Governments and I suggest that the latter have done almost as much damage to the economy as the former.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "was to be the great new initiative of policy, and, though we all appreciate having the right hon. Gentleman the First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs with us—he has been a most assiduous attender throughout the day—I should have thought that this debate was of such an importance for us to have at least the Foreign Secretary or the Prime Minister here most of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.532.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.532.2", "colnum": "532", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "t new initiative of policy, and, though we all appreciate having the right hon. Gentleman the First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs with us—he has been a most assiduous attender throughout the day—I should have thought that this debate was of such an importance for us to have at least the Foreign Secretary or the Prime Minister here most of the day. [ Interruption .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.532.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "preceding_text": "s are imposed on all Ministers and particularly on them. The hon. Gentleman might take a look at the Opposition Front Bench. I make no complaint; of the situation there. The hon. Gentleman raised the matter. However, our opposite numbers on the Opposition Front Bench, in the nature of the case, have not the duties that my right hon. Friends have. Let the hon. Gentleman look at his own Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.532.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "when they got into power in 1964. Anything which will cement E.F.T.A. is excellent and I wish these preliminary talks every possible success. But one thing we have to face is that probably very few hon. Members and certainly the vast majority of people in the country have never read this document. I am afraid that many Ministers and ex-Ministers have never read it. It is called the Treaty of Rome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And yours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "y the vast majority of people in the country have never read this document. I am afraid that many Ministers and ex-Ministers have never read it. It is called the Treaty of Rome. [ Interruption .] I am glad to see that four hon. Members are holding up copies, one of them in the Liberal Party. That is splendid, but four is hardly a strong majority, even when the benches are as thinly covered as now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.552.3", "colnum": "552", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "One must accept the elimination of the internal tariffs and the setting up of a common external tariff barrier. I can accept that there must be negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.552.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He just told us that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Is the noble Lord aware that E.F.T.A. is ahead of the E.E.C. in this respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-16", "file": "debates1966-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "55fb3732c23a7b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "are negotiable. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Saffron Walden (Mr. Kirk), who queried whether the Government had judged correctly the time scale for these negotiations. It seems to me that the shortest possible time scale for joining the Community is about three years; one year for preliminary talks, one for detailed negotiations and one for the ratification by the various Parliaments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-16a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-17", "file": "debates1966-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "267686a4d36c3726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.635.2", "colnum": "635", "heading": "TELEPHONE TAPPING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "preceding_text": "n. Friend for his reply? However, is he aware that many hon. Members on both sides of the House believe, rightly or wrongly, that their telephones have been tapped? While the whole House would acquit my right hon. Friend of any knowledge or complicity in such a perversion of the nation's security arrangements, will he consult with my right hon. Friends the Home Secretary and the Paymaster-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.635.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-17", "file": "debates1966-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "267686a4d36c3726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members indicated dissent .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I think that I heard the Prime Minister's words and I thought that he said that he hoped to make a statement in a few days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.643.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-17", "file": "debates1966-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "267686a4d36c3726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.646.9", "colnum": "646", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I had assumed that it would go upstairs, but I will consider this as a possibility. I should not have thought that this Bill, which, if I remember aright, deals mainly with the problem of London education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.646.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-17", "file": "debates1966-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "267686a4d36c3726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fourteen per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": ", Dr. Gallup will take into account, that the question should be phrased rather more adequately. For example, when a housewife is questioned by one of these expert interrogators on the subject of our entering the Common Market, the interrogator might mention that it is not at all unlikely—I am fortified by the Prime Minister's statement and by many others on this—that the price of food will go up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-17", "file": "debates1966-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "267686a4d36c3726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.690.2", "colnum": "690", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " which can be created and all the mechanism associated with defence in Europe would be of little avail unless we could rely in large measure on the assistance provided by the United States, and the Prime Minister must tell de Gaulle that. Whether de Gaulle will change his mind in time I am unable to say. I very much doubt it. When people get old it is very difficult for them to change their minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.690.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-17", "file": "debates1966-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "267686a4d36c3726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"To Adam.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "eech made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Easing-ton (Mr. Shinwell). He said that he loved this country. I do not want to get too involved in that sort of discussion, but I must tell my right hon. Friend that my ancestors may have been marching with Wat Tyler. They fought in the Hundred Years' War and in every other war that this country has fought since. I can trace my ancestry right back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-17", "file": "debates1966-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "267686a4d36c3726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "op talking about it right now as it is \"not on\". The speeches which have been made by General de Gaulle and the articles in the French Press all say quite clearly that we obviously cannot go into the E.E.C. if they believe that we are a satellite of the United States. This must be faced and faced sharply by the Government. I believe, therefore, and I say this to my hon. Friends on the Right Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-17", "file": "debates1966-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "267686a4d36c3726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "beach as Italy, France or Spain because she thought as a European. This is extremely important. A new kind of European man is developing. We have had some fun in this House recently about hyphens. But I believe that there is coming into existence a new kind of hyphenated man in Europe. There are Franco-Europeans and Belgo-Europeans, and I believe that Anglo-Europeans are coming into existence too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-17", "file": "debates1966-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "267686a4d36c3726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": "sts\" is a misleading one, because it either means nothing or too much. Of course, any Government are concerned to protect the essential interests of the country they represent. To that extent, if that is what is meant, it means nothing. What is the alternative meant by \"essential interests\"—or perhaps the right hon. Gentleman means it to be a platitude and considers that platitudes mean something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-17", "file": "debates1966-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "267686a4d36c3726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nk that there is one text which we could all agree for these speeches—and the point was made by the right hon. Member for Barnet—the fact that this would carry great conviction in Europe and elsewhere if it was said a bit more loudly by us all that our assets in these countries overseas far exceed our total liabilities, £ for £, indeed exceed them by thousands of millions. I now come to the third—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-17", "file": "debates1966-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "267686a4d36c3726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s overseas far exceed our total liabilities, £ for £, indeed exceed them by thousands of millions. I now come to the third—[ Interruption .] I said that in September, 1964, when we fought on a deficit that we believed was only £400 million and not £800 million. I now come to the third of the right hon. Gentleman's points, which he summarised under the heading of defence and political arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-17a.767.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-18", "file": "debates1966-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7db851643e977016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-18a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "ITALIAN FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "preceding_text": "last night. Meanwhile, I understand that all the organisations I have mentioned, as well as \"War on Want\" and Christian Aid, are prepared to receive financial contributions for the purpose of Italian flood relief. The House will join with me in renewing heartfelt sympathy with our Italian friends in this disaster and in wishing most earnestly for as early a return as possible to normal conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-18a.811.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-18", "file": "debates1966-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7db851643e977016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-18a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "BRITISH WATERWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "of the canals, and Dr. Barnett Stross contributed most generously from his own pocket. Finally there is Mr. Robert Aickman, whom I must mention because he has done what is occasionally necessary for a movement, namely, to damage himself very greatly in order to keep the movement alive. It is true of him to say that, had it not been for him, there would have been no canals to debate this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-18a.861.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-21", "file": "debates1966-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6acec001f795a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-21a.916.7", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyden", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The work is virtually complete.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-21a.916.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-21", "file": "debates1966-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6acec001f795a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-21a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who was the Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " which utilises the principle of vertical take-off in which the British industry was undeniably the world pioneer. This plane first flew about five years ago. I ask the House to reflect on that fact. Can hon. Members imagine the United States of America having had a plane of this kind, flying as long as five years ago, without a proper production order for it, if they intended to go ahead with it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-21a.951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-21", "file": "debates1966-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6acec001f795a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-21a.1105.0", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "BETTING DUTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "cussed with the bookmakers, we proposed to ask for a Monday return, but they said that that might cause some difficulty and asked for a Tuesday return. That is what they have, and we have not had a single complaint. There is no problem of collating the information in the way the hon. Member suggested, because the returns are made by betting shop and not by chain, so that the return is made direct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-21a.1105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1132.6", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am not sure about that. I do not think that they have fallen away very much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1132.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1133.2", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "No, that is not my information. United Kingdom residents cannot indulge in outright speculation. Their spot transactions are strictly limited by exchange control. They are allowed to buy or sell forward only in order to cover general trading or commercial transactions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1133.4", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "You are invaluable, Sir. I have had a careful examination made into this, and, although there have been strong reports to the contrary in the newspapers, it is not my information that this selling took place to any large extent by British residents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1133.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1141.0", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS' AND MINISTERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister make inquiries as to the percentage by which the emoluments of the hon. Member for Louth have increased as chairman of two large companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1141.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1141.2", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS' AND MINISTERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I hope that we can conduct debates politically and not personally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1141.3", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS' AND MINISTERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1147.4", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOWNING STREET (MISS WELLS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The Prime Minister has referred to a temporary civil servant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1147.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1157.0", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Another six months?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Without going in detail through the various groups, I think that I can answer my hon. Friend satisfactorily by saying that in every case where an agreement had been entered into with a definite operative date and for a definite amount all that happens is that the operative date is deferred for six months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1157.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1157.2", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "In the right hon. Gentleman's statement, there is a conspicuous exception made in the case of the police. May I say, on behalf of the Police Federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1160.2", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will find in the White Paper the statement that the consultations \"have shown a wide measure of agreement about the need for exceptional restraint\", although it cannot be said that the criteria have been wholly endorsed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1161.2", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "date what is involved in his statement without first reading the White Paper and having an opportunity of consideration and real debate? Is he aware that, having listened to the questions and the answers, I find myself, speaking for myself alone, completely confused as to what it is all about? Would he therefore arrange with his right hon. Friend the Leader of the House for a debate, very shortly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Clause 2.—(THE CORPORATION'S FUNCTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Eastleigh (Mr. David Price) in moving the Amendment, spoke in generous terms. He wished to appear as a Greek bearing gifts, to the Government. He said that he offered them in a friendly and helpful spirit. I do not mind saying that I am an economic Visigoth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Clause 2.—(THE CORPORATION'S FUNCTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": " for Eastleigh (Mr. David Price) for using the word \"probing\". I want to probe, because I want to know whether the answer is Europe, and I hope that in the course of winding up this short debate we shall hear from the Government Front Bench what is the answer. If it is Europe, we should support the Amendment, and we shall certainly do so from this bench. If we go into Europe, there will be a need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1278.3", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "New Clause.—(BORROWING POWERS (LIMITATION).)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "c sector has none of those difficulties. Therefore, it is vital that this House, which is the only authority left in the land which can provide some check, should be given the facts and allowed to comment on the investment of the Coal Board. It is right that after £6 million the Coal Board should come back to the House and give an account of how it has invested that sum, what its profit has been —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1281.10", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "New Clause.—(BORROWING POWERS (LIMITATION).)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In depth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "n the Coal Board during the current year such sums as will be spent by the Board for the exploration for natural gas and oil under the North Sea, to enable us to vote a specific sum of money for that purpose and then, shortly after the end of the year, that sum having been expended—to use the characteristic and favourite terminolgy of the Prime Minister—to take a cool look and a hard look at them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1281.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1283.5", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "New Clause.—(BORROWING POWERS (LIMITATION).)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "We greatly improved accountability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1283.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "New Clause.—(BORROWING POWERS (LIMITATION).)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "I am privileged to join in this debate as an outsider from the debates in Committee on the Iron and Steel Bill, and hon. Members who come down from that Committee to brighten our activities in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "New Clause.—(BORROWING POWERS (LIMITATION).)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Everyone who has spoken has not addressed themselves to this new Clause. They have attacked it by engaging in another Second Reading debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1311.3", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "New Clause No. 2.—(ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "ed by the Coal Board on favourable terms with one of its essential feedstocks. For that reason, we feel that not only should the accounts of the operations of the Coal Board be available, and kept separately, but also the accounts of any subsidiary so affected by those operations. I am absolutely astonished that the hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) should regard a mere list of subsidiaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "New Clause No. 2.—(ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabbarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabbarro", "preceding_text": "I support my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucestershire, South (Mr. Corfield). It was an intervention by the hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1314.3", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "New Clause No. 2.—(ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "al. What my hon. Friends and I want—and this is the purpose of the new Clause—is to be able to examine each year the trading accounts first, the manufacturing accounts secondly and the profit and loss accounts thirdly, with the auditors' certificate attached in respect of the questing and exploration for oil and natural gas beneath the North Sea by the N.C.B. And a very legitimate purpose that is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1314.3", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "New Clause No. 2.—(ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "shire (Mr. Manuel) said, \"You could not get your own Government to do it\". But Tory Governments for 13 years were not stupid enough to undertake activities of this kind, activities which are wholly irrelevant to the main purpose and activity of the N.C.B., which is the mining of coal. I hope that my hon. Friends will unanimously support this demand for good company practice in accountancy matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1315.4", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "New Clause No. 2.—(ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ve years ago. There are, normally, only three nationalisation days each year, and for five years—1 say to them, for five years—this sacred cow of nationalisation, with all the implications in it, has been hidden away from the public gaze. It was hidden away, were the report and accounts of the National Coal Board, so that nobody should scrutinise too closely the nefarious activities of that Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1315.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1318.0", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "New Clause No. 2.—(ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "ms, he has this sort of control, surely he would be willing to accept this reasonable new Clause, so modestly moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucestershire, South (Mr. Corfield) and so reasonably supported by my hon. Friend the Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro), with his customary brevity and modesty and with the great cogency of argument that he was able to bring to bear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "New Clause No. 2.—(ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I accept the amendment, but I will not trespass any more on your indulgence, Mr. Deputy Speaker, nor will I seek any more time. But how difficult it is made for me to be as modest and restrained as I wish to be!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-22", "file": "debates1966-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "84ef667529683b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1331.0", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Clause 1.—(ADDITIONAL POWERS FOR NATIONAL COAL BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "is to be used for industrial purposes, which broadly means that the gas will be used as petroleum or chemical feedstock. The Act of 1964 cannot possibly confer powers on the Coal Board which are not conferred either by the 1946 Act, the original Act setting up the Coal Board, or by this Bill. The Minister is obviously having difficulty in hearing my argument because of conversation in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-22a.1329.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-23", "file": "debates1966-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa9b2481fd35a198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-23a.1375.8", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "How does the right hon. Lady reconcile that pussy-footing Answer with her dogmatic utterances made before the entire New York Press on 15th October, when she and I were both in New York—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-23a.1375.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-23", "file": "debates1966-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa9b2481fd35a198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-23a.1395.6", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "ROADS (CONSTRUCTION UNITS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "preceding_text": "e county councils that has existed for nearly 30 years. Under the new arrangements now agreed I hope eventually to set up six large-scale units to cover between them the whole of England. Within its area each unit will be responsible to me for the preparation, design and supervision of construction on the bulk of the larger trunk road and motorway schemes; questions of planning in the wider sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-23a.1395.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-23", "file": "debates1966-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa9b2481fd35a198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-23a.1398.2", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "ROADS (CONSTRUCTION UNITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "congratulating my right hon. Friend on bringing the discussions on this most important subject to a successful conclusion, and giving us the details of the results of these discussions, may I ask whether she is aware that the changes she has suggested should bring about quite revolutionary improvements in the methods of road construction compared with what have existed in the past? May I also ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-23a.1398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-23", "file": "debates1966-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa9b2481fd35a198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-23a.1403.3", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not going to describe Mr. Smith or anyone else as an unrepentant racialist. I am totally opposed, as all of us are in this House, to racialism in any form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-23a.1403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-23", "file": "debates1966-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa9b2481fd35a198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-23a.1409.9", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Sandys", "preceding_text": "of public feeling on this question is the measure of the nation's sense of responsibility for the safety of its servants. It is said that there is no conclusive evidence that capital punishment deters. That may be so. Nevertheless, I think it worth mentioning that, during the two years since executions were stopped, as many policemen have been murdered as during the whole of the previous 13 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-23a.1409.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-23", "file": "debates1966-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa9b2481fd35a198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-23a.1511.3", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND REGISTRATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "fficials and, eventually, the certificate is issued, setting out the property, the name of the proprietor, the nature of his interest in the land and any charges, restrictive covenants, easements or any other encumbrances on the property. That document becomes the one document of title, with all the advantages which flow from that. In the Amendment, the proposal is a \"do-it-yourself\" registration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-23a.1511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-23", "file": "debates1966-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa9b2481fd35a198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-23a.1529.5", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Earl of Dalkeith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl of Dalkeith", "preceding_text": "the way of victimising this last bastion of freedom. Unless the Minister tells us the truth and, better still, reverses his decision, as a London-bound Minister he must recognise that there will be a surge of nationalistic rage at his ill-considered action about the forming of this Order. I must warn him that this is the sort of thing which tends to drive Scots into a kind of U.D.I. frame of mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-23a.1529.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-24", "file": "debates1966-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f794b76fdff429ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1575.6", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I do not accept, and I do not think that anyone would accept, the implications of that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1575.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-24", "file": "debates1966-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f794b76fdff429ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1585.4", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNOFFICIAL STRIKES AND TRADE DISPUTES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right that many of the recent disputes, which have been deplored in all parts of the House, have been against the advice of the responsible trade union leaders, but I think that he is wrong in his general slur on shop stewards, because by far the greater proportion of shop stewards in this country are as responsible as the trade union leaders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1585.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-24", "file": "debates1966-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f794b76fdff429ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1589.2", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the speech of my right hon. Friend the Lord President was a very excellent contribution to the current difficulties in which the country finds itself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-24", "file": "debates1966-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f794b76fdff429ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1591.5", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I beg leave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1591.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-24", "file": "debates1966-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f794b76fdff429ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1592.0", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "yment. B.M.C. is the firm that is far worse hit than any other motor car firm, and there may be lessons to be drawn from that about the employment practices and other practices of different firms. In the case of B.M.C.—which is a bit surprising in all that has happened—the studies I have made of the 12,000-odd which it was intended to put off, show that something like 4,000 are not yet redeployed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-24", "file": "debates1966-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f794b76fdff429ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1602.0", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says that he is to have the debate next week, whether or not there is time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-24", "file": "debates1966-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f794b76fdff429ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1612.1", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PROCEEDINGS (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " that it should take place in January, 1968, and that the cost, therefore, should be included in next year's Estimates. To this economic argument for holding the experiment in 1968 there are added technical arguments which the Select Committee felt that it had overcome, but which I find difficult to evade. The one which worries me is the presence of cameras and cameramen on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-24", "file": "debates1966-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f794b76fdff429ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1626.3", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PROCEEDINGS (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": " the lame cousin of sound broadcasting. Denied access to the essential picture, it has still inherited all the early restrictions on the use of sound. Now, for the first time, producers will present the real thing. They believe that what they produce will be creditable and interesting as well. Those who think that it would be a bore for the public undervalue the televisual qualities of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1626.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-24", "file": "debates1966-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f794b76fdff429ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1626.3", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PROCEEDINGS (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "nt the real thing. They believe that what they produce will be creditable and interesting as well. Those who think that it would be a bore for the public undervalue the televisual qualities of this House—[ Laughter .]—I am not talking about our photogenic qualities or personally, but about the smallness of the Chamber, the fact that we have no set places or desks, that we do not read our speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1626.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-24", "file": "debates1966-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f794b76fdff429ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1626.3", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PROCEEDINGS (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "e—that is all we can do—on the impact of broadcasting on our procedings. Will it enhance our reputation? Will it present a caricature? Will the forum be turned into a stage? Will it take us over? The Lord President produced a few examples of the efforts of other nations on this. In fact, there is very little to go on. The Australians broadcast all their proceedings on radio and none on television—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1626.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-24", "file": "debates1966-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f794b76fdff429ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1633.6", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PROCEEDINGS (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Howden (Mr. Bryan) betrayed himself when he referred to hon. Members \"performing\". I do not look upon hon. Members in this place as performing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1633.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-24", "file": "debates1966-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f794b76fdff429ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1637.3", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PROCEEDINGS (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman considers £150,000 to be a very derisory sum, but I can recall that some of the greatest debates we have had in this House have been on the principles enshrined in comparatively small sums. We know full well that had it been a question of £1,000 extra on the Prime Minister's salary, hon. Members opposite would have pulled the place down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-24", "file": "debates1966-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f794b76fdff429ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1657.1", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PROCEEDINGS (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They might become more so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "ntly hear expressions of cynicisms and mistrust about political parties and about Parliament as an institution. The people who oppose this experiment are saying, \"This may lead to cynicism about Parliament if the viewers see empty benches and see us actually at work\". But then they are already cynical and indifferent, without its being televised, so on that argument it might, at least, do no harm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-24", "file": "debates1966-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f794b76fdff429ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1660.3", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PROCEEDINGS (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": " for the experiment. Those who are uncertain, I should have thought, would vote for the experiment, as the right hon. and learned Member for Wirral said that he would, with the very strict conditions which he quite properly laid down at the end of his speech. But those who are against the whole idea of broadcasting Parliament are, I suggest, those who, most of all, ought to vote for the experiment", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1660.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-24", "file": "debates1966-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f794b76fdff429ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1678.1", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PROCEEDINGS (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Forrester", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Forrester", "preceding_text": "s. The phrase \"Familiarity breeds contempt\" should be remembered when we discuss the televising of Parliament. Television has a great, perhaps unique, power to project and popularise, but it has an equal power to kill stone dead. One hon. Member mentioned cricket. Perhaps the fact that we have watched so much cricket on T.V. has gone a long way towards killing the image of cricket in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-24", "file": "debates1966-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f794b76fdff429ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1726.1", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PROCEEDINGS (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "now where he got the idea from. Maybe there are special things in the Stoke Sentinel which they do for him, but which were not done for me in the Coventry Evening Telegraph . The point that I make is one of the greatest issues here, namely, how far the undoubted balance in favour of the Front Bench, which is inevitable in the Press can be rectified if we have television. This is one of the issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-24a.1726.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-28", "file": "debates1966-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "384f07614a3d18a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-28a.13.6", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was a Tory standard.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "I could understand my hon. Friend's supplementary question if the pension rate today were less in real terms than just before it was raised in March of last year, but that just is not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-28a.13.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-28", "file": "debates1966-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "384f07614a3d18a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-28a.24.8", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. What I was trying to impress on the House was that Labour will fulfil its pledges.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-28a.24.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-28", "file": "debates1966-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "384f07614a3d18a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-28a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooks", "preceding_text": "s important that the figure should be published, and that there should be full public discussion of what is involved. I suggest that any increase in engine costs reflects cancellation of TSR2. I strongly suspect that this has happened. I have developed this point at perhaps greater length than the House would have wished, but I feel that this is a matter of some public concern and public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-28a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-28", "file": "debates1966-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "384f07614a3d18a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-28a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "preceding_text": "the Public Accounts Committee on another day in another location. I was surprised that my hon. Friend the Member for Rutland and Stamford (Mr. Kenneth Lewis) should have sought Mr. Speaker's guidance about the length of speeches, because I was approached by the Whips before the debate began with earnest inquiries as to the expected length of my speech on the grounds of a basic minimum requirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-28a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-28", "file": "debates1966-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "384f07614a3d18a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-28a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAUNDRY AND CLEANING CHARGES (PRICE RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Henig", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Henig", "preceding_text": "cceptable in any way at all is that an attempt is being made to do something new, to invoke new policies, to try to move away from the sterile, simple, \"stop-go\" with no social implications and to try, by temporarily freezing wages and prices, to move the economy to a new structure, whence it will be possible in future, for this or any other Government, to avoid having to revert to these policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-28a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-28", "file": "debates1966-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "384f07614a3d18a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-28a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAUNDRY AND CLEANING CHARGES (PRICE RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "Therefore, it would be a bit rough if these way-out views were by some accident associated with the views of the Government Front Bench. Are we to expect that some representation will be made soon to British Railways to rescind the almost swingeing increases which they have made in their hotel and meals charges? I will not pursue that further, because I have greater respect for the rules of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-28a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-28", "file": "debates1966-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "384f07614a3d18a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-28a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAUNDRY AND CLEANING CHARGES (PRICE RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "olite language, but a condemnation nevertheless. The hon. Member for Worthing (Mr. Higgins), speaking about the question of the industry being able to rationalise itself by competition and proper pricing agreements, seemed to assume that we were back in the days of laissez-faire capitalism, with everyone undercutting everyone else until there was one monopoly laundry service. We have not got that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-28a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-28", "file": "debates1966-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "384f07614a3d18a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-28a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAUNDRY AND CLEANING CHARGES (PRICE RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "es and this makes it bitterly unfair—and I hope that the Under-Secretary will address himself to this—that those who are caught by the Order worst of all are those who have not increased their prices during the past two years, whereas those who have will be affected least of all. The sort of quiet family business in a country town which is going along desperately trying to absorb increasing costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-28a.143.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.189.6", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Is not this Government becoming the despair of the Co-operative movement? Is not this movement one which should not be attached to any political party and is it not a fact that many co-operators are turning to the Tory Party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.189.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.213.2", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I would certainly take that statement from my hon. Friend, who was there, rather than from the hon. Member for South Angus (Mr. Bruce-Gardyne) or from the political stunt in the Evening Standard a couple of days later. The Times was right, and this hand-out was subject to check against delivery. Anyone who knows my right hon. Friend will know perfectly well what he meant and will accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.218.13", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir Eric. It is in no spirit of controversy that I start this Committee stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.218.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "I wonder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Weitzman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Weitzman", "preceding_text": "I know the phoney argument which is put from the other side of the Committee. The electors will have the opportunity of dealing with the matter at the proper time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Roots", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have heard that one before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Roots", "preceding_text": "py little speech of the Home Secretary, the only valid reason which it seemed to me was adduced was the report of the little group of returning officers, and, in fairness to the right hon. Gentleman, my recollection is that he had not found that wholly convincing. 4.45 p.m. The hon. and learned Member for Stoke Newington and Hackney, North (Mr. Weitzman) says that his main concern is for electors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.240.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.246.4", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Bullus", "preceding_text": "With respect, that is a matter of opinion. Those proposals were based on the decisions of a Royal Commission. Not everybody agreed with those decisions, and it is well-known that I did not agree with them——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.246.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tell us the truth.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Robert Mellish)", "preceding_text": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Robert Mellish) rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.256.2", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "That is true. As the Home Secretary said on Second Reading, a long time after the representations of the London Boroughs Association were submitted to the Home Secretary in April, the London Borough of Sutton changed its mind. One can only assume that some political pressure was brought to bear on that borough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.256.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And the Liberal Party?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "on Second Reading, a long time after the representations of the London Boroughs Association were submitted to the Home Secretary in April, the London Borough of Sutton changed its mind. One can only assume that some political pressure was brought to bear on that borough. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, I think so. It is not only the London Labour Party which is capable of exercising political pressure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.256.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": " assurances he has given. I think that the history given us by the Minister of State in her winding-up speech on Second Reading made absolutely clear what happened. I said on Second Reading that it was odd that so much fuss should be made about the Bill by the Conservative Party when, as far as I knew, no demand had been made by members of the public for the existing arrangements to be maintained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He said that he did on television.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "mber was not present during the debate on Second Reading. I do not blame him for that. I am sure that he was very well occupied in Parliamentary activities somewhere else. So he did not have the advantage of hearing what the Home Secretary told the House of Commons about the arrangements for 1967. With respect to the hon. Gentleman, I do not think that he can have read the Home Secretary's speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "ve read the Home Secretary's speech. [An HON. MEMBER: \"He said that he did on television.\"] I do not think that he can have read that speech as carefully as he maintained on television, because there is no doubt that the Home Secretary made himself absolutely clear, and he had to remind the right hon. Member for Enfield, West this afternoon of the words —the hon. Member for Bermondsey is blushing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worsley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worsley", "preceding_text": "dment —is that it is undesirable, for reasons which are not frequently explained in detail, to have elections either on the same day or in the same year. The hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Stoke Newington and Hackney, North (Mr. Weitzman)—we had his valued contribution earlier, and we were very glad indeed to have him join our debate—said that it was for the convenience of the electors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "preceding_text": "outh suggested that neither of them had had letters on this subject. I am provoked into reading out one letter to show that there are bodies of people and individuals among our constituents who are seriously concerned and have indicated as much to their hon. Members. This is a letter from the general secretary of the Federation of Ratepayers and Civil Associations of the London borough of Enfield.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.275.3", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "preceding_text": "I must disappoint the hon. Gentleman. There are now no Independents on the council. There were until the last election. The council has a Labour majority. I will refer to that in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Walden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Walden", "preceding_text": "ause I am a Birmingham and not a London Member, although I have a residence in London. I want, secondly, to apologise to my right hon. Friends on the Front Bench who are, no doubt, alarmed that I shall consume a great deal of time. I assure them that I shall be very brief. It is incredible that a day of the time of the House of Commons should be wasted by the sort of thing which we are discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As in other places.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": " in 1967 a few weeks apart. As was said by my right hon. Friend on Second Reading of this Bill, this matter was evenly balanced. If the elections are held on the same day I am sure there would be great confusion, but if they are on different days in the same year and two local government elections come only a few weeks apart I am sure there would not be a great deal of interest in those elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.298.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": " Chairman of the London Boroughs Association would write to The Times a letter without having first verified the facts? The decision of the Special Committee was indeed unanimous and the Committee instructed its officers to inform all the boroughs that the decision was unanimous. The right hon. Gentleman might say that it is not true, but Mr. Prichard and others who were there say that it is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Butler", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I thought that it was the accepted practice of the House of Commons that a Member should accept responsibility for the statement which he made. Is it in order for an hon. Member to make a statement and then to deny its authenticity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.325.0", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Grant", "preceding_text": "earned Friend's constituents were brought to the Floor of the House and the follies of the Hillingdon Borough Council were exposed. How right my hon. and learned Friend was to speak in this debate and to indicate the sort of thing which is going on all over London—these inadequate, unsatisfactory schemes for education, which do not meet the wishes of parents, of the electorate, or of the teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.333.2", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "e to proceed in the easiest and most convenient way. It is not always the best way or the right way just because it is convenient to the people who must operate it. 9.15 p.m. It does not matter if a ballot box is lost, for it is usually found again. In my constituency we lost a ballot box for about a couple of hours at the last General Election, but we found it and got the right result in the end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.333.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member underrates himself, and that he has much more power and influence than he says. And I am glad of that, because I think that he is one of the nicest Members on the Government Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.341.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Silkin)", "preceding_text": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Silkin) rose in his place and claimed to move , That the Question be now put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.344.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "re the Committee, although I shall be glad to keep it here if necessary all night, I am not anxious to indulge in tedious repetition or anxious to waste its time. I want to try to get the Committee to see this as a serious matter, but I do not think that one ought to waste time on the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire. It is with his right hon. Friend the Home Secretary that we should be concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.348.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.353.4", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "disagree. 10.15 p.m. My hon. Friends have been a little suspicious. They have accused the hon. Member for Bermondsey, as Chairman of the London Labour Party, of saying to the Home Secretary, \"Let us not have the elections this year, because we might lose them. Could not we find an excuse for deferring them, at least for a year?\" The hon. Member for Bermondsey has denied this. We accept his denial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.353.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It was his agent.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "n of the London Labour Party, of saying to the Home Secretary, \"Let us not have the elections this year, because we might lose them. Could not we find an excuse for deferring them, at least for a year?\" The hon. Member for Bermondsey has denied this. We accept his denial. [ Laughter .] I do, because I shall submit that there is another explanation. It was not the hon. Member for Bermondsey at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.353.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wiggery?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knew about it, but he did not do anything. It was not anything so subtle as his agent. It was much more direct, much more political, much more concerned with the central policies of the Government. The right hon. Member who went to the Home Secretary has not been near the Chamber all the time the Bill has been being discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.355.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.355.2", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "anything about it. Another suggestion is that it was the Leader of the House, but it was not him. If my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition had wanted to discredit the Government, he could not have thought up any more subtle allegation than that. It was not the Leader of the House, although he is in it up to the neck. It was the Secretary of State for Education and Science who did this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman was not exactly unfunny, according to the reports I have had. But they have both assured for themselves a career with Billy Cotton when they lose their seats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.356.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "ile as much as to say, \"You know how it is, but I am the Home Secretary and I have to go off to talk on the television. Major issues are being raised in the House, but you cannot expect me to answer for those, although my honour, the honour of my Government, and all the constitutional history of this country are at stake. I have to go and talk on television about my Bill and get the Liberal vote\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.367.4", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Griffiths", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. With due respect to you, Sir Eric, may I point out that for the last 20 minutes the hon. Member for Ilford, North (Mr. Iremonger) has not spoken with any relevance to the Amendment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.367.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.368.2", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Fetch television in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor any constituency.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "he Home Secretary and the Leader of the House will return from being closeted together and will offer to my right hon. Friend and the Committee extra time for a debate on the details of the Bill—which are a very significant part of our proceedings in Committee—in the only sort of atmosphere which will enable justice to be done to the arguments put forward. I do not represent a London constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.384.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.385.2", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are the Liberals?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I would give contrary advice to the Government. I think that it would be a great mistake for them to accede to the demand of the right hon. Member for Enfield, West (Mr. lain Macleod), although I am afraid, looking at the weak-kneed lot on the Government Front Bench, that they may be disposed to come to some agreement——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.385.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.385.4", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members on this side of the Committee would care to listen to me for one moment——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.385.9", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I think that it was the right hon. Member for Kingston-upon- Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter) who said it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.385.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.385.9", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And where are all the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I think that it was the right hon. Member for Kingston-upon- Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter) who said it—[ Interruption .] At any rate, that is the view of the Conservative Party, that we should not absorb scarce Parliamentary time in a discussion of the Bill. Now, when we come to a comparatively early hour of the night—it is only a quarter to twelve: there is plenty of time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.385.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.385.9", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member's party has no one from Peterborough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "of the Bill. Now, when we come to a comparatively early hour of the night—it is only a quarter to twelve: there is plenty of time—[HON. MEMBERS: \"And where are all the Liberals?\"] Unlike hon. Members of the Conservative Party, we believe that London Members should have something to say on matters affecting London. We do not bring Members in from places like Peterborough to speak on these subjects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.385.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "rty, we believe that London Members should have something to say on matters affecting London. We do not bring Members in from places like Peterborough to speak on these subjects—[An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member's party has no one from Peterborough.\"]—and we do not think, frankly, that the views of the hon. Member for Peterborough (Sir Harmar Nicholls) on this subject are of any great importance——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.385.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "local government system. I will read a few lines that set it out: At its meeting on 20th July, 1966, Camden Council was asked to accept a recommendation from its General Purposes Committee to create a Policy Advisory Committee, from which members of the Conservative Minority Party would be excluded. Only memebrs of the Labour Majority and Council Officers would be allowed to sit on this Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "cabinet at local government level where —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I beg to move Amendment No. 11, in page 1, line 28, at the end to add: (5) This section shall not apply to the London Borough of Havering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-29", "file": "debates1966-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "79858b99d4119d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.411.0", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Lee Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Lee Williams", "preceding_text": "The position, basically, is this—if the right hon. and learned Gentleman would care to listen—that the Labour Party is in opposition, and the administration is jointly controlled by the Conservatives and independents. They have used this position to keep out the Labour group from some of the committees. In fact, they have attempted to reduce the number of Labour representatives from the committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-29a.411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.434.4", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shake out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for seeking to save me from redundancy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.434.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.439.3", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "It is not usual to give the House figures of profits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.439.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman agree that on at least two occasions the independence and international integrity of the Bank of England has saved the Government from devaluation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.452.5", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Is the Lord President aware that many of us deeply regret the decision reached last week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.452.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "It is my view that the House came to a decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "SCOTTISH SELF-GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "ordinate external financial policies, particularly Customs—which would remain the responsibility of Westminster—and to determine a proper Scottish contribution towards the federal costs, like defence and the Commonwealth. What we are, in effect, proposing is a federal structure comparable in functional respects to that existing in Northern Ireland, but with a greater degree of devolution of power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "SCOTTISH SELF-GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "ermine a proper Scottish contribution towards the federal costs, like defence and the Commonwealth. What we are, in effect, proposing is a federal structure comparable in functional respects to that existing in Northern Ireland, but with a greater degree of devolution of power. [ Interruption .] We are not seeking separation from the United Kingdom, but sensible and effective devolution within it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.460.2", "colnum": "460", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. R. J. Gunter)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. R. J. Gunter)", "preceding_text": "ion in the light of the White Paper. Proposals made following the issue of the White Paper will need to be considered in the light of the criteria which are laid down for all forms of income. The period of severe restraint which follows the current standstill is to last until 30th June, 1967, and we are all much concerned—both sides of this House and of industry—about what is to follow after that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.460.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Full employment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ing unemployment. When unemployment is rising, people stop purchasing as much as they would normally do because they are afraid. Unemployment can have a far more depressive effect upon an economy than a Government sometimes calculate will take place. The last General Election was very largely won on the Labour Government's boast that they had maintained unemployment in spite of their difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": "e, and when we have, on 1st January next, the complete removal of the tariffs in E.F.T.A., this is clearly not the time to do it. Something like the suggestion made in the last economic debate by the right hon. Member for Barnet of a prior deposit system is something which the Government could perhaps consider. This could be a useful means of restricting by financial methods the volume of imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Park", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Park", "preceding_text": "dy action to deal with it. Investment, as we know, is dipping very seriously indeed. There is a growing danger that unless the Government are prepared to take immediate action to reflate the economy the present recession will continue with a momentum of its own, and we shall be confronted not only by very serious figures of unemployment this winter but even more serious ones in the winter of 1967.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "e. Unless we get our economic situation right, that application, too, is doomed to failure. The depressing feature about the present situation, about the speech of the Minister of Labour today, and, indeed, about all the recent pronouncements on economics by the Government, is that it is quite clear that the Government have no idea of how our medium or long-term economic problems are to be solved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "lmsford, although I liked his little piece of self-flattery in his last few sentences and it is true that we had more sense from him than we had had from hon. Members opposite all day. It will have been noticed that there is to be a production of \"Alice in Wonderland\" which is not fit for children, but today we have had a production of \"Alice Through the Looking Glass\" which is not fit for adults.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": " deflation, which we were pleased to hear the Lord President of the Council, two weeks ago, begin to question, has now reached a situation in my country—and if I may say \"my country\" it follows the speech this afternoon of the hon. Member for Inverness (Mr. Russell Johnston), and today is St. Andrew's Day and also the birthday of John MacLean, the great Scottish Socialist, a very good combination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "arguments against the Government today are largely irrelevant and, secondly, downright hypocritical. Therefore, we on this side, who have consistently argued for a policy of full employment and who over the years have argued against the Conservative policy, have a right to say that our Government are not carrying out the sort of policies that we want to see and are not bringing in full employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": " the first child, children below the age of 11, children between 11 and 16, and children who are over 16, but who are remaining in full-time education. I suggest that the grant should be £1 for every child under the age 11; £2 for every child between 11 and 16, and £3 for every child over 16 who remains in full-time education. It may be said that this would be a monstrous redistribution of income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "been having. My right hon. Friend decided to try to use the reserves and to use borrowing capacity to finance an expansion. For that purpose, he arranged overdraft facilities at the very best time to arrange them —namely, when one does not need them. For that purpose, we had a sharp increase in imports, and stocks rose. My right hon. Friend managed to ride the problems until the General Election —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-11-30", "file": "debates1966-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "484399892474d8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ly in a party political broadcast on television. He said then: Enterprise and initiative must be and will be rewarded wherever they are. The trouble is that what the Chancellor says often sounds extremely good. However, what he does bears little relation to what he says. We all admire his tremendous debating talents. I think that he and the Prime Minister are two of the best debaters whom we have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-11-30a.564.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-01", "file": "debates1966-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9a09fe896b93247b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-01a.608.4", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eyre", "preceding_text": "Whilst appreciating the special difficulty of Finland due to Soviet trading pressure, is the President of the Board of Trade aware that the British motor manufacturers—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—are unfairly deprived of an advantage by the Government's harmful domestic economic measures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-01a.608.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-01", "file": "debates1966-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9a09fe896b93247b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-01a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the unions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "In my opinion, the closure of pits should move forward as fast as possible, and faster than it has been doing, provided that the Government make the necessary arrangements to enable the process to go on in the humane way that Lord Robens has already provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-01a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-01", "file": "debates1966-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9a09fe896b93247b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-01a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "foolish adventure and has done far more harm than good. He must look at the taxation of corporate bodies, as well as that of investors and individuals. I notice that the Chancellor said on television that, of course, savings must have a good return. Yes, but not if people invest in a firm or in industry. Of course not—when measures are taken through Corporation Tax to ensure that they are damaged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-01a.660.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-01", "file": "debates1966-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9a09fe896b93247b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-01a.677.4", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e of machinery costing £10,000, to a direct grant of as much as £4,500. No one can claim that this will not encourage private manufacturers. Quite clearly it will. Of course, other things are important. They want to be able to see a market in which they are going to use their new capacity and to see a reasonable return on the capital employed. These things the Government have undertaken to ensure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-01a.677.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.967.0", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": " in 1965 the Acton Gagette ran an article on this issue and quoted two members of the Labour Party, Councillor Michael Elliott and my right hon. Friend the Member for Islington, North (Mr. Reynolds), who were both Ealing councillors, as disagreeing with some of the proposals that were coming up. That is quite natural in the Labour Party. There is always healthy argument, outside as well as inside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Wing Commander Sir Eric Bullus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing Commander Sir Eric Bullus", "preceding_text": "hat it was seeking to acquire further large blocks of property in the same roads. No wonder that Brent wants elections at once. I turn to education. The hon. Member for Willesden, East (Mr. Freeson) represents a part of the Borough of Brent. I am sorry that he is not in his place. I confess that I did not warn him that I would speak on his remarks because I naturally assumed that he would be here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Bullus", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Bullus", "preceding_text": "I accept that that is what the right hon. Lady believes. I do not believe the same thing. I suggest that it is unusual indeed to have been given an alternative and I will explain why I believe there was an alternative, remembering that I endeavoured to do that on Second Reading. It is because the same Commissioner was at Northampton, and because he saw how his recommendations were treated there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.977.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "n himself dragged the matter into party politics at the by-election. He said this: I must say that the plans of the Socialist-controlled borough of Bexley for what I can only call the precipitate imposition of comprehensive secondary education at Erith are among the most ill-thought out and opportunist that I have ever encountered. … this issue is a botched-up type of proposal at its worst.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.983.3", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "uthority. I wrote back to the local Tory Association and said: I would find it helpful if you would let me know whether you are completely opposed to the whole principle of comprehensive education or whether your Association has an alternative scheme to the one proposed by the Council. I received this letter back on 28th September. The letter says briefly: \"Dear Mr. Wellbeloved\", Blah, blah, blah.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.983.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has adequately illustrated what I meant when I said \"blab, blah, blah\". I meant this continuous repetition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "year term of office with full responsibility and duty. This was denied to the London Borough of Bexley and to the 32 Greater London boroughs because, to remind the hon. Gentleman, in case he did not clearly hear the argument, in the first year of their term they had no power of responsibility. Therefore, they have had only two years in which to transform, amalgamate and build up the new community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.990.5", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "preceding_text": "n a hotch-potch way. In my constituency two schools nearly a mile apart will be called one school, and two schools more than half a mile apart, with the Great Cambridge Road running between them, are being joined together in the constituency of the hon. Member for Edmonton (Mr. Albu) who has been conspicuously absent from the debate—I shall go on saying that until we hear his views on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.990.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.991.0", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": " before 1964. They are now being pushed ahead. Whether we agree with one another or not on major ideological matters, it is on this basis that I ask hon. Members and people outside to consider the future of local government. I hope that we shall go back to our boroughs and discuss the real issues facing the public and that people will not just listen to a few dissident members of a minority party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.991.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRIBUNALS AND INQUIRIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Approximately.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "Further to my point of order. I understood from the notice posted in the Members' Lobby that the Prime Minister was to make a statement at 7 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1025.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRIBUNALS AND INQUIRIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are Liberal hon. Members?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " leave those points on one side. Those matters which he said were so evident that he did not think it necessary to underline I will not attempt to underline either. I shall leave it to the good sense of the House. We do not need to go over those parts of this argument which are accepted on both sides of the House, and even the Liberal Party—though we have not had its support thoughout the evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRIBUNALS AND INQUIRIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Iron and Steel Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "e problems the same good will and acute intelligence which he applies to these other problems. If he gets a little mixed up in what lie says—any little indiscretion which he may commit—we shall be only too happy to accommodate him. It might relieve the unutterable boredom of the proceedings with which we are now blessed. There are many other Bills which could have been pushed through in this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRIBUNALS AND INQUIRIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the Solicitor-General?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "llery of the House of Commons was William Hazlitt, who said that the only thing that gave him any respect for the House of Commons was the contempt that it had for lawyers. That is an opinion that I generally hold, except for the exclusion of the Attorney-General, who is in a class all on his own. As I indicated previously, he would not be wasting his time here if we ordered our business properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1040.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1045.2", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRIBUNALS AND INQUIRIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "d himself to his right hon. Friend the Prime Minister by his attack on the Bill and by his support of the very good Amendment moved by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Southport (Mr. Percival). His attack on another place will not commend himself to any promotion there, although I am sure that he would not wish to go there, anyway. This is a very simple point. I start from the basic fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRIBUNALS AND INQUIRIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "t proposed in the Bill, and therefore one must look at the Bill to see what it is trying to define. And, as it is a Bill which is defining by reference, one has to look back to the principal Act, and it is there that one finds the words which it is seeking to define. I hope that I have made myself clear. The Bill proposes to add certain tribunals other than those referred to in the principal Act.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1053.5", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twists?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "Smith should have similar powers and should be authorised to reach a final agreement, if the basis for a settlement were seen to exist. As the House knows, we met him, and the Governor of Rhodesia, who was accompanied by the Chief Justice, for two days of intensive talks in H.M.S. \"Tiger\" at the end of last week. I will not weary the House with the successive twists and turns of these discussions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1053.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1053.5", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman did not have to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "sible minority. My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary will be flying to New York tomorrow to take personal charge, so far as Her Majesty's Government are concerned, of the actions which must follow in the United Nations. My noble Friend, Lord Caradon, has been instructed to ask for an early meeting of the Security Council. Mr. Speaker, I regret to have had to present this report to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1053.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed to have sent it to him. The right hon. Gentleman said that it is clear that the argument falls into two parts and that progress was made on the constitutional issue—perhaps surprising progress. That progress was not made, not by one inch, during all the months that we have been discussing the matter since April, until my right hon. Friend's visit, on his own initiative, to Salisbury a week ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1066.0", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "th all the same members. I do not think that anybody in this House could have agreed to a Rhodesian constitutional Government including Mr. Dupont, who, during this year, has purported to represent the Queen as quasi-regent in Rhodesia. We would have had to insist on his removal. I would add that in my discussions with Mr. Smith there was no controversy about the removal of some of his colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hey could hold on to it for ever if the Royal Commission reported against them. I am in no doubt where responsibility lies for this break, but I would say to the right hon. Gentleman that it is making too small a thing of this to suggest that we had agreed on all the big things about the Constitution and disagreed over a quibble about the return to legality. The question of the return to legality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Constitution and disagreed over a quibble about the return to legality. The question of the return to legality—[ Interruption. ] I was not suggesting that that is what the right hon. Gentleman said, but I think that it might have been deduced, from some of the noises from behind him when he said it. I know that he is not easily persuaded by those noises, but it is important that he should not be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " the Governor was to have complete legislative power and that the interim Government were to have purely advisory functions. That, surely, is direct Governor's rule. It is the normal kind of rule which comes about in a Colony before it is established with full internal self-government. I should like clarification on that point. All I would say is that the Prime Minister has told us that there was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1072.7", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the penalty?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the Constitution—Mr. Smith has said so, and so it would appear to be so—he said that we threw away the possibility of an agreement by insisting on the conduct that was required in the next four months. If the right hon. Gentleman treats so lightly the issue of the return to legality, which is a matter, however he may disguise it, in constitutional terms of rebellion against established authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1072.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1072.7", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " vital issue, he is sinking a long way from the position which he occupied only two years ago. With his knowledge, and with my confirmation of that knowledge, he insisted with so much courage on these principles which we have been upholding, that for him to say that they could be carried out on the basis of an irresponsible illegal group of men who rejoice in their irresponsibility and illegality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1072.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1076.2", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "By leave of the House to speak again, the position about time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1076.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-05", "file": "debates1966-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8789cb310824fc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1076.2", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "By leave of the House to speak again, the position about time—[ Interruption. ] If the House does not want to hear me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-05a.1076.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-06", "file": "debates1966-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcf25df692b097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-06a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I think that I misunderstood. In the general uproar I was not sure whether the hon. Gentleman had referred to the 100 per cent. scheme. This is something about which it is impossible to make firm decision at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-06a.1144.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-06", "file": "debates1966-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcf25df692b097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-06a.1160.6", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "That is perfectly true, but I was asked whether the opportunity, was there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-06a.1160.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1341.3", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "n the light of the hon. Gentleman's reply to the supplementary question and the Postmaster-General's Answer to the Question on Post Office hours, may I ask whether the Postmaster. General will press ahead with the provision of Post Office vending machines and the expansion of their scope to provide for people who cannot visit post offices either in places where or at times when they are available?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1341.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1361.2", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICAL FUND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to trade unions to make it unlawful for any member of a trade union to contribute to the political fund of a trade union unless he has signified that he is willing to do so, and for other purposes. The momentousness and urgency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1361.4", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICAL FUND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": " which we otherwise seek to preserve in the secrecy of the ballot. It is necessary to justify what many people suspect may develop into a form of intimidation. It is necessary to justify what to some may seem a questionable situation which may arise in a closed shop, that is to say, when membership of a particular union is a condition of employment, when influential trade union officials may hold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1361.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1363.0", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICAL FUND)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": " has reported. The House ought not to deny to any hon. Member who feels that he can do so an opportunity to justify a seemingly questionable situation. And no hon. Member should be tempted to vote for a refusal to debate this matter simply because he might calculate that, if such a system lends itself to corruption and is allowed to proceed under the protection of the House, he might gain from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1363.3", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICAL FUND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman's?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": ", following the overwhelming victory of the Labour Party, this was again reversed. The 1913 position was restored and members could \"contract out\". The hon. Member for Ilford, North wants to turn the clock back 40 years, to 1927. Are there any abuses of the present law? Let us get away from the tittle-tattle, innuendo and nonsense and consider the only evidence which is worth quoting to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1363.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1366.1", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICAL FUND)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "—are as spineless as the hon. Gentleman suggests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1371.2", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Herbert Bowden)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Herbert Bowden)", "preceding_text": "ecame familiar with \"a knock on the door at night\". That is a reality and is happening in African townships in Rhodesia today. No political meetings may be held without police permission and approval. No African family in the townships is allowed a visitor to stay for even one night without police permission. It is a further offence, and I quote, to expose people holding public office to ridicule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Interruption. .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "ece of paper which I handed to the Governor, because it would have been his duty. I would assume that as the discussions went on Mr. Smith and Mr. Howman were doing precisely as I was—taking a note. What must be remembered is that those five names were agreed, and if that operation had been carried out they would have been invited by the Governor. That is why the names were handed to the Governor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1382.3", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hirst", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it not disgraceful for the hon. Gentleman to say that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "Let us first see what action Mr. Smith proposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": " occasions. I appealed to him to use his personal authority, his prestige, to do what was right and what he knew to be best for his country. We discussed the possibility of \"ditching\" his Right wing and taking only his moderates into the broad-based Government. We were as frank with each other as that. He told me on at least one occasion that at least 30 of his people were an embarrassment to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1393.4", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "about which we are concerned today. It is all the more bitter that the breakdown has come when hopes were so high, when success was within \"hailing distance\". In this atmosphere, I intend to devote myself to the issues as plainly and directly as I can. May I just say one word to the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs about his last remark. I feel that on reflection he may think it unwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1393.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1399.0", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I fear that the procedure which the Government are adopting may destroy many things of great value to the House and this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1399.0", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I fear that the procedure which the Government are adopting may destroy many things of great value to the House and this country. [HON MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I shall come to that, because it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1400.3", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Answer the Prime Minister's question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "Ministers' use of language which appeared to make negotiation with Mr. Smith impossible when it was obvious all the time that it would have to come about; the talk of direct rule, which did immense harm in Rhodesia to the prospects of a settlement; and finally, the technique of the ultimatum, which is not the right technique to handle a problem of this kind with people like the people of Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1400.3", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "me that it would have to come about; the talk of direct rule, which did immense harm in Rhodesia to the prospects of a settlement; and finally, the technique of the ultimatum, which is not the right technique to handle a problem of this kind with people like the people of Rhodesia. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Answer the Prime Minister's question.\"] I will if hon. Members opposite will keep quiet and listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1404.0", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman cannot answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "That is not a statement of Mr. Smith's position in any sense at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1404.0", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "That is not a statement of Mr. Smith's position in any sense at all. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman cannot answer.\"] The position is that there is agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1404.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1404.5", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "Mr. Maudling rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1404.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1404.7", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "stent with the six principles. The Prime Minister said earlier that the Constitution which is being proposed, which is being put to the people of Rhodesia, is wholly consistent with the six principles. This is a way of finding a solution. It may not suit the constitutional niceties, but it is a practical way of finding what everyone in this country wants to see, namely, a solution to this problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1404.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1414.3", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his helpful intervention. I know that he has a great deal of experience of what happened at the time of Munich, even if I was probably only an embryo at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1414.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1420.2", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Mr. Smith and his Cabinet have accepted the document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1420.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1420.6", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "This is very reminiscent of the 1930s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1420.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1420.7", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Weeks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "y what happened in 1935. The process of sanctions started rather well, because people thought that they were to be enforced. But, when it became apparent that Mr. Hoare and Mr. Laval had no intention of making sanctions effective, the whole thing crumbled like a house built of cards. We were promised by the Government that sanctions would be effective in a matter of months; but they have not been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1420.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1449.0", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The veto.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " in the use of force under Article 42 because other countries had defaulted in the application of economic sanctions and, in so doing, had taken from Britain unto themselves the trade that used to be ours? Is that not a paradoxical situation? Is it not a Gilbertian situation? But is it not a possible situation? May it not even be a probable situation? What safeguards have we against these matters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1452.1", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " Those will be the things which will follow from resort to force. An hon. Member this afternoon said that he believed in force of a limited nature. Those words have been used before, but they have rarely come true. It is quite unrealistic to think that such things can be contained within a narrow compass. We know on high authority that those who take to the sword are liable to perish by the sword.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "d that the Rhodesians are not yet ready, although they soon will be. We would be in danger of reproducing a mirror image of the Congo situation. That is something which must give pause to all thinking people. The other alternative is that if there was to be any waiting period before full independence with majority rule, Britain would have to go back to the exercise of colonial rule from Whitehall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1458.1", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "owing their future to us we must remember that it is precious little aid that this House has ever voted for the Africans of Rhodesia. We have probably voted more aid to Yugoslavia than to these people for whom we claim responsibility. The very high standard of living, of education and of conditions of work that have been achieved in Rhodesia—they are not perfect, but for Africa they are very good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1461.5", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "This is great fun, but I am not sure that it is germane to my argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1461.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1462.3", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the parallels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1463.5", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a moral judgment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "I am making no claims and no moral judgments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1463.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1463.5", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Canada, Sweden?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "I am making no claims and no moral judgments—[An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a moral judgment.\"] I am merely asserting that this is a de facto régime. Those Powers in the United Nations to which right hon. and hon. Gentlemen are willing to submit the question of this particular illegal regime have, in many cases, Governments far more repressive than anything which has happened in Rhodesia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1463.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1463.5", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That applies to us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "ghout this tragic time are, of course, explained by the fact that the Southern African complex of which Rhodesia is a part is a main target in the struggle in the world today. Many of the Powers which are now so interested in extending this internal British matter to an all-out war against South Africa are doing so not because they care tuppence about the welfare of anyone in Rhodesia but because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1463.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1464.3", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": " that today in Rhodesia—a country which has been conspicuous in the past for its devotion to Crown and Commonwealth; proved in war and peace—young people are beginning to tear the Union Jack from the corner of the Rhodesian flag and once again the possibility of a republic is being mooted. When we think of a republic in this connection we may think also of the first U.D.I.—the U.D.I. of the U.S.A.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " his discretion, who will normally act on advice, but who would have command of the Forces. This was in the background of their having been told that they would be submitted to direct rule. They were to surrender their independence indefinitely unless a Commission to be appointed by our Prime Minister decided otherwise. What has to be realised is that the Prime Minister is not trusted in Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1479.0", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "me Minister decided otherwise. What has to be realised is that the Prime Minister is not trusted in Rhodesia. [ Interruption. ] Let us face it, there are a good many places where he is not trusted —Zambia, for instance. The Prime Minister is a very great man but, like David Lloyd George and like Napoleon, he has a remarkable capacity for getting himself distrusted. It may be that he is too clever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1491.0", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Who was this?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey de Freitas", "preceding_text": "om any tape recording of a private conversation or anything like that. I do not have one. I do not know if anybody has. However, anyone can get the B.B.C. monitoring service. I think that it can be obtained from the Library. At any rate, it is easy to get it. One can see a Member of Parliament going there and not only expressing the opinion that he was very grateful that the sanctions had failed——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1491.3", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. It never entered my head that he would not be here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1491.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1491.5", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Since, as far as I heard, the hon. Gentleman did not mention a constituency——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1491.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1516.2", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's explanation. The Amendment seems to meet entirely the case of my hon. Friend the Member for Cheadle (Dr. Winstanley) when we discussed the matter on Report on 20th October. My hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1516.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-07", "file": "debates1966-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a15bfd0d9851675c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1526.3", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "Mr. Swingler rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-07a.1526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1567.0", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware, first, that this Question was tabled many weeks ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1567.5", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS (TRANSFER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that back benchers on both sides of the House would much prefer him to answer Questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1567.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1571.3", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "m sure that the hon. Gentleman's constituent will answer all Questions from the hon. Gentleman, as I do, in the spirit in which they are put. I should make it clear that we have still set ourselves totally against the policy of the previous Government of having anything in the nature of a Minister of Information or someone else paid from the public purse to do party propaganda, as happened before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "While I must make it clear to the hon. Baronet the Member for Peterborough (Sir Harmar Nicholls) that his intervention about telephone tapping was dealt with two or three weeks ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1574.2", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his two questions. On procedure, I intend to have a general debate on a Motion to take note of the Reports and then to proceed to a very complex package Motion, on which it would be important to give clear guidance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1574.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1580.9", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I should like notice of that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1580.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1587.14", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "ink the opposite to the views we hold. I was particularly sorry yesterday that the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, who is so widely respected by all parties in this House, saw fit to allow himself to say, at the end of his speech, that, should the Opposition go into the Lobby this evening against the Government, they would, in effect, be supporting the rebel régime in Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1587.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1587.14", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "that evening, a sense of frustration and defeat. When the leaders of two peoples who speak the same language and enjoy the same religious, cultural and political inheritance, fail to reconcile their differences by negotiation, and remembering that we in this House preach to others that they should never break off negotiations in anger, but should sit around the table until negotiation is complete—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1587.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1587.14", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "this House preach to others that they should never break off negotiations in anger, but should sit around the table until negotiation is complete—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"]—and when, as in this case, we have parted with a neighbour and partner in the Commonwealth in so bad a temper that one threatens the other with force—for mandatory sanctions are a form of force—defeat takes on an element of shame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1587.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1588.0", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1588.1", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "dmit at once that there are a number of racial practices in Rhodesia which should go, and go soon—racial discrimination. But from the equation of the situation in South Africa with that of Rhodesia some very tragic errors may flow, because there is all the difference in the world between the two. In Souh Africa apartheid is entrenched. In Rhodesia multi-racialism is entrenched in the Constitution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1588.1", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "enched. In Rhodesia multi-racialism is entrenched in the Constitution—[ Interruption .] If hon. Members are ready to listen, I will justify what I have said. In every Constitution so far agreed between British Governments and Rhodesian Governments, this is true of the 1961 Constitution—it is even true of the 1965 Constitution—the principle of multi-racialism is written into the Constitution. Even—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1588.1", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " After all these years, that was a great prize. I concede, and gladly concede, to the Prime Minister that he won great concessions. This is the constitutional arrangement for which we have all been searching, and on that day on H.M.S. \"Tiger\", with the message from Mr. Smith's Cabinet that these constitutional proposals were accepted, how was it that they were thrown away in the moment of victory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "his time was that both of these questions, the constitutional proposals and, if I may so call them, the modalities, had to be settled up against a rigid time limit which had been tied around the Prime Minister's neck at the time of the Prime Ministers' Conference. It is possible that this mistake led to a genuine misinterpretation of the intentions of the Prime Minister and the British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "he modalities, had to be settled up against a rigid time limit which had been tied around the Prime Minister's neck at the time of the Prime Ministers' Conference. It is possible that this mistake led to a genuine misinterpretation of the intentions of the Prime Minister and the British Government. [ Interruption .] I shall give my evidence for this, so I would wish that hon. Gentlemen would wait—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1593.0", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " a multi-racial society in Africa may hang. Finally, I would like to turn to mandatory sanctions and the reasons, which I consider to be valid, why the Opposition will oppose them in the Lobby tonight. Generally, one must admit that when one comes to the point when mandatory sanctions have to be used, it is a mark of the bankruptcy of statesmanship which we should never admit in a civilised world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1595.1", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I would not admit that in these circumstances we should use, or threaten the use of, mandatory sanctions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1597.0", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " is sanctions, including oil, directed against South Africa—and enforced. I therefore hope that before the Foreign Secretary commits Parliament in New York, where he is working under great pressure, the Prime Minister will categorically tell us that if there is resolution on oil sanctions, including a proposal to bring oil sanctions against South Africa, the British Government will use their veto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "tion. The right hon. Gentleman at least knows that on the question of legality, which hon. and right hon. Gentlemen were dismissing as a petty procedural nicety, what we are dealing with here is \"a revolt against the Crown and a direct challenge to Crown and Parliament\". Those are not my words; they are the words of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Kinross and West Perthshire. I will quote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1600.2", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Was not that rather a good letter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Tonight when he and the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition go into the Lobby against us they are voting against a resolution which deplores—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "g against a resolution which deplores—[ Interruption .] They are voting against a Motion. They do not vote against individuals. In this House they vote against a Motion. They could have amended this Motion, but they did not seek to do so. They are disagreeing with our Motion which deplores the rejection of the working document. They are backing the illegal régime in rejecting that document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "uption .] Since that document was rejected, we are told, purely because we insist on legality, this means that by their vote they are no longer insisting on legality. It is no good their trying to wriggle out of this one tonight. They are voting against a Motion which endorses the Government's acceptance of the working document—they are against endorsing it. They are voting against a condemnation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are voting against you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ey are no longer insisting on legality. It is no good their trying to wriggle out of this one tonight. They are voting against a Motion which endorses the Government's acceptance of the working document—they are against endorsing it. They are voting against a condemnation—[ Interruption .] I will tell the right hon. Gentlemen how they could have avoided this. They are voting against the criticism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1602.3", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s printed with the date of our arrival in Salisbury, and they declared I.D.I. the following week. I do not need to repeat what my right hon. Friend said in his compelling speech yesterday about the issues involved in the constitutional settlement. We regarded the agreement reached and set out in the working document last Saturday as an honourable settlement which enshrined in constitutional terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1602.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1607.2", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "wing consultations which I had had at the Commonwealth Conference, my right hon. Friend proposed a mission, fact-finding and mediatory, of Commonwealth leaders headed by the Prime Minister of Canada and consisting of other Commonwealth leaders, all of whom ought to have been acceptable to Mr. Smith. This was rejected. It is a little late now to ask whether we cannot have a high-powered commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1607.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1607.2", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " ourselves put as an opening bid or a statement of our position in October, on which we have since made many concessions. The working document, we are now told, though we were not told it on board, is rejected because it demanded direct rule. At no time since informal talks began in May has there been any suggestion by the Government of direct rule from Whitehall or of Governor's rule in Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1607.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1618.2", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "niqué. I have told the House that if we had not done so, what the right hon. Member for Barnet described as a new dimension for danger would have operated not in December, but in September, or earlier, and in conditions in which we would have had no hope of controlling or containing it. It may be that the Leader of the Opposition does not care very much about the future of the Commonwealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1618.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1618.2", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " care very much about the future of the Commonwealth—[ Interruption .] It may be. He will tell us tonight. I shall tell the House why I say this. He felt that we were wrong to sign that communiqué, though he must have known the consequences if we had not. But he went further than that. Immediately that communiqué was signed he, with his rather endearing posture of instant opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1618.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1623.0", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member wants to read his telegram he will no doubt try to catch Mr. Speaker's eye and read it out. I am trying to deal with the serious speech made by the right hon. Member for Barnet yesterday. What I am trying to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1623.0", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "h any Government of this country have ever had to face in this century. Right hon. Gentlemen, when in office, recognised this. I pay tribute to them for doing one thing: they stood firm over Rhodesia. While it is true that they rushed on some constitutional settlements in certain countries where it suited them, they did not seem to be in a hurry to settle Rhodesia. They neatly landed us with that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1623.0", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "en in office, recognised this. I pay tribute to them for doing one thing: they stood firm over Rhodesia. While it is true that they rushed on some constitutional settlements in certain countries where it suited them, they did not seem to be in a hurry to settle Rhodesia. They neatly landed us with that—[ Interruption .] They had four years to settle it up to 1964. There will be some in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1623.0", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "settle Rhodesia. They neatly landed us with that—[ Interruption .] They had four years to settle it up to 1964. There will be some in this House—[ Interruption .] There was no sense of urgency in settling the Rhodesian question. Rhodesian Ministers and ex-Ministers have said to me that, if they had been dealing with us, they would have known where they stood and what they could not stand was them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1623.0", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t their party's call, but as my right hon. Friend yesterday expounded what I.D.I. has meant, some of them will vote with a sense of shame and a shame with which they will have to live over all the years to come. But let us be clear—no words, only actions, will make this clear—that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen are voting for the proposition that we are wrong and the illegal régime is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1628.1", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did deal with it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1628.1", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did deal with it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—on Monday night. I have been in touch with my right hon. Friend this afternoon in New York, and I assure the hon. Gentleman that I shall have a report from my right hon. Friend to put to the House tonight. As for maintaining control, I am sure that the whole House agrees that it is right to leave my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1628.3", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "odesia was a live issue, before I.D.I., the right hon. Gentleman refused to give the lead required of him, a lead which he could have given, so that, at the end of the day, he could maintain a fictitious unity, a contrived appearance of the lion lying down with the lamb, the Monday Club with the Bow Group—that what was acceptable to the Marquess of Salisbury was acceptable to Mr. Humphry Berkeley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1628.3", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d in our record there is no secret treaty of collusion. If they vote tonight it will be for party unity and not for principle. There will be sad hearts among many who will vote. If the leaders of the party opposite call upon the same hon. Members to sacrifice principle to the dictates of party, this will be the most despicable Parliamentary manœuvre in the history of the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1628.3", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ise on the greatest moral issue which Britain has had to face in the post-war world—they must range themselves irrevocably on one side or the other. It is more than a century ago that the great issue of constitutional legality and racial slavery imperilled the future of a great nation across the Atlantic. The Tory Establishment of those days supported illegality and condoned slavery and racialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1628.3", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " issue of constitutional legality and racial slavery imperilled the future of a great nation across the Atlantic. The Tory Establishment of those days supported illegality and condoned slavery and racialism. [ Interruption .] But there were men, poor men, in Lancashire who suffered deep hardship, privation and near starvation, yet remained firm on what they were able to recognise as a moral issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1631.1", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. Turton", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has just asked about what we will be voting tonight. I will reply to him clearly. We will be voting about the future of the people of Rhodesia, both of African and European and because I believe that the policy which the right hon. Gentleman has been pursuing will not lead to a peaceful solution and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1635.1", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "the House and have experienced perhaps more serious situations in the 'thirties, such as the aggression of Italy on Abyssinia. I have seen all sorts of emotions raging on both sides of the House. I only regret tonight that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, with whom I have a good deal of sympathy, should have indulged in what was nothing more than partisan politics at the end of his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1635.1", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ions raging on both sides of the House. I only regret tonight that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, with whom I have a good deal of sympathy, should have indulged in what was nothing more than partisan politics at the end of his speech. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] He is the Prime Minister of this country and, whatever may happen when in opposition, if anybody should speak for England, he should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1635.1", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why has the right hon. Gentleman been called to speak?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ill lead to the use of British troops—white troops, not black troops—with white troops against white troops. I am appalled at that possibility. I want to explain tonight why, because of that possibility, I cannot see eye to eye with many of my hon. Friends. I must apologise to the House for not being present yesterday because I had a long-standing engagement in my constituency and had to be there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1638.1", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So did the blacks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "—even if they have not got that most desirable end which we all want to achieve, democracy for black and white. But can we blame the white Rhodesians? Many of them were born there. Many of them fought for this country against Hitler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ned the Prime Minister that while Mr. Smith might be willing, for procedural purposes, to return for a short time to the 1961 Constitution, he would not be prepared to take anything on trust. The fact is that he has no confidence in the right hon. Gentleman; and he is not the only one. Throughout this whole miserable affair the Prime Minister has misled and let down everyone in turn, the Africans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "isled and let down everyone in turn, the Africans—[ Interruption .] What about the letter to Dr. Mutesa, during the 1964 elections, in which the Prime Minister wrote: No Government which I lead will ever give independence to Rhodesia except with majority rule\". The Prime Minister has let down the Africans, the Europeans, the Commonwealth, Parliament, and the whole British people. Is that disputed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1644.0", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister wrote: No Government which I lead will ever give independence to Rhodesia except with majority rule\". The Prime Minister has let down the Africans, the Europeans, the Commonwealth, Parliament, and the whole British people. Is that disputed? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] If it is disputed, I am quite prepared to publish a charge sheet giving chapter and verse to substantiate my accusations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1645.2", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " head of the armed forces and the police. He went on to say: So there is nothing new about that and no reason at all to take offence at returning control of the armed forces to the Governor.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 7th December, 1966; Vol. 737, c. 1384–5.] That does not bear any resemblance to the facts. The right hon. Gentleman made much of the fact that the Governor was the Commander-in-Chief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1645.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Honourable?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": " acceptance of the illegal régime, which the previous Government said that it would never accept. The proposal put forward by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Barnet is a very grave and serious retreat from the position that used to be maintained by the Conservative Party when it was in office. I say exactly the same thing about the telegram sent by three hon. Gentlemen to Mr. Smith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1648.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1660.3", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "Mr. James Wellbeloved (Erith and Crayford) rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1660.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1660.5", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": " kind nature. He has taken bits out of one of the four broadcasts to which I have referred and used them for his own benefit. Well and good. I would be prepared either here or elsewhere—and I should prefer it to be outside the House—to meet the Paymaster-General and ask him to repeat his accusations, when I should be only too glad to answer them. He has used one or two words to which I must refer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1660.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1660.5", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "posite may laugh, but this is a matter of honour to me, as I am sure it would be to any other hon. Member. I was accused of comparing the B.B.C. with Lord Haw-Haw. I think that that was the remark which really upset the right hon. Gentleman. I took the first opportunity of saying that I used the phrase at a time when I was being interviewed as a British publisher and not as a Member of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1660.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1661.7", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "I have it here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1661.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1672.3", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "aid earlier, there was one conspicuous group who rallied to the succour and support of the Smith gang—one group who, in speech after speech and, by inference of their visits, gave the rebels heart and hope that things would work out right for them. That group of disgraceful and dishonourable men sit scattered on the benches opposite—and among them are not only hon. Members, but right hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1672.3", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thanks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "right hon. Members. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"] \"Cheap\" is not a very witty intervention, particularly since what I am saying is the truth. I have not, by nature or inclination, normally had much sympathy with Conservatives and their, what seems to me, selfish political philosophy. However, I can find it in me to sympathise with the loyal hon. Gentlemen opposite, and there are quite a number of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1672.3", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "ld be rejecting connection through the Crown, are now those who are keenest on maintaining this strange family relationship which infuses the Commonwealth. Can we afford to lose all that? Can we afford to lose this unique historical experiment of the Commonwealth in order to placate and keep in place a man, the illegal Government, the little crooked clique who claim to represent Southern Rhodesia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1672.3", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "the settlers, the more inevitable—and this, in a sense, is our decision tonight—we make rejection by the African countries of our democratic experience and ideals. There is another consideration which might strike a happier and more responsive chord opposite—the commercial consideration. Trade with the countries of black Africa rises every year. I asked a Written Question about this the other day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1672.3", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Smithfield.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "he Commonwealth disintegrate in the interim, or let Britain's apparent lack of resolution damage our standing in the world? Can we afford to endanger our trade and investment potential in the whole of a continent hungry for capital and trade? Can we afford all this damage? There is, after all, a cheaper and a quicker and a much cleaner way of snuffing Smith and his band of political playmates out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1678.3", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "t will escalate, that that will mean unemployment, and that it will be impossible to fulfil the Labour Party's economic plans, about which they have talked for so long but have not yet managed to introduce. He knows that some hon. Gentlemen behind him want even to take us into war with South Africa for great moral principles, and he knows not only what that will do to his country but to his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "I will be delighted to explain that. The Rhodesians do not trust the British Government. They may not also have trusted the previous British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1688.1", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": "This debate will be memorable for the speech of very great force and compelling integrity of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1690.1", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "r for Barnet (Mr. Maudling), in a speech just before, had again asked him to do it. The Prime Minister has sometimes remarked on the amicable relationship which exists between himself and Mr. Ian Smith, usually at our expense. He did so again this afternoon. He might care to refer to the Blue Book and the message of 15th December, 1964, from Mr. Smith to the Prime Minister, which reads as follows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1696.2", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This was minuted by the Commonwealth Conference, and it was part of the deal which was done to get that communiqué. It was part of the understanding which we got—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1696.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1696.3", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " was it not in the communiqué? The Prime Minister has done a deal which he did not tell to the British public or to the British Parliament. The other fact is that if the Prime Minister really believes his argument that it is the time factor which has brought Mr. Smith to negotiate, why does he not go on, in the time which remains, with further negotiations? I have been against an ultimatum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1697.1", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "d asbestos, which may cost us another £20 million a year but, if there is a confrontation with Southern Africa, could cost us far more. The Prime Minister spoke of this as a great moral principle, and of what was going on in the United Nations as a great moral principle. Where is it? We have the great moral principle of mandatory sanctions provided we do not do anything which affects South Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1698.0", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Gentleman is obviously not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1698.1", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Where is the great moral principle in this action by the right hon. Gentleman? What are the people of Manchester to think about a moral principle of this kind? This is sheer hypocrisy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1698.4", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "no confrontation with Southern Africa.\" How are these sanctions to be effective when there is no confrontation with Southern Africa? Of course, if they were effective with Southern Africa, the cost to this country could be enormous. The right hon. Gentleman knows this—the Chancellor of the Exchequer tells him almost every day. Let us hear no more of this hypocritical cant from the Prime Minister——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1698.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1699.4", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": ", with the news from New York, are already sliding into a confrontation and the situation is out of control. And we are opposed to them because we believe that the Government are incapable of keeping control over these matters at the United Nations. The Government have given no undertaking to use the veto on this case, and until they give a solemn undertaking to use the veto if the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1699.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1699.4", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "an the Prime Minister has promised—until he gives that, he cannot tell the House of Commons that he is keeping control. To do so is just deceiving the House. The final point about the United Nations is that, once it is in the hands of the Security Council on the mandatory sanctions, any final settlement with Rhodesia is not in the hands of the British Government but of the Security Council itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1699.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1699.4", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Nations is that, once it is in the hands of the Security Council on the mandatory sanctions, any final settlement with Rhodesia is not in the hands of the British Government but of the Security Council itself. [An HON. MEMBER: \"So what?\"] Because the Prime Minister has always said that it must remain in British hands—and the hon. Gentleman does not mind. This means, therefore, that any resolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1699.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1699.4", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "on. Member far Easington (Mr. Shinwell) is taking up the time of the Minister of State. If the Security Council is not prepared to remove mandatory sanctions at the request of the British Government, a decision on any settlement with Rhodesia then lies in the hands of the Security Council, and for that also we are opposed to this Government's action. The Prime Minister, of course, is in a dilemma—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1699.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1699.4", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "country and the economy in ruins. He is prepared to see anything in order to try to deal with the Smith régime in Rhodesia. This is the division between the parties—and what has been the Prime Minister's response? It has been to start a scurrilous attack on all his opponents. What he is now doing is to run a deliberate campaign against the whole of the Conservative Party and its supporters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1699.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1699.4", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "already know, reported in The Times today—a newspaper to which the Prime Minister has given his approval: In one of his most significant passages Mr. Wilson said that a tremendous political battle was now opening between the Government and the Opposition. Labour had to show the country that Mr. Heath and the Tories, by opposing sanctions, were aligning themselves with the illegal Rhodesian regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1699.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1699.4", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ns and by charging all the present or future miseries which we may suffer as the responsibility of our brethren. The Prime Minister might take those words to heart. The late Aneurin Bevan, for whom I had much admiration, referred to the people of this country as \"lower than vermin\", and it cost his party dear. The Prime Minister is going to rue the day on which he attacked his political opponents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1699.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1701.0", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State, Department of Education and Science (Miss Jennie Lee)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State, Department of Education and Science (Miss Jennie Lee)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Is it correct for the Leader of the Opposition, on an important Parliamentary occasion, to misquote?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1701.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1701.2", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Several Hon. Members rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1701.5", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Nothing out of order has been said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1701.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1701.7", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "There are——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1701.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1701.11", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Tell him to withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1701.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1701.12", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1701.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1702.2", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "There are two other points which I wish to put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1702.4", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ant to put two points to the Minister of State. The Government are now committed to wiping out all the previous starts in these negotiations and the chances of moving towards majority rule in Rhodesia. Surely the Government should consult their colleagues in the Commonwealth before they do so. We are going to vote against this Motion tonight. We are voting against it because the Government refuse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1702.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1702.6", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Commonwealth Affairs (Mrs. Judith Hart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Commonwealth Affairs (Mrs. Judith Hart)", "preceding_text": "are voting about. Indeed, his whole speech has tended to reinforce the belief of those on this side who take the view that many right hon. and hon. Members opposite tonight are voting for Salisbury against Britain. I will deal with one or two of the points that the right hon. Gentleman has raised. He will understand that I am not able to deal with all of them, because he has taken up so much time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1702.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1704.0", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh !", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Commonwealth Affairs (Mrs. Judith Hart)", "preceding_text": "n its simplest terms. We say that the fifth principle means that the Rhodesian people as a whole have a right to determine their own future. They must, therefore, be free to accept or reject any settlement which is put to them. But the regime says, \"We will keep our illegal independence until the Rhodesian people as a whole accept the independence Constitution which meets with our full agreement\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1702.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1704.2", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "est shadow of doubt about this and Mr. Smith was very anxious that there should be no shadow of doubt at this end—let me repeat from the message: … it would be irresponsible of us to abandon the 1965 constitution before we have assurances, without any shadow of doubt, that your constitutional proposals will he secured to us instead of some possible constitution of an unknown nature …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1704.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1706.4", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "ad-based Government in conditions in which illegality has already been abandoned, because we have to take account of the possibility that the people of Rhodesia as a whole may reject the proposals put to them, in which case we would have to work out a set of new proposals. But this could not take place in a situation of illegality. This is the fundamental of the thing. I want to turn to sanctions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1706.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-08", "file": "debates1966-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f2e93ffd059a05d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1707.2", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Stephen McAdden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Stephen McAdden", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I distinctly heard an hon. Member opposite refer to my hon. Friend as a traitor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-08a.1707.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-12", "file": "debates1966-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "89fac4edf03f3db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-12a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "He has to convince me as well. I am prepared to discuss this outside the Chamber. Till then, I stand by my view that to get a retrial a defendant has to convince not one juror, as now, but in future three.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-12a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-12", "file": "debates1966-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "89fac4edf03f3db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-12a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "at respect, the right hon. Member made a most excellent speech for 55 minutes, and one thing that was utterly convincing were the sort of arguments that he put forward in favour of this. The right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for St. Marylebone can say things that I would not dare to say. He said that he put a letter \"P\" against it as indicative of the place where the proposals came from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-12a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-12", "file": "debates1966-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "89fac4edf03f3db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-12a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " Attorney-General for a Written Answer as to why he had got it, and he said that it was because the Director of Public Prosecutions, in accordance with the usual practice, which I had never heard of, had asked him to reply. So I waited another month and said, \"If he has asked you to reply, why have you not done so?\". Now I have a reply to say that the matter is in the hands of the Boa rd of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-12a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I think that where there is hostility in the matter of agricultural policy it is to be found most among many of the farmers themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.248.5", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What is much more relevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.248.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.256.2", "colnum": "256", "heading": "PRESS AND BROADCASTING FREEDOM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jasper More", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jasper More", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to give great freedom to the Press and to broadcasting authorities by clarifying and amending the law relating to contempt of court, official secrets and defamation. Journalists are born free, but everywhere they are in chains. Of all the countries in the Western world, that, to our shame, is true as much in our country as in any other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.256.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.256.4", "colnum": "256", "heading": "PRESS AND BROADCASTING FREEDOM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. More", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. More", "preceding_text": " cover the offence of spying. Twenty years later this country was in the throes of a spy mania and nobody went to bed without first looking under the bed to see if there was a German spy there. We also had at that time a new Government, purposive and gritty—in fact, a Liberal Government. They decided to bring in a new Bill. It was launched, curiously enough, considering the date, in another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.256.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.281.5", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "We are not talking about organisations. What the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for St. Marylebone said earlier was that people felt strongly about being deprived of their democratic rights. He has not made out a case by quoting the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames. I know that it is composed of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.281.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "expressions of Conservative opinion. In the last debate, we heard about a remarkable petition which all sorts of voters had signed protesting that their constitutional rights were being eroded. However, on closer examination, one finds that some of the people who signed it came from Bournemouth, Worthing, and various other parts of the South-East of England—good Conservative boroughs, all of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.289.2", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "st: it is perfectly simple. I do not believe in the constitutional trumpetings of the right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone. They are very impressive—indeed the first time I heard them I was very impressed—but if one considers what has really happened, one sees that what started off as an agreed convenience between the Labour Party and the Conservative Party by which, in Greater London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "preceding_text": "That reinforces my point. It is all right for the Government to allow time for a Bill, but not for the Opposition to spend time discussing it. The hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) has, twice during the last three weeks", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": " it and then it could take over political control. But that did not work. This Bill is no way the same as that Measure. It is not of the same size. What is more important, it has not the villainous political motives which lay behind that Measure. This is the point which hurts. Right hon. Members and hon. Members opposite realise that this is a telling Measure, that this is the kernel of the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "e position from the long-term point of view. If it is desirable to have two successive elections in two successive months, and if it is good for local enthusiasm, as I think the hon. Member for Croydon, North-East (Mr. Weatherill) suggested, and good for the party organisations, why not go on doing it indefinitely? But this is not proposed by anyone. Not one borough out of the 32 wants to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " a different proposition would have been before us. If it is the view that there should be a separation, which I believe is the view generally acceptable to the House, the question is when should it be done. I should have thought that the broad proposition that, if changes were desirable it would be desirable to make them sooner rather than later, must also be acceptable, other things being equal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many on the Government side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ole, saying that nothing like this Bill had been seen since the Septennial Act. I only hope that the Septennial Act was opposed rather more vigorously and by a rather larger number of Opposition Members than has been the case with this Bill. This afternoon, while the right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone was speaking, I counted the attendance opposite, and there were 14 Members present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.360.5", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "ould not compete. We shall not be able to compete and yet Portugal is getting over a tariff wall of 17½ per cent. ad valorem now imposed by the Board of Trade upon her imports into this country. I think that I am correct in saying that. If I am wrong, the Minister of State will put me right. Portugal is, of course, a member of E.F.T.A., and I am asking that there should be investigation of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.360.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.372.3", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "What does the hon. Gentleman mean by \"a fair share\"? Does he mean a fair share of Lancashire's products? Is that what he is saying?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.376.5", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "All I am saying is, not that my information is correct, but only that it is my information. It comes to me from the mouths of people who are most directly concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.376.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY INCREASES (NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "nemployment and short-time working that these people have had. How can my right hon. Friend the Minister, and the Government defend what is happening now in view of the fact that the Government have declared that nothing can be done about dividends? In passing, I would say that any reference to dividends was a notable absentee from the detailed and comprehensive speech of the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-13", "file": "debates1966-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab66457577ab4334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.404.2", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY INCREASES (NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": " Parliamentary Secretary will do so, because, as she knows, not only the 30,000 work-people involved in this Order, but the whole of the trade union movement will be interested in her answer. My hon. Friend must not be persuaded otherwise by the votes taken at the T.U.C. or other conferences. I remind her that all the T.U.C. did was to acquiesce reluctantly in the policy she has to defend tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-13a.404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-14", "file": "debates1966-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "892ae42b748aaf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.481.2", "colnum": "481", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get rid of Black Rod.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I have read my hon. Friend's book very thoroughly. I ask him not to interrupt me, because I am trying to set a good example and make a short speech and I ask him not to tempt me to deflect from that. I suggest that we should leave our ceremonies alone unless they hold up business or impair efficiency, and that brings me to the first of the proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.481.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-14", "file": "debates1966-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "892ae42b748aaf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.487.2", "colnum": "487", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Kerr", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend elaborate on that point? If a Select Committee invited a Minister to give evidence, might he decline to come? Under what circumstances might he decline to give the information which they require? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.487.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-14", "file": "debates1966-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "892ae42b748aaf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I urge the hon. Gentlemen and his hon. Friends not to look back to the past all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-14", "file": "debates1966-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "892ae42b748aaf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.496.3", "colnum": "496", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I am not asking for precedents. I believe that there are many ways in which our procedures could be improved. Many ways could be examined to make them more effective and I am not prepared to be bound by precedent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-14", "file": "debates1966-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "892ae42b748aaf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ey are quite different. The proposals put forward by the Select Committee, by a majority of 8 to 7, and by the Commonwealth Secretary, were that we should meet on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and not on Monday at all. It was proposed that there should not be statements in the morning. There were other proposals, which I shall not go into now. The fact is that they were different from these proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-14", "file": "debates1966-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "892ae42b748aaf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": " there is not the demand for morning sittings that people say that there is. If there is a debate and I challenge a Division, let the Division be taken at the time that I challenge it. This is Parliament working as a real, live Parliament. It certainly will not work as a real live Parliament under this Sessional Order. It will be like Hamlet without a ghost, or a football match without a football.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-14", "file": "debates1966-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "892ae42b748aaf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": "as to be a real shift of business requiring attendance from late hours of the night to the morning. This would give well-deserved relief to many hon. Members and to Ministers as well. But I do not see that that result will be achieved by bringing forward into the mornings matters upon which, to a very large extent, hon. Members are accustomed not to attend anyhow at the later hours of the evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-14", "file": "debates1966-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "892ae42b748aaf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": " will be known whether he is a good lawyer or whether he is not, and in the profession one knows what the words \"good lawyer\" mean and the persons to whom they apply. The question which I ask my right hon. Friend and my hon. Friends is whether it is desired to make it impossible for the successful man in the situation which I have described to come into this place, because that will be the result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-14", "file": "debates1966-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "892ae42b748aaf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "me of speeches will make an assembly of 630 people a viable deliberative assembly when they all now actively want to take part. I turn now to morning sittings. This ground has been well covered, so I can be brief. I am against this proposal not only because it could be the thin end of the wedge. The Leader of the House was honest and frank about this and said that it was the thin end of the wedge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-14", "file": "debates1966-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "892ae42b748aaf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He said it was the first step.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "able deliberative assembly when they all now actively want to take part. I turn now to morning sittings. This ground has been well covered, so I can be brief. I am against this proposal not only because it could be the thin end of the wedge. The Leader of the House was honest and frank about this and said that it was the thin end of the wedge—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes. He said that it ought to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-14", "file": "debates1966-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "892ae42b748aaf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "lthough my hon. Friend made great play about getting steel nationalisation through in the previous Parliament, he is not on the Committee that is dealing with it in this Parliament. I wonder why. I wonder whether he pressed his case to be on that Committee. I rather suspect that he did not. He is a very great performer in the Chamber, but he does not like the hard graft and the unpublicised grind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-14", "file": "debates1966-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "892ae42b748aaf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister Without Portfolio (Mr. Douglas Houghton)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister Without Portfolio (Mr. Douglas Houghton)", "preceding_text": "under severe restraint. I well remember an occasion when the appearance of Black Rod was not only welcome but, indeed, fortuitous, because my right hon. Friend was in the middle of his speech—he was then in opposition —when Black Rod came in. Naturally, my right hon. Friend sat down. We all trooped out. One of my hon. Friends audibly said, \"That will just give Dick time enough to change his mind\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-14", "file": "debates1966-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "892ae42b748aaf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister Without Portfolio (Mr. Douglas Houghton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister Without Portfolio (Mr. Douglas Houghton)", "preceding_text": " his mind\". [ Laughter .] It seems a long time since we heard the racy speech of the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Wirral (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd). We got a lot of fun out of it, and so did he. He asked, as did the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Thirsk and Malton (Mr. Turton), why we were putting the Whips on. The answer is, because the Parliamentary Labour Party decided to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-14", "file": "debates1966-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "892ae42b748aaf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.598.3", "colnum": "598", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "But I have only just started. The reason why we took that decision was that we were committed in our election manifesto to parliamentary reform. The Labour Party keeps its promises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-14", "file": "debates1966-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "892ae42b748aaf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "ught before the House without prior debate, and sometimes they have not. On this occasion, we can say that morning sittings have been discussed now for 10 years. They were thoroughly mulled over by a Select Committee in 1959, and voted down only by a Conservative majority on the Select Committee. Now that the tables are turned, we are being criticised for doing the same. We are the Government now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.599.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-14", "file": "debates1966-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "892ae42b748aaf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "We will deal with the vote when we come to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-14a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-15", "file": "debates1966-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d5463b42349124bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "ational debates, the latter part of his supplementary question refers to exactly what we are trying to do. That is where the money is being concentrated As to the first part, it is perfectly true that the existing stock of buildings imposes a limitation on the speed at which schools can go comprehensive, but we have to face the fact that we are suffering from the legacy of the previous Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-15", "file": "debates1966-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d5463b42349124bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.648.2", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "The fact is that at the end of the period of Conservative Government, education was still taking a completely inadequate proportion of the national income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.648.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-15", "file": "debates1966-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d5463b42349124bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.658.2", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "say what figure we shall have for this year. No one knows what the December figure will finally be. As regards what I said at Bradford, this is true; and, of course, we have been maintaining higher figures of achievement than our predecessors. I believe also—if the right hon. and learned Gentleman, with his own considerable record in this, will now get away from the hustings and look at the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.658.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-15", "file": "debates1966-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d5463b42349124bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.658.2", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "dford, this is true; and, of course, we have been maintaining higher figures of achievement than our predecessors. I believe also—if the right hon. and learned Gentleman, with his own considerable record in this, will now get away from the hustings and look at the facts—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I believe also, as I think the right hon. and learned Gentleman probably does, that as a result of certain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.658.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-15", "file": "debates1966-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d5463b42349124bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.658.2", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Developments?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "and learned Gentleman, with his own considerable record in this, will now get away from the hustings and look at the facts—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I believe also, as I think the right hon. and learned Gentleman probably does, that as a result of certain—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"] I am trying to get on, if I may be allowed. I believe that, as a result of certain economic developments recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.658.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-15", "file": "debates1966-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d5463b42349124bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.658.2", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " figures, 25 per cent. above what the Tories did two years ago, on which no right hon. Gentleman has yet issued one of his statements. I was saying to the right hon. and learned Member for Hexham (Mr. Rippon) that I believe that he would feel, as I do, that because of certain changes, particularly on credit, we could now look forward in the next year, if the proper response is made, to a very big—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.658.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-15", "file": "debates1966-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d5463b42349124bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.662.6", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is a business question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "subjected to the death sentence by illegal Governments. While your Ruling remains unchallenged, Mr. Speaker, Members of Parliament will be unable to ask Questions about these matters. May I, therefore, be allowed to ask the Leader of the House whether he has given any consideration to this point and whether he thinks that he will be able to find time, or will be able to ask the House to deal with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.662.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-15", "file": "debates1966-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d5463b42349124bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": " shall go on, year by year, exceeding this total. The Minister told us the other day that the figure this year was likely to be 380,000. We will not get 400,000 houses this year, we will barely get 380,000, whatever the December figures are, and we will not get any more next year. So much for what the Prime Minister described, in his inimitable fashion as, not a promise lightly given but a pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-15", "file": "debates1966-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d5463b42349124bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "We warned the country in 1964 of what would happen if it elected a Labour Government pledged to cheapen the cost of land, but with no Measures to do SO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-15", "file": "debates1966-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d5463b42349124bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "We warned the country in 1964 of what would happen if it elected a Labour Government pledged to cheapen the cost of land, but with no Measures to do SO. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] The pledges have been made by the Labour Party. The Government were elected on a pledge to cheapen the cost of land and they did not do so. Let the Government answer that. It is the Government who are in the dock on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-15", "file": "debates1966-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d5463b42349124bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.705.3", "colnum": "705", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murton", "preceding_text": "uthority associations are somewhat worried that there can be no alteration in this arrangement, once it is agreed, for that period of 10 years. The worst mistakes of the system are, first, that at times of high interest rates, with the automatic increase in expenditure on housing subsidies, there will, obviously, be an increasing move from house-building in the private sector to the public sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-15", "file": "debates1966-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d5463b42349124bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why was it not done before?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "iled—this promise that they would give help to assist in the granting of mortgages of 100 per cent. of valuation. Let me make perfectly clear what that offer by the Government is and how very different it is from the proposal which we made to assist the owner-occupier with his deposit, a proposal put forward firmly in the last Parliament and during the last election as part of Conservative policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-15", "file": "debates1966-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d5463b42349124bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.766.0", "colnum": "766", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has been here before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to see the hon. Gentleman the Member for Harrow, Central (Mr. Grant) here. I am glad that he has managed to pop in to the debate for a few minutes.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.766.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-15", "file": "debates1966-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d5463b42349124bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.773.2", "colnum": "773", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. P. G. Channon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has got to get it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. P. G. Channon", "preceding_text": "der construction, but only 384,000 were completed in 1965. This year, we are told, we will be lucky to get that far, while next year it will not be much, if any, more than that. Although the Prime Minister confidently reaffirmed the 500,000 a year target by 1970, I should be grateful if the Parliamentary Secretary or the Minister could tell us how they think they will get this figure by that year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.773.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-15", "file": "debates1966-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d5463b42349124bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": " he was right to say it then, because as trends were and on the figures of the number of starts, he was right to assume that 400,000 houses would be achieved. It is a fact that since July there has been a sag in the private sector, and I must say that I regret it very much. I would have thought that the party opposite would have regretted it, but I do not think they do. I think they are delighted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-15a.787.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-16", "file": "debates1966-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ea783133747fb688", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-16a.919.2", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS ACT 1965 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": " that in the insurance business it has always been recognised that there are high-risk categories of people. In all forms of insurance, and certainly in motor car insurance, there is difficulty in deciding whether or not an insurance company should accept a certain risk. I would have thought that it was most important to leave insurance companies absolutely free to accept whatever risk they liked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-16a.919.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-19", "file": "debates1966-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5e59c357bf8c26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.970.4", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AFRICAN STATES (MAINTENANCE OF PEACE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "Since the Government still insist that this country is still responsible for Rhodesia, and that Rhodesia is not a sovereign State, will the right hon. Lady now call upon the Government to move in the United Nations on this line?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-19", "file": "debates1966-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5e59c357bf8c26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN OFFICE DOCUMENTS (SECURITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of course it does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Member would like to read his Question again. It says nothing about security in Moscow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-19", "file": "debates1966-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5e59c357bf8c26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN OFFICE DOCUMENTS (SECURITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At the British Embassy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Member would like to read his Question again. It says nothing about security in Moscow. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Of course it does.\"] The Question is what investigation the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs made in Moscow of methods of handling files.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.974.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-19", "file": "debates1966-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5e59c357bf8c26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.999.2", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman recollect that Lord Chalfont said 18 months ago that the British Government had a master plan for disarmament which would shake the Russians and Americans out of their complacency? Would he put a copy of it in the Library so that we can study it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.999.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-19", "file": "debates1966-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5e59c357bf8c26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.1000.3", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "e). It relates to a Question on the Order Paper, which was down for answer on Monday, 28th November. It was deferred until 5th December, and deferred again on 12th December and has been deferred again today. This meant that on 28th November and again today I have been here for the whole of Question Time, waiting to answer a Question which had been deferred, obviously as part of a prearranged plan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.1000.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-19", "file": "debates1966-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5e59c357bf8c26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.1102.3", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "eater evils than it will cure\". I will concede that. But the trouble is that the law is the law and is accepted by the community, rightly or wrongly, as representing the moral standards and the strength of the social fabric. This House cannot right a wrong just by changing the law. It has to consider the psychological implications on society of this House coming forward, as the public will see it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.1102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-19", "file": "debates1966-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5e59c357bf8c26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.1129.4", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moonman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moonman", "preceding_text": "I suppose that elsewhere that Division would be regarded as a natural break in my speech. I should like to keep my remarks extremely brief, because I recognise, Mr. Speaker, that the voting suggests that you may wish to consider the Closure of this debate. I was stating the difficulty of explaining in a creative sense in education these social problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.1129.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-19", "file": "debates1966-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5e59c357bf8c26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.1132.1", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. McAdden", "cue_text": "An Hort. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. McAdden", "preceding_text": "principles he has expounded? Why on earth do they want the camouflage of pretending that it is a Private Member's Bill when they know perfectly well that it has the Government's wholehearted support? The Division records will show that the members of the party opposite, with one or two exceptions—brave souls they may be expelled from the Labour Party next week—but with the exception of one or two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.1132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-19", "file": "debates1966-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5e59c357bf8c26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. McAdden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. McAdden", "preceding_text": "forward openly and said, \"This is a Bill which the Government think ought to have a Second Reading\", I should still have voted against the Bill, but I should have appreciated that he had been honest enough openly to espouse the Bill. To allow it to sneak through under the guise of a Private Member's Bill ought to be resented by the House. I am not concerned with the merits or demerits of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-19", "file": "debates1966-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5e59c357bf8c26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.1139.3", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In private.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "vening and shall vote for it in the Division Lobby. I do not think that anyone would deny, not even the hon. Member for Southend, East and others who take his view, that over the nine years since the Wolfenden Committee reported there has been a steadily growing Parliamentary support for the view that homosexual acts between consenting adults in public should no longer be subject to the processes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-19a.1139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-20", "file": "debates1966-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c66dc5ba9a902884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1161.0", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "I cannot go further than I have gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-20", "file": "debates1966-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c66dc5ba9a902884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1176.7", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEW HEBRIDES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "me, which have been persistently rejected by the illegal régime, are no longer on offer to the illegal régime, and, despite my belief, which not all hon. Members share, that Mr. Smith wanted a settlement on the lines of the \"Tiger\" agreement, it is now clear that he is a prisoner of some very racialist and Fascist-minded people, and that they forbade him to enter into this agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1176.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-20", "file": "debates1966-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c66dc5ba9a902884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1176.7", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEW HEBRIDES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about the berth?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o the illegal régime, and, despite my belief, which not all hon. Members share, that Mr. Smith wanted a settlement on the lines of the \"Tiger\" agreement, it is now clear that he is a prisoner of some very racialist and Fascist-minded people, and that they forbade him to enter into this agreement. [ Interruption. ] I know what happened on the ship as well as what happened after he went back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1176.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-20", "file": "debates1966-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c66dc5ba9a902884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1179.3", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEW HEBRIDES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have already answered that question. I have said that we have now withdrawn all the offers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1179.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1966-12-20", "file": "debates1966-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c66dc5ba9a902884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "SINGAPORE (GIFT OF A BOOKCASE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "rateful to the right hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. C. Pannell) for his report. I believe in the importance of missions such as the one on which he has just reported and I am sure that the House would want me to thank him and his colleagues for carrying out the mission entrusted to them. I will see that the Resolution which he has brought to the House will be entered in the Journal of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-20", "file": "debates1966-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c66dc5ba9a902884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames)", "preceding_text": "Members on both sides of the House who rose to speak that there is a general lack of sufficient confidence in the Government to cause the House to be willing to go away and leave the country to their tender mercies even for the comparatively limited period proposed. I suppose the feeling is that when the Parliamentary cat is away the mice on the Treasury Bench will play, and most of us have found—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-20", "file": "debates1966-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c66dc5ba9a902884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "e Motion. Many of us expected that today, instead of merely the publication of a White Paper, we should have had a statement on the Government's proposals for the future of broadcasting. If we have a Recess for four weeks, there will be no opportunity for hon. Members to challenge the Government on a matter in which our postbags show very large numbers of our constituents are intensely interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-20", "file": "debates1966-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c66dc5ba9a902884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1204.2", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "hey will be immune from Parliamentary criticism during those weeks. As the House knows, there are a great many more issues of great difficulty and great delicacy. Obviously, the House, and those who serve it, want and look forward to a period of relaxation. I am sure, Mr. Speaker, that it would be a pleasure for you to see us not quite so consistently during the next few weeks, though we all want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-20", "file": "debates1966-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c66dc5ba9a902884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "s subject. It is a subject which we have fully discussed and I think that we may be discussing it further when we get back. We need not stop our Recess in any anxiety of being denied discussion on this subject. The hon. and gallant Member for Lewes (Sir T. Beamish) said that he was deeply concerned about telephone tapping and the denial to us of the common right to be tapped by the Secret Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-20", "file": "debates1966-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c66dc5ba9a902884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1266.4", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (RATE SUPPORT AND GENERAL GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Silence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": "ember, the Minister does not even know that the pledge was given, because he answered rather blandly by saying, The larger part is borne by the Exchequer \". I hope the Minister or the Parliamentary Secretary will take the opportunity to clarify the position. Does the pledge still stand, or has it now been abandoned? I will give way to the Minister now if he likes. Is it abandoned? Will he tell us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1266.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-20", "file": "debates1966-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c66dc5ba9a902884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1266.4", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (RATE SUPPORT AND GENERAL GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": "y pledges given and broken that it is hard to keep up with them. Apart from the dangerous cuts in Civil Defence which the House heard about recently, the Government appear to rely largely on cuts being made under the heading of \"General administration and miscellaneous.\" It is certainly a matter for grave concern that the staffs of local authorities have risen by over 150,000 since October, 1964.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1266.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-20", "file": "debates1966-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c66dc5ba9a902884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND (GENERAL GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter", "preceding_text": "luding teachers' salaries; but do not let us think that this is all in respect of pay for teachers—totalling £9,113,000, plus ancillary minor awards of another £900,000. Is this necessary? If I do not curtail expenditure and balance my books in my business I will soon find myself out of business. It would be a good idea if some Ministers were put out of business if they do not balance their books.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1337.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1966-12-20", "file": "debates1966-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c66dc5ba9a902884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1363.1", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Clause 27.—(NOTIFICATION OF UNOCCUPIED DWELLING-HOUSES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Campbell", "preceding_text": " of up to £20, which many law-abiding citizens in Scotland would have found they had committed because they had no knowledge of the new scheme requiring them to register. Although we divided on the matter on Report on 9th November, we congratulate the Government none the less having second thoughts in another place. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton) is not here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1966-12-20a.1363.1"}
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